The Crust Brothers, a band formed by Stephen Malkmus and members of Silkworm (Michael Dahlquist, Tim Midgett, and Andy Cohen), released one album, Marquee Mark, a live recording of their December 5, 1997, show at the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle, Washington. The show was a benefit for the Washington Wilderness Coalition.[1] The band stuck exclusively to covers (Malkmus sang lead on Silkworm's "Never met a man I didn't like"), refusing to play any Pavement songs--especially "Summer Babe." Of the 12 covers on Marquee Mark, seven are from Bob Dylan & The Band's The Basement Tapes. Stephen Malkmus (born May 30th, 1966 , Santa Monica, California) is an indie-rock musician, a former member of the band Pavement. ... Silkworm was an indie rock band active from 1987 to 2005. ... // Michael Dahlquist 1965-2005 The Early Years Michael Dahlquist was born on December 22nd, 1965 at Swedish Hospital in Seattle, Washington. ... Nickname: The Emerald City Location of Seattle in King County and Washington Coordinates: Country United States State Washington County King County Incorporated December 2 1869  - Mayor Greg Nickels Area    - City  142. ... Pavement was an American indie rock band in the 1990s. ... Summer Babe (1992) was Pavements only single released on Chicagos Drag City label before the band moved to the New York-based Matador label. ... Robert Allen Zimmerman (born May 24, 1941), better known by his stage name Bob Dylan, is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. ... The Band was an influential Canadian-American rock group of the 1960s and 1970s. ... The Basement Tapes are a series of recordings by North American folk-rockers Bob Dylan and The Band, recorded in mid-1967. ...

Music critic Greil Marcus devoted a January 1999 Interview article to the show. Marcus wrote of "Heard it through the grapevine," "while the Crust Brothers are inside it, [it] can sound like the best version of the song ever played."[2] Greil Marcus is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. ... Interview is a magazine founded by artist Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga in 1969. ...

Additional shows took place on December 30, 1998, at The Breakroom in Seattle, and on January 1, 1999, at the Starfish Room in Vancouver, British Columbia. The band returned to the Crocodile Cafe on December 31, 2000. A song from that set, a cover of Dylan's "Spanish Harlem Incident" sung by the late Dahlquist, is the sixth track on Silkworm's final EP, Chokes! This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ... Spanish Harlem Incident is a song written by Bob Dylan, released on his 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan. ...

External links

• Michael Dahlquist's 12-31-2000 tour journal.
• Marquee Mark page on the official Silkworm discography