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From: wjnz@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (James Cooper)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Camper Van Beethoven
Message-ID: <1162@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 02:21:14 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  5 02:21:14 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Oct-85 04:54:30 EDT
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Hiya  folks.   Haven't  been reading the net in the  last  couple 
weeks,  so  I'm not sure if someone has done this expose or  not.  
Anyway...

I  managed  to find the album by the group Camper  Van  Beethoven 
that  was  mentioned  on  the net a  month  ago.   It  is  called 
"Telephone Free Landslide Victory," and is on Independent Project 
Records.  

The sticker on the outside of the album says,  in part,  "Imagine 
growing  up in Redlands,  California.   On beyond Riverside,  San 
Berdoo and Cucamonga.  What kind of music do you think you'd make 
if you were here listening to Black Flag,  The Clash and Augustus 
Pablo back when everybody else thought that Blondie was "punk?"
   And  you  decided you'd start  a  surrealist,  absurdist  folk 
band?"

That  gives you a pretty fair idea of where they're coming  from.  
Their  sound is a sort of cross between a folk and a ska band and 
occasionaly a heavier guitar sound.  On top of this is a janglely 
guitar  that sounds like the theme music from  spaghetti  western 
movies.

Songs  are  mostly  instrumentals  but also a  Black  Flag  cover 
("Wasted").   My favorite two songs are "Where the Hell is Bill", 
which  is  about a missing drummer at  practice,  and  "Take  the 
Skinheads  Bowling" which is beyond me.   I guess there were 1200 
copies of this pressed initially (I have #254) so you better  act 
quickly.

For info:
Send some postage to: IPR
                      Postbox 60357
                      Los Angeles, CA  90060

More later...
  

-- 
   James Cooper 

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     "I'm surfin' on heroin"   - The Forgotten Rebels


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