from fred weaver's documentation of this tour, "The Final Dark Days of Don Caballero" Thursday, 9 November Tonight's show has been the subject of great controversy since the get-go. Originally, Don Cab and I were to play at the Echo Lounge -- a mid-sized rock club in East Atlanta. Then Henry Owings, publisher of Chunklet, got the booking agent to lump us on a bill across town with Black Heart Procession. That's not the problem... Don Cab is upset because the show is at Eyedrum, a combination art space and performance space with a basement stage no taller than 6 inches... not exactly the ideal venue for 200 people to see a band. Owings has also been a controversial topic of conversation during the tour because he included Don Caballero on Chunklet's list of Top 100 Assholes In Rock. [For his part, I'll say that Henry told me that Eric had asked why they weren't on an early draft of the list... and requested that he put them on it] I thought we'd get to the Eyedrum late, but everything's cool, there's plenty of time. When, like tonight, all the band are friends, everyone pulls together a little more to make things run smoothly. After playing, I had to run across town to the Echo Lounge. I was supposed to pick up an amplifier that Laddio Bollocko had left there two months prior and take it to NYC, but the van is still overloaded. We haven't sold near as many shirts as expected, so I have to just take the amp to my friend Adam's house for safekeeping. Unfortunately, I missed all but the first two songs of Shannon Wright's set in the process of going to the Echo. By the time I got back, Black Heart was playing and it was obvious that the venue just wasn't large enough for the combined Black Heart / Don Cab audience. By the time Don Cab was set to play, the crowd was so thick that Damon found it near impossible to get his drums through the people on the way to the stage. To Don Caballero it made no sense... Why would you cancel a show at a much better venue to move it to a basement of less than adequate size for the show? [Henry had been the Echo Lounge's booking agent and had a falling out with the management over ethics. That's why he chose to move the Don Cab to Eyedrum when the two shows were combined.] Regardless... frustrated by what he considered a lack of respect on Henry's part, Damon angrily knocked a hole in one of the walls with a stand after fighting through the crowd to get his drums on stage. Fueled by anger, Don Cab played a great set, but Damon made several sarcastic comments onstage, culminating with, "Does anyone have a paper chef's hat? Can we get a paper chef's hat up here to mic the drums?" After the set, the soundman got on the mic and for several minutes goaded Damon by, in effect, calling him a rock star asshole. Sure, the soundman had good points regarding the fact that there were some underage kids who otherwise wouldn't have been able to see Don Cab play, but the crowd was largely over-21 and the sound, sightlines, and band accommodations would have been much, much better at the Echo Lounge. At the end of the night, Don Cab's money is docked $80 or so to pay to fix the wall, and we load up the van.
from fred weaver's documentation of this tour, "The Final Dark Days of Don Caballero"
Thursday, 9 November
Tonight's show has been the subject of great controversy since the get-go. Originally, Don Cab and I were to play at the Echo Lounge -- a mid-sized rock club in East Atlanta. Then Henry Owings, publisher of Chunklet, got the booking agent to lump us on a bill across town with Black Heart Procession. That's not the problem... Don Cab is upset because the show is at Eyedrum, a combination art space and performance space with a basement stage no taller than 6 inches... not exactly the ideal venue for 200 people to see a band. Owings has also been a controversial topic of conversation during the tour because he included Don Caballero on Chunklet's list of Top 100 Assholes In Rock. [For his part, I'll say that Henry told me that Eric had asked why they weren't on an early draft of the list... and requested that he put them on it]
I thought we'd get to the Eyedrum late, but everything's cool, there's plenty of time. When, like tonight, all the band are friends, everyone pulls together a little more to make things run smoothly. After playing, I had to run across town to the Echo Lounge. I was supposed to pick up an amplifier that Laddio Bollocko had left there two months prior and take it to NYC, but the van is still overloaded. We haven't sold near as many shirts as expected, so I have to just take the amp to my friend Adam's house for safekeeping. Unfortunately, I missed all but the first two songs of Shannon Wright's set in the process of going to the Echo. By the time I got back, Black Heart was playing and it was obvious that the venue just wasn't large enough for the combined Black Heart / Don Cab audience. By the time Don Cab was set to play, the crowd was so thick that Damon found it near impossible to get his drums through the people on the way to the stage. To Don Caballero it made no sense... Why would you cancel a show at a much better venue to move it to a basement of less than adequate size for the show? [Henry had been the Echo Lounge's booking agent and had a falling out with the management over ethics. That's why he chose to move the Don Cab to Eyedrum when the two shows were combined.] Regardless... frustrated by what he considered a lack of respect on Henry's part, Damon angrily knocked a hole in one of the walls with a stand after fighting through the crowd to get his drums on stage. Fueled by anger, Don Cab played a great set, but Damon made several sarcastic comments onstage, culminating with, "Does anyone have a paper chef's hat? Can we get a paper chef's hat up here to mic the drums?" After the set, the soundman got on the mic and for several minutes goaded Damon by, in effect, calling him a rock star asshole. Sure, the soundman had good points regarding the fact that there were some underage kids who otherwise wouldn't have been able to see Don Cab play, but the crowd was largely over-21 and the sound, sightlines, and band accommodations would have been much, much better at the Echo Lounge.
At the end of the night, Don Cab's money is docked $80 or so to pay to fix the wall, and we load up the van.
the cigarrette at the last second after ending drums it just like cinema
Thanks for the upload!
Wish youtube stabilization to rot in dirt
Same here, makes it look like the whole room's moving around lol
perfection
Scrumptious
stupendous
Excellent
tremendous
Gorgeous.
Marvelous
Zajebiste
anybody here knows the tuning???
maybe EAEGBDe?
They mostly played in standard tuning from what I know
ian williams the standard tuning warrior
incredz