the band CAVE

that video is great -- there are lots of recognizable places, but the parts i like best are the anonymous intersections.

saw these dudes last night they were pretty cool

they hit up the local npr station today apparently
http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/2011-10-14/grooving-some-caves-neverendless-jams-93151

The rhythmic orchestration of the rock band Cave typically unwinds slowly but steadily over lengthy songs. They are often called "roller-rinkin’ rock for the next generation."

Confused about what that phrase means? The band sat down with Eight Forty-Eight to explain what exactly roller-rinkin' rock is and why they are not your typical jammers

Gonna see them tonight. So stoked.
Cooper insists that they are a funk band now. Hafta laugh.

I'm going tomorrow night, will report back on level of funk.

annoyed that they seem to have tour dates scheduled in every US city except mine.
this, still. jealous you guys are seeing them.

Not to rub it in, but I'm gonna get to see them twice on this tour!
Which is cool and all, but the fact that I can't you know BE IN THE BAND and actually go on tour still kind of stings.

crash the stage! "i'm back in the band!!"

I get to every now and again.
It's the long hours in the van with the dudes that I really crave though.

And they are playing tonight and tomorrow with ANOTHER band that I used to be in.
It's going to be really great to be in the same room with so many good friends.

so psyched, they're playing in Denver next week! at the very same mysterious head shop as last year.

Hey, all right.

Playing in my town on Friday night!

they played for free on monday but i didn't go because i saw that show a few weeks ago

lol, well that was a bummer. drove an hour down to denver for this show, sat through two opening acts. then, they announce that THREE more bands are going to play at the club next door, and everyone should go watch those. Wait around, wait around, wait around, and it's 1:15am on a Sunday night and i'm literally falling asleep on my feet. last opening act still going strong. i guess i'm getting old or something, but i can't wait until 2am for a band to play! yeesh.

jeez, is that a regular mysterious head shop procedure? driving back home in a few minutes, gonna blast the album once more.

ha i don't know, they played at a reasonable hour the last time! i'm all for playing alternative venues and whatever, but this just got kind of silly.

Bummer city. Sorry to hear that.
They did a cover of DJ Funk's "XTC" on Friday night, it was amazing.

Sorry to hear that tyler, but that would have been annoying to me too. I'm not sure I'd have even made it as late as you did on a Sunday night.

just got word that my friend stuck it out. they went on 1:45-ish. "it was awesome," he said.

That is way too late. I'm sure it wasn't the band's decision.

yeah we talked to one of the dudes who put the show together and he was like "i don't think cave will ever play here again."

Hah, as they shouldn't. Shitty shitty thing to do to a band and the audience.

i do think they got a lot of free weed though, so ...

They described the place to me as less a head shop, more a speak easy. It sounded a lot like this "record store" that operated in my town called "K3v1n's World" that really seemed like a front for the proprietor to get underage kids drunk. Did you get some BBQ, at least?

i missed the bbq! it must be more of a clubhouse kinda place than an actual place of business. though there is a sign out front now! they actually had a pretty awesome cooler full of microbrews.
night wasn't a total loss, got to hang out w/ some friends, drink a few beers. just hope cave plays somewhere slightly better organized next time!

Cooper says there will be a Bitchin Bajas sounds and visuals event happening at the Music Box in Chicago "in weeks." Didn't see anything on their website, don't know the exact date. New LP+DVD later in the year.

in TWO weeks jesus

OoooOoooo!! Thanks for posting, will read the emails from the music box now. Last one announced an appearance by Crispin Glover.

From Drag City email:

Drag City and the Music Box are crossing streams for a one night only screening of Dragonslayer, the award winning documentary from director Tristan Patterson and executive producer Christine Vachon. That’s a whole lotta trouble makers right there. But we couldn’t just slap a couple of moving images on the wall and be like, “Hey! Show up to this shit#!” So we’re gonna make an event of it: On January 18th the folks at Rodan in Wicker Park are letting us squat their place and throw a party from 7-10pm with some semi-talented people making music while we preview the film. Then the night of the screening Bitchin’ Bajas will perform with visual artist Olivia Wyatt as people gather in their seats. The organ player reduced to dust! Plus, since the dee-slayer is a certain shade of rock and roll, Mayor Daley will jam some tunes before the curtain opens on what may very well be the best documentary about skateboarding or the suburbs ever. To add just one more thing to make this event unforgettable, the director of the film, Tristan Patterson, will be answering questions via Skype after the movie is over.

That sounds like fun. I'm glad Mayor Daley is still a going concern.

I'm making the trip up to Chicago tomorrow with the Columbia, MO, band (Hott Lunch) that is opening for Cave at the Empty Bottle tomorrow night. My dear old friend,Jeremy, is back in the band; the dirty rotten milk man has moved on. Should be an interesting time. Free if you RSVP!

There's a ton of Bitchin Bajas action in the works, too. The quadrophonic presentation of the latest film and music collaboration with Olivia Wyatt was really great.

Gonna be a good weekend.

Heeeey I'm going to that show and so are some other ilxors!

Awesome! Sunday is Cooper's birthday. Really looking forward to seeing my old friends. It would be cool to meet some ilxors, too.

oh man i really wish i could go to this show, but we've had some pretty bad news at home that will keep me in this weekend. have fun for me though!

yes i should be at this show too with my (very occasional ilxor) wife

wish i was going to be at this show. jealous :'(

tell the band i'm still mad about my last denver experience with them. gahhh!

Permanent Records putting out a comp of pre-Cave (and every other Columbia band) the Pows for Record Store Day. Only 100 copies, which is not very many, but the one song i heard was cool. you got any other info Trip?

WTF? I am probably on that thing. Holy shit. That was a project Cooper was working on years ago that I thought he gave up on.
I don't have any info. Wish I did!

Tyler: They told me all about that Denver show. That weird head shop morphed into something even seedier in the time between their two gigs there.
Said they would never play that place again.

ha, yeah, there were definitely some bad vibes that second time around! i'm not really mad, just bummed i didn't get to see them. they can play at my house next time, i am a cool guy.

Oh I see, it's a Pows comp. Ha ha, it's sweet how much Liz and Lance love the Pows.
The main songwriter from that band, Zach (also of HEATER), is living in Vermont on going to Carpentry school.
He hasn't given up on rock, but who knows when or how he'll make his next move.
I think the record Permanent is releasing is the very first Pows session from when Rex and Zach were maybe 15.

xp I knew you weren't really mad, Tyler.

The project I was referring to previously was a comp of a bunch of area bands that would have featured the (extremely rough) demo recordings of MOST HIGH, the best band that I was ever in, which feature Dan and Jeremy (now of Cave) and a dude named Drew who lives in Portland now and plays in a group called Loose Values.

I don't have any info. Wish I did!

the last permanent records email had a long description of it - i'll ilx-mail it to you!

or actually, just check it out here: http://www.permanentrecordschicago.com/news.php

Cool, thanks, Z_

i never even saw the pows play, i only saw the cover show that lance + liz did in Maude Vintage that one time in como

Man, they really were good. They were just kids.
That description is kind of cryptic in that Lance never says what is actually on it.
I guess it's probably selections from both Pows records, maybe some Saber Tooth, maybe something from that first recording session?
Curious.

does lance write those descriptions, or liz? liz wrote me an incredible letter of recommendation to help get me into grad school. i'll always owe her big time for that?