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"I first met [Dean Wareham] and [Britta Phillips] while on tour with JuIe Brown," [Lee Waters] remembers. Mark Holland led the country blues-rock group; he and his twin brother, Michael, who together fronted the band Jennyanykind, knew Wareham from past projects. Wareham produced tracks by JuIe Brown, and Michael contributed to [Luna]. "My next time through New York I was playing drums with Camera Obscura and, on a whim, invited Dean and Britta to our show a few hours before we were scheduled to play. Honestly, the invitation was kind of an afterthought, so I was pleased to find out they could make it".
"It's a balance, I think," he says. "You want to be professional enough to please the Warhol Museum's expectations, but you don't want to make it so precious that you don't pay homage to the vulnerable and stripped-down way in which [Andy Warhol] portrayed the people."On Thursday night, Waters will take the stage at Duke University with Dean and Britta. He admits that he's part of an important project, especially since Duke's currently hosting an art show with Warhol's portraits of celebrities. But he'll play it as intently as he's played all the others. The cops probably won't shut down the gig, though.See the full content of this document
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Scoring Warhol
A decade ago, in a half-lit, mostly cluttered living room just off Chapel Hill's Rosemary Street, Lee Waters screamed. One of the bands he was in at the time, Cobra Kahn, was laying down some brutal agro at a house party. Waters was behind the microphone with guitar in hand, making musi...
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