GE Smith was the bandleader on Saturday Night Live, and he was best known for making too many rock faces. On a particularly poor Bob Dylan show: “He had that dolt GE Smith on guitar.
So what if we couldn’t play? If nothing else, we had our arrogance.” Such sentiment colors most of the narrative, as the author offers frequent asides about music, philosophy and the art of performance-some enlightening, others trite, but all unflinchingly honest. And yet we felt we were the only interesting band on campus. In 1981, Wareham enrolled at Harvard and soon after started his first band, Speedy and the Castanets: “ sucked. While attending the exclusive Dalton School, he frequented CBGB’s, Irving Plaza, the Palladium and other venues, catching performances by the Clash, the Talking Heads, the Ramones, Pere Ubu, Television and many others. Born in New Zealand, his family moved to New York City in 1977. Wareham begins with a chronicle of his childhood and early adult life. Indie-rock icon recalls life in the studio and on the road.
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