Music

Camper Van (and honestly, I’m much more of a Cracker fan) is getting by with a little help from their friends, access to e-mail, and a desperate plea to borrow instruments for their next gig in Detroit. Yes, they’ve put out an e-mail that says:
The emergency shipment from Gibson is taking a little longer than expected..
Anyone heading to the show in Detroit at the Royal Oak Theatre
and have a guitar?
Anyone want free tickets to the Detroit show and “more”?
(“more” hasnt been decided yet)
Is it like one of the ones listed here:
http://www.campervanbeethoven.com/gearstolen/
Can you do the band a special favor?
Send two things to this email: [email protected]
1. a brief description of the guitar
2. your phone number (hopefully a cell number)
After you do that… something will happen .. we’re not quite sure
just yet though.
Someone in Toronto just happened to have a Charvel Surfcaster last night
and that is the guitar David Lowery used …
Now, that’s rock ‘n’ roll!

But it’s not Cracker that I’m working on this weekend. I’m trying to get the best of the 9-disc collection “The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968” onto my iPod, which takes a while, since I haven’t listened to these in a while, so other than the no-brainers (Otis Redding, most of the Bar-Kays, some Rufus Thomas), I need to go through and listen to each one to see if I want it on my iPod. (Nice little script called “Needle Drop” does the trick, playing each song in a playlist for as long as I specify.) So far, through disc 4. Can your monkey do the dog?! My heart is chained and bound! Gee whiz it’s Christmas!

Be forewarned, when I go into a Stax mood, I don’t come out for a while.