Two music lists, well aged
We’re in pretty much full on crazy mode cleaning, sorting, and packing for our year long research sabbatical in Colchester, UK. In the process I ran across two old music lists and felt compelled to share.
The first was a little playbill sheet for bands playing at Karl’s Coffee. Karl’s was the first coffee shop in Morris and had a truly wonderful atmosphere. It arguably wasn’t managed brilliantly from a business standpoint, and this combined with some quite unjustified and obnoxious political machinations in town ultimately doomed them. The coffee shop was purchased and run by another group for a few years, and then changed hands a third time where things seem stable if not nearly as cool as they were in the beginning.
One of the great things about Karl’s was their regular and regularly wonderful hosting of live bands. In their heyday, Karl’s usually had at least one good band play live every week, and we came to love more than a few Minnesota bands through their frequent performances at Karl’s. Sadly, neither of the subsequent incarnations of the coffee shop have been anywhere close to Karl’s either in the quantity or quality of their music bookings. Both of them have been extremely conservative in the bookings they’ll allow, which has moved some concerts up to campus and caused others to just not happen. Sigh.
Thus it was really neat to find this little playbill from those glory days. In April of 1999 Karl’s had:
- Thurs., 1: 3 Minute Hero (also their old label page)
- Sat., 10: Black & White Jazz Project
- Fri., 16: Booty Police
- Sat., 17: Willie Wisely
- Sun., 18: Open Mic
- Fri., 23: Stuart Davis
- Sat. 24: Brenda Weiler
- Thurs., 29: Booty Police
- Fri., 30: John Hermanson
What a great month! Ah, for the days.
The second list is from eight months later, when Sub-Evil Boy did a radio show where he chose all the music himself at the tender age of 6 years (minus two days). For several years he did a birthday show during fall semester finals week where he would choose all the music for an hour, and this was the first (or maybe the second) of those shows. It’s been very cool listening to his shows this summer, the first time he’s ever done completely solo shows on a weekly basis, and it was really nifty to find this list and see how fun and diverse his musical tastes were even in his misspent youth.
- “Werewolves of London” - Warren Zevon
- “99 bats in my car today” - Sesame Street Travel Songs
- “La Vierge” - Al Rapone
- “Marching song” - Bonnie Rideout
- “Drip, drip, drip” - Chumbawmba
- “Geeks on bikes” - 3 Minute Hero
- “Give us room to roar” - Kalevala
- “Istanbul (not Constantinople)” - They Might Be Giants
- “Save the children” - Natty Nation
- A motet by Bach
- “Drive, she said” - Stan Ridgeway
- “Standing at the edge of the earth” - Blessid Union of Souls
- “I love trash” - Steven Tyler from Elmopalooze
- “London city” - Arrow
- “Papa’s got a brand new bag” - James Brown
- “Santa’s got a brand new bag” - The Bobs
- Theme song from “How the Grinch stole Christmas”
- “Prayer for the dying” - Seal
- “Song for Lindy” - Fatboy Slim
- “Under cover, under wraps” - Delgados
- “Hollywood” - Cranberries
Rockin!
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