morst's PITOWN 2007 (pt 4)
Friday, Sept 7, 2007 (ctd): CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN!
I know my photo is lame (I almost always shoot without a flash unless I really need to use it), but my audio recordings are good! The setlist for the Camper set on Friday night was:
Interstellar Overdrive, Club Med Sucks, The Day Lassie Went To The Moon, Seven Languages, Pictures Of Matchstick Men, Take The Skinheads Bowling, One Of These Days, L'Aguardiente, Militia Song, New Roman Times, R'n'R Uzbekistan, Shut Us Down, (I Was So) Wasted, White Riot, Skinhead Stomp, All Her Favorite Fruit, Sweethearts, She Divines Water, Sad Lovers Waltz, Circles, The Long Plastic Hallway, Eye Of Fatima, Tania, and finally ZZ Top Goes To Egypt. . .
I thought it was great that they kicked things off with Interstellar, since that was the song whose presence on Their Third Album convinced me to check out their music, back in 88 or 89. I should have noticed the unusual song order when Club Med Sucks was followed by Lassie, but it had been a full year since I had seen CVB at the 2006 campout, with no live Camper in the interim. I actually left the outdoor stage area during Seven Languages to attend to my indoor recording setup (taper sacrifice!) which was not the best plan, since Camper has really been tearing up the 7Lang this tour. In retrospect, I should have gone out during the following song, but I had set my phone's alarm to alert me, and how was I to know what was to come? It seemed odd but very cool that they got the PoMM and SkinBowl out of the way so early but we still didn't "get it." Shut Us Down > Wasted > White Riot should have been the dead giveaway but again, it had been so long for me without seeing them that I knew there was something unusual going on but just couldn't put my finger on it.
Finally after Circles, they revealed the theme. . . David claimed that they were playing the setlist from the January 2005 show from The Middle East in Cambridge MA, but they were playing it backwards! Jon said "for those of you posting the show on archive.org" (who me?) that we can just take the setlist from that show and backwards it! Then Victor said "Morst is gonna double-check that and bust us" and David added that it might not be the Middle East, it might be Beachland (which is in Cleveland). . . Funny thing is, neither of those shows are on the archive at all, so how will we know for sure?
They closed out the set with the songs they would typically play to get things going, ending with the classic opener ZZ Top Goes To Egypt. A mighty fine set with the most insanely rocking songs played up front, and I even got a personal shoutout from my musical heros! Hard not to like that!!!
After the CVB set, I took down my gear for the move to the indoor stage for the evening's capper- Vermillion Lies. Part vaudeville-style burlesque, part Zappa-inspired stage madness, Zoe and Kim Boekbinder hail from the Bay Area, and play a decidedly quirky mix of instruments in the course of their sets.
They also take off their pants, and their show involves quite a bit of audience participation. I had enough time before they started so I could go to the bathroom and change into my pajama bottoms, since I had read on their site that the proper attire for their shows included lingerie and hats, or at the very least, pj's. So, clad in my jammies, (thanks to IAMACRACKER2 for the photo) I set about enjoying and documenting their set.
I don't know their material too well, so the best I could come up with for the list is as follows:
intro, removal of pants, audience training, Global Warming, song for the lobsters?, The Astronomer, Kiss Me On The Lips?, Sisters?, Circus Apocalypse, what's in the box?, merch announcement, Up On That Shelf?, what's in the box?, ?, hostage holding - Dead Wrong, Mommy?
Like CVB, they also played their set backwards, starting with one of their best numbers - Global Warming, after which we all shouted out ENCORE ENCORE, and so they removed their pants (don't worry, kiddies, they had lingerie on underneath!) and proceeded to play the rest of their show.
Toy Piano, Accordian, Washboard, Drums, Saw Guy playing the saw, with his pants around his ankles. . . Did I mention that they used some unorthodox instrumentation? 
Jon Segel was in the crowd for a while, he seemed to love their set, I am pretty sure that they are friends of his from Oakland, and that he was probably the reason they were booked at the Crampout. At one point towards the end of their set, they asked if we wanted to be held hostage. Well, some of the folks in the crowd may have thought that sounded like a good idea, and before we knew it, they said that they would refuse to play any more music until they sold 5 of their CD's! Luckily, their set was strangely compelling to such a degree that it was a very short break. All in all, it was a wild ending for the second night of the third campout, and seemed to leave folks more charged up than we were before their set, what with all the crowd interaction and what have you?!
Well, not everyone. . . sitting over to my right was a dude who must have overindulged a bit, 'cause he spent most of their set holding his head in his hands. After the show, I think he puked on the floor before he got up and staggered out of the bar, but I managed to get a photo of him. Not really that tough since he was not moving, but notice Mungo's gleeful expression at the situation!
After Pappy and Harriet's shut down for the night, it was back to the motel for yet another spirited Porchstock festivity, in which I actually picked up a stringed instrument or two and picked some notes. I think I had Father Dan's ukelele and then traded that over to Mungo, and wound up with a mandolin in my hands! I am not much of a string player, saxophone and keyboards being my more fluent methods of musical expression, but I realized upon picking up the mando, that I had immediately doubled the number of strings I could play- to two! (Of course, the mandolin has four "double-course" sets of strings, in a similar way to the setup of a 12-string guitar, so I was still playing one note at a time! That's how sax players play, so go figure!)
. . . to be continued, tune in next time for Saturday's story, featuring the band singing, Casey and Sixer, Dark Meat, Hackensaw Boys, Cracker, and much much more!
ps THIS JUST IN, Steve Propp has just released his MATRIX MIX of my soundboard and audience recordings of CVB in PiTown! http://www.archive.org/details/CVB2007-09-07.matrix
Friday, Sept 7, 2007 (ctd): CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN!
