Michael Landau: dog cheese

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!


Dog Cheese (Michael Landau, Vinnie Colaiuta, Steve Tavaglione, and Larry Klein)

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