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Camper Van Beethoven

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Camper Van Beethoven is an American rock band formed in Redlands, California in 1983 and later located in Santa Cruz and San Francisco. [1]

105 relations: Accordion, Alternative country, Alternative rock, Alternative Songs, Americana (music), Örebro, Backing vocalist, Banjo, Bass guitar, Billboard (magazine), Black Flag (band), Built to Spill, Calexico (band), Camper Van Beethoven (album), Camper Van Beethoven Is Dead. Long Live Camper Van Beethoven, Camper Vantiquities, Chris Pedersen (musician), College rock, Concept album, Cooking Vinyl, Counting Crows, Cover version, Cracker (band), Crawdaddy (magazine), Dave Alvin, Davey Faragher, David Immerglück, David Lowery (musician), Dieselhed, Director's cut, Discotheque CVB: Live in Chicago, DIY ethic, Drum kit, Electric guitar, Electronic music, Eugene Chadbourne, Extended play, Fleetwood Mac, Folk music, Frank Funaro, Fred Frith, Greatest hits album, Greg Lisher, Hardcore punk, Harmonica, Holland (album), I.R.S. Records, II & III, In the Mouth of the Crocodile – Live in Seattle, Indie rock, ..., Inland Empire, Jangle pop, Jason Molina, Joëlle Léandre, John Doe (musician), Johnny Hickman, Jonathan Segel, Kevtone, Key Lime Pie (album), Keyboard instrument, La Costa Perdida, Lap steel guitar, Lead guitar, Lead vocalist, Look at All the Love We Found, Mandolin, Michael Urbano, Monks of Doom, Multi-instrumentalist, Neko Case, New Roman Times, Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, Pictures of Matchstick Men, Pink Floyd, Pioneertown, California, Pop music, Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty, Punk rock, Redlands, California, Rhythm guitar, Rock music, Rough Trade Records, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Cruz, California, Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!, Sitar, Ska, Sparklehorse, Status Quo (band), Steel guitar, Sublime (band), Take the Skinheads Bowling, Telephone Free Landslide Victory, The Beach Boys, The Clash, Tusk (album), Tusk (Camper Van Beethoven album), University of California, Santa Cruz, Vampire Can Mating Oven, Vanguard Records, Victor Krummenacher, Violin, Virgin Records, World music. Expand index (55 more) »

Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.

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Alternative country

Alternative country (sometimes alt-country, insurgent country, or Americana) is a loosely defined subgenre of country music and rock music, which includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream country music and pop country music.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Alternative Songs

Alternative Songs (also called Alternative and formerly known as Modern Rock Tracks and Hot Modern Rock Tracks) is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in ''Billboard'' magazine since September 10, 1988.

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Americana (music)

Americana is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States, specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, gospel, and other external influences.

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Örebro

Örebro is a city with 117,543 inhabitants, the seat of Örebro Municipality and the capital of Örebro County in Sweden.

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Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Black Flag (band)

Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, California.

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Built to Spill

Built to Spill is an American indie rock band based in Boise, Idaho, United States.

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Calexico (band)

Calexico is a Tucson, Arizona-based Americana, Tex-Mex, indie rock band.

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Camper Van Beethoven (album)

Camper Van Beethoven is a 1986 album by musical group Camper Van Beethoven, released on Pitch-A-Tent.

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Camper Van Beethoven Is Dead. Long Live Camper Van Beethoven

Camper Van Beethoven Is Dead.

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Camper Vantiquities

Camper Vantiquities is a 1993 rarities compilation album by musical group Camper Van Beethoven, released on I.R.S. It included the earlier EP Vampire Can Mating Oven and a number of other unreleased tracks, compiled by bassist Victor Krummenacher a few years after the band split up.

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Chris Pedersen (musician)

Chris Pedersen is an American-born musician, best known as the drummer of the groups Camper Van Beethoven and Monks of Doom.

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College rock

College rock was the alternative rock music played on student-run university and college campus radio stations located in the United States and Canada in the 1980s.

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Concept album

A concept album is an album in which its tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually.

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Cooking Vinyl

Cooking Vinyl is a UK-based independent record company, founded in 1986 by former manager and booking agent Martin Goldschmidt and business partner Pete Lawrence.

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Counting Crows

Counting Crows is an American rock band from Berkeley, California, formed in 1991.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Cracker (band)

Cracker is an American rock band led by singer David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman.

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Crawdaddy (magazine)

Crawdaddy was an American rock music magazine launched in 1966.

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Dave Alvin

David Albert Alvin (born November 11, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, music producer and poet.

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Davey Faragher

David Allen "Davey" Faragher (born August 18, 1957) is an American bass guitarist from Redlands, California.

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David Immerglück

David A. Immerglück (born May 3, 1961) is an American multi-instrumentalist who is best known as a guitarist in the alternative rock bands Counting Crows, Camper Van Beethoven and the Monks of Doom, as well as for a strong tenure with American singer songwriter John Hiatt.

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David Lowery (musician)

David Charles Lowery (born September 10, 1960) is an American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter.

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Dieselhed

Dieselhed was a San Francisco-based band, originally from Arcata, California.

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Director's cut

A director's cut is an edited version of a film (or television episode, music video, commercial, or video game) that is supposed to represent the director's own approved edit.

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Discotheque CVB: Live in Chicago

Discotheque CVB: Live In Chicago is a 2004 live album by Camper Van Beethoven recorded at Metro Chicago on October 29, 2004.

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DIY ethic

DIY ethic refers to the ethic of self-sufficiency through completing tasks without the aid of a paid expert.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Eugene Chadbourne

Eugene Chadbourne (born January 4, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and music critic.

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Extended play

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.

