09-10-2008, 10:40 PM
CvB...yes, they still play from time to time. Most recent (besides the show that I really attend) was up at Fort Mason I think over the summer.
Tomorrow starts the 4th annual Camper/Cracker Campout at
Pappy and Harriet's Pioneertown Palace near Joshua Tree. Essentially any of the CvB family tree are possible performers: Monks of Doom, Eugene Chadbourne, etc...I'd go, but I'm trying to get ship a product next week and I'm buried at work. At the Catalyst show, I made a pact with some friends to go next year.
Here's a flickr photo set from a previous year: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cwsteeds/sets/72157594402257305/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/cwsteeds/s ... 402257305/</a><!-- m -->
The Catalyst CvB show was good, but not as good as when I saw them there two years ago, right after their new album came out. That album/show was a concept album and they played a lot from it and introduced a lot of the material. It's a really good album if you haven't heard it. Anyway, this show they played mostly a lot of older material. I can't remember what they opened with. It might have been Pictures of Matchstick Men. A lot of their klezmer-ish instrumentals, one or two songs of New Roman Times (Long Plastic Hallway). Take the Skinheads Bowling. The Day that Lassie Went to the Moon. More fun, bouncy instrumentals. They would have been a great band to play at a party in your living room. They didn't play Life Is Grand, or She Divines Water, or The Ambiguity Song which are some of my favs.
I was bummed to have missed Cracker. I like a lot of their stuff too, and I've never seen them. Oh well...
-tg
Tomorrow starts the 4th annual Camper/Cracker Campout at
Pappy and Harriet's Pioneertown Palace near Joshua Tree. Essentially any of the CvB family tree are possible performers: Monks of Doom, Eugene Chadbourne, etc...I'd go, but I'm trying to get ship a product next week and I'm buried at work. At the Catalyst show, I made a pact with some friends to go next year.
Here's a flickr photo set from a previous year: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cwsteeds/sets/72157594402257305/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/cwsteeds/s ... 402257305/</a><!-- m -->
The Catalyst CvB show was good, but not as good as when I saw them there two years ago, right after their new album came out. That album/show was a concept album and they played a lot from it and introduced a lot of the material. It's a really good album if you haven't heard it. Anyway, this show they played mostly a lot of older material. I can't remember what they opened with. It might have been Pictures of Matchstick Men. A lot of their klezmer-ish instrumentals, one or two songs of New Roman Times (Long Plastic Hallway). Take the Skinheads Bowling. The Day that Lassie Went to the Moon. More fun, bouncy instrumentals. They would have been a great band to play at a party in your living room. They didn't play Life Is Grand, or She Divines Water, or The Ambiguity Song which are some of my favs.
I was bummed to have missed Cracker. I like a lot of their stuff too, and I've never seen them. Oh well...
-tg