Mastedon wasn’t the only band to make its one and only appearance at Cornerstone Festival in 1991. Steve Taylor (featured earlier in our video from 1984) attempting to move into more mainstream music joined the band Chagall Guevara. Chagall Guevara was a slight departure from Taylor’s sound, but still resonated roots of bands like The Clash with Taylor’s pointed lyrics, though not as overtly evangelistic. The band with the difficult to pronounce name secured a contract with MCA and produced their self-titled album in 1991. However, MCA gave the band no support and the album was out-of-print almost as fast as it was released. Beset with finanicial difficulties from low album sales and no promotion, the band disappeared into the ether before it ever got off the ground.

The band did make one round of festival appearances, though, playing on the Main Stage at Cornerstone Festival 1991.

Before the days of iTunes and MP3’s when music was still a scarce commodity, the Chagall Guevara CD was something of a Holy Grail for collectors as so few were printed. I can remember internet posts with people selling and buying the CD for as much as $100 and that’s what I remember most about Chagall Guevara. It’s a good CD, to be sure (I had it on cassette…not as valuable as the CD, but nonetheless, still a prized item), but I don’t know that it’s $100 good. Audio quality for this video is okay with some flutter from video tape, but otherwise, it gives a nice perspective of what’s it’s like to see a band on the main stage from the crowd, complete with goobers crowd surfing and even a nice cartwheel from Steve Taylor on stage.