Eephus said:
Fiddles said:
9.29 Chavez - Unreal is here 1996
9.29 Folk Implosion - Pole Position 1997
I never heard of Chavez. Were they a big thing 20 years ago? The video shows them with gold records and playing big halls.
I think the mid-90s are my biggest gap in this era. We were raising babies and not going to shows. At the time, I was only aware of the really popular stuff and bands we liked before children. I've tried to catch up since but that's different than living through it.
Its a spoof of the big rock band videos. Their guitar player Clay Tarver was in Bullet Lavolta. He wrote the jimmy the cabdriver commercials on mtv back in the day starring his college roommate Donal Logue (gotham) who worked sound for chavez later on. After chavez tarver went on to write/produce Silicon Valley for HBO.
Chavez's other guitarist and singer Matt Sweeney was in Zwan, Bonnie Prince Billie. He hooked up with Rick Rubin and played on the Cash albums he produced. Rubin also connected him with Neil Diamond and he played guitar on all songs of his Home Before Dark album. He is touring with Homme/Pop's upcoming tour. Sweeney has a youtube show where he hangs with guitarists and shows peeps how to play. Hes had billy gibbons and keith richards on there. Heres the one with Homme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT8b27_z84U