I know my photo is lame (I almost always shoot without a flash unless I really need to use it), but my audio recordings are good! The setlist for the Camper set on Friday night was:Interstellar Overdrive, Club Med Sucks, The Day Lassie Went To The Moon, Seven Languages, Pictures Of Matchstick Men, Take The Skinheads Bowling, One Of These Days, L'Aguardiente, Militia Song, New Roman Times, R'n'R Uzbekistan, Shut Us Down, (I Was So) Wasted, White Riot, Skinhead Stomp, All Her Favorite Fruit, Sweethearts, She Divines Water, Sad Lovers Waltz, Circles, The Long Plastic Hallway, Eye Of Fatima, Tania, and finally ZZ Top Goes To Egypt. . .
I thought it was great that they kicked things off with Interstellar, since that was the song whose presence on Their Third Album convinced me to check out their music, back in 88 or 89. I should have noticed the unusual song order when Club Med Sucks was followed by Lassie, but it had been a full year since I had seen CVB at the 2006 campout, with no live Camper in the interim. I actually left the outdoor stage area during Seven Languages to attend to my indoor recording setup (taper sacrifice!) which was not the best plan, since Camper has really been tearing up the 7Lang this tour. In retrospect, I should have gone out during the following song, but I had set my phone's alarm to alert me, and how was I to know what was to come? It seemed odd but very cool that they got the PoMM and SkinBowl out of the way so early but we still didn't "get it." Shut Us Down > Wasted > White Riot should have been the dead giveaway but again, it had been so long for me without seeing them that I knew there was something unusual going on but just couldn't put my finger on it.
Finally after Circles, they revealed the theme. . . David claimed that they were playing the setlist from the January 2005 show from The Middle East in Cambridge MA, but they were playing it backwards! Jon said "for those of you posting the show on archive.org" (who me?) that we can just take the setlist from that show and backwards it! Then Victor said "Morst is gonna double-check that and bust us" and David added that it might not be the Middle East, it might be Beachland (which is in Cleveland). . . Funny thing is, neither of those shows are on the archive at all, so how will we know for sure?
They closed out the set with the songs they would typically play to get things going, ending with the classic opener ZZ Top Goes To Egypt. A mighty fine set with the most insanely rocking songs played up front, and I even got a personal shoutout from my musical heros! Hard not to like that!!!
After the CVB set, I took down my gear for the move to the indoor stage for the evening's capper- Vermillion Lies. Part vaudeville-style burlesque, part Zappa-inspired stage madness, Zoe and Kim Boekbinder hail from the Bay Area, and play a decidedly quirky mix of instruments in the course of their sets.
They also take off their pants, and their show involves quite a bit of audience participation. I had enough time before they started so I could go to the bathroom and change into my pajama bottoms, since I had read on their site that the proper attire for their shows included lingerie and hats, or at the very least, pj's. So, clad in my jammies, (thanks to IAMACRACKER2 for the photo) I set about enjoying and documenting their set.I don't know their material too well, so the best I could come up with for the list is as follows:
intro, removal of pants, audience training, Global Warming, song for the lobsters?, The Astronomer, Kiss Me On The Lips?, Sisters?, Circus Apocalypse, what's in the box?, merch announcement, Up On That Shelf?, what's in the box?, ?, hostage holding - Dead Wrong, Mommy?
Like CVB, they also played their set backwards, starting with one of their best numbers - Global Warming, after which we all shouted out ENCORE ENCORE, and so they removed their pants (don't worry, kiddies, they had lingerie on underneath!) and proceeded to play the rest of their show.
Toy Piano, Accordian, Washboard, Drums, Saw Guy playing the saw, with his pants around his ankles. . . Did I mention that they used some unorthodox instrumentation? Jon Segel was in the crowd for a while, he seemed to love their set, I am pretty sure that they are friends of his from Oakland, and that he was probably the reason they were booked at the Crampout. At one point towards the end of their set, they asked if we wanted to be held hostage. Well, some of the folks in the crowd may have thought that sounded like a good idea, and before we knew it, they said that they would refuse to play any more music until they sold 5 of their CD's! Luckily, their set was strangely compelling to such a degree that it was a very short break. All in all, it was a wild ending for the second night of the third campout, and seemed to leave folks more charged up than we were before their set, what with all the crowd interaction and what have you?!
Well, not everyone. . . sitting over to my right was a dude who must have overindulged a bit, 'cause he spent most of their set holding his head in his hands. After the show, I think he puked on the floor before he got up and staggered out of the bar, but I managed to get a photo of him. Not really that tough since he was not moving, but notice Mungo's gleeful expression at the situation!
After Pappy and Harriet's shut down for the night, it was back to the motel for yet another spirited Porchstock festivity, in which I actually picked up a stringed instrument or two and picked some notes. I think I had Father Dan's ukelele and then traded that over to Mungo, and wound up with a mandolin in my hands! I am not much of a string player, saxophone and keyboards being my more fluent methods of musical expression, but I realized upon picking up the mando, that I had immediately doubled the number of strings I could play- to two! (Of course, the mandolin has four "double-course" sets of strings, in a similar way to the setup of a 12-string guitar, so I was still playing one note at a time! That's how sax players play, so go figure!)
. . . to be continued, tune in next time for Saturday's story, featuring the band singing, Casey and Sixer, Dark Meat, Hackensaw Boys, Cracker, and much much more!
ps THIS JUST IN, Steve Propp has just released his MATRIX MIX of my soundboard and audience recordings of CVB in PiTown! http://www.archive.org/details/CVB2007-09-07.matrix
Labels: Camper Van Beethoven, Jonathan Segel, Kim Boekbinder, Mungo, Pappy and Harriet's, Vermillion Lies, Zoe Boekbinder
posted by morst at 11/06/2007 01:02:00 AM -
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