It's here.... almost
 

Well, dudes, the time has come. I know you've all been awaiting this moment. Oh, of course you have. Don't deny it. Look, just admit it. Go ahead... That's right. (Annoying, aren't I?)

Here it is! The long-awaited Tusk remake is to be released April 30. (That's tomorrow.) Read:

pitch-a-tent news

Camper Van Beethoven will be releasing on April 30th the long awaited double CD covering the classic Fleetwood Mac album "Tusk". The double CD will also include a special enhanced feature. For your viewing enjoyment a 1987 Camper Van Beethoven show.


Go to pitchatent.com to buy it.

Thanks for the reminder. I may just have to try that one out...

:confused: Um...I went to pitchatent.com and maybe I'm being stupid or something but I can't actually find a link to buy it...??!! LOL!:confused:

It's not in cdnow.com either.....

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks:)

:wavey::wavey: :wavey:

hmm, yes
 

Seteca:

It's not for sale yet, apparently. There must have been some kind of delay. I sent the Pitch-a-Tent manager an e-mail. I'll post an update as soon as I get a reply.

Peace.

I'll buy it out of curiosity and if its anything like the older Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker music, it should be pretty good.

"Pitch a tent"-nice name for a record label...

J

Date pushed back
 

The Tusk remake release was pushed back to May 8. I'll keep checking for more updates.

Re: Date pushed back
 

D'OH! Well hey, maybe they're trying to make the remake as close as Lindsey intended it to be......late.
LOL
-Brian

actually
 

Word has it the Camper guys are burning pictures and live performances into the CD (2-disk set, I think) and that caused some technical delays. Anyway, we can rest assured this will be an off-beat take on the Fleetwood Mac masterpiece. Before you buy it be warned: It isn't going to be like the Rumours tribute, in which the artists took safe approaches to the songs.

Re: actually
 

I am eagerly awaiting this CD. This one will be a lot of fun. I hope it has plenty of that loony sense of play that "Patron Saints of Pop" had -- left of center. I heard, & loved, "Save Me a Place" & "Angel" from this project.

The "tribute" album that Mick put together for "Rumours" was nothing but a tribute to corporate thinking, a Milk 'n' Bilk operation (How can we milk the reputation of this great old album & bilk the fans?) that was so mechanically engineered & devoid of any real conviction, it was like an entire record company falling on your head.

Tusk...
 

:wavey: Hi Fans!
I just read it will be delayed!
Well...now it really is JUST like
our Lindsey! Refine! Refine!;)
Delay! Delay till' another day!
Sounds interesting!:cool:Bye, sky:)

It's going to be hard act to follow on this one,
but I'm open minded and I'll give it a listen.
Always nice to hear a different approach to a fimiliar
tune.
Lindsey would def approve:nod:

witchywoman:)

It's out
 

I just placed my order. Go to pitchatent.com to place yours.

do you think someone could put it on ag becase i barley have enough cash for anything and i want to hear the way they rework the songs but cant afford it

copyright
 

Last time I tried to download Camper songs, they were copyright-protected and the AG system was catching them, so I don't know if that is going to work. Check out pitchatent.com occasionally. The Camper guys always have some random MP3s up there.

CarneVaca, are you inclined to put them on? Because I can help you out on the whole process if you'd like...
-Brian

when is it going to be released in stores.

Don't expect to see it in stores. You'll have to order it online.
Secondly, Brian, I will be glad to help, but it will have to wait until I get a new computer. Right now, I am at less then 200 megabytes of space, so adding music files would not be wise.

And finally, I am happy to report I received it on Friday. It starts out with a fairly sober version of Over and Over. And then it starts getting weird. I had already heard Save Me a Place, and the final take is a little more refined. Wonderful. I like the carnival feel of it. Sara is mixed a little weird, and I think it could have benefitted from a slighly better production. Storms is a highlight. There's s a violin through the track, and it sounds wonderfully haunting. What Makes You Think You're the One is another highlight. Here, David Lowery takes a more sedate, melancholy approach. I'm sure he realized it would be hard to replicate Lindsey's anguish in the original. Sisters of the Moon is spoken and uses a dance backbeat. Very good listening. Let's see, what else. Nice job on Tusk, though there's an interlude that is entirely too long. Honey Hi is a hoot. It is sung in some very poor Spanish. The only instrumentation is a mandolin, against a backdrop of the sounds of Tijuana daily life. You hear car alarms, kids running through the streets, etc. Angel is a nice ska version, which deteriorates toward the end of the song. Other cool stuff: I Know I'm Not Wrong and their take on That's Enough for Me and Walk a Thin Line. I was a little disappointed in Not That Funny, one of my favorites in the original, but, hey, you can't win them all.

Thanks for the review. I'm looking forward to this. David, have you gotten yours yet? Thoughts?

I just talked to some friends at work, where I had my copy of "Tusk" shipped. They said it arrived yesterday, but since I've been out sick with a sunburn for two days, I won't get to hear it until tomorrow.

I was telling somebody on the mail list I'm on that, as far as these Fleetwood Mac cover projects go, I like them when they're quirky & charismatic & even subversive; I don't want to hear somebody try to be Fleetwood Mac any more because I've heard a lot of people try to do that & none of them has succeeded. So the next best thing is to bring a sense of tribute to your cover through your idiosyncrasies & your savvy. When Elton John puts together a turgid, synthesizer-filled mess & calls it "Don't Stop," that's not a tribute to anything but Elton John's inchoate & inaccurate sense of who Fleetwood Mac is. He comes across as a boob -- the Ed McMahon of rock -- for all the lack of conviction & personality in his "Don't Stop."

I'm bound to enjoy this CVB project because there's a genuine tribute in their subversive approach: it doesn't reek of corporate-think & record company corruption. However, bands who set out to subvert Fleetwood Mac & simultaneously pay homage to the original's style run the risk of losing listeners' benevolence if their musicianship is wretched. That's the only problem with the "Patron Saints of Pop" project a few years ago: the level of musicianship on some of the tracks was far below the level needed to carry out avant-garde musical ideas. There was just an almost total lack of technique on some of those covers (like Jumbo's "Tusk") & the cacophany a band like Jumbo created made you aware only of their amateurishness instead of their creativity. The technique has to be there in order to make any sort of statement or create any sort of lasting vibe. Lindsey isn't great because he banged on a box of Kleenex; he's great because he created something stark & unusual & interesting by banging on the Kleenex box & because his subversive idea contained all his frustration & disgust with conventional music-making, which had a stranglehold on pop.

Dang, David! I couldn't have said it better myself. Let me know what you think of the Campers' renditions. In some cases, I think you will agree the production could have been better. However, considering these tracks were recorded in 1987, only to be cleaned up in the last six months or so, it's pretty amazing that the band was still able to produce a mostly compelling piece of music.

I was telling somebody on the mail list I'm on that, as far as these Fleetwood Mac cover projects go, I like them when they're quirky & charismatic & even subversive; I don't want to hear somebody try to be Fleetwood Mac any more because I've heard a lot of people try to do that & none of them has succeeded. So the next best thing is to bring a sense of tribute to your cover through your idiosyncrasies & your savvy.

Amen. I don't hate the Legacy tribute, but I don't hear a lot of heart in it. The quality of the renditions on the Patron Saints CD is the sort that still leaves me sometimes trying to figure out if I like it or not, but the spirit of the Patron Saints covers is more...pure or something. It's a spirit that I would tend to think Lindsey would enjoy too. He seemed not at all ungrateful about Legacy, but perhaps somewhat bemused about the idea of it.