Morst’s Top 5 countdown of top 5 countdowns!

It’s a meta-countdown.

Number 5 – Top 5 CONCERTS of 2011 with 8 honorable mentions cause it’s just not fair.

Feb 21, 2011 – Ike Reilly & Nightwatchman with Wayne Kramer & some union-friendly guys from Beantown. Early gig was a noon rally in the COLD at the state capitol, then the late [...]]]>

Morst’s Top 5 countdown of top 5 countdowns!

It’s a meta-countdown.

Number 5 – Top 5 CONCERTS of 2011 with 8 honorable mentions cause it’s
just not fair.

Feb 21, 2011 – Ike Reilly & Nightwatchman with Wayne Kramer & some
union-friendly guys from Beantown. Early gig was a noon rally in the
COLD at the state capitol, then the late gig was indoors at the
downtown Monona Terrace convention center. Wisconsin has been through
some intense political upheaval, and this was right at the start of
it.

March 13, 2011 – Middle Brother with Dawes & Deer Tick at The Majestic
Theatre in Madison. The young fellers in Dawes do not fail to put on a
sparkling good show, and Middle Brother was a rare and welcome treat,
perhaps not to be rekindled!?

September 24, 2011 – The Bottle Rockets open up acoustic and then back
up Marshall Crenshaw at the High Noon Saloon.

October 27, 2011 – Project Object plays the music of Frank Zappa at
Miramar Theatre, Milwaukee. Everyone is high on Herman Cain jokes. The
Hue opens with a solid set of instrumental prog. Original Zappa band
members Ike Willis & Ray White on lead vocals and guitar, backed by a
band capable of playing some of the most difficult music written for a
rock band.

November 6, 2011 – Ray Davies at Barrymore Theatre. Almost all Kinks
songs. The 88, a band from LA, backed Ray and opened up for him. I
don’t like audience singalongs, but Ray does, and the Barrymore crowd
really nailed it, I must say. Ray is great. This was not the Kinks but
I wish it was.

Honorable mentions (MORE Than 5!!):

Feb 15, 2011 Deerhoof at the High Noon Saloon. I am glad I recorded
it, maybe someday I’ll figure out what happened. I did enjoy it. I did
not recognize any of the music.

March 30, 2011 – Bottle Rockets & James McMurtry at High Noon Saloon
in Madison. Heck of a year when something like this ain’t top 5!

August 20, 2011 – Farmfest450, tried to see Tire Fire but they were
rained out by a doozy of a lightning storm. Miles Nielsen ended up
being the headliner as he finished before the storm!

August 24, 2011 Spacerock Invasion 2011 tour with Huw Lloyd-Langton,
Brainticket, & Nektar in Milwaukee. Abby Travis on bass for
Brainticket, duetted with Roye during Nektar’s set.

Sept 15-17 Campout 7 THE HICKMEN PLAYED and yet somehow this is not in
my top 5??? W^T^F? Cop Night from Cracker? CVB as Hippies!? The Indoor
Stage!?
Sept 18 FiStock V at STUDIO – lack of a street number didn’t stop it
from being the best Fi-Stock yet!

November 5, 2011 – Dawes in Milwaukee played a great sounding hot
show, and a couple got engaged on the stage dere. Also Blitzen Trapper
& Belle Brigade, but Dawes is the deal for me.

November 23, 2011 – Backyard Tire Fire’s final show before Hiatus in
St. Charles IL. Good show, a little long on covers, and I don’t think
they’ll stay away for too long, so I’m not sweating their “indefinite
hiatus” or overrating it based on that reason.

November 27, 2011 – Ugly Radio Rebellion at Club Garibaldi in
Milwaukee – More Zappa Music with Ike Willis and another hot band.
Looser this time but even more intimate in the friendly confines.

PLUS LINKS:

Ike Reilly & Tom Morello – on the archive, but not the “LMA” section: http://www.archive.org/details/MadisonRally2011-02-21A

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=crampout

I’ve been fixing up some videos with improved sound from my audio rig… Here’s one now!… MORST

The ARCHIVE King that is!

Sitting here, listening to this all the way through, to check it, and realizing that Chris LeRoy and Johnny Hickman wrote the closing number of Cracker’s “Cop Night” performance, so it must be that time again.

This was the 7th annual Cracker/ camper van beethoven family reunion [...]]]> THE KING IS BACK!

The ARCHIVE King that is!

Sitting here, listening to this all the way through, to check it, and realizing that Chris LeRoy and Johnny Hickman wrote the closing number of Cracker’s “Cop Night” performance, so it must be that time again.

This was the 7th annual Cracker/ camper van beethoven family reunion campout at Pappy & Harriet’s, or as I like to call it – Crampout! The past couple years have included a costume aspect, and on Saturday of the 2011 weekend, the Cop theme was evident in the music. Cracker came screaming out of the station, sirens blaring, so to speak. Charged-up punk stuff gave way to some breathers in the middle of the 2-hour set, but the set was long and rockin’ and ended with Johnny belting out.

What can I say about this fabulous elixir?  THE KING IS BACK!

—MORST

http://www.archive.org/details/Cracker2011-09-17

www.archive.org

01. intro 02. Movie Star [...]]]> If I were to tide you over with a fresh Cracker pick, it would have to be something from the Music and Maritime Festival in Duluth MN this past July 15th. http://www.archive.org/details/Cracker2011-07-15

Cracker Live at Music & Maritime Festival on 2011-07-15 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

www.archive.org

01. intro 02. Movie Star 03. Teen Angst 04. The Riverside 05. Gimme One More Chance 06. I See The Light 07. Sweet Potato 08. This Is Crackersoul 09. Eurotrash…

MORST THE ARCHIVE KING: JJ’s dream comes true – an archive king pick

As Archive King, it is my formal duty to bear the news of a fantastic new entry to the online Camper Van Beethoven listening community.

