Day three of my New Year’s weekend culminated with a concert from Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker at Seattle’s Crocodile Café. 2017 marks the 30th year I’ve been a Camper Van Beethoven fan. I saw them for the first time at the Central Tavern in October of 1987 and still have the photos I took. …
It’s January the first and it’s my first concert of the year. After being out until well past midnight seeing the fireworks shoot off the Space Needle, I was exhausted all the next day and wouldn’t have made the effort for any lesser band. But the Crocodile Cafe, in the heart of Seattle’s Belltown, was …
The last time I saw Camper Van Beethoven was maybe six or seven years ago and prior to that, the late eighties — probably 1988. I listened to them endlessly in 1988 and 1989, but then they split up, singer David Lowery started Cracker who received moderate airplay in the early nineties, until Camper Van …