Wino Wednesday: Spirit Caravan Playing to an Empty Room in Denmark
Among the most potent of heavy rock power trios, Spirit Caravan began as Shine and was Scott “Wino” Weinrich‘s next project post-The Obsessed‘s reunion in the 1990s. The band was Weinrich alongside bassist Dave Sherman, who went on to form Earthride, and drummer Gary Isom, who’s played with everyone from Pentagram at Valkyrie at this point and is currently playing guitar in Weed is Weed, which is fronted by Sherman. Their 1999 full-length, Jug Fulla Sun, is one of the greatest albums ever released — period.
The clip below finds Spirit Caravan of that era (they also released the Dreamwheel EP in ’99) playing in Copenhagen, Denmark, in November 2000. What’s interesting about this show is that as you watch it, you can see there’s almost nobody there. The YouTube video information — provided by user TNTFreedooM — sheds some light on what the situation was:
Because of Motörhead playing Copenhagen the same night, and Megadeth the night before, only 11 people showed up, but the band did not care as you can see in their performance. During the show another 10 people came. Before the show Wino said to me, “We don’t care, we’ll just play a private show for you.”
…Which is why he’s Wino. Enjoy “Black Flower” and “Healing Tongue” on this Wino Wednesday:
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I can beat this, I saw Spirit Caravan the same year and there was a grand total of 5 people there. Even worse I was the first one in the door and stood there for some 2 hours all alone before 2 more people wandered in. The only excuse I can think of was it was a shit-day for a gig, like a Monday or Tuesday but even with that, I was still expecting at least a 1 to 200 people.
I was at this concert and also made a full length recording (audience, not video) of the show. There was about 20 people total. Wino came up to our table and said hello and was a super cool. Very few people but the band still rocked the place as if it was packed!