Jonathan Segel

cds are available at CDBABY!

information available at MAGNETIC!

320kbps Mp3s now at Amie Street

Music from various dance company performances, etc.: JSegel.Bandcamp.com

Chamber Music Scores are at Material Press



Some new live shows, from the Fillmore Oct 31 2009 and Nov 1 2009, opening for Built To Spill:

Oct 31 2009

Nov 01 2009



Jonathan Segel



Jonathan Segel started playing guitar when he was about 7 years old. At about 10 he had a crush on a girl who played violin, so he thought he'd try that too.



Unfortunately he sucked at it.



That did not stop him, however, from later playing the violin in rock bands when everybody else only knew how to play guitar. Sometime around 1983 (!) while carrying a violin across the quad at Porter College at UC Santa Cruz, he was approached by some kids who had moved their band up from Redlands, CA. This turned out to be Camper Van Beethoven and the Border Patrol.



Well, what we didn't know is that this association was apparently for life, as Camper Van Beethoven has now made records/CDs for the past 23 or so years, and is still playing (recently touring with Built to Spill).



Through all the ups and downs of that band,Jonathan has continued to make his own records (/CDs/tapes/whatever. nearly 20 of them so far!) in a variety of genres ranging from guitar-based rock music to way-avant-garde electronic music and many places in between. Recently he finished a very guitar-based CD, "Honey" which is available in a limited edition of 400 hand-screened covers.



Several things precipitated the making of this collection of songs, but primarily: while Camper Van Beethoven was on tour in late 2004 promoting their first CD of brand new material in many years ("New Roman Times"), most of their instruments were stolen in Montreal.

Jonathan lost his famous sticker-and-paint covered violin and his old Fender Stratocaster. A kind Canadian violin maker (Andrew Kirk) donated a violin, but soon thereafter we all found out that the 1960s and 70s guitars we had all been using for 25 years or so were now collectors' items and way over our ability to pay to replace! So Jonathan became obsessed with his missing guitar (named "Honey", a kitchen labeling sticker on its front so stated) and began listening to and playing more guitar. Since Jonathan had actually started on guitar many years before picking up

the violin, it only took a short time to get into new territory and start writing more heavily guitar based songs reminiscent of the bands that inspired him to start playing guitar in the first place way back when.



A reprinted history and interview can be found on this blogspot by Art Into Dust



you are free to upload or download LIVE recordings of this artist at www.ARCHIVE.org's live music archive!!!

here's a new show from Sept. 13th 2008, at Pappy and Harriet's Pioneertown Palace as part of the Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker Camp-Out Festival!



get some other magnetic cds at CDBABY!

To find on iTunes:



Jonathan Segel: Honey



Jonathan Segel: Summerleaf



Jonathan Segel: Underwater Tigers



Jonathan Segel: Edgy Not Antsy



Jonathan Segel: non-linear accelerator



Jonathan Segel: Scissors and Paper



Jonathan Segel/Jack & Jill: Fancy Birdhouse



Jonathan Segel/Jack and Jill: Chill and Shrill



Jonathan Segel/Hieronymus Firebrain: Here



Jonathan Segel/Hieronymus Firebrain: There



Chaos Butterfly + Biggi Vinkeloe: Live at Studio Fabriken



Chaos Butterfly: threelivingthings



Chaos Butterfly: radio



Fred Frith, Joelle Leandre and Jonathan Segel: Tempted to Smile

Shoko Hikage and Jonathan Segel: Gen



or on Emusic:

Jonathan Segel: Scissors and Paper



Jonathan Segel/Jack and Jill: Chill and Shrill

Jonathan Segel/Hieronymus Firebrain: Here



Chaos Butterfly + Biggi Vinkeloe: Live at Studio Fabriken



Chaos Butterfly: threelivingthings



Note: i also take any donations to help fund recording:



currently many other jes and chaos butterfly videos are available on JES'

YouTube channel



also:

Magsatellite's Video Studio



here's some iSound player of Jack and Jill's Chill and Shrill cd:



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common name misspellings include: Jonathan Segal, Jonathan Siegel, Johnathan Segel, Jonathon etc. i mean Willem Shaxepeere's name wasn't solidified til years later either