I can't get enough of this style of music!!!
I love how the mellow, spacey, ephemeral tones of Tavaglione's keys and Landau's comping are opposed to their heavy, wild tones during the lead.
From the user who posted the video:
"Dog Cheese was a short lived mid 80's LA based band. The line-up
was: Michael Landau - Guitar, Vinnie Colaiuta - Drums, Steve Tavaglione
- Keys/Sax, and Larry Klein - Bass. Not too much is known about the
band, but there are one or two live bootlegs floating around plus some
studio demo material. This video is a bunch of Landau photos with a Dog
Cheese track from the rare studio demo material.
Michael Landau
was interviewed by Abstract Logix in 2006, and was asked about the Dog
Cheese band. This is what he had to say...
Abstract Logix interviw with Michael Landau in 2006 (#95)
AL: Mike, someone was telling me about a band you had with Vinnie Colaiuta called 'Dog Cheese', what was that all about?
ML:
"Dog Cheese" was put together right after Joni's '84 tour. It was
Vinnie, Larry Klein, Steve Tavaglione and myself. We played original
music that Larry and I wrote, and played around L.A. mostly at the
"Baked Potato". There are some rough cassette's floating around of live
shows, it was some pretty slammin stuff. We never did a record
though... Its too bad.
AL: Whats the probability that some of
the rough tapes can be gotten hold off ? What was the material for Dog
Cheese, were you guys taking some of Jonis compostions at all?
ML:
There just a stereo mike "walkman" recordings, too rough to put out...
It was all original material by Larry, Steve&myself.
ENJOY!"
