MIRA INFORM
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IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
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GALAXIE CORP |
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4935 Hannan Rd, Wayne, MI 48184-1568 |
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Wholesale Distribution of industrial supplies |
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Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively
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$500 (USD) |
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NOTES :
Any query related to this report can be made
on e-mail : infodept@mirainform.com
while quoting report number, name and date.
ECGC Country Risk Classification List – March 31st, 2011
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Company name & address
Galaxie Corp
4935 Hannan Rd
Wayne, MI 48184-1568
United States
Map
Tel: 734-727-0600
Fax: 734-727-0601
Web: www.galaxiecorp.com
Synthesis
Employees: 8
Company Type: Private Independent
Financials in: USD
(Millions)
Reporting Currency: US
Dollar
Annual Sales: 4.6
Total Assets: NA
Business Description
Establishments primarily engaged in the wholesale distribution of
industrial supplies, not elsewhere classified.
Industry
Industry Miscellaneous Capital Goods
ANZSIC 2006: 3419 - Other
Specialised Industrial Machinery and Equipment Wholesaling
NACE 2002: 5187 - Wholesale
of other machinery for use in industry, trade and navigation
NAICS 2002: 423830 -
Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers
UK SIC 2003: 5187 - Wholesale
of other machinery for use in industry, trade and navigation
US SIC 1987: 5085 - Industrial
Supplies
Key Executives
(Emails Available)
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John Coffiel |
Owner |
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Jason Lynch |
Controller |
News
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Arcade
Fire, Ron Sexmith lead list of Polaris contenders |
7-Jul-2011 |
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MUSIC-Polaris-Prize |
6-Jul-2011 |
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Polaris
Prize announces shortlist |
6-Jul-2011 |
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DEAN
WAREHAM PLAYS GALAXIE 500 |
15-Jun-2011 |
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Officials
in Haiti say rain storms, mudslides kill 11 |
7-Jun-2011 |
1 - Profit & Loss
Item Exchange Rate: USD 1 = USD 1
2 - Balance Sheet
Item Exchange Rate: USD 1 = USD 1
Corporate Overview
Location
4935 Hannan Rd
Wayne, MI,
48184-1568
Wayne County
United States
Tel: 734-727-0600
Fax: 734-727-0601
Sales USD(mil): 4.6
Assets USD(mil): NA
Employees: 8
Industry: Miscellaneous Capital
Goods
Company Type: Private Independent
Quoted Status: Not Quoted
Owner: John Coffiel
Contents
· Industry Codes
· Business Description
· Financial Data
· Key Corporate Relationships
· Additional Information
Industry Codes
ANZSIC 2006 Codes:
3419 - Other
Specialised Industrial Machinery and Equipment Wholesaling
NACE 2002 Codes:
5187 - Wholesale
of other machinery for use in industry, trade and navigation
NAICS 2002 Codes:
423830 - Industrial
Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers
US SIC 1987:
5085 - Industrial
Supplies
UK SIC 2003:
5187 - Wholesale
of other machinery for use in industry, trade and navigation
Business Description
Establishments
primarily engaged in the wholesale distribution of industrial supplies, not
elsewhere classified.
Financial data
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Key Corporate Relationships
Bank: Comerica Bank
Additional Information
ABI Number: 599005527
Credit Report as
of 12/01/2010
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Table of Contents
Profile Links
· Similar Businesses in the Area
· Closest Neighbors
External Links
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48108-2058
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22720 Woodward Ave
Ste: 208
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48220-2906
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48180-1468
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48237-3337
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Ste: 103
Farmington Hills,
MI 48334-2172
R T Machinery Sales Inc
1790 Livernois Rd
Troy, MI
48083-1729
Roberts Machinery Sales
930 E Drayton St
Ferndale, MI
48220-1410
Nationwide Machinery Sales Inc
1950 Brinston Dr
Troy, MI
48083-2217
Tramar Industries
23485 Industrial
Park Dr
Farmington Hills,
MI 48335-2855
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closest businesses sharing the same six-digit primary SIC code ( 5085-24 -
Machinery-Used (Whls)) regardless of size.
