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Camper Van Beethoven
Indie / Punk / Rock

Camper Van Beethoven



SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA
United States

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Member Since2/23/2005
Band Websitewww.campervanbeethoven.com
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CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
Camper Van Beethoven celebrated their 25th anniversary in 2008, with shows in San Francisco and Chicago, as well as a short east coast run in January of 2009. Along with this, they released a greatest hits compilation featuring songs from the first era of the band (1985-1990). Entitled Popular Songs Of Great Enduring Strength And Beauty, it is available now from Pitch-A-Tent.com. Featuring package design by Michael Wertz, the track listing is as follows:

1. The Day That Lassie Went To The Moon
2. Border Ska
3. Take The Skinheads Bowling
4. Pictures Of Matchstick Men*
5. Skinhead Stomp
6. Opi Rides Again/Club Med Sucks
7. Eye Of Fatima (Parts 1 And 2)*
8. ZZ Top Goes to Egypt
9. Sad Lovers' Waltz
10. When I Win The Lottery*
11. The History Of Utah
12. Seven Languages
13. All Her Favorite Fruit*
14. Good Guys And Bad Guys
15. Circles
16. One Of These Days
17. Ambiguity Song
18. Shut Us Down

* indicates songs which were re-recorded after V*rgin Records refused to allow the band to buy back the rights to the original masters, for inclusion on this disc.
Popular Songs CD artwork by Michael Wertz

You can always find the most current Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker tour dates on Crackersoul.com tourdates page

iLike CVB!iLike CVB!

CVB touring members:

Frank Funaro: Drums
Victor Krummenacher: Bass
David Lowery: Guitar and Lead Vox
Greg Lisher: Lead Guitar
Jonathan Segel: Violin, Keys, Guitar, Harmonica, and Vox

Part time and or recording cohorts

Chris Molla: keys and guitar
Chris Pedersen: Drums
David Immergluck: Guitar, Pedal Steel, Mandolin

also
Chas M.: synths
Miguel Urbiztondo: drums and percussion
Alan Weatherhead: Pedal steel, gtr and synths


Campout DVD. Available.
1st Annual Cracker Camper Van Beethoven Campout DVD
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CRACKER
Cracker has completed work on their new album, Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey, to be released on May 5, 2009 on Savoy/429 Records They have posted a video for the first track, Yalla Yalla, on youtube:



The Cracker Acoustic Duo (David and Johnny) played a brief tour at the start of April 2009 in California, supported at some shows by members of Camper Van Beethoven. A full band Cracker tour begins in May to go along with the new album, and continue through the summer, including club and festival dates.

And of course we will be hosting the 5th Annual Cracker Camper Van Beethoven Campout in Pioneertown California Sept 11th & 12th, 2009.

Buy Cracker on Itunes. Cracker

DAVID LOWERY SOLO
I've been working on a solo record off and on for the last year. I am hoping that i actually get around to finishing it in the next few months. oh yeah and each song is supposed to have a video to it. You can see/listen to a couple of the songs on Youtube
ciao
david
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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Sep 10 2009 8:00P
El Rey Theatre Los Angeles, California
Sep 11 2009 8:00P
Pappy And Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace Pioneertown, California
Sep 12 2009 8:00P
Pappy And Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace Pioneertown, California

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   About Camper Van Beethoven


At the time of their 1985 debut, Camper Van Beethoven's merging of punk, folk, ska, and world musics was truly a revelation. Self-described as "surrealist absurdist folk," the band formed in Santa Cruz, CA, after singer/songwriter David Lowery of Redlands, CA, with his dry humor and valley-boy voice (sometimes confused for a faux English accent), and boyhood friends Chris Molla and Chris Pedersen disbanded Box o' Laffs. Victor Krummenacher was added on bass and soon they were joined by Greg Lisher (guitar) and Jonathan Segel (violins, keyboards, mandolin). It was Segel's violin that would prove to be the band's hallmark at a time when alternative rock had yet to be invented, and indie rock was still shy of roots music or traditional elements.

The 1985 re-release of their debut, Telephone Free Landslide Victory, made the Top Ten in the 1986 Village Voice Pazz and Jop Poll, as did their second album, II & III, and Camper Van Beethoven, both released in 1986. On II & III, they went for a purer indie rock sound with touches of country, as evidenced in their "Sad Lovers Waltz" and their cover of Sonic Youth's "I Love Her All the Time." The band deftly switched modes from punk to ska to rock on alternate takes, but by this time Molla had left the fold. The third album, confusingly titled Camper Van Beethoven, continued the thread, but outstanding tracks like "Joe Stalin's Cadillac" were in the more straight-ahead indie rock vein. However, the band would consistently blow people's minds by tossing around things like a reverent version of Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive." For its Virgin Records debut, coinciding with the label's U.S. re-launch in 1988, the band took a more serious tack on Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, and the group that had once been confined to low budgets and small studio facilities stretched out perhaps a little too aggressively.

For Key Lime Pie, Camper Van Beethoven's final release in 1989, the band took it as far as it could go. Morgan Fichter had replaced Segel by this time. Krummenacher, Pedersen, and Lisher continued to play together in what began as a side project in 1985, Monks of Doom, which turned into a full-time job for them, with four albums and an EP to their credit. Though no longer working as the Monks, the trio, along with Segel and Camper touring guitarist David Immergluck, continue to play together in various formations. Jonathan Segel has released three albums as Hieronymous Firebrain from 1990-1994 and two with Jack & Jill for the Magnetic label, followed by several rock cds under his own name and several electronic music cds under his own name or as Chaos Butterfly. Krummenacher has released several solo records, (Out in the Heat, St. John's Mercy, Bittersweet, Sans Soleil, Nocturne and The Cock Crows At Sunrise, also for Magnetic), worked with members of Tarnation in Lava, and continues to work with Bruce Kaphan on various projects. Greg Lisher has completed two solo cds, Handed Down the Wire on Magnetic and Trains Change on his new label, Chiseled Out. Immergluck and Fichter continue to tour and play sessions with bands of considerable renown (Counting Crows and Natalie Merchant respectively, among others); Lowery took some time off before forming Cracker, but didn't commingle with his former bandmates until reuniting with Krummenacher and Segel in late 1999 to assemble the bizarre rarities collection Camper Van Beethoven Is Dead: Long Live Camper Van Beethoven.


