Various Artists - Che Fest 1999
(Slowdance)
The Che Café is a venue for all ages shows in San Diego, California. I've never
been there myself, but I've heard that it's
pretty great. I guess they have peanut butter sandwiches and that sort of thing
available, hence the "Café" part of their
name. In 1999, they held a festival with 30 bands in 3 days. From what I've
heard, it was pretty rushed, and the sets were
short, but overall it was a great festival. This compilation has live songs
recorded from a small handful of the bands that
played. As would be expected from the eclectic San Diego scene, there is a great
deal of variety. Some of the bands I like
a lot, and some I don't. It has great songs from The Black Heart Procession, The Get
Hustle, The Roots of Orchis, and Physics.
GoGoGo Airheart, Oma Yang, and Sterling Silver sound interesting enough to maybe
investigate further.
The Black Heart Procession song is "Blue Tears" from their album 2.
The Get Hustle song is "Charles Bronson"
from the Now We're All Gone LP. These two are by far my favorite songs on
this CD, and while neither are as good as
the official version, it's always nice to hear live versions of songs you love.
I wish I could have been there to see the whole festival, but it's nice to get
this best of so I can hear a few things I
really like, and skip over the stuff I don't like. If I had been there,
I would have gotten the same amount of enjoyment out
of the whole 3 days as I get from this compilation, but it would have been a lot
more trouble.
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