This is normally the time of year when I’m posting “And Just Like That, Summer’s Over” entries and filling out summer surveys. While, yes, summer is indeed pretty much over and things happened over said summer that could be addressed in such a survey, none of that feels worth discussing. Very little does, I’m afraid.
This all said, I stumbled upon the video below, earlier this morning, and thought I'd share it here.
As mentioned back in this old post, I didn’t originally know — despite the very New Yorky sound of his music with Galaxie 500 and Luna — that Dean Wareham had any genuine connection with New York City. I thought he was just a New Zealander ex-pat who settled in Boston. But, as gleaned from his excellent memoir “Black Postcards,” I learned that Dean spent a formidable slice of his youth, like myself, living on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Given his bands’ languid sonic allusions to forebears like the Velvet Underground and Television, this made a lot of sense, although that's just projection. Simply living in New York City wouldn't immediately give one a predilection towards those bands. I mean, it might, but it's never that simple. I know plenty of New Yorkers who've never even heard of the Velvets or Television.
Under normal circumstances, the audacity of anyone attempting to cover “Marquee Moon,” inarguably Television’s signature song, would border on the blasphemous. That said, I am kinda digging Luna's very recent rendition of it below.
Here’s the recording’s backstory…
During the current pandemic, with Luna members spread around the globe, our former bassist Justin Harwood suggested that we record Television’s epic track “Marquee Moon." We recorded the song one instrument at a time in four different locations; Lee Wall recorded his drum track in Austin, Sean Eden tracked the guitars in San Francisco, Justin played the Fender bass in Auckland, New Zealand, and Dean Wareham sang and added guitar in Los Angeles. Britta Phillips sat this one out but does appear in the video. Justin Harwood mixed the song and assembled the video from iPhone footage made by the band members.
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