Snowball ii – DREAM TOUR [Music Video PREMIERE for “CRV-UC”]

This is a special dream tour segment. Why? Because not only do you find out who Snowball ii would want on their dream tour, but it’s also the premiere of their music video for their song, CRV-UC. You can check out the feature and the music video premiere, after the break.

I think it’s pretty fitting that this question is paired up with a “CR-VUC” feature because Kurt Heasley of Lilys sings lead vocals on this track. If I were curating a tour lineup, I’d have Lilys on it before anyone else—and that’s as much an educational decision as it is me being a Lilys fangirl. Kurt and I spent a day in my studio recording “CR-VUC,” and by the time we wrapped up, I had whole new perspectives on everything from uranium ore investment opportunities to Wilco. I’d love to do some traveling with Kurt to see what other insights would be instigated by alternate and continuously changing surroundings. I’ve found that it’s often an underwhelming experience to meet people who’s work I’ve intently studied and idolize, but such is not the case with Kurt.

I’d probably have R. Kelly close the show, not because he would be headlining, but just because I think he would put on a performance that no one would want to follow and an audience would feel satisfied heading home after seeing. I haven’t yet had the opportunity to see Mr. Kelly live, but stories I’ve heard and videos I’ve seen suggest it’s a—moving experience, as it were. My favorite work of Mr. Kelly’s is his album Double Up—so I’d probably try to gauge his openness to doing an anniversary tour of that album, playing it start to finish and then doing other key cuts during the encores. I’m sure he and I could work something out.

Opening the show would be the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Ricard Strauss’ Don Quixote tone poem conducted by my former professor George Monsseur—his conducting gestures have the same levity and whimsy that the piece has, and I’ve always wanted to hear his interpretation of it. I imagine that it may sound just like his hardened, though joking, 1970s Yiddish Brooklyner accent and diction.

An eclectic evening for certain—though after planning all of this, I’m not even certain that I’d have Snowball ii play—maybe we’d just play jazz tunes in the lobby during the cocktail hour before the show.

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