Closest Neighbors
Nails By Maria
4515 Randolph St
Wayne, MI
48184-1586
Royal Real Estate Investments
4233 Nyman Ave
Wayne, MI
48184-1549
Transport International Pool
5055 Hannan Rd
Wayne, MI
48184-1568
Terry Painter
4548 Grace Ave
Wayne, MI
48184-1595
K C Transportation
39115 Maple Ave
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48184-1530
Scrap Busters U-Pull-It & Trck
39165 Maple Ave
Wayne, MI
48184-1530
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Arcade Fire, Ron
Sexmith lead list of Polaris contenders
Hamilton
Spectator, The (Ontario, Canada): 07 July 2011
[What follows is the
full text of the news story.]
Grammy-winning
Montreal rockers Arcade Fire lead the list of contenders for this year's
Polaris Music Prize.
The short list of
10 final nominees for the $30,000 prize was announced Wednesday.
Also nominated are
Austra, Braids, Destroyer, Galaxie, Hey Rosetta, Ron Sexsmith, Colin Stetson,
Timber Timbre and The Weeknd.
This is the sixth
year of the Polaris, which seeks to honour the best Canadian album from the
previous year.
The prize is
judged solely on artist merit, without regard to genre or record sales, and is
voted on by 227 music journalists, broadcasters and bloggers from across
Canada.
The winner will be
crowned at a gala on Sept. 19.
Past winners
include Karkwa, Patrick Watson and Caribou.
Among those that
were on the long list of 40 contenders were Neil Young, Sloan, Stars, Buck 65
and Black Mountain.
Broadcast Wire: 06 July 2011
[What follows is
the full text of the news story.]
TORONTO -
Grammy-winning Montreal rockers Arcade Fire lead the list of contenders for
this year's Polaris Music Prize.
The short list of
10 final nominees for the $30,000 prize was announced Wednesday.
Also nominated are
Austra, Braids, Destroyer, Galaxie, Hey Rosetta, Ron Sexsmith, Colin Stetson,
Timber Timbre and The Weeknd.
This is the sixth
year of the Polaris, which seeks to honour the best Canadian album from the
previous year.
The prize is
judged solely on artist merit, without regard to genre or record sales, and is
voted on by 227 music journalists, broadcasters and bloggers from across
Canada.
The winner is to
be crowned at a gala on Sept. 19.
(The Canadian
Press)
Postmedia News: 06 July 2011
[What follows is
the full text of the news story.]
Arcade Fire and Ron
Sexsmith are among the final contenders for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize.
The shortlist of
10 Canadian album nominees were announced today. They include Grammy and Juno
winners Arcade Fire, veteran singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith, French-speaking
rock band Galaxie (the fourth French-language act to ever be shortlisted for
the Prize) and Toronto underground soul/R&B act The Weeknd (the first
freely distributed album to make the short list).
The full list of
nominees is: Arcade Fire (The Suburbs), Austra (Feel It Break), Braids (Native
Speaker), Destroyer (Kaputt), Galaxie (Tigre et Diesel), Hey Rosetta! (Seeds),
Ron Sexsmith (Long Player Late Bloomer), Colin Stetson (New History Warfare
Vol. 2: Judges), Timber Timbre (Creep On Creepin' On) and The Weeknd (House of
Balloons).
The Polaris
recognizes albums solely for artistic achievement. The winning group or artist
receives $30,000 this year, a first-time increase of $10,000. The nine other
nominees will receive $2,000 each.
``Polaris has no
categories because true musical genius defies categorization. This year's
selected recordings certainly reflect this belief, '' Steve Jordan, founder and
executive director of the prize, said in statement.
The Polaris Music
Prize will be awarded at a Toronto gala on Monday, Sept. 19. Past Polaris
winners are Final Fantasy, Patrick Watson, Caribou, F---ed Up and Karkwa.
� 2011 FP.
Published by OneSource Information Services, Inc., July 2011
DEAN WAREHAM PLAYS
GALAXIE 500
Wall Street Journal (Abstracts): 15 June 2011
[What follows is
the full text of the news story.]
Andy Battaglia Pop
Scene column notes Dean Wareham will revist legacy of Galaxie 500, at Bell
House in Brooklyn �(S)
Broadcast Wire: 07 June 2011
[What follows is
the full text of the news story.]
PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti - Officials in Haiti say rain storms and mudslides have killed at least
11 people.
Marie Alta
Jean-Baptiste of Haiti'sCivil Protection Department tells Radio Galaxie Tuesday
morning that the people died in mudslides or drowned.
