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If you want to hear some good, live rock music, go to the NYC Taper site and download his recording of Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3 from June 27 at the Bell House in New York City. I have to admit that I wasn't familiar with Steve Wynn - he was with a band called the Dream Syndicate back in the 1980s, but has been pursuing a solo career since.

The concert recording is an audience/soundboard matrix and is excellent, crisp and punchy. As for the music, it's wonderful. Wynn is a first-rate songwriter in the vein of Lou Reed or Warren Zevon, full of pithy lyrics sung to memorable melodies, and he has a solid, emphatic band to back him up. Grab this concert - you won't regret it.

It was such a positive experience last Summer when Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3 performed The Days of Wine and Roses at Maxwell’s. We were so impressed at the quality of the playing and the energy that the entire show was a revelation. Last night at Bell House, The Miracle 3 were even better in their start-to-finish performance of The Dream Syndicate’s The Medicine Show. This was one of the best, if not the best, concert we have seen this year. Steve was in fine form vocally and on the guitar and the band absolutely smoked. As the band approached the penultimate song on the album “John Coltrane Stereo Blues”, Steve joked about how it was time to jam — and they certainly did. “Coltrane” was over 12 minutes of guitar shredding, instantaneous tempo changes, and ultimately cacophony. The remaining six songs (three from Wine and Roses and three Miracle 3 numbers) were pure enjoyable icing. It felt as if there wasn’t a midnight show in the venue that the band would have played all night.

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