Recently, a fan of Camper Van Beethoven had his dream come true, when CVB played a show at his [...]]]>

MORST THE ARCHIVE KING: JJ’s dream comes true – an archive king pick

As Archive King, it is my formal duty to bear the news of a fantastic new entry to the online Camper Van Beethoven listening community.

Recently, a fan of Camper Van Beethoven had his dream come true, when CVB played a show at his bar in Racine, Wisconsin. They arrived from Chicago, where they had just played a private engagement at some sort of esoteric intellectual conference called the TEDx Midwest convention. Now JJ McAuliffe runs a great little bar, where Cracker played in August 2007 and debuted the full-album treatment of their 1993 album Kerosene Hat. At that time, JJ expressed his dream to David Lowery, and David said he’d work on putting that together.

Saturday October 16, 2010. A good day in sports for Badgers fans, as the UW football team defeated Ohio. Music fans in Racine that day would wait until the sports fans were finished with their game, if not satisfied by the outcome. And they would be rewarded for their wait with a 34-song Camper Van Beethoven show featuring a full two sets, theramin solos, rare songs, and one very excited and elated club
owner.

To select one highlight will be difficult, but that makes up for when as the wise Mel Brooks said “Sometimes it’s good to be the king.” The set started strong, with this year’s seeming opener of choice – Waka and then on to Matchstick Men. A very strong first set filled with popular songs of great enduring strength and beauty, ending with Lottery and the South American folk song – L’aguardiente, a setcloser in three parts. No, those are not my choices, I’m just givin’ ya the rundown.

Second set started out on a trip with a theramin-laced ZZ Top Goes To Egypt proving that Jonathan Segel doesn’t need frets to make music, or for that matter, a fingerboard! Then to the Box ‘ o’ Laffs classic Flowers and a bunch more songs of great enduring strength and beauty. Perhaps not as many widely popular songs in the second set, I found the choices to be remarkably strong, very much to my liking, and proving what a deep catalog CVB has.

But the king grows long in his doteage and his jester is not able to easily access his tome of previous picks. At the risk of repeating myself, of course, everyone loves a ripping Intersteller Overdrive, but the medley was a little different from the way it’s been in recent years. After a very raucous The Day Lassie Went To The Moon with some heated vocals from David, the band stopped. Like, ended the song instead of going right into Club Med Sucks like “usual.” And lo, another Popular Song Of Great Enduring Strength And Beauty was to be heard, for the first time in recent memory. Opi was heard to ride
again, as the band played the classic intro section to Club Med Sucks then after Club Med, things got Pink. As in Floyd. We call it Intersteller, but there are some other classic Floydian themes floating around in there. And theramined around too.

And after Lassie, David sang not, and the rest sang not, and three encores were played, including a damn fine Cattle (Reversed) and JJ was happy because his dream had come true. Morst was happy that the soundboard recording came out just fine, after caveats from Bob the house soundman that it might not even work at all, and the next day, DigitalistOne showed morst a thing or two about audio editing on the
way to preparing the soundboard-audience mix version you can listen to
here:

http://www.archive.org/details/CVB2010-10-16.2448

So to be clear and non-linear, Abundance was particulary strong and possessed endearing beauty, but the Lassie, Opi > Club Med > Intersteller has to be the pick this round.

With this Archive King Pick, I’d like to welcome Dawes to the LMA project. My first introduction to them was in PiTown, at Campout V in 2009, where they kicked off the outdoor stage on Saturday. Now just a year later, I’ve seen ‘em 5 times, and can hardly wait ’til the next.

Peace [...]]]>

MORST ARCHIVE KING PICK…DAWES

With this Archive King Pick, I’d like to welcome Dawes to the LMA project. My first introduction to them was in PiTown, at Campout V in 2009, where they kicked off the outdoor stage on Saturday.
Now just a year later, I’ve seen ‘em 5 times, and can hardly wait ’til the next.

Peace In The Valley is this week’s pick, from their July 3rd show on the shore of Madison’s Lake Mendota, at the famous UW Memorial Union Terrace. Mixed by Dawes fan Scott D. Steger of Intellisound, this was Patrick Breiner’s third successive Madison appearance on tenor sax. They met when Dawes opened for Langhorne Slim last fall, and it’s a really good match. Also, Jonny Corndawg makes an appearance. . .

http://www.archive.org/details/Dawes2010-07-03

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August 3 at 12:03am In all my picks, I’ve never gone ahead, and selected one of Cracker’s most iconic songs. Teen Angst is what I always call it, the official title is Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now).

First song off the first album, and it manages to find its way into ALMOST [...]]]>

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August 3 at 12:03am

Cracker Live at Georgio’s Pizza on 2010-07-04 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

www.archive.org

Teen Angst, Mr. Wrong, Low

This was the show when I spoke to Brent briefly during Drumz. What a second set. Short on song numbers, but [...]]]>

Acffh Morst
Twenty years ago this week, the Grateful Dead were on FIRE. Unfortunately, we came to find out that part of the fuel was ol’Brentski burning and not fading away. But the music! AHH!

This was the show when I spoke to Brent briefly during Drumz. What a second set. Short on song numbers, but IN-TENSE.

www.archive.org

The Mother Hips have been a favorite of mine for a long time, and so it’s great to be able to hear them play live. And I didn’t even have to fly to California to do it! Once again, back at Schuba’s in Chicago, [...]]]>