CVB's San Francisco Super Silver!
25 years ago, some guys in California started a band. Now they have celebrated 25 years by playing a gig at the world-famous Fillmore in San Francisco. Camper Van Beethoven has long been a favorite of mine, and I don't expect that to change soon. As good as they are, they don't seem to draw gigantic crowds, so they can still play cool venues which are designed for music, rather than having to book enormo-domes in every town. They booked a short tour for about a week's worth of gigs in various parts of California, culminating in a 25th anniversary show at the world famous Fillmore. Opening the show was The Cat Heads, who had played shows with CVB back in 1986, and who had not really played out since. Cat Heads drummer Melanie Clarin designed a poster for the show, as did CVB multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Segel. Michael Wertz did the lettering on Jon's design.
Crawdaddy article with a nice David Lowery interview, and featuring a photo by yours truly!
Live at the Fillmore on Archive.org
Setlist:
Mad Russian intro, Pictures Of Matchstick Men, Tania, Eye Of Fatima, Cowboys From Hollywood, Shut Us Down, R 'n' R Uzbekistan, The History Of Utah, Sad Lover's Waltz, Ambiguity Song, Mao Reminisces About His Days In Southern China, banter - a kiss and a hit, Militia Song, The Day Lassie Went To The Moon, Club Med Sucks, banter, All Her Favorite Fruit, She Divines Water, Waka, Axe Murderer Song, Good Guys And Bad Guys, Skinhead Stomp, White Riot, (I Was So) Wasted, Tina, Take The Skinheads Bowling, banter - popular songs and eyebrows, New Roman Times, One Of These Days, Turquoise Jewelry, Seven Languages, The Humid Press Of Days, I'm Not Like Everybody Else, (We're A) Bad Trip, Interstellar Overdrive, encore break, encore intro cake announcement and band intro, Lottery, The Poppies Of Balmorhea, Where The Hell Is Bill?, encore break, encore 2 intro banter, Devil Song, L'Aguardiente, recordist signout
After the Catheads opening set, Vladimir "Mad Russian" Noskov came out and enthused the crowd to make sure to register to vote, and not to go get shitfaced on Monday, November 3rd, then introduced CVB. Camper played a no-nonsense set of music, interspersed with some great stage banter. Musical rarities included Cowboys From Hollywood, (We're A) Bad Trip, New Roman Times, The Humid Press Of Days, The Poppies Of Balmorhea, Where The Hell Is Bill, Devil Song, I'm Not Like Everybody Else, and The Axe Murderer Song.
Sunday Sunday Sunday!!!
My friend Glenn took that picture of me on the Sunday in San Fran. When we got back to the hotel room after brunch I told him I was NOT going to spend the afternoon in the hotel room, and so we decided to walk up to the Haight and poke around at a great record store called Amoeba. We had several hours before it was time to activate dinner plans and he had his laptop in the room, so I google-mapped the route to the record store (last week I noticed that google now has WALKING directions and timings added to their map!) and I checked the time and we took off. I figured if it took less than about 75 minutes to walk to where we were going that we would have time to hang out and walk back, but if it took longer we might need to cab back. We wound up having plenty of time, and in fact, while walking back, TOTALLY RANDOMLY ran into one of the friends we were going to meet up with for the show that night outside a coffee shop! I heard "Tom!. . . TOM! . . . TAAAHM!!!!" and turned to look but we had already rounded the corner and nobody was waving their arms. . a moment later I heard "HEY MORST!" and of course I whirled around like "WHAT??" cause that's pretty specific! My buddy Vladimir was waving us down. He was there waiting for a friend he had met the night before, and saw us walk across the street right in front of the shop where he was sitting! "I can't believe I ran into you here!" he said. . . I replied "well, it's a small town!" somewhat jokingly. About two minutes later when his friend who lived right nearby showed up, he exclaimed to her "look who I just ran into!!?" and she just said "Well, it's a small town!" HAHAHA! The trip was full of great little coincidences like that, but that was the funniest!
Then, Sunday night at Bottom of The Hill was the "after party party"- Jon and Victor's solo bands played, and played quite well. If a picture is worth a thousand words, what's a digital audio recording worth? How about a video?!?!