Thunderstorms
passed through the Caribbean Monday, triggering mudslides and forcing thousands
to leave their homes.
The heavy rain
paralyzed Haiti's capital. Roads turned to rivers and debris swept down
hillsides.
Tens of thousands
of people were exposed to the pounding rain because they remain holed up in
flimsy tent-and-tarp settlements that emerged after last year's earthquake.
(The Associated
Press)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN): 14 May 2011
[What follows is
the full text of the news story.]
May 14--Apple
Valley residents were reminded that they live close to Bear Country when a
young black bear was spotted wandering the city this week.
Police received
three reports of a juvenile black bear in neighborhoods south of 140th Street,
between Galaxie Avenue and Pilot Knob Road, and north of 145th Street on
Wednesday evening.
Officials have yet
to find the bear, believed to be about 150 pounds.
A caller first
spotted the bear a little after 9:45 p.m. going through a yard before walking
up a sidewalk, said Apple Valley Police Capt. Michael Marben.
Another caller
reported seeing a similarly described bear going through a yard and heading
toward a wooded area in Scott Park. The last call, about 11:30 p.m., reported
that the bear was near the city's central maintenance facility before crossing
the street and heading toward homes.
An officer was
unable to locate the bear, but using footprints, police determined that the
callers were probably right about what they saw.
"It was a
larger animal," Marben said. "It wasn't a raccoon or a dog or
anything of that nature."
Officials believe
the bear could be the same one that was seen a week earlier in nearby Eureka
and Empire townships, Marben said.
Callers reported a
black bear in the townships during the week of May 1, according to the Dakota
County Sheriff's Department. An officer reported seeing the bear after a call
from Empire Township.
Black bears are
native to Minnesota and are common throughout the northern part of the state.
"My guess is
that it's just that time of the year when bears start roaming, and obviously,
they are looking for food," Marben said.
Still, it's
unusual to see a black bear wandering so far south, Marben said.
"We've had
our share of coyotes and of cougar sightings, but this is the first for a black
bear that I can recall," he said.
Apple Valley
police haven't had any further calls about the bear.
Police say that
anyone who spots a bear should stay calm, keep a distance and call police.
Nicole Norfleet
--612-673-4495
To see more of the
Star Tribune, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to
http://www.startribune.com/.
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2011, Star Tribune, Minneapolis
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Saint Paul Pioneer Press (MN): 13 May 2011
[What follows is the
full text of the news story.]
May 13--A black
bear has been spotted roaming Apple Valley.
Three separate
residents of the suburb reported seeing a juvenile black bear Wednesday night,
Apple Valley police said.
The bear was
spotted between 9:45 and 11:30 p.m. Wednesday in the residential areas south of
140th Street between Galaxie Avenue and Pilot Knob Road, north of 145th Street.
Officers who responded to the call were unable to locate the bear, but they did
find tracks that lead them to believe the sightings were credible.
Last week, a black
bear was spotted in Eureka and Empire townships by residents and a Dakota
County sheriff's deputy.
Apple Valley
Police Chief Scott Johnson said police couldn't be sure it was the same bear,
but he thought it could be possible.
"They
wander," Johnson said. The distance between the sightings was about 10
miles as the crow flies.
The Minnesota
Department of Natural Resources offers the following advice to residents who
encounter a bear: "Don't panic. Don't approach it. Leave it alone."
Residents are
asked to call 911 to report any bear sightings.
Black bears,
though native to Minnesota, do not normally live as far south as Apple Valley,
police Capt. Michael Marben said.
"We're not
supposed to have bears down here, so somebody needs to have that bear read the
map," Marben said, referring to a DNR publication that shows the areas
where black bears live in the state.
Johnson said there
had not been further bear sightings in the city on
Thursday.
Bear sightings in
the metro area happen about once or twice a year, officials have said.
Jessica Fleming
can be reached at 651-228-5435.
To see more of the
Pioneer Press, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to
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Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.
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Waterloo Region Record (Ontario, Canada): 28 April
2011
[What follows is
the full text of the news story.]
