Comments on: #36 Where have those days gone- Arcata, Eureka and the Lost Coast of California. http://300songs.com/2010/08/23/36-where-have-those-days-gone-arcata-eureka-and-the-lost-coast-of-california/ A song by song history of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:27:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Favourite Flattr things #fsp « Catalyses http://300songs.com/2010/08/23/36-where-have-those-days-gone-arcata-eureka-and-the-lost-coast-of-california/#comment-1786 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:14:01 +0000 http://300songs.com/?p=1432#comment-1786 [...] Tran|Script: To be honest it took me a while to work out what OER (main topic of this blog) meant, but this is why I love the web and Flattr: to help me learn and discover things I might not have otherwise come across.  And now that I know the acronym it’s obviously a worthy subject area. There’s quality writing here and also the occasional non-OER post, for example convincing David Lowery (of Cracker and Camper van Beethoven) to use Flattr too. [...]

]]> By: thedudesdad http://300songs.com/2010/08/23/36-where-have-those-days-gone-arcata-eureka-and-the-lost-coast-of-california/#comment-1134 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:58:17 +0000 http://300songs.com/?p=1432#comment-1134 You know I have had this song stuck in my head since I read this yesterday and now I am asking myself where have those day gone and it’s why I dig your stuff. There are times when it hits that personal chord.

]]> By: David Lowery’s Excellent 300 Songs Project now on Flattr | Tran|Script http://300songs.com/2010/08/23/36-where-have-those-days-gone-arcata-eureka-and-the-lost-coast-of-california/#comment-1093 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:32:37 +0000 http://300songs.com/?p=1432#comment-1093 [...] [Remember, please rate this story up, but most importantly, give to 300 Songs, maybe starting with the button on this post] [...]

]]> By: jakethepoacher http://300songs.com/2010/08/23/36-where-have-those-days-gone-arcata-eureka-and-the-lost-coast-of-california/#comment-1082 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:01:10 +0000 http://300songs.com/?p=1432#comment-1082 I always heard the line

While blue lights they flailed, sirens wailed, we were ripped and we were torn

As some form of oblique reference to the great character actor, Rip Torn. A prescient reference, perhaps. Had you been armed, drunk, and robbing a bank.

]]> By: davidclowery http://300songs.com/2010/08/23/36-where-have-those-days-gone-arcata-eureka-and-the-lost-coast-of-california/#comment-1076 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:25:49 +0000 http://300songs.com/?p=1432#comment-1076 That’s right. Most bars: two for Tuesdays, white supremecist Wednesdays, etc etc

]]> By: Dr. F Zen Hinkopf http://300songs.com/2010/08/23/36-where-have-those-days-gone-arcata-eureka-and-the-lost-coast-of-california/#comment-1070 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:40:18 +0000 http://300songs.com/?p=1432#comment-1070 Wednesday? Probably so.

]]> By: Keir DuBois http://300songs.com/2010/08/23/36-where-have-those-days-gone-arcata-eureka-and-the-lost-coast-of-california/#comment-1060 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:49:57 +0000 http://300songs.com/?p=1432#comment-1060 The last time I was up that way was 1987 or 88, on a family trip to see friends who moved to Ferndale. This was Dec/Jan so the beaches were deserted and the waves looked 40 feet high. It was a gloriously fun time. I was 12.

]]> By: dennism http://300songs.com/2010/08/23/36-where-have-those-days-gone-arcata-eureka-and-the-lost-coast-of-california/#comment-1056 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:03:52 +0000 http://300songs.com/?p=1432#comment-1056 Tao Chemical at the Santa Cruz Art Centre was my introduction to local punkish rockery. They were really really good, especially as a 3 piece with Mr. Brezny out front. One song that was ‘It’s My Ego’ duhduhduhduh repeat with chorus of ‘I I I I’. Not Michael was a master of dissident guitar. By the time they recorded they had grown another guitar, keyboards, percussion, and more vocalists. Still great, but… Take out Mr. Brezny and they were then Tao Rhythmical under the direction of drummer Rick Walker and have been credited as birthing world music, ugh.
I would love to hear some early recordings and Mr. Brezny’s ex once told me to ask him, but he scares me.
Some of the tone of Box O’ Laffs reminds me of those times.

]]> By: doctorfree http://300songs.com/2010/08/23/36-where-have-those-days-gone-arcata-eureka-and-the-lost-coast-of-california/#comment-1055 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:02:32 +0000 http://300songs.com/?p=1432#comment-1055 Spot 1019, CVB, Tao Chemical, World Entertainment War – my favorite Santa Cruz bands. I was there when Rob would collect money from the audience and burn it on stage to The Triple Witching Hour. Later, when it turned out that was NOT OK, I was there when he put the money in a blender set to “Purify” then handed out purified money. At another show he cooked a money omelet on stage. And, yes, the column was originally called Real Astrology and the website realastrology.com. The Internet Archive has realastrology.com archived, for instance http://web.archive.org/web/20001202091200/http://www.realastrology.com/index.html which has at the top “Formerly Real Astrology”. You win.

]]> By: J. Aubrey-Herzog http://300songs.com/2010/08/23/36-where-have-those-days-gone-arcata-eureka-and-the-lost-coast-of-california/#comment-1053 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:20:31 +0000 http://300songs.com/?p=1432#comment-1053 David, come on over to Northtown Books and say hello. We’re right around the block from Hotel Arcata on H St. I can tell you a story about Thomas Pynchon’s landlord.

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