Don Caballero
Damon Che hits drums like a man possessed by the ghost of every time signature simultaneously. The guitars lock together and then fly apart and then lock together again and you're sitting there going WHAT just happened. Pittsburgh's finest export since steel and twice as hard. Ditched the vocals early on because honestly who needs 'em when the instruments are doing THIS. American Don is the one. Play it loud.
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Founded Don Cab and basically invented math-rock drumming. Polyrhythmic madness played with so much physical intensity you worry about the drums surviving. When people talk about math rock they're talking about what this guy did first.
Don Cab's guitar wizard. Figured out looping techniques that an entire generation of math-rock kids stole wholesale. Left to start Battles and kept right on innovating. Pittsburgh's gift to the future of weird guitar music.
Don Cab's original bassist, holding down the low end while Damon Che was busy reinventing what drums could do. Part of the Pittsburgh crew that kicked math rock into existence before anyone had a name for it.
Early Don Caballero guitarist who helped shape the band's initial sound. Part of that first wave of Pittsburgh math rock before the lineup shifts that defined the later records.