Victor Krummenacher Band live at Bottom Of The Hill
Jonathan Segel Band live at Bottom of The Hill
25 years ago, some guys in California started a band. Now they have celebrated 25 years by playing a gig at the world-famous Fillmore in San Francisco. Camper Van Beethoven has long been a favorite of mine, and I don't expect that to change soon. As good as they are, they don't seem to draw gigantic crowds, so they can still play cool venues which are designed for music, rather than having to book enormo-domes in every town. They booked a short tour for about a week's worth of gigs in various parts of California, culminating in a 25th anniversary show at the world famous Fillmore. Opening the show was The Cat Heads, who had played shows with CVB back in 1986, and who had not really played out since. Cat Heads drummer Melanie Clarin designed a poster for the show, as did CVB multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Segel. Michael Wertz did the lettering on Jon's design.
Crawdaddy article with a nice David Lowery interview, and featuring a photo by yours truly!
Live at the Fillmore on Archive.org
Setlist:
Mad Russian intro, Pictures Of Matchstick Men, Tania, Eye Of Fatima, Cowboys From Hollywood, Shut Us Down, R 'n' R Uzbekistan, The History Of Utah, Sad Lover's Waltz, Ambiguity Song, Mao Reminisces About His Days In Southern China, banter - a kiss and a hit, Militia Song, The Day Lassie Went To The Moon, Club Med Sucks, banter, All Her Favorite Fruit, She Divines Water, Waka, Axe Murderer Song, Good Guys And Bad Guys, Skinhead Stomp, White Riot, (I Was So) Wasted, Tina, Take The Skinheads Bowling, banter - popular songs and eyebrows, New Roman Times, One Of These Days, Turquoise Jewelry, Seven Languages, The Humid Press Of Days, I'm Not Like Everybody Else, (We're A) Bad Trip, Interstellar Overdrive, encore break, encore intro cake announcement and band intro, Lottery, The Poppies Of Balmorhea, Where The Hell Is Bill?, encore break, encore 2 intro banter, Devil Song, L'Aguardiente, recordist signout
After the Catheads opening set, Vladimir "Mad Russian" Noskov came out and enthused the crowd to make sure to register to vote, and not to go get shitfaced on Monday, November 3rd, then introduced CVB. Camper played a no-nonsense set of music, interspersed with some great stage banter. Musical rarities included Cowboys From Hollywood, (We're A) Bad Trip, New Roman Times, The Humid Press Of Days, The Poppies Of Balmorhea, Where The Hell Is Bill, Devil Song, I'm Not Like Everybody Else, and The Axe Murderer Song.
Sunday Sunday Sunday!!!
My friend Glenn took that picture of me on the Sunday in San Fran. When we got back to the hotel room after brunch I told him I was NOT going to spend the afternoon in the hotel room, and so we decided to walk up to the Haight and poke around at a great record store called Amoeba. We had several hours before it was time to activate dinner plans and he had his laptop in the room, so I google-mapped the route to the record store (last week I noticed that google now has WALKING directions and timings added to their map!) and I checked the time and we took off. I figured if it took less than about 75 minutes to walk to where we were going that we would have time to hang out and walk back, but if it took longer we might need to cab back. We wound up having plenty of time, and in fact, while walking back, TOTALLY RANDOMLY ran into one of the friends we were going to meet up with for the show that night outside a coffee shop! I heard "Tom!. . . TOM! . . . TAAAHM!!!!" and turned to look but we had already rounded the corner and nobody was waving their arms. . a moment later I heard "HEY MORST!" and of course I whirled around like "WHAT??" cause that's pretty specific! My buddy Vladimir was waving us down. He was there waiting for a friend he had met the night before, and saw us walk across the street right in front of the shop where he was sitting! "I can't believe I ran into you here!" he said. . . I replied "well, it's a small town!" somewhat jokingly. About two minutes later when his friend who lived right nearby showed up, he exclaimed to her "look who I just ran into!!?" and she just said "Well, it's a small town!" HAHAHA! The trip was full of great little coincidences like that, but that was the funniest!
Then, Sunday night at Bottom of The Hill was the "after party party"- Jon and Victor's solo bands played, and played quite well. If a picture is worth a thousand words, what's a digital audio recording worth? How about a video?!?!
Victor Krummenacher Band live at Bottom Of The Hill
Jonathan Segel Band live at Bottom of The Hill
Labels: archive.org, Bottom Of The Hill, California, Camper Van Beethoven, David Lowery, Fillmore, Frank Funaro, Greg Lisher, Jonathan Segel, Mad Russian, San Francisco, Victor Krummenacher
posted by morst at 7/19/2008 10:19:00 PM -
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