Malajube
La Caverne (Dare
to Care)
Despite their many
strengths, Malajube always seemed to be hiding behind something. (For most
anglophones, that would start with their French lyrics, but if that's a
stumbling block for you, then you can't be helped anyway.) The band's 2006
breakthrough Trompe l'oeil buried their pop hooks under layers of grunge; the
2009 follow-up Labyrinthes found them taking some fascinating prog-rock turns,
as, of course, Quebecois bands are prone to do. La Caverne, on the other hand,
aims for the gut on the opening track and first single Synesthesie, which
captures all their strengths in under three minutes, stuffed full of melodic
guitar rock over a disco beat. (It's a formula they repeat on another Caverne
cut, Le Blizzard.)
From there,
Malajube continue to strip away the layers and focus on spacious, atmospheric
rock that is equal parts Modest Mouse and Pink Floyd (Mon Oeil sounds
suspiciously like Pink Floyd's Us and Them). Their sense of arrangement, which
they pushed to the limit of Labyrinthes, is much more focused on brevity and
clarity throughout La Caverne - which, building on their previous successes,
will undoubtedly continue their winning streak as the international
torchbearers of Quebec's criminally neglected francophone rock scene.
Malajube are
playing Waterloo's Starlight Room, April 28, with Young Rival.
Download:
Synesthesie, Sangsues, Le Blizzard
Galaxie
Tigre et diesel
(C4)
Anyone who finds
Malajube too odd, who finds Karkwa too bland, or in general has yet to hear any
francophone Quebecois music that kicks their ass, will find this record by
Galaxie should not be so far, far away.
If Gordie Johnson
of Big Sugar wrote songs with Beck for Black Mountain to perform with Stereolab
- in French, no less - then you'd have the third album by this Quebecois band
(who unfortunately used to have "500" affixed to their name, causing
much confusion with the influential cult band Galaxie 500). Fuzzy, somewhat
blusey guitar riffs are given a lo-fi glam treatment with fluttering synthesizers
in the background, all of which demands to be played at maximum volume, ideally
with a bottle of Maudite in hand.
Galaxie love their
'70s sounds, but don't get lost in retro reverence. Olivier Langevin is the
rare guitarist who noodles effectively, and his band, which includes acclaimed
solo artist Fred Fortin on bass and two members each on female vocals and
keyboards (not all the equipment are 30 years old - there are some definite
modern electro moments here) sound massive with merely the simplest
arrangements. Unlike most franco rock bands, there's nothing clunky about the
cadence here; Langevin knows how to write a hook in the universal language. And
on Jusqu'a la fin, he writes a perfect clich� acoustic ballad that hits all
the right chords, readymade for campfires and high school slow dances
everywhere.
Other Quebecois
bands will get more hype in the anglo press, but this is the one that the rest
of Canada - especially our rock radio stations - really needs to hear.
Download:
Camouflar, Jusqu'a la fin, Diesel 2
Miracle Fortress
Was I The Wave?
(Secret City)
This dreamy
one-man band was vaulted out of obscurity to the Polaris Prize shortlist
several years back, with a debut album, Five Roses, that combined Beach Boys
pop, '80s new wave and '90s psychedelic shoegaze music in a way that sounded
entirely fresh, despite the obvious touchstones. This time out, Miracle
Fortress main man Graham Van Pelt is stuck primarily in the '80s, with this
album's best tracks sounding like a subdued take on New Order or even Men
Without Hats. There's less to distinguish Miracle Fortress from dozens of
similar acts on the scene, some of which, like Memory Tapes, get lumped under
the term "chillwave," while labelmate Diamond Rings offers a more
upbeat and less atmospheric on similar territory.
What's more - or,
more accurately, what's less - is that of the 10 tracks here, four are short
instrumentals. That leaves about three songs for Van Pelt to prove himself -
which he does, thankfully. Songs like Spectre, Everything Works and
Miscalculations are a reminder of what made Five Roses such a singular gem,
while also rising well above some of his lesser peers (the once-hyped,
now-forgotten Junior Boys, for example, would kill to write songs like these).
The Fortress has
been breached, but there is still some treasure hidden inside.
Download: Spectre,
Everything Works, Miscalculations
Hauschka
Salon des Amateurs
(Fat Cat)
The concept of
"prepared piano" - which means inserting various objects between the
strings of the piano, creating percussive sounds - is rarely employed outside
avant-garde music circles. And that's a realm where German pianist Hauschka,
aka Volker Bertelmann, is certainly comfortable, as his 2005 album simply
called The Prepared Piano illustrated. Since then he's made some that are
poppier than others, exploring orchestration and electronics along the way.
