Victor Krummenacher

Victor Krummenacher is an American bass guitarist and guitarist. He is a founding member of alternative rock band Camper Van Beethoven.

Career

In addition to co-founding Camper Van Beethoven, Krummenacher is also a co-founder of CVB offshoot Monks of Doom, and a member of Camper Van Chadbourne. In the spring of 2017, he appeared on Monks of Doom's first album of new compositions in 25 years, entitled The Brönte Pin.

As a recording artist, Krummenacher has been active for more than 30 years and has appeared with numerous projects including Cracker, Fifth Business, A Great Laugh, and McCabe and Mrs. Miller, a duo formed in 2008 with Alison Faith Levy of The Loud Family.

Krummenacher has pursued a solo career as a singer-songwriter since 1994. His ninth solo album, Hard To See Trouble Coming, was released in January 2015. As of 2017, he remains active as a live artist in Northern California, and is preparing a studio recording for 2018.

In addition to his musical career, Krummenacher was previously art director of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and is currently a managing art director for Wired.

Discography

Solo albums

• Out in the Heat (1995)
• Saint John's Mercy (1998)
• Bittersweet (2000)
• Nocturne (2003)
• Sans Soleil (2003)
• The Cock Crows at Sunrise (2007)
• Patriarch's Blues (2008)
• I Was a Nightmare, But I'm Not Going to Go There (2012)
• Hard to See Trouble Coming (2015)
• Blue Pacific (forthcoming, 2018)

with Camper Van Beethoven

Albums

• Telephone Free Landslide Victory (1985)
• II & III (1986)
• Camper Van Beethoven (1986)
• Vampire Can Mating Oven (1987)
• Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (1988)
• Key Lime Pie (1989)
• Tusk (2002)
• New Roman Times (2004)
• La Costa Perdida (2013)
• El Camino Real (2014)

Compilations and special releases

• The Virgin Years (1993) (Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker)
• Camper Vantiquities (1993) – rarities compilation
• Camper Van Beethoven Is Dead. Long Live Camper Van Beethoven (2000) – rarities compilation
• Cigarettes & Carrot Juice: The Santa Cruz Years (2002) – box set
• In the Mouth of the Crocodile - Live in Seattle (2004)
• Discotheque CVB: Live In Chicago (2005)

with Monks of Doom

• Soundtrack to the Film "Breakfast on the Beach of Deception" (1987)
• The Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company (1989)
• Meridian (1991)
• The Insect God (EP, 1992)
• Forgery (1993)
• What's Left For Kicks? (2004)
• The Brönte Pin (2017)

with Eugene Chadbourne

• Camper Van Chadbourne (1987)
• Eddie Chatterbox Double Trio Love Album (1988)
• Eugene Van Beethoven's 69th Sin-Funny (1991)
• Used Record Pile (1999)
• Revenge of Camper Van Chadbourne (1999)
• PsyCHADelidoowop (2001)

Other recordings (as bassist)

• The Wrestling Worms – The Wrestling Worms (1987)
• Jonathan Segel – Storytelling (1989)
• Fifth Business – "Prince of Lies" b/w "Hey Robert" (single, 1994)
• Dent – Stimmung (1995)
• The Electric Chairmen – Toast (1996)
• Dent – Verstärker (1998)
• Greg Lisher – Handed Down the Wire (1999)
• Magnet – Caffeine Superstar (1999)
• Robi Del Mar – Alone in the Belly (2000)
• Jonathan Segel – Edgy Not Antsy (2003)
• Jonathan Segel – Honey (2007)
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller – Time For Leaving (2009)
• Incidental music for the Bob Dylan film Masked and Anonymous (with Bruce Kaphan)

External links

• Victor Krummenacher (official website)
• Camper Van Beethoven (official website)
• Monks of Doom (official website)
• Victor Krummenacher collection on the Internet Archive's live music archive
• Camper Van Beethoven collection on the Internet Archive's live music archive
• McCabe and Mrs. Miller collection on the Internet Archive's live music archive
• Magnetic Motorworks – record label formed by Krummenacher and Jonathan Segel