{"id":240,"date":"2011-12-24T16:19:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T00:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/?p=240"},"modified":"2011-12-24T16:19:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T00:19:38","slug":"christmas-music-from-the-beer-barrel-polecats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"Christmas music from the Beer Barrel Polecats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_243\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BBP-SF-1992.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-243\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BBP-SF-1992-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"Beer Barrel Polecats\" title=\"BBP SF 1992\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BBP-SF-1992-300x159.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BBP-SF-1992.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beer Barrel Polecats at San Francisco house party, ca. 1992<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been humming &#8220;Please, Daddy, Don&#8217;t Get Drunk This Christmas&#8221; for several days now. For why? Because it gets me in the holiday spirit and keeps me out of the spirits, that&#8217;s for why. Also because the Beer Barrel Polecats sang it at the Metro holiday talent show one Christmas lo these many years ago. <\/p>\n<p>We also did RvB&#8217;s tender paean to the yuletide, &#8220;<a href='http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Xmas-in-Belvue.m4a'>Xmas in Belvue<\/a>,&#8221; with its hauntingly prescient opening line: &#8220;Even the Queen of England says it&#8217;s been a horrible year \/ And she&#8217;s living in her palace, and me, I&#8217;m stuck down here.&#8221; Kabillionaire bankers <del datetime=\"2011-12-24T23:59:59+00:00\">whining about<\/del> rightly chastising the great unwashed for boo-hooing over income inequality, take heart. Marley would be proud! And I don&#8217;t mean Bob.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s &#8220;<a href='http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Xmas-in-Belvue.m4a'>Xmas in Belvue<\/a>,&#8221; which was about as far as we got on our Christmas album. Photo by Don Hines, with remarks: <\/p>\n<p>\u200e&#8221;33rd ave. on San Francisco&#8217;s Outer Richmond district, 10 blocks from the Cliff House. Jerry Dolezal, me, and one other shared a HUGE 3Br\/2b flat for $1600\/mo. Ocean vu on one of the 5 sunny days all summer. I think that y&#8217;all still lived in Japantown then. This was my birthday party, because Mike Monihan gave me a Sgt. McGruff barking dog record to discourage prowlers. Such, such were the times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See what you kids missed by being late toeing up at the birthing line?<\/p>\n<p>The photo is 3\/4 of the original lineup of the Polecats. The version on this recording was the more or less permanent one: RvB, accordion and vox; Broos Campbell, guitar and vox; Chris Mondt, bass and vox; Don Piletic; crazy windup monkey drums. Or conga, in this case.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed the several chances to click on the song, here it comes again:<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Xmas-in-Belvue.m4a'>Xmas in Belvue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words and music \u00a9 1997 Richard von Busack. All rights reserved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been humming &#8220;Please, Daddy, Don&#8217;t Get Drunk This Christmas&#8221; for several days now. For why? Because it gets me in the holiday spirit and keeps me out of the spirits, that&#8217;s for why. Also because the Beer Barrel Polecats &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/?p=240\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,32],"tags":[3,123,127,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}