Galaxie 500 begins on page 33 and ends soon after page 100.

'Yes, we had been friends.' In fact, from 1987 on, they 'led a revolution and were led to the guillotine.' (1) He tells his side efficiently, from his New England-descended, New Zealand-raised background, his Australian education, his emigration with his family to Manhattan for high school, and briefly, his stint as a Spartacist League advocate at Harvard. The trio eschewed what Dean elsewhere here calls 'rock faces' when playing guitar, and this stance represented for Damon and Naomi-who formed a determined front as a couple whose friendship with Dean went back to their ninth-grade prep school days at the Dalton School before they all went to Harvard and formed Galaxie 500-a symbolic defiance of the band.ĭean then enters. Krukowski's cited at length as he relates his surprise and resentment as Dean stepped out from a mike, during their last tour, into a spotlight at a Southern California show.

Well, the first page begins with not Dean but Damon's words. The liner notes on Galaxie 500's box set (Rykodisc, 1996) are the saddest I've read: drummer Damon Krukowski and his partner, bassist Naomi Yang, describe how guitarist Dean Wareham broke their hearts as by phone he broke up the band in 1991. I opened this wondering how he'd respond to his bandmates' betrayal.

Black Postcards by Dean Wareham