Zenberg Blogue: Happy Veterans Day and Vox Jaguars in 3D

It was Veterans Day, sometime in the early seventies. Don Van Vliet was on stage with his musical ensemble, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, when someone from the audience hollered, "Happy Veterans Day." Don heard the voisterous statement and replied in his deep gruff voice, "WHAT is a happy Veterans Day?"

Speaking of questions on Veterans Day, whatever happened to the Vox Jaguars?

In keeping with Zenberg's monthly 3D post, here are a couple of Vox Jaguars related images to view stereoscopically, (a stereoscope is NOT required to view these images in 3D). Click on images to enlarge.

This bowling pin came from Mr. T's Bowl in LA where the Vox Jaguars played back in 2006 on their first Southern California tour. The band picked up this pin as a souvenir. The obsidian jaguar was carved by a latter-day Mayan at Chichen Itza, Mexico.

This is a 3-D image of the bass played by Vox Jaguars' bassist, Mason Rosenberg. Mason played this instrument on at least one of the tracks released on their awesome Anodyne Records CD last year.

This is a Jaguar carved from limestone.

Recently, a couple of unique Vox Jaguars videos have been uploaded to YouTube. The first is from a show they played at the Veterans Hall in Santa Cruz, CA, back in 2007, and features an unreleased, very Fallesque tune titled, Nevertheless, (which just so happens to be my favorite word). Nevertheless. What a great word. I could say it, spell it and type it all day.

The following video is from the Vox Jaguars' Halloween show in San Francisco, 2008. This may have been the first time they played the song, Swift Street, named after the street where the official Vox Jaguars practice space is located.