Chordplay - The Chords Of Cake

[@gregmize01]

Opened for them at a festival and i was stunned at what they were able to reproduce live what I'd heard on their albums. Incredible band!

[@dangolguitartech]

I was fortunate enough to be able to share the stage with them in Nashville about 15 years ago… By far one of the tightest, cleanest sounding live bands I have ever heard. They sounded as good or possibly even better than the records. Everything that the guitar player does is fantastic… Obviously he can play, but you can tell that he is there solely to serve the song structure. And their horn section did not have the intonation problems that most horn sections have. Not sure if it was just a good day or they are always like that, but they were watertight as a frogs butt.🤠 Thanks for a great video, Dave!

[@marpsr]

Let Me Go! Cake is awesome. Their tongue-in-cheek attitude belies their sophistication. One of my favorite bands.

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

Cake is it's own genre. ^-^

What a good surprise. Thanks!

[@jasonpitts8395]

I see the Cake picture in the corner. Great video as always David.

[@greg77hot]

Wow .. Thanks... some new ideas...Your knowledge of music is extradentary .Let alone remembering how to play all this stuff.

[@richjam51]

I can't tell you how much I loved this video - I absolutely love CAKE and can't understand how underated they are - especially Greg Brown and his amzing guitar riffs. You play them so effortlessly (which is really annoying!!) - I could spend my life just learning those amazing guitar parts - more more more videos on CAKE please. Fantastic stuff mate.

[@jamesturner519]

Thanks for this, David. Been a fan of Cake for a long time. I love the "you don't have to be a virtuoso to write a great song." You can make things interesting in a lot of ways, as Cake proves. Hell of a rythym section , too. I feel no guilt for liking them a lot!

[@kmajor44]

Love their version of I Will Survive. Thanks for Cake!!

[@trampasnewberry2626]

Guilty pleasure is perfect description. Great band from a top tier educator. Thank you brother.

[@Groteskfull]

I always thought that term was kinda funny. I mean, we shouldn't feel guilt/shame about the music we enjoy 😄

[@zackeriah87]

I LITERALLY just went on a Cake catalog journey earlier today... They have always been a guilty pleasure of mine as well! I heard them a couple times at the supermarket and had to Shazam it to see who it was and their name kept popping up. Hella original. Hella great! Thx for the videos, Dave.

[@waynecanning4122]

Don’t feel guilty. Cake is bad ass

[@shanebrbich5698]

Awesome description of this band! Spot on! Even if you don’t know the band, ya somehow like ‘em! 👍🇦🇺

[@SteveJones379]

Going The Distance!

[@alreedyalrighty588]

Saw them at Ommegang Brewery. Great performers, great show. You can find a few videos of that show on youtube.

[@cato451]

Love cake!!! Thank you

[@jaymorin6847]

Awesome job as always. Thanks David.

[@jimcreee3299]

superb, I am a big cake fan, their arrangements are very unique ..they let everyone speak and have space ,counter melodies all over the place. the trumpet is used so well . the song frank sinatra has a wonderful guitar solo with exquisite timing. thanks for all your videos and it's great you do different stuff to broaden everyone's horizons.

[@colinbox3637]

100% agree with your intro Dave! 👍

[@ignacioinder]

Awesome Episode Dave! Cake was deffo an influence on my early years and what a great taste in musicality. Kudos!

[@christopherferrier5175]

Fantastic!

[@czgunner]

Love Cake. Been a fan for a long time.

[@dougshankle7946]

I haven't even watched the video yet it just came up on my feed but Cake is my lady's favorite band. We live near Santa Cruz CA and they have come by here a few times. I always loved the the solo on I Will Survive even when I heard it for the first time.

[@paulcasilio1119]

First in to tell DB he’s awesome! 👏

[@waynecanning4122]

At least you had something to say. There’s no lesser form of communication than “First”. Except maybe “Second!”

[@paulcasilio1119]

@@waynecanning4122 I always get something out of these from Dave, but admittedly the chord plays and the pockets have been favorites.

[@waynecanning4122]

@@paulcasilio1119 Oh for sure. I’ve been sitting here playing that opening Let Me Go riff for the last ten minutes.

[@eycpiq]

This is my first time seeing one of your videos, and I enjoyed it. I gather you and I may not have much other music in common, but I love Cake so much, and you did them justice. The only quibble I would have is your calling them a "guilty pleasure." There's nothing guilty about enjoying music! And besides, I think their sound is deceptively simple. If it was easy to sound like them, and to put out several hit songs, a bunch of great albums, and maintain popularity over multiple decades, other bands would have done it. But absolutely no one sounds like Cake, and very few bands have maintained a following that still looks forward to their new music for that long. Here's hoping their long-promised seventh album gets finished someday soon!

[@makeamericaguitaragain]

Love Cake. Love this episode.

[@gregvincent5821]

WOW I played the pedal steel part on CAKE’s recording of “Mexico”. Nice approximation with the bottleneck slide -very tricky!

[@CarrotDugTooDeep]

The first Cake song I ever heard was Sheep Go To Heaven. I heard it on the radio in the late 90's and was hooked.

[@josephcorcoran8714]

I love that band!

[@russlgtr]

Love the slide, never seen diagonal slide like that Magic for sure, Mexico is country

[@russlgtr]

The distance and short skirt/long jacket are the ones I heard on radio, awesome quirky mainstream indie out there all at all the same time. Thanks for this. Looks like I need to check all their songs. The are very Weezer like. Very open minded, as seen by them doing I will survive by Gloria Gaynor and also war pigs by black Sabbath. Very cool

[@uncleremus5046]

What Cake is 🍺’ski is ORIGINAL!🤘

[@StealthParrot]

Not familiar at all with Cake, but this was cool, will definitely have to check out this band. Thanks.

[@jasonpitts8395]

Hey David have you done a video on Blackfoot? Not sure if you are a fan of them or not.

[@LateNightLessons]

Blackfoot is coming! : )

[@jasonpitts8395]

@@LateNightLessons awesome!

[@lucasfrench1841]

instant sub

[@Habilio1]

Stryper

[@mcxiii]

Huge fan of cake.

[@seanmurphy4574]

I heard you reference Cake in one of your other videos recently and was wondering if you would eventually do a Chords Of installment.... and here we are! Funny i just recently came across the same song The Distance late night and was like "Who is this?" Became an instant fan for much of the same reasons you discussed in this video... Love the quirky tunes with the horns thrown in... Another great take my man!!! Hey are you a Mars Volta fan?

[@Dan-zq5wt]

Clever lyrics too. Really like their ironic, sarcastic take

[@ragnadrabinowitz7629]

me like. now do xtc!

[@markbois1713]

Always thought they were cool. One thing I noticed is on their recordings there is no reverb or delay or any effects very dry. Not meant to be derogatory.

[@BradRocker]

RAMJAM

[@waynegram8907]

Pete Blakk solo licks lesson Pete Blakk was in bands before and after king diamond. I know you love the guitarist Jack Starr from Jack Starr Burning starr band which they have a lot of albums which you haven't made a lesson about Jack Starr

[@craigroaring]

Cake sound a bit like later Captain Beefheart

[@Boomsterblak]

second

[@guitarthings8453]

David Brewster.... that blinking light on your amp is super annoying. I actually quit watching your lessons for 2 years because of it. I think you are the best instructor on You Tube, but that blinking tuning light just ruins it. Can you put a piece of Cloth over it, or use a Camera angle that doesn't show it? No matter how much I try to watch your hands, or listen, my eyes Always go back to that stupid blinking light.