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CVB California dates for February 2012

Camper Van Beethoven will be performing the following shows in February:

Fri Feb 10 9:00 pm Harlow's, Sacramento, CA
Sat Feb 11 5:00 pm EARLY Show The Crepe Place Santa Cruz CA
Sat Feb 11 9:00 pm LATE Show The Crepe Place Santa Cruz, CA
Sun Feb 12 9:30 pm The Cellar Door, Visalia, CA

More details at the Tour Dates page

and don't forget...
Thu Mar 01 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm CAMP-IN! CVB & Cracker @ 40-Watt Club - Athens GA



CVB & Cracker January 2012 east-coast update

 Philly is SOLD OUT but tickets are still on sale for the other two shows with CVB & Cracker!

Upcoming CVB/Cracker shows
Date Event Location
Fri Jan 13 SOLD OUT! CVB & Cracker at World Cafe Live Philadelphia, PA, USA
Sat Jan 14 CVB & Cracker at Highline Ballroom
TICKETS
New York, NY, USA 
Sun Jan 15 CVB & Cracker at Middle East Downstairs 
TICKETS
Cambridge, MA, USA 






















Annual Cracker/CVB post holiday California Tour!

Dec 27th - The Belly Up - Solana Beach (CVB and Cracker)
Dec 28th - The Independent SF (CVB and Cracker)
Dec 29th - The Mystic - Petaluma (CVB and Cracker)
Dec 30th - Leftover Salmon/Cracker Duo - Roseland - Portland
Dec 31st -- NYE House of Blues - Chicago (CVB and Cracker)
 
TICKETS ON SALE NOW, check the Tour Dates page for more info!

CAMPOUT TIME!

 
 
7th Annual Cracker Camper Van Beethoven Campout!
Sept 15-17 2011
Pappy and Harriets Pioneertown Palace
Pioneertown California

 
 Like our Facebook Page Campout & follow us on Twitter @CampoutWest for the most up to date news on all things CAMPOUT!
 
Go to the CAMPOUT WEST page for details.

300 Songs Blog

Trichordist

Hello everybody. I’m making some changes to the this blog. So for the time being I have unpublished all these posts. I’ll put them back on line as we go through them. thanks. You can also visit me at www.trichordist.com  

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#78 No more bullshit. The top 10 lamest excuses for stealing artists music

I am on the fucking warpath this week. Lamest arguments in favor of illegal file sharing from the past week. I’m not making this shit up. These are real arguments people presented. And argued vehemently. 1. “Marijuana is illegal. File sharing is illegal. Therefore it’s okay.” Response try filesharing your pot dealer’s stash with 5,000 strangers online and let’s see how long you live. 2. “The RIAA is secretly behind filesharing. They make more money suing people …

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#77 Exile in Beach Flats–Lulu Land, Wasted and Surf City 1985

Ted Kaczynski’s Santa Cruz vacation shack. 04 Lulu Land In 1982 I lived in the tiniest house imaginable. It was at most 400 square feet yet it boasted a kitchen, bathroom, living room and two bedrooms. My bedroom was 6 x 10 feet. big enough for for a single mattress on a small platform. The small closet could hold about a ½ a dozen shirts, a couple of jackets and a sweater or two. I rolled up four or five pairs of jeans and stuffed them onto the shelf at the top of the closet. The rest of my …

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#76 Camper Van Beethoven and the Border Patrol-The Day Lassie Went to The Moon.

Very early Camper Van Beethoven. From Left to Right. David Lowery, Mike Zorn, David McDaniel and Boris Yeltsin. 02 The Day That Lassie Went To The Moon Camper Van Beethoven was originally called Camper Van Beethoven and the Border Patrol. We shortened it after about 9 months. Nobody was listing the full name of the band anyway. There are only two or three posters that I’ve ever seen that show the full name of the band. But this was the original name of the band. The band name was the brainchild of …

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#75 KQED’s The California Report on Big Dipper

Giant Dipper. The Roller Coaster of Love. 03 Big Dipper Click here to play big dipper. This is an interview I did with KQED for The California Report. As part of their California Songs series they ask me about Big Dipper. So todays blog is simply the audio recording of that interview. http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201107151630/d Look for the full or extended interview file. Gabriel Coan/KQED David Lowery The wooden roller coaster on the Santa Cruz boardwalk is a magnet for families, kids and …

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