Joey Cape (Lagwagon, Bad Astronaut, Playing Favorites) plans full length acoustic solo album

Contributed by Norris. Posted by aubin on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 9:00 PM (EDT)

Prolific musician and Lagwagon frontman Joey Cape recently sat down with The Paradigm Journal, an art and literary journal. Joey discusses his latest project, his creative process, and his thoughts on punk music.

Of particular note is that Joey will be recording a solo acoustic album for Bad Taste in the tradition of his Acoustic split with No Use for a Name's Tony Sly:

I wanted to make an actual full-length solo record. I have since considered that split to be a bit of a cop-out. The songs were covers and I only had to record six. Also, I had everyone I know play on it. I play everything on the new one and I have recorded nearly twenty songs. It's been a huge undertaking and I feel it is officially my first.

You can check out the rest of the interview here.

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TopFlightFuckinSecurity (April 9, 2008)

FIRSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT SUCKAZZZ!!!

LAGGY WAGGY ONNNNNNN!!

Top flight isi da businnezzzzzzz!

red_eye_inc (April 9, 2008)

I like this dude's solo stuff more than recent Lagwagon output. Now that he's kinda old there's an interesting desperation in his voice.
Also, this was inevitable, I'm just waiting for the solo acoustic Jim Lindberg album now.

BarleyPat (April 9, 2008)

A Jim Lindberg solo acoustic album would not be a good thing.

red_eye_inc (April 9, 2008)

it was joke, that would be fucking terrible

BarleyPat (April 10, 2008)

I was hoping that was a joke, sorry I missed it.

BarleyPat (April 9, 2008)

I'm game.

colin (April 9, 2008)

his solo stuff is amazing. can't wait.

Cottage_Cheese (April 9, 2008)

I can't stop listening to Bad Astronaut

thatsyouth (April 9, 2008)

what bad astronaut?

acrophobe > everything. i think. 12 small steps was rather good though.

jacknife737 (April 9, 2008)

Same here. 12 small steps is an amazing record.

joetheinvincible (April 9, 2008)

Houston is a classic record. Everything else is good, but that record is nearly perfection.

thatsyouth (April 10, 2008)

call me crazy but i never saw what the big deal about that cd was. there were a nice handful of great songs but I just didn't think it was near as good as acrophobe or 12 small steps.

i felt it was the least bad astronautish of the 3. it sounded more like a cape acoustic album.

AndreTheGiant (April 10, 2008)

houston ≥ acrophobe > 12 small steps

duh

mikexdude (April 9, 2008)

Acoustic albums seem to be the thing to do.

24HourPriapism (April 9, 2008)

NICE. "minus" was an amazing song, pretty much the only thing i've heard from joey solo, but i fucking love that damn song.

nocigar (April 9, 2008)

Everything this dude touches turns to gold. Not sure about Playing Favorites..haven't heard anything from them, but Lagwagon...Bad Astronaut...and his other acoustic stuff I've heard is excellent.

necktattoo (April 10, 2008)

playing favorites CD is good, joey just doesn't sing on enough songs

Problematiclogic (April 10, 2008)

The Playing Favourites album is really good.

Someone (April 10, 2008)

You can stream the PF album on their Punknews page. Just FYI.

shamrock13 (April 9, 2008)

stoked

foxfire (April 9, 2008)

so.... afterburner? :(

android (April 9, 2008)

yeah what happened to them.i really liked their songs...

can´t wait for his acoustic stuff.my favorite songwriter.

thatsyouth (April 9, 2008)

i've loved everything joey cape has done. i guess im glad to see that he's sticking to one project.

but i really miss lagwagon.

Godfather (April 9, 2008)

yes!

christian (April 9, 2008)

Love this man. But why Bad Taste and not Fat?

benwhite (April 9, 2008)

this is going to be awesome!

damnitsderek (April 9, 2008)

Didn't he announce this awhile ago, too? I seem to remember him mentioning something about a solo acoustic album sometime last year.

someone-yeah (April 10, 2008)

I know he mentioned it on The Playing Favorites episode of Sound Scene Revolution.

Problematiclogic (April 10, 2008)

yeah it was on his myspace blog a while back

NicePipes (April 10, 2008)

so awesome. i love this guy.

teeto (April 10, 2008)

fuckin' stoked. off topic: Been' listening to "a man's not a camel" all day , and man is it ever good.

Cannsaw (April 10, 2008)

I'm not over-excited but it sounds like it would be good.

Problematiclogic (April 10, 2008)

I'm sure this is gonna be amazing, can't wait

baseball (April 10, 2008)

Joey Cape > God

Seanith (April 10, 2008)

Probably my favorite Musician/Artist. Stoked.

manincognito (April 10, 2008)

nice! super stoked for this, the tony sly/joey cape split was awesome man. and bad taste is a good label. all around great news.

brick_wall_views (April 10, 2008)

oh sweet hell yes. I love Lagwagon and Bad Astronaut, and those four Afterburner songs were great too. haven't heard the Playing Favorites yet, but I'm sure they're pretty good. anyway, I definitely cannot wait for this.

Someone (April 10, 2008)

You can stream PF's album on their Punknews page. Good stuff. Very pop-sounding like some of Bad Astonaut's stuff but w/ fewer ballads. Bad Astronaut is one of my favorite bands ever. I would love to see a Joey solo tour.