# 25 New Roman Times-Camper Van Beethoven. Part 1 The Republic of California vs The Republic of Texas. 

New Roman Times- Camper Van Beethoven

This is the title track of the Camper Van Beethoven album of the same name. It was released in 2004. Remember i told you that CVB reformed in 2000 and we didn’t really tell anyone? In fact the band began to release new material as if it were “lost” and rediscovered tracks. We did two albums this way:Tusk and Camper Van Beethoven is Dead Long Live Camper Van Beethoven. In 2003-2004 we recorded the third of our post reunion records New Roman Times. This one of course was…

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#24 Low- Cracker: Musings On Why Hits Are Written Fast. Big Dipper Was Slow. KOL and our Special Ops Pigeons. 

Low- Cracker (not tom petty you windowlickers)

Statistically it’s not that odd that we got to this song so quickly. It’s occurrence in the 24th post is well within 2 standard deviations and given that the song appears on at least 5 albums, (and so it appears multiple times on my list of 300 songs) it’s occurrence so early is barely statistically odd. Barely beyond one standard deviation. Spock wouldn’t even raise one eyebrow. Did I lose you? Good.

Low or as it’s usually listed on file stealing sites…

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#23 Ms Santa Cruz County-Cracker: Who were the Blue Ladies? Ode to Santa Cruz. 

Miss Santa Cruz County-Cracker Forever Album.

Ms Santa Cruz County-Cracker/Leftover Salmon From O’ Cracker Where Art Thou?

So this is a Cracker Song from the 2002 album Forever. And in the last episode we were with Cracker in Southern California about 1992. Cracker never had any direct connection to Santa Cruz. So why are we in Santa Cruz now? And why are there at least 3 Cracker songs that reference Santa Cruz? While CVB had zero (Until New Roman Times). Well we have to go back to the early days of…

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Mystic Hot Springs Monroe UT vs Swing Auditorium San Bernardino California. 

The Rainbow has Jumped the Shark.

I’m not writing today. I’m playing a concert today with Cracker in remote area of Utah. Mystic Hot Springs near Monroe UT. No internets and it’s too hard to babysit my blog.

Instead i’d like to invite you to read this story about Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino California. Those of us in Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven who grew up in this area have very fond memories of this venue. True Story: It was the first place the Rolling Stones ever played in the US.

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Jonathan Segel is funny. Interview for Lake Tahoe Cracker/CVB Show Aug 25th. 

Taking a couple days off from 300 songs blog. I’m in fairly remote area of utah and colorado. Instead Jonathan said i could re-post his Lake Tahoe Interview.

JONATHAN SEGEL IS A FUNNY GUY.

1) You live within driving distance of Tahoe. Ever come here for personal R&R?

Well, yeah! I grew up in Davis, so i learned to ski up at Tahoe, though I admit as an adult it’s only an occasional trip to ski (time and money and all that) but regardless, living in the Bay Area now, we go up to Tahoe in other seasons as…

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#22 I Ride My Bike-Cracker. The Inland Empire: A Love Story. 

I Ride My bike- Cracker

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Blatant Plug: Don’t forget to buy your Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven Campout Tickets. Only those that by advance tickets get the cool laminate. Sept 10th and 11th Pioneertown California in the fabulous Joshua Tree region of the Inland Empire. Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven, Gram Rabbit, The Bellrays, Miss Derringer, J Roddy Walston and the Business, McCabe and Mrs Miller, Ashley Raines, The Dangers, Jonathan Segel, Johnny…

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#21 Hey Brett You Know What Time It Is-Cracker: The Ballad of Brett Netson. The Center Cannot Hold. Also The Wobblies vs Wombles. 

Brett Netson of Built to Spill. Not to be confused with Brett Nelson of Built to Spill. Really i’m not making this up. Two guys in same band. Names vary by one letter.

Hey Brett (You Know What Time It Is)-Cracker
Camper Van Beethoven was on tour with Built to spill in September of 2006 (2007?). This was our second tour with them and we had become pretty familiar with everyone in the band. So one day guitarist Brett Netson (not brett nelson) walks casually into our dressing room. He was staring at his cell…

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