Cake Lyrics

Cake Info:

From:
Sacramento, California, United States

Genres:
Alternative rock

Years active:
1991–present

Associated acts:
Deathray

Name Origin:
Their name does not refer to the dessert, but instead the name is meant to be "like when something insidiously becomes a part of your life... [we] mean it more as something that cakes onto your shoe and is just sort of there until you get rid of it".

Members:
John McCrea – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, organ, vibraslap
(1991–present)

Vince DiFiore – trumpet, keyboards, melodica, guiro, background vocals
(1991–present)

Gabe Nelson – bass guitar, background vocals
(1992–1994, 1997–present)

Xan McCurdy – electric guitar, background vocals
(1997–present)

Paulo Baldi – drums, cowbell, tambourine, background vocals
(2004–present)

Past Members:
Shon Meckfessel – bass guitar, background vocals
(1991)

Frank French – drums, background vocals
(1991–1994)

Greg Brown – electric guitar, background vocals
(1991–1997)

Victor Damiani – bass guitar, background vocals
(1994–1997)

Todd Roper – drums, background vocals
(1994–2001)

Pete McNeal – drums, background vocals
(2001–2004)

Did You Know:
• Cake's Italian Leather Sofa is the theme song to the cartoon Mission Hill.

Cake Quotes:
I'm writing all the time, so it's kind of hard to say how long that takes. It takes a while. Some songs come within five minutes, some songs take years. I just have to be there for that process. We spent about nine months on that last album, but not constantly recording; nine months working on stuff, then taking a short break, listening to it, and going back.

No, actually we've produced all of our albums ourselves, from the very first one. On this album, we not only produced it, but we engineered it ourselves. We got an old house, bought some microphones, tried to figure out how to place the microphones, tried to learn how to use the equipment.

Because I think my prime directive is to be in service of the song, whichever song that is. Not some sort of conceptual idea about the evolution of a band, which to me is just senseless if it's not in service of the individual song. An overarching evolution of a band is inevitably going to violate the individual rights of a song. In other words, say you have 10 songs, and you say, "Oh, we're going to move it in this direction." Well inevitably four, five, or six of those songs don't want to move in that direction. It wants to move in the opposite direction. So everything has to be taken on a song-by-song basis.

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