 
These clips are all in RealAudio format. That means you don't have to
wait a *&^%$#! hour for every 30-second clip to download onto your hard drive.
But you'll need to have the RealOne Player installed. If you don't
have it, you can download the all-new RealOne Player here.
Unlike the video clips, these clips will load almost immediately and
shouldn't "buffer" halfway through. Yay!!!!!
Disclaimers:
These clips were recorded live on a -- no kidding -- $19 boombox from Costco
with a "microphone" that's merely a slit the size of a paper
cut. The sound quality is pretty bad, but we fooled around with the tone and the bitrates and
did the best we could.
SPECIAL
ADVISORY: Our video and sound clips are suddenly taking a long time
to load. You can either wait a minute and a half for the
clip to load (it will look like it's hanging on "Connecting"), or
forget about it!
 FROM
JUNE 13, 2003
"Mystery
Achievement".
"Suffragette
City". Julie Riffle(!) on lead vocals and guitar.
"Sk8er
Boi". Finally -- Three Hour Tour gets into this millennium.
"Get
Off of My Cloud".
"Chain
of Fools".
"Bang
a Gong".
FROM
APRIL 22, 2001
"I
Will Survive". With guest
pianist Pam Hofsass.
"Rock
Lobster". Yes, we're making all those fish sounds
ourselves.
"Long
Train Running"
"We're
an American Band". We're
coming to your town...
"American
Woman". With guest vocalist Terry Alvey.
"Theme
from 'Gilligan's Island' ". Dina's perfect scream -- I
mean, high note.
"Kansas
City". Terry Alvey
does the solo vocal.
"Love
Stinks"
"Middle
of the Road"
"I
Saw Her Standing There".
With guest vocalist Terry Alvey.
"Wipeout".
Drum duet with Julie Riffle and Paula Bocciardi.
FROM
FEBRUARY 11, 2001
"Travelin'
Band"
FROM
THE OCTOBER 29 HALLOWEEN "EVENT," 2000
"San
Francisco". A few timing
problems, but our hearts were sure there.
"I
Put a Spell on You".
"Monster
Mash".
"Under
My Thumb". Deliciously politically incorrect.
FROM
JULY 30, 2000
"Get
Ready". Diana's piece de
resistance.
"Jeffersons
Theme". We just can't stay
away from those old TV shows.
"Summertime
Blues". With Ronnie's cool
bass goin' on.
"Walk
Don't Run". The band's
highly-touted instrumental.
"She
likes to be alone when . . . ." Diana's famous
introduction of Paula.
"Mustang
Sally".
"My
Generation". Paula
goes nuts.
"Purple
Haze". Dina's influence, of
course.
"Son
of a Preacher Man"
"Shakin'
All Over"
"Miss
You"
"You
Shook Me All Night Long"
and now
for the "Free Bird" section:
"Free
Bird 1". Beginning of
instrumental part. Dina and Julie go nuts.
"Free
Bird 2". More of the
instrumental part. Audience goes nuts.
"Free
Bird 3". Even
more. Audience goes nuts.
"Free
Bird 4". The big
ending.
THE
WORST OF THREE HOUR TOUR
And now for a great treat: Paula
Bocciardi has kindly allowed us to post some soundclips from the very first edition of
Three Hour Tour, dating back to October 1991. In fact, the band was not called Three
Hour Tour then; someone suggested that they call themselves "The Dangling
Participles," but that was soundly rejected. In retrospect, it somewhat fits.
[The "band" obviously did not gig then -- they just assembled in M.L.
Bement's garage and created cacophony.] Anyway, Paula is the only member of
that ragtag group still with Three Hour Tour, so the only person standing to be greatly
humiliated is her. These clips showcase how very, very bad her drumming was in those
early days -- how truly, hideously, double-the-nearest-competitor HORRID she was.
Prepare yourself.
"Good
Lovin' "
"Kansas City"
"Birthday"
"Monster
Mash"
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