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Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures of Matchstick Men (live)

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Uploaded on Oct 19, 2006

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/CVB200...

Also, be sure and check out the original version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr5Uou...
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbnRmJ...

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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  • colico14

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

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  • 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.

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  • Danton Steele

    that guitarist looks a lot like jon krakowski...and is that really his name? good job sexing up miss fisher...from who's the boss, i mean the office.

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  • 1972piledriver

    no STATUS QUO but ok

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  • Anthony Bozza

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

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  • doodahbagel

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

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  • 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.

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