Here, however, he returns to the prepared piano and applies it to pulsing
rhythms - courtesy of guest musicians Joey Burns and John Convertino of
Calexico and drummer Samuli Kosminem of Mum - that employ the repetition,
build-up and release of techno music without ever using four-on-the-floor drums
that would make the link all too explicit. Instead, Salon des Amateurs is a
delicately orchestrated, peppy and percussive piano suite that serves as a
perfect summation of this prolific composer's oeuvre to date. Granted, there is
not much variation to be found here, and after a while all the plinkety-plink
sounds like a soundtrack for a clockmakers documentary or a Jean-Pierre Jeunet
film - if you're into that kind of thing.
Download: TwoAM,
Girls, Subconscious
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Cornishman: 28 April 2011
[What follows is
the full text of the news story.]
More stars from the
American underground come to that most special of Cornish venues, Miss Peapod's
in Penryn, next week.
Damon and Naomi,
previously of the mighty Galaxie 500, play on Friday, May 13, with Michio
Kurihara (Ghost, Boris) on guitar and Richard Youngs playing an opening set.
"Like real
water in a world of soda-pop," so said Robert Wyatt of Damon and Naomi.
The duo have
attracted critical acclaim ever since their first musical outings in the late
1980s as two thirds of Galaxie 500 (of whom John Peel was a huge fan). After
the group's demise they signed to Sub Pop and released a string of albums as a
duo before beginning a long and fruitful collaboration with various members of
Japanese psych-folk-rock group Ghost. It is Michio Kurihara, Ghost guitarist
and sometime member of Boris, who became intrinsic to their new sound and he
will be playing with them at the show here in Cornwall.
In a unique and
exciting twist they have also coaxed Richard Youngs to accompany them on tour,
playing an opening set with Damon on drums.
Youngs is a
Scottish musician and songwriter who has probably released more songs than he
has made live performances. It is pretty much impossible to sum up his
recording career, so diverse it is. He travels between the emotional, the
physical and the cerebral and uses every tool at his disposal.
Visit
www.lonorecords.com for videos, songs and further information about the night.
"The duo's
literate, atmospheric music is sounding more prescient than ever, and they
operate at top form on this, their first album of new material in five years.
Ghost guitarist Michio Kurihara appears as a virtual third group member and his
impeccable electric guitar contributions are here fully integrated into the
immovable foundation of Damon and Naomi's earthy, intimate folk, creating the
most satisfying and sheerly transfixing work of the twosome's career."
Pitchfork
Advance purchase
of tickets is recommended - they are �9 either from Jam, Falmouth or Miss
Peapod's on 01326 274424. Doors are at 9pm, music will begin around 9.45pm and
finish around midnight.
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Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
03 March 2011
By Submitted by
David Lewis
[What follows is
the full text of the article.]
Wheeling resident
Randy Jordan has been named "Coach Of The Month" by the Chicago
Wolves Hockey organization and Galaxie Home Remodeling.
Jordan coaches the
Hoffman Estates Wolfpack youth hockey team that trains at the Triphahn Center
Ice Arena in Hoffman Estates. He serves as assistant manager of rink operations
and hockey director.
According to
Jordan, "As coaches, we strive to teach kids all aspects of the game and
help them understand that what they learn as hockey players, such as
sportsmanship, discipline and respect, will benefit them now and as adults. My
focus is to give as many kids as possible the chance to learn and play the
sport of hockey and love it as much as I do."
Jordan also
"coaches the coaches" and runs the "Sumo Skills Sessions,"
a training program he designed.
Chicago Wolves
president of business operations Mike Gordon added, "The Chicago Wolves
organization is excited to partner with Galaxie Home Remodeling on the Youth
Hockey Player and Coach Of The Month awards.
"It is a
pleasure to recognize the passionate, dedicated coaches and energetic players
who continue to develop the sport of hockey in Chicagoland. As a local company
that contributes to the youth sports community, Galaxie is the perfect partner
to share in presenting awards to young people that highlight teamwork,
leadership and excellence. We look forward to continuing to celebrate the best
in youth hockey with Galaxie."
Galaxie Home
Remodeling has a long history of sponsoring youth organizations and charitable
causes. Company president Bruce Pinsler is a believer in organized youth sports
and his own children participate in several sports, including hockey.
"By
participating in organized youth sports and related activities, kids learn
valuable lessons that will help them later in life. They grow physically, mentally
and emotionally. All of us at Galaxie want to do our part in helping young
people become better adults," said Pinsler.
