TONIGHT! ONE NIGHT ONLY!

If you're into Drive Like Jehu, this will jack you up. That is, if you're within a few hours of San Diego. The band hasn't played in nineteen years (already?), but are reuniting for a one off performance with pipe organist Carol Williams, San Diego's official Civic Organist (yes, there is one), at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park. It starts at 7:00 PM and will undoubtably be a mob scene, so plan accordingly.

The pipe organ is behemoth, one of the largest outdoor pipe organs in the world. The thing has 4,530 pipes, Having been to regular organ performances there (free every Sunday, sans rock band), I can tell you, the organ alone is worth hearing. Putting it together with Jehu is probably going to be quite a racket. Be forewarned, traffic and parking will suck.

This just in: The show may be streamed live at UStream. If not, it may be archived later. If nothing else, you can check a regular Sunday performance which are archived there. (Click here fool.)

Update 9-1-14 Videos added from YouTube. "Luau" with Rob Crow is drectly below. The other songs are linked at the bottom of the post.

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Listen:

Drive Like Jehu - Here Come the Rome Plows mp3 at The Churning

Drive Like Jehu - Luau mp3 at Pretty Goes With Pretty

Drive Like Jehu - Golden Brown mp3 at New Martini
Video:
Drive Like Jehu with Carol Williams - Do You Compute? at YouTube
Drive Like Jehu with Carol Williams - Super Unison at YouTube
Drive Like Jehu with Carol Williams - Sinews at YouTube
Drive Like Jehu with Carol Williams - If It Kills You at YouTube
Visit:

Drive Like Jehu reunite for one show at CityBeat

Post-Hardcore Icons Drive Live Jehu Talk Reunion: 'This Is Going to Slay' at Rolling Stone

Speckels Organ Pavilion Scroll down for driving directions

MORE FROM THE JUNK DRAWER

Here's a few that I've been meaning to post, thought I'd throw them together for the sake of house cleaning. First, a couple Chuck Berry deepish cuts. I just did a Chuck Berry thing a while back, but I thought I'd hep you to the blog I found these at, The Rising Storm. It's a nice write up over there, and the site, a worthy bookmark. If all you own is a Chuck Berry compilation (you had better own at least one), then consider these a start on the other 99% of his catalog. (Links below.)

Next up is a video of the San Diego School of Rock, doing Drive Like Jehu's "Caress." (If that seems like an obscure choice, they also do a Pinback song, so chances are one of the instructors lives at the Casbah.)

I'm not sure what I think of the School of Rock franchise. I saw a set by the San Diego School of Rock a couple years ago, at a street fair. It just seems like it takes the garage out of the band, so to speak. I don't want to seem like Chicken Little over here, but it's like crib notes for an entrance exam. If you take all of the struggle out of it, like aluminum bats and surf leashes, the playing field isn't leveled, it's lowered. (And, yes, I know that blogs are, in effect, doing the same thing. But where else would I rag about a feel good story like the School of Rock?)

Another thing I've been meaning to post is the video of the singer the Trashmen (not the whole group, mind you), lip syncing "Surfin' Bird" on American Bandstand. It's the funniest thing I saw all week. (There's no embed code, so go here to see it.) Dig too, the other Trashmen cut below. It boss.

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Chuck Berry - It's My Own Business mp3 at the Rising Storm
Chuck Berry - Duece mp3 at The Rising Storm
Drive Like Jehu - New Math mp3 at Review Stalker
Drive Like Jehu - Future Home of Stucco Monstrosity mp3 at Pretty Goes With Pretty
Drive Like Jehu - Caress (audio only) streaming at YouTube
Drve Like Jehu - Caress (live, poor quality, 1992) at YouTube
The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird mp3 at Zminin.com
The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird video at YouTube
The Trashmen - On The Move mp3 at Beware of the Blog