For Respect

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For Respect

Studio album by Don Caballero
Released	October 10, 1993
Recorded	January 1993
Genre	Math rock
Length	37:48
Label	Touch and Go Records TG120
	For Respect (1993)	Don Caballero 2 (1995)

For Respect is the debut album from Don Caballero, a Pittsburgh-based math rock band. For Respect was released on Touch and Go Records in 1993.

Though Ian Williams is credited on guitar for this album, he only joined the band shortly before For Respect's recording and had little substantial creative influence. As a result, this album is much less orchestrated and complex than Don Caballero's later work.

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Miscellanea
4 External links

[edit] Track listing

"For Respect" – 2:43
"Chief Sitting Duck" – 2:21
"New Laws" – 5:54
"Nicked and Liqued" – 2:41
"Rocco" – 2:47
"Subdued Confections" – 2:29
"Got a Mile, Got a Mile, Got an Inch" – 5:06
"Our Caballero" – 2:07
"Bears See Things Pretty Much the Way They Are" – 3:26
"Well Built Road" – 6:05
"Belted Sweater" – 2:06

[edit] Personnel

Don Caballero:
- Damon Che - Drums; guitar on "Well Built Road"
- Ian Williams - Guitar
- Pat Morris - Bass
- Mike Banfield - Guitar
Steve Albini - Engineer (uncredited)

[edit] Miscellanea

The shadow of the Canadian sketch comedy show Second City Television looms large over this entire album:

The band took its name from an episode of SCTV in which TV station manager Guy Caballero became a Corleone-esque mob boss called Don Caballero.
On the back cover of the CD insert, drummer Damon Che is photographed sitting in a wheelchair dressed as Guy Caballero.
The audio samples in "Got a Mile, Got a Mile, Got an Inch" are all from SCTV.
"For Respect" is Guy Caballero's justification for using a wheelchair. ("I thought you rode a wheelchair?" "Oh, I just use that for respect" is one of the samples in "Got a Mile...".)
"Subdued Confections" is yet another quote from SCTV.

In a 2006 interview with the e-zine Space City Rock, Damon Che revealed that he played guitar on some Don Caballero songs, including the choruses of "Well Built Road".