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Edward wrote:

Peripatetic wrote:I saw the "new" Don Cab for the second time a couple weeks ago.

Why can't Che keep a band together? In the roughly 8 months since I saw them last, they're down to a trio with a different bass player.

This new trio is not good. Kind of a disgrace compared to the 99-2000ish trio.

The record is good, but I spent a good portion of the live show being embarrassed for them.

I saw the new Don Caballero last night for the first time and you sum up my thoughts exactly (except I've not even heard their record.) The show was completely uninspiring. The band could not have been less interested in what they were doing.

I'd feel embarassed for Damon Che if he didn't seem like such a cockbag of a person.

I too was at this show and it was a complete train wreck...those guys really should not try to play Banfield and Williams parts.

I could listen to a record of just the drums without all the
"Dink-Donk-Dink- 'Ka-Dink-Donk-Dink-Donk" guitar shit.

Talented people though. Love it live.

ant man bee wrote:I too was at this show and it was a complete train wreck...those guys really should not try to play Banfield and Williams parts.

I agree, but give them due props on I Never Liked You. It kills.

skatingbasser wrote:

ant man bee wrote:I too was at this show and it was a complete train wreck...those guys really should not try to play Banfield and Williams parts.

I agree, but give them due props on I Never Liked You. It kills.

I do not remember them playing this one but they sure did massacre "Fire Back About Your New Baby's Sex"....

The dudebro looking guitarist was way out of his depth on that one...

They obviously have some semblance of talent...I just wish that they would try to write the new material with their own style. It is really obvious to me that these new guys sat down and dissected the old records and tried to emulate them as much as they could.

This simply will not work because of the fluidity that existed with Banfield and Williams.

japmn wrote:I could listen to a record of just the drums without all the
"Dink-Donk-Dink- 'Ka-Dink-Donk-Dink-Donk" guitar shit.

For me personally, I have never thought of the drums as being the cool part of Don Cab. It is all about the melodies and structures for me which is why I think Banfield's new band Knot Feeder kicks the shit out of the current "Don Caballero."

i like more Bluderbuss and Six Horse...but they are cool

never gave a shit.

crap.

ahhhh

afro pop, 4:01..

Not crap. WF: 2

Totally amazing band, unparalleled in their day. I think they've influenced almost as many derivative bands as Slint, which in itself isn't necessarily a good thing.

I can still remember when I was a kid in high school the exact moment Don Cab went from being white noise to the most mind boggling shit I'd ever heard. Watching my cocky performance guitar teacher fall on his face trying to figure it out was priceless.

Putting on Don Cab in a vehicle full of stoners and waiting to see how long it takes for someone to ask if the CD is broken also provided great entertainment as did watching the jaws of metal-heads drop when Don Cab II is stacked up against growling retards playing power chords on detuned 7-string guitars.

I've seen the new line-up twice and it was worth the money and the new guys in the band are quite pleasant but Damon seems to be losing the plot a bit. Quick someone stage an intervention, or get him a triple, one or the other!

The early Don Caballero material seems to have used "Short-Haired Robot" and "Decent Skin" as inspiration in the 'harsh and driving with melodic parts' model.

I heard Bastro and Breadwinner after I heard Don Caballero and, while they were active, I may have credited the Touch & Go recording artists as being more original than they indeed were.

When What Burns Never Returns was released I was very excited, then I listened to the album and was very disappointed; where were the riffs and the friction in the guitar sound? I liked it then after a few listens and was prepared for American Don which was like luminous background music to me.

Not Crap with a wf of zero.

I've not heard the new stuff, but the Don Caballero Holy Trinity (Don Cab 2, American Don, What Burns) is a good a body of work as you are ever likely to find.

I got into them late, and I don't wish to see them live as they are bound not to live up to expectation (esp. the recent incarnation). But I always have these brilliant albums to listen to. So good, every time I listen to them I hear something I have not acknowledged before. The drumming, the drumming.

So good, I love the beauty of American Don and I love the fuckedupness of Don Cab 2.

Thank you Don Caballero

Highest NOT CRAP.