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Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band, formed in London in 1967.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Frank Funaro

Frank Funaro is an American drummer who has played with Del Lords, The Brandos, Camper Van Beethoven, Joey Ramone, The Dictators, Cracker, Nils Lofgren & Dion DiMucci.

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Fred Frith

Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor.

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Greatest hits album

A greatest hits album, sometimes called a "best of" album or a catalog album, is a compilation of songs by a particular artist or band.

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Greg Lisher

Greg Lisher (born 29 November 1963) is the lead guitar player for Camper Van Beethoven, from 1986 until 1990, and again from 2000 to present.

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Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk (often abbreviated to hardcore) is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s.

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Harmonica

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.

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Holland (album)

Holland is the 19th studio album by the American rock group the Beach Boys, released on January 8, 1973.

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I.R.S. Records

I.R.S. Records was an American record label founded by Miles Copeland III and Jay Boberg in 1979.

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II & III

II & III is a 1986 album by musical group Camper Van Beethoven, released on Pitch-a-Tent and Rough Trade.

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In the Mouth of the Crocodile – Live in Seattle

In The Mouth of the Crocodile - Live In Seattle is a 2004 live album by Camper Van Beethoven, released on Pitch-A-Tent Records.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Inland Empire

The Inland Empire (IE) is a metropolitan area and region in Southern California.

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Jangle pop

Jangle pop is a subgenre of pop rock that emphasizes trebly, ringing guitars (usually 12-string electrics) and 1960s-style pop melodies.

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Jason Molina

Jason Andrew Molina (December 30, 1973 – March 16, 2013) was an American musician and singer-songwriter.

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Joëlle Léandre

Joëlle Léandre (born 12 September 1951 in Aix-en-Provence, France) is a double bassist, vocalist, and composer active in new music and free improvisation.

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John Doe (musician)

John Nommensen Duchac (born February 25, 1953), known professionally as John Doe, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, poet, guitarist and bass player.

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Johnny Hickman

John Arthur Hickman (born September 10, 1956) is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Cracker.

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Jonathan Segel

Jonathan Segel (born September 3, 1963) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist.

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Kevtone

Kevtone (born Kevin Anthony Guess, December 30, 1964) is an American musician, percussionist, and songwriter from Seattle, Washington.

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Key Lime Pie (album)

Key Lime Pie is a 1989 album by Camper Van Beethoven (CVB).

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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La Costa Perdida

La Costa Perdida is the 8th studio release by the American alternative-music band Camper Van Beethoven.

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Lap steel guitar

The lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar which is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position on the performer’s lap or otherwise supported.

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Lead guitar

Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Look at All the Love We Found

Look at All the Love We Found is a tribute album by various artists dedicated to Sublime, released on June 21, 2005 (see 2005 in music).

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Michael Urbano

Michael Urbano (born March 19, 1960 in Sacramento, California, USA) is a studio drummer, band member, programmer, and record producer.

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Monks of Doom

The Monks of Doom is an American alternative rock band, formed in California in 1986.

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Multi-instrumentalist

A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays two or more musical instruments at a professional level of proficiency.

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Neko Case

Neko Richelle Case (born September 8, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her solo career and her contributions as a member of the Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers.

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New Roman Times

New Roman Times is an album by musical group Camper Van Beethoven, released October 12, 2004 on Pitch-A-Tent Records.

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Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart

Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart is a 1988 album by Camper Van Beethoven, released on Virgin Records.

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Pictures of Matchstick Men

"Pictures of Matchstick Men" is the first hit single by Status Quo, released on 5 January 1968.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Pioneertown, California

Pioneertown, California, is an unincorporated community of the Morongo Basin region of San Bernardino's High Desert.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty

Popular Songs Of Great Enduring Strength And Beauty is a compilation album by American alternative rock group Camper Van Beethoven released in 2008 on the Cooking Vinyl label.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Redlands, California

Redlands is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.

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Rhythm guitar

In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drumkit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London, England.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

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Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz (Holy Cross) is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California.

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Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!

Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! is a 2015 American TV action comedy horror film and the third installment in the Sharknado series, following Sharknado and Sharknado 2: The Second One.

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Sitar

The sitar (or; सितार, Punjabi: ਸਿਤਾਰ) is a plucked stringed instrument used in Hindustani classical music.

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Ska

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

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Sparklehorse

Sparklehorse was an American indie rock band, led by singer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous.

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Status Quo (band)

Status Quo are an English rock band who play a brand of boogie rock.

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Steel guitar

Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument.

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Sublime (band)

Sublime was an American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1988.

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Take the Skinheads Bowling

"Take the Skinheads Bowling" is the signature song of Santa Cruz, California alternative rock band Camper Van Beethoven, written by David Lowery and released on their 1985 album Telephone Free Landslide Victory.

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Telephone Free Landslide Victory

Telephone Free Landslide Victory is a 1985 album by musical group Camper Van Beethoven, released on Independent Project Records.

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Clash

The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock.

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Tusk (album)

Tusk is the twelfth studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released as a double album on October 12, 1979.

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Tusk (Camper Van Beethoven album)

Tusk is a 2003 studio album by American alternative rock group Camper Van Beethoven, a song-for-song remake of the Fleetwood Mac album of the same name.

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University of California, Santa Cruz

The University of California, Santa Cruz (also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC), is a public research university and one of 10 campuses in the University of California system.

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Vampire Can Mating Oven

Vampire Can Mating Oven is an EP released in 1987 by the alternative rock band Camper Van Beethoven.

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Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records is an American record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York City.

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Victor Krummenacher

Victor Krummenacher is an American bass guitarist and guitarist.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Virgin Records

Virgin Records Ltd. was a British record label founded by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camper_Van_Beethoven

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