Victor Krummenacher

Victor Krummenacher is an American musician and bass guitarist who is a founding member of alternative rock band Camper Van Beethoven. He also helped form CVB offshoots Monks of Doom and Camper Van Chadbourne and has pursued a solo career as a singer-songwriter. As a recording artist, Krummenacher has been active for more than 20 years and has appeared with numerous projects including Cracker, Fifth Business and A Great Laugh. His latest musical project is McCabe and Mrs. Miller, a new band with Alison Faith Levy, formed in 2008. Victor Krummenacher was Art Director of the San Francisco Bay Guardian and is currently an Art Director for Wired Magazine.

Discography

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 & Special Releases with Camper Van Beethoven

• 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. Includes Telephone Free Landslide Victory, II & III, Camper Van Beethoven, Camper Vantiquities, & Greatest Hits Played Faster, a bonus live disc.
• In the Mouth of the Crocodile - Live in Seattle (2004)
• Discotheque CVB: Live In Chicago (2005)

Monks of Doom Albums

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

Eugene Chadbourne Albums

• 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)

Albums: Solo Releases

• Fifth Business 'Prince of Lies/Hey Robert' single (1994)
• 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)

Other Recordings (as bassist)

• The Wrestling Worms – The Wrestling Worms (1987)
• Jonathan Segel – Storytelling (1989)
• 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)

Film soundtracks

with Bruce Kaphan: Incidental Music for the Bob Dylan Film Masked and Anonymous

External links

• Official Camper Van Beethoven web page
• Official Victor Krummenacher web page
• Camper Van Beethoven collection on the Internet Archive's live music archive
• Victor Krummenacher collection on the Internet Archive's live music archive
• McCabe And Mrs. Miller collection on the Internet Archive's live music archive
• Magnetic Motorworks Web Page. Victor Krummenacher and Jonathan Segel's record label.