Jordan stated he
was "surprised and honored to receive this award. The Wolves are a
first-class organization and our hockey club is thrilled to be associated with
them. The Wolves' players are great role models for our kids."
Galaxie Home
Remodeling is a full-service residential remodeling company that is at 4761 W.
Touhy Ave., in Lincolnwood. Galaxie serves the entire Chicagoland area,
including the Northwest suburbs. For information, call (847) 677-8300 or view
the company's website atgalaxieconst.com.
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Wareham travels to a Galaxie far, far in the past
San Francisco
Chronicle
07 November 2010
By Aidin Vaziri;
Chronicle Pop Music Critic
[What follows is
the full text of the article.]
This year, Dean
Wareham could have called on his old Galaxie 500 bandmates to do an
all-guns-blazing reunion tour. After all, it's been 20 years since the
influential Boston trio released the last of its three studio albums - three
perfectly crafted, imperfectly recorded studio albums that sounded like they
came from another time and place even when they really did. That marks some
sort of occasion, right?
Beside, former
college radio peers such as Pixies, Dinosaur Jr. and My Bloody Valentine have
all re-formed with great fanfare - frequently playing much larger venues than
they did the first time around.
But the
47-year-old singer and guitarist says he never even entertained the idea of
reconnecting with drummer Damon Krukowski and bassist Naomi Yang before
starting his current tour, in which he plays nothing but Galaxie 500 songs (he
plays Saturday at the Fillmore).
Why not?
"It didn't
look like fun," Wareham says, with just a hint of his native New Zealand
accent lingering in his voice.
Unlike other bands
that have been able to push their creative and personal differences aside with
the passing of time (and an interest in a big payday), the deep-rooted acrimony
that led to Galaxie 500's abrupt split in 1991 - on the eve of a Japanese tour
- hasn't quite subsided over the years.
In fact, a reissue
campaign for those three landmark records - 1988's "Today," 1989's
"On Fire" and 1991's "This Is Our Music" - earlier this
year only led to more public sniping between Wareham and Krukowski and Yang (a
couple that now performs under the name Damon and Naomi).
In an oral history
published on the website Pitchfork to commemorate the releases, Krukowski
charged, "The more money we earned, the less I recognized Dean for the
friend I once had."
Wareham was caught
off-guard by the lingering resentment but not entirely surprised. The only
communication he's had with his former bandmates over the past two decades is
through e-mail. "I don't need to travel with people who are angry about
things I did 20 years ago," he sniffs.
"I think a
reunion would be easier to do with a four- or five-piece band," Wareham
adds. "The very structure of being a trio, where the other two are a
couple, makes it more difficult to consider. There are only so many ways the
tension could go."
After departing
Galaxie 500, Wareham had a semi-successful major-label run fronting the group
Luna. With his second wife, Britta Philips (who in a former life played the
cartoon rock star Jem on television), he released a couple of albums under the
name Dean and Britta. Together they also did the score for director Noah
Baumbach's movie "The Squid and the Whale."
Most recently,
they've been performing live soundtracks to Andy Warhol's black-and-white
screen tests as part of the touring program, "13 Most Beautiful." He
says that project has taken over their lives.
Two years ago,
Wareham released an unapologetic memoir, "Black Postcards: A Rock and Roll
Romance," in which, among his travails in the world of indie rock, he
recounted visiting prostitutes and snorting coke.
The Harvard
graduate says getting it all out there helped clear the deck for whatever is
next. "It was like an extended therapy session," Wareham says.
"But it was lonely, man. There was no therapist in the room. It was
challenging. It got me using a side of my brain I hadn't used before."
So now he's on the
road playing his old band's slowly dissolving rock songs with a new band that
includes Philips. He says the hardest part about revisiting Galaxie 500's
material - at once intricate, primal and dreamy - is having to unlearn 20 years
of roadwork.
"At the time
I was recording most of these things, I didn't know what I was doing," he
says. "The chord structures are really simple, but there's a lot going on
in them."
But what about the
memories they evoke? Doesn't playing these songs bring back all the resentment
and ego clashes that hung over Galaxie 500?
"What comes
back is your life from back then," Wareham says. "It's fine. It's
like hearing an old song you used to love. It's like getting a scent from an
old room. It can be sad and happy at the same time."
