Davis, california, rock, music, KDVS, Steve Wynn, Russ Tolman, Gavin Blair, Kendra Smith, Steve Suchil, True West, Dream Syndicate, Fool Killers, Opal, The Twinkeys, Don Marquez, Donnie Jupiter, The Meantime, Sean O'Brien, Alternate Learning, Game Theory, Scott Miller, Thin White Rope, punk rock, alternative music, college music, college radio
Music
Dream Syndicate, True West, Paisley Underground, Desert Rock, 80s College Rock, California, 80s, Alternative, Punk, Power Pop, Experimental, Guitar bands
Movies
The Usual Suspects ha ha
Heroes
Sex Pistols, The Twinkeyz, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Alex Chilton, Big Star, Flaming Groovies, KDVS
About me: The Suspects were a late-70s Davis, California college band featuring: Steve Wynn, Kendra Smith, Russ Tolman, Gavin Blair & Steve Suchil. Talking Loud (1979) is their only single. After they broke up, Steve and Kendra formed The Dream Syndicate in LA; Russ and Gavin formed True West in Davis.
This tribute page was created because The Suspects were an essential part of the Davis, California 80s music scene documented on www.davis80smusic.com.
Who I'd like to meet: People interested in bands that started in the late-70's early-80s Davis, California music scene, or interested in the Paisley Underground, or in any of the above mentioned bands - and especially people who have photographs, flyers, posters, stories etc they would like to share here or at www.davis80smusic.com
STEVE WYNN & the MIRACLE 3 perform MEDICINE SHOW 25th Anniversary of the seminal Dream Syndicate album “Medicine Show”. New York and Los Angeles shows only!
SATURDAY, JUNE 27 - NEW YORK @ The Bell House (Park Slope, Brooklyn STEVE WYNN & the Miracle 3 @ 9:30 Paramount Styles (feat. Scott McCloud of Girls Against Boys) @ 8:30 Doug Gillard (of Guided by Voices and Death of Samantha) @ 7:30 http://www.thebellhouseny.com
SATURDAY, JULY 9 - LOS ANGELES @ The Echo (Echo Park) STEVE WYNN & the Miracle 3 @ 9:30pm The Urinals @ 8:30pm http://www.attheecho.com
We have an amazing lineup of confirmed artists. We also are in the talks with many other bands who have played the VEX and they are working out their scheduling, so expect the list to grow!!!
Wow, The Suspecs-what a blast from the past! Thanks for the add!
I left Davis in September of '79 and wound up in Chicago doing blues with some serious Chicago cats like Homesick James and Hubert Sumlin. Now I'm in a blues rock band where I'm old enough to be everybody's dad :p
Here's a demo for our next album-
Harlan Flo: Land Of The Gardens Demo Song
Dream Syndicate performing That's What You Always Say on the Out of the Grey Tour, 1986 or 1987. A ferocious, string-shredding version of the song. Shot on film in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Shot by Danny Plotnick & Dana Mendelssohn. Edited by Danny Plotnick.
Guitarslingers True West will headline the first-ever Portland edition of International Pop Overthrow on Saturday, 8/23 (http://www. internationalpopoverthrow. com/Schedule-Portland-2008. htm).
Riding out of the west coast neo-psychedelic Paisley Underground in the '80s, True West went on to record three albums and be part of what the UK press dubbed "The American Invasion" in 1985, returning to tour the States with REM later that year.
Last year, Atavistic/Touch And Go Records released Hollywood Holiday Revisited, a CD collection of True West's first two albums Hollywood Holiday and Drifters, along with three extra tracks produced by Tom Verlaine of Television in 1983.
Holiday Greetings. I will be returning to my college radio alma mater KDVS on Thursday night 12/13, circa 6pm to hang with Ryan Todd on his California Police State show. I will be bringing my guitar and Ryan and I will be discussing everything True West and the halcyon days of KDVS ('76-'86). I will be doing a few songs from my seven (gosh!) albums, as well as spinning a few discs.
Join us won't you? Streaming at http://www.kdvs.org/listen/ and YES, it's still available on the radio at 90.3FM (now at a blistering 9,200 watts).
And if you miss that archive for a week or so at http://www.kdvs.org/shows/view/show_id/61