In 2002, Camper Van Beethoven reunited for a nationwide tour on what seemed like a whim, occasioned by a closet-cleaning belated issue of a song-by-song cover of Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, an album they'd recorded as a joke back in 1987. The tour must have gone really well, because unexpectedly, the full band -- the original lineup of David Lowery on vocals and guitar, violinist Jonathan Segel, guitarist Greg Lisher, bassist Victor Krummenacher, and drummer Chris Pedersen, with alumni Chris Molla and Monks of Doom cohort David Immergluck pitching in -- trooped into the studio to record an all new album that, surprisingly enough, stands with the group's finest work. A loosely connected semi-rock opera telling the story of a Texas teenager who joins the military after a 9/11-like event, becomes disillusioned, and joins an anti-government militia, this is the most explicitly political record of Camper Van Beethoven's career, resurrecting and amplifying the themes that colored the band's last two albums, Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart and Key Lime Pie. While some of Lowery's trademark surrealist jokes and hilarious one-liners factor into these songs, there's an undeniable darkness to the album, both lyrically (the story seems to end with the ex-soldier becoming a suicide bomber) and musically. The band's usual forays into faux-ethnic instrumentals, country, and psychedelia are less lighthearted than before, but their tour-sharpened chops are intact, making this the tightest, best-sounding album of their career. In particular, the sardonically folky "Militia Song," the deep-psych swirl of "I Hate This Part of Texas," and "Come Out," which is built upon Steve Reich's 1966 tape-loop piece of the same title, show the group's effortless eclecticism, and the bitter "Might Makes Right" and the Twin Peaks-quoting "That Gum You Like Is Back in Style" are as good as any songs Camper Van Beethoven did in the '80s. Like their fellow college rock stars Mission of Burma and Antietam did earlier in 2004, Camper Van Beethoven have pulled off the difficult trick of not only reuniting, but picking up exactly where they had left off.


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Jun 20 2009 9:59 PM

DEADHEADS GET READY TO PARTY HEARTY WITH FAMILY GROOVE COMPANY~ROOTSTAND~IFDAKAR,AND MORE!

Hey now! The 3Gs ('aka Grateful Garcia Gathering), is returning back to the Camp NCN Venue in beautiful Black River Falls Wisconsin July 30th though August 2nd 2009 where it all began over 6 years ago! A grateful place where Garcia fans will be gathering! It also marks the celebration of Jerry Garcia's 67th Birthday, plus the 14th Anniversary of Jerry's untimely passing. We have leased the campground venue for July 30th though August 3rd 2009 for our 6th annual music festival.

Other great music festivals have hosted at this venue such as Weedstock, Farmapalooza, Big Wu Family Reunion, Campout Roots Festival,just to name a few!



Artists included: Family Groove Company, Rootstand, Ifdakar, Boney Fingers, Baghdad SCUBA Review, Fungus Garden Reverb, Jam and the Playground Kids, In the Dark, MMC Trio, Elf Lettuce, Vinny Weible & Soul Logic, Groovitational Pull, The Reggie, Grateful Beth and the Volunteers, The Bar Tab Band, John Statz, Mr. Cab Driver, Brok'n Arrow, Greyleaf, and more Jambands to be added soon!


Our friends at Mystix Toyz will be on board at the 3G's for tons of family fun with juggling demonstrations, including juggling workshops, face painting, kids parades, plus drum circles and fire dance jams every night
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Jun 21 2009 2:58 AM

cant wait to see you all in seattle!its been awhile!thanks for the new music......kim
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Jun 22 2009 10:36 AM

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Jun 22 2009 6:42 PM

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STEVE WYNN & the MIRACLE 3 perform MEDICINE SHOW!
25th Anniversary of the seminal Dream Syndicate album “Medicine Show”. New York and Los Angeles shows only!

SAT. JUNE 27 - NEW YORK @ The Bell House (Park Slope, Brooklyn)
STEVE WYNN & the Miracle 3 @ 9:30
Paramount Styles (feat. Scott McCloud of Girls Against Boys) @ 8:30
Doug Gillard (of Guided by Voices and Death of Samantha) @ 7:30
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SAT. JULY 9 - LOS ANGELES @ The Echo (Echo Park)
STEVE WYNN & the Miracle 3 @ 9:30pm
The Urinals @ 8:30pm
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Jun 15 2009 3:44 PM


Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey returns to the Bay Area for 3 shows this week!
Wed. 6/17 - Elbo Room - SF,CA Thurs. 6/18 - Starry Plough - Berkeley,CA Fri. 6/19 - Starry Plough - Berkeley,CA (w/Antioquia!)
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Jun 18 2009 7:10 AM

hi
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we hope you like it too ;)
cheers and have a perfect day !


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Jun 17 2009 5:13 AM

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Jun 15 2009 7:19 PM

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Jun 19 2009 7:19 PM

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Jun 9 2009 10:16 PM

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Jun 5 2009 3:52 AM

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Jun 6 2009 1:20 AM

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Jun 5 2009 10:17 PM

CVB contemporaries TRUE WEST play DOWN ON THE FARM Festival in Halden, Norway on August 7th.


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Jun 4 2009 5:41 PM

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