Camper van Beethoven jamming last night at the 9:30 Club. That's David Lowery (lead singer for both CVB and Cracker) in the foreground w/his head just sticking above the speakers, Greg Lisher is behind him on guitar, then Victor Krummenacher in the red shirt on bass and also singing, and Jonathan Segel on violin and vocals (and yes, that's a 15“ Powerbook G4 sitting behind him and in the photo to the right—it controlled most of the sound effects the band wasn't able to generate on its own during the show). Unfortunately this picture cuts out Chris Pedersen on drums. All of them did a great job. Unfortunately, Segel didn't have his own violin for some reason and so was borrowing one from someone who lives in D.C. (and who I think was in the audience). This meant some of the violin parts were, um, not quite right, but mostly everything they played sounded terrific. More details and impressions about the show here.