The bear's lossless collection

Track listing:

Volume 1

Say Cheese 4:09
...thanks to Umajets & Todd McBride... 0:22
1/2 A Beer, 1/2 A Song 3:03
Some Kind Of Other Love (WWII) 3:02
...thanks so much/ich bin ein Hamburger... 0:35
Miss Essmaker 3:38
-> Free Gold Halo 5:45
-> Potboiler 4:42
OK 5:06
...great to be back in Hamburg/going acoustic now... 1:00
Alexandra 5:40
...thank you/NOW the professional part of the show... 1:16
Remains 3:02
...those strange blue drinks... 1:40
Queen Ann's Hill 4:10
...merchandise advertisement/this drink is for Hamburg... 1:21

Volume 2

down, down, down 4:39
...sorry for that noise/we got two more... 0:38
We're Sellin' Helen's Hearse 2:03
-> Widows Weeds 4:35
...thank you, see you next time/crowd... 0:42
...we know a few more songs/ 1:51
The Mission Song 3:52
...thank you/everything is our fault tonight... 0:58
falling out of my own tree 4:09
...welcome back Todd/tall 1:01
Albuquerque 5:57
...sweet T. McB./one more song/more blue stuff 0:39
Oyster Pirates 6:36
...thanks very much, you're so nice... 0:14
...a big loud upbeat song 2:01
The Witchdoctors Are Sulking 3:19
Worldwar lovesong (WWII) 2:30
...last goodnight song/ thanks a lot Hamburg... 0:20
God's Little Sequin 1:24
...thank you very much, my Hamburg friends/final crowd... 0:37

Notes

About this concert:

Autumn 1996 was the start of an interesting experiment. Two German record labels and their booking agency teamed together and started the first "double-headliner tour" with Blue Rose act The Dashboard Saviors and Glitterhouse band Go To Blazes - and those concerts had been very successful. The idea was simple: both bands played 70 to 90 minutes, and they alternated the order of their appearance each night. A similar concept was used a few months later for the "THE DESERT ROCKS"-tour 1997 with Rich Hopkins and the Luminarios and Granfaloon Bus in January/February, and the same year during April with Chris Burroughs and Neal Casal.

Early 1997 they came for an extended tour, a double-package with our other heroes, Rich Hopkins and the Luminarios. 8 crazy musicians and one roadmanager/driver/soundengineer/merchandiser together in a small van for six weeks...thousands of kilometers through Europe...cockfights starting after the first show til the end of the tour. Rich (Sidewinders/Sandrubies/Luminarios...) thought himself as "headliner" and the Faloonies as "support act", and quite often the response by the audience (and the sales of merchandise) showed a different picture...

The Dashboard Saviors separated early 1997, and Todd took the chance to record his solo-album "Sketchy", again released by Blue Rose. Todd came back to Europe in December 1997 to promote his album, this time as support act for Granfaloon Bus on their second big German tour 97/98...

All five musicians had lots of fun, they celebrated Christmas and New Years Eve together, and soon there was a new band project, "Senior Deutschmark", 3/4th of Granfaloon Bus backing up Todd after a few songs solo, and Todd came during the "headliner"-shows to help them with some backing vocals, and sang lead vocals usually on one or two coversongs.

This concert here was recorded close to tour-end

Soundboard > DAT (master)

CD 1

1-01. Say Cheese # 4:09.23
1-11. Alexandra ## 5:40.58

CD 2

2-07. The Mission Song ###
2-11. Albuquerque <Neil Young> %

the notes:

# - Jeff Stevenson introducing his musical saw
## - Ajax Green on banjo
### - Ajax on banjo AND Jeff with his musical saw
% - lead vocals by Todd McBride

Felix Todd Costanza - lead vocals, guitar
Ajax Green - guitar, banjo, backing & harmony vocals, drums on track 1-13.
Jeff "Johnny Safety" Stevenson - bass, pedal steel, musical saw, backing & harmony vocals
Jeff Palmer - drums, percussion, backing & harmony vocals, guitar on track 1-13.

with special guest

Todd McBride - backing & harmony vocals, percussion, lead vocals on 'Albuquerque'

Granfaloon Bus - Knust, Hamburg January 20, 1998

Track listing:

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