Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures of Matchstick Men (live)

Camper van Beethoven is an alt.rock band from Redlands/Santa Cruz, California, and were popular in the late 80s/early 90s. Their cover of Status Quo's Pictures of Matchstick Men was #1 on Billboard's "Modern Rock" charts for 3 weeks from Oct. 21 - Nov. 4, 1989.
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Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures of Matchstick Men, performing in Lexington, KY.

They reformed (after a brief hiatus during which time singer Dave Lowry formed Cracker) and toured during the mid-2000s, and may even still be touring when they want to.

Live at The Dame, Lexington, Kentucky, June 11, 2005. For complete audio of the entire show, you can download it here: http://www.archive.org/details/CVB2005-06-11

Also, be sure and check out the original version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr5UouAts8o
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbnRmJPTYAw

Shot by Ehric Weiss & Opium Ed of Artifact Attic, with blessings from Jonathan Segel and David Lowry.

Incidentally, Jonathan Segel was especially interested in us editing a video of their performance of Pink Floyd's Interstellar Overdrive -- which I've been meaning to get back to editing but other things keep coming my way and it gets pushed to the back burner. (Plus, I need to edit & post some of CvB's own songs as well.)

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• Camper
• Van
• Beethoven
• Pictures
• of
• Matchstick
• Men
• Status
• Quo
• psychedelic
• cover
• version
• rock

[colico14]

Cool, but not heavy like the Type O/Ozzy cut. Should be heavy as a cover. Purely my op of course.

[ArtifactAttic]

if you were to listen to the original record version of Camper van Beethoven, you would find it to be much heavier than the Status Quo orgiinal. It's hard to pick that up from a live version that is only recorded with audience mic's. And, by the way, CvB's cover record made it to #1 in the US alt-rock charts.

[1972piledriver]

@1972piledriver

[1972piledriver]

no STATUS QUO but ok

[TheAnthonybozza]

This is a board recording Artifact with probably 2 condensers to pick up the "Live" sound.

[tatunkha]

Still current the subject matter of the song innit. Nicely reworked by a respectable act. Thanks CvB & Thanks for the upload.

[doodahbagel]

Real rocking version of the song by CVB very similar to the original version. Excellent

[ninyae]

I love these guys. We all sprung out of punk, but I loved how this band gave great acknowledgement to what went down before punk. Early punks knew very well what went down before 76, but I used to find that some of the younger kids who got into punk by 81 or later gave scant recognition to music pre 76.