Nov 13, 2009 - DON CABALLERO - WHAT BURNS NEVER RETURNS / AMERICAN DON [199. Share this album on Facebook. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Don Caballero 2 - Don Caballero on AllMusic - 1995 - The liner notes speak it plain -- 'Don.

He’s probably one of the hugest drumming influences on me of all time, but Damon Che of Don Caballero had another band where he played guitar and sang for called Thee Speaking Canaries. Before the band totally took shape as a trio, Damon recorded many songs with himself on all the instruments. Chunklett Industries recently released all this material for the first time. These are basically a bunch of cool instrumental versions of early SC songs with Damon on all the instruments. I just got it and have to say I really dig it. There’s a totally cool nostalgic 90s guitar vibe going excellently accompanied by Mr. Che’s signature drumming.

Highly recommended for all of those that love Don Cab, Bitch Magnet, or 90s post rock/math instrumental stuff. Platter Base Must Be Constructed of Moon Rock by Thee Speaking Canaries The digital version is only $8, go buy it! Dhairyam movie mp3 songs download. This entry was posted in,,, and tagged,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, on.

Some people start bands because they feel they have something to say. Others see band formation as a guaranteed path to free drinks and unprotected sex. When Damon Che formed instrumental crunch-rockers Don Caballero 15 years ago in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he had significantly different plans.

“The only plan we had at the time was to come up with music we liked,” he says earnestly. “The reason we ended up the way we did was because, in our estimation, [the music] wasn’t ready yet. The opportunities to record kept coming up, and we didn’t want to waste them, even if we didn’t have our craft entirely up to specifications yet.” Che might have had reservations about the preparedness of the music, but nobody was really prepared for the kind of efficient instrumental urgency DonCab generated. Mike Banfield’s crunching guitar riffage and Pat Morris’ bass underpinned everything so that Che’s indefatigable complexity”i.e., drums as lead instrument”was front and center.

The band was instrumental by default, wielding a technical proficiency that could rival the staunchest prog outfit, but instead choosing to deliver a far more visceral impact. Of course, like most things genuine and exemplary, DonCab were greeted by blank stares and confused looks similar to the ones a dog makes eating peanut butter. An early supporter pleaded them to participate in a city battle-of-the-bands contest. When the leader of the judging “panel of experts” heard two minutes of the band’s first single, he lifted the needle and said, “These guys need to go back to Songwriting 101.” Fortunately, Songwriting 101 got brushed aside so DonCab could expand to a quartet, adding guitarist Ian Williams; sign to the Touch And Go label; and head off to Chicago to record their 1993 debut album, For Respect, with Steve Albini at the controls.

Many a fanzine writer and alt-weekly-residing tastemaker began describing the band’s complexities and Che’s rhythmic prowess as “math rock,” a term that, to this day, sits uneasy with the drummer. “I think we got to much credit for those particular aspects of the band,” he reflects. “We did have many twists and turns and hard-to-follow time signatures. But we were a much more simplistic mechanism compared to great bands like Breadwinner or Confessor. Much respect to them”I hope they’re not mad about it!”.

The next 10 years saw the band generate an admirable body of work in the form of three additional albums (Don Caballero 2, What Burns Never Returns and American Don) and a singles compilation (Singles Breaking Up, Volume One), along with a series of bassists and the resignation of original member Banfield. And while the band were collecting their hard-earned share of accolades from indie rockers and headbangers alike, the creative friction between Che and Williams had escalated to reactor-melting proportions. “At that point, we couldn’t see eye-to-eye on anything,” says Che. “Ian and I are like natural-born enemies, like a cobra to a mongoose. People think that’s harsh for me to say. On a humanitarian level, Ian is, obviously, not my enemy.