Dean Wareham Plays
Galaxie 500: 9 p.m. Sat. $35.25. The Fillmore, 1805 Geary Blvd., San Francisco.
(877) 598-8497. www.livenation.com.
To hear Dean
Wareham's music, go to www.deanandbritta.com.
Dean Wareham on
Galaxie 500
Today (1988)
"We made that
album in 18 hours, three days total. There's a lesson in that. You don't have
to spend months to make great albums. You can, but sometimes it just happens
magically in the studio."
On Fire (1989)
"It seems to
be most people's favorite. Again, we made it pretty quickly, but we were all
playing better at this point after having toured. I'm really proud of it."
This Is Our Music
(1990)
"If I think
back to the studio at the time, it was kind of unpleasant. We were arguing
about everything. Our producer Kramer was like, 'You don't all have to be here
at the same time!' That's what happens in bands. As you go along, each record
gets more complicated."
- Aidin Vaziri
Follow Aidin
Vaziri at twitter.com/MusicSF. E-mail him at avaziri@sfchronicle.com.
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Daily Herald
(Arlington Heights, IL)
10 October 2010
By Mike Burke
mburke@dailyherald.com
[What follows is
the full text of the article.]
Like all auto buffs,
Don Comiskey holds dear the memory of his very first car.
That 1966 Ford
Galaxie 500 was a gift from his parents, who bought it used and drove it to
work and the grocery store for several years.
"The Galaxie
was my mom and dad's car, which they gave to me as an early high school
graduation present when we lived in South Holland," he said.
"I hopped it
up a bit by replacing the original hubcaps and tires with mag wheels and larger
tires, and drove it during my senior year at Thornridge High School in
Dolton."
The '66 Galaxie
500 is also special to Comiskey because the car helped introduce him to the
woman he would marry.
After graduation
in the summer of 1975, some friends encouraged Comiskey to drive over to
Broadway Street in Merrillville, Ind., "where people cruised up and down
the boulevard with their cars, just like in the movie 'American Graffiti.'
"
That summer, while
cruising Broadway in the Galaxie, Comiskey met his future wife, Karen, who
lived in Merrillville.
"We were
married in 1979 after several fun years of dating and cruising Broadway,"
he said.
Don and Karen
Comiskey now live in West Chicago, where they raised two daughters, Rebecca and
Katie. The family moved several times around the Chicago area before settling in
the West suburbs.
Recently, when
Comiskey began wondering what it would be like to drive that old Ford Galaxie
500 again, he didn't have to search far and wide to find a perfect replacement
car to reconnect with his youth.
The Galaxie -- his
very car -- could be found in the driveway under a cover, where it had been
parked undriven for the past 20 years.
"I could see
that the Galaxie was going downhill fast," he said, "and I knew it
was time to rescue it and bring it back to its original glory."
The car has since
been restored and it was put back on the streets earlier this year.
Not once in those
two decades, as the car sat unused in the driveway awaiting a rebuild, did
Karen beg Don to get rid of the old Galaxie. In fact, on several occasions, she
even encouraged Comiskey to get it back in driving condition.
"She's
actually been pretty understanding about it," he said.
The closest the
couple came to parting ways with the car happened about 10 years ago, when
Don's nephew was in high school. At that point, he figured he may never get
around to fixing it up, so he offered it up to his brother's son, who was
beginning to drive. "I wanted to keep it in the family," he said.
However, whether
because of the expense or logistics involved in moving the Galaxie, his
brother's family never acted on the offer.
Comiskey says his
biggest mistake was kicking the car out of his garage years ago, where it had
been stored earlier in the marriage. But because of Illinois' long winters, it
just became more convenient to park the family's two daily drivers out of the
rain and snow.
When the
long-delayed restoration did begin, the engine was in decent shape, and only
required minor repairs. The body needed the most work, as age and moisture had
blistered the Wimbledon white paint and ruined its black vinyl top. Comiskey
had the Galaxie taken to a local shop, where the owner worked on it slowly over
a couple of years, calling periodically when it was time to send in another
check or begin another aspect of the restoration.
Don and Karen
couldn't be more pleased with the results, and are enjoying their second go
around with the Ford, which has been dubbed "Don's Gal."
"The Galaxie
has been more than just a car," Comiskey said. "It's been a vehicle
that binds 35 years of my family history."
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