MORSTY WANTS ONE MORE CHANCE

This week we’re going to stick with a clear winner, the Belly Up recordings by James Bartoli down there in southern Cal. Last week was a Camper track, and this week, we’ll go with a Cracker tune, which would that be??

I’ve had Gimme One More Chance on my “prospective picks” list for a while now. [...]

Morst's Pick of the Week: HOLLYWOOD COWBOYS

James Bartoli has done it again. For the past several years, he’s recorded the CVB & Cracker Belly Up gigs in Solana Beach CA and shared em up on archive.org. He’s just posted this sweet one from a month ago, and so the pick has to be Camper Van Beethoven’s COWBOYS FROM HOLLYWOOD. Just gotta! [...]

MORST PICK OF THE WEEK :FRIENDS

Last week’s pick was the first Camper Van Beethoven song of 2010, this week, we’ll get it going with Friends, the start of the Cracker set from the very same show. The song originally appeared on Johnny Hickman’s solo album Palmhenge, released in 2005, and was redone with a full band arrangement for Cracker’s 2009 [...]

MORST Pick of the Week: Waka (mile in his shoes)

Skinny Morst says….
Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker made their way east this year, in an unprecedented continuation of their annual holiday run. What normally is three or four shows on the west coast at the end of December, has extended into a two week long SNOW TOUR. The first night of the tour was a [...]

Morst's Pick of the Week

Xmas has passed, but here’s Cracker’s little tribute to it, recorded at the New Years Eve show at the Soiled Dove, in Denver.

http://www.archive.org/details/cracker2009-12-31.mc930.16bit

Merry xmas Emily!

MORST Music Pick of the Week:SHAKE SOME ACTION!

SHAKE SOME ACTION! Every now and then Cracker busts out this oldie from the Flaming Groovies, and Johnny just lets it rip. Chomping along on the guitar riff that makes the song, Johnny takes care of the lead singing, and drummer Frank Funaro (Dictators, Del-Lords, Joey Ramone, Dion etc etc) handles the backing vocals. David [...]

Morst Pick of The Week: A Digression

MORST DIGRESSES

This week’s pick takes us back a couple years to a Festival show in Germany at a gig that a crumb said “. . .is the German Woodstock

Since he used the winking smilie, I’m not sure how to take that, but the show featured a cover song which Cracker doesn’t play very [...]

MORST Pick of the Week: THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE: WE NEED MORE DOOM

Going over my picks from this fall, I see that the Monks Of Doom show at Pioneertown has not yet been featured. UNACCEPTABLE!!! Hieroglyphic is the first song from the set, and is a really nice intro to what the Monks Of Doom are about. Pulsing and surging, the band weaves its weird tapestry around [...]

MORST PICK OF THE WEEK: ASATR

MORST PICK OFTHE WEEK

2009 Cleanup picks: This one from Nashville the day after Erinstock features a song by Johnny and Chris which I have not yet picked. You
will recall that this show was one which featured Johnny sitting in
with openers Backyard Tire Fire. It was also radio broadcast on FM in
Nashville. As David’s voice was [...]

MORST'S VIDEO OF THE WEEK: FIND A PENCIL!

Mother Hips and Backyard Tire Fire just played a pair of “Co-Headliner” shows in Chicago last weekend. Friday, BTF opened for the Hip,Saturday, the Hips returned the favor and opened for Tire Fire. Jason “Picklemic” Loomis and I went to both shows, and teamed up to make the recordings for this week’s pick. Mother Hips [...]