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| 272.1 | They're gone, right? | SUPER::PARMENTER | Nouvelle blague | Tue Jul 28 1992 14:23 | 4 |
| I liked "When I Win the Lottery", but not much else.
I hated the girl fiddler.
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| 272.2 | Bowling Skinheads | QUIVER::MILLER | | Tue Jul 28 1992 16:05 | 16 |
| > <<< Note 272.1 by SUPER::PARMENTER "Nouvelle blague" >>>
> -< They're gone, right? >-
I don't know if they're "gone," or not. Their last album was
_Key Lime Pie_, which was released a couple of years ago now.
However, I'm pretty sure it was their biggest selling album
to date, so chances they'll do another album are pretty good.
By the way, can anyone supply a complete list of Camper albums?
I know of _Key Lime Pie_, _Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart_,
and _Camper Van Mating Oven_ [not sure if I got that last title right,
though]
What else was there?
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| 272.3 | I loved her | RAB::KARDON | He has since been hospitalized | Tue Jul 28 1992 16:07 | 5 |
| > I hated the girl fiddler.
You're wacky. She was great!!
-Scott
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| 272.4 | granted, everyone else there thot she was grat | SUPER::PARMENTER | Nouvelle blague | Tue Jul 28 1992 16:24 | 6 |
| Wacky me. She swooped down with her bow and the band beamed. She swooped
up and the audience beamed. She twirled and turned like the "Dance to Spring"
in a Jules Feiffer cartoon. She played no hot licks. She was *so* impressed
with herself.
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| 272.5 | What the world needs now... | EMDS::GRCOOP | Smarter Than You | Tue Jul 28 1992 16:53 | 5 |
| I think Dave Lowery (SP?) should be shot for his new project "Cracker"
This stuff is so pop I could vomit.
My favorite song is "Eye of Fatima"
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| 272.6 | Compared to the rest of them | RAB::KARDON | He has since been hospitalized | Tue Jul 28 1992 17:05 | 5 |
| > She played no hot licks.
On the night I saw them, nobody in the band did.
-Scott
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| 272.7 | correction for the skinhead bowlers | QUIVER::MILLER | | Tue Jul 28 1992 17:32 | 7 |
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RE: .2
Oops. "Camper Van Mating Oven" should be "Vampire Can Mating Oven"
I think.
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| 272.8 | Feed some cowboys some acid | THEBAY::WIEGLEBDA | Rocky and Raging Bullwinkle | Thu Jul 30 1992 00:02 | 24 |
| Camper van Beethoven is no more. David Lowery said the band broke up
while touring Europe with "Key Lime Pie", when the rest of the band
wanted to go home midway through the tour. They lost a lot of money
as a result because of the cancelled gigs.
* David Lowery is now in the band Cracker.
* Jonathan Segal (previous violinist) has been solo for a while.
* A couple members have been performing as Monks of Doom for a few years
now. Previously a side project, now a steady job. I caught them at
a free show at a local brew-pub. The show was somewhat meandering
and uneven with occasional glimmers.
* I don't recall where the other band members went.
IMHO, their shining hour was "My Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart".
I also thought they put on a very good live show, with either
violinist (Jonathan Segal or Morgan whassername).
"Key Lime Pie" took a while to grow on me, but I like it quite a bit.
Their early material has many good moments, and some fairly disposable
(though fun) novelty material.
The only one I haven't heard is "II & III".
- Dave
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| 272.9 | Can't go left in Gen. Pinochet's cadillac | MPGS::OMALLEY | | Fri Jul 31 1992 12:53 | 3 |
| I like the one with _History of Utah_ on it, and the backwards
tape stuff. Some reviewer described it as "the weird go pro".
I agree.
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| 272.10 | | QUIVER::MILLER | | Mon Aug 03 1992 17:55 | 7 |
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> I like the one with _History of Utah_ on it
What album was that, do you know? Just wondering....
--Brian
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| 272.11 | not the ice cream truck, the surprise truck | MPGS::OMALLEY | | Thu Aug 06 1992 19:17 | 4 |
| I think it was eponymous. I also think they had more than one
eponymous album. It was definitely brown.
Peter
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| 272.12 | | JARETH::DKAPLAN | | Thu Aug 20 1992 11:39 | 20 |
| Hmm, guess I'm the minority here, but I really loved these guys UNTIL
"My Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart", at which point they seemed as exiting
as laxatives. Both their early shows and the early albums and thrived on
unpredictability and of breaking rules ("Hey, let's do a heavy metal Egyptian
tune!).
In 1985 I saw them do a show at the 9:30 Club (great place) in D.C. in
which they did a country version of the Clash's "White Riot", Merle Haggard's
"Okie from Muskogee", and a 15 minute feedback extravaganza. And it all made
equal sense, as did the liberal doses of ska, metal, punk, garage, world music,
psychedelia, and even pop.
But on their final two albums, and a show on the "..Beloved..." tour, they
seemed to have gotten bored, and tired of each other, and it showed. Except for
the always smoking drummer, the last time I saw them live, virtually no one
played any licks that impressed me.
Stick with "Telephone Free Landslide Victory" and "II and III" if you ask me.
Also, no one has mentioned the great album they did with Eugene Chadborne,
called "Camper Van Chadborne" (with a decent Zappa medley, for you fans).
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| 272.13 | skinhead bowlers | QUIVER::MILLER | | Tue Aug 25 1992 10:47 | 7 |
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By the way, what album is "Take The Skinheads Bowling" on?
It was before _My Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart_, right?
--Brian
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| 272.14 | Their first album | KOLFAX::WIEGLEB | Rocky and Raging Bullwinkle | Tue Aug 25 1992 19:49 | 6 |
| "Take the Skinheads Bowling" was on a 12-inch EP with a bunch of
non-album tracks. It is also on their first album, which was entitled
"Telephone Free Landslide Victory". (Does anyone have any idea if this
title means anything at all to anyone?)
- Dave
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| 272.15 | | QUIVER::MILLER | | Wed Aug 26 1992 12:29 | 5 |
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Thanks for the info.
--Brian
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