The Sportsmen- Spirited
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The Sportsmen are here!
“I was on tables, I was running around
screaming, doing sermons! I was like getting down on the floor and screaming 'I
wanna tell you...' It was a little bit silly, this skinny white guy trying to
be James Brown…I had fun.”
“This is a new Chris von Sneidern
record, it's a little different, got some different players, and really cool.
Don't be confused by the presentation, it's the same CvS. I was just going
through some soul records and just picked a bunch of songs I thought were cool,
and I wrote some new ones that fit that sound. The whole thing was more of an
experiment for the live thing, the persona of being over the top.”
“It takes things from Rod Stewart
records, Otis Redding records. I took an Allen Toussaint song and changed the
beat around to a shuffle beat from a Gary Glitter song, and made something that
is very much my own. To me that's a good way of borrowing from the past without
ripping anybody off or insulting somebody's intelligence.”
The original 1999 Japanese release of Spirited
is finally available in the USA!
Available as of March 2003 on Kool Kat Musik, it contains the previously
omitted “Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky.” Fans of the CvS “Powerpop” sound will
find plenty of satisfying tracks on the newly remastered 11 song CD. This obscure gem has four stage
favorites, along with the raved-up rock originals and four 60s R&B covers.
Teenage
Rob on bass Derek Ritchie on drums CVS vocals Khoi-San on piano Dave Gleason at guitar
Photos by Wade Grubbs
Q: What are the Sportsmen and what is this CD I’ve been kinda
hearing about since 1999?
A: The Sportsmen are a band that CvS invented, formed, and
recorded in order to satisfy his urge to write, play, and try to sing soul and
R&B style music. We get together every once in a while to play shows and
record. Derek Ritchie plays on most CvS records these days; Khoi-San is a CvS
stage partner on many band and duo shows; Rob Douglas plays with Chuck Prophet,
and is the guru behind his Joe South tribute record; and Dave Gleason’s Wasted
Days is a chooglin’ California-country-influenced working band.
Photos from the debut show:
http://www.thesaturnv.com/sportsmen.html
The Sportsmen Story
Posthoc article, Borders Online
The Local Scoop
http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/1999-07-14/music4.html