Decaf Spoon
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"RIP (2000-2006) "
Bernardsville, New Jersey
United States
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| Decaf Spoon: General Info
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| Member Since | 4/6/2007 | | Band Website | ligulate.com | | Band Members | Rico Escobar- vocals, ocarina of time, bass
Jeff Lykes- vocals, keyboards, toy guitar
Dan Hodnett- vocals, drums, Guitar Center manager
Rope- bass, backing vocals on "Crying Dolphin"
AlbumsClick on a cover to listen...
 | | Influences | Squirrelz Picnic | | Sounds Like | Poop covered molasses on a hot August day. | | Record Label | Ligulate | | Type of Label | Indie |
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| About Decaf Spoon |
Every Decaf Spoon song is now OnlineGo HERE to listen to (or buy) every single DS album and song ever recorded. You can also use the handy album covers bar on the left. Warts and all, for better or worse, it's all there... All five original records (Crying Dolphin, Prevent the Poopy Pants, Grundle Goo, Caution Coitus, and Slippin' Away), our two live albums (Live from Hamilton St. Cafe 2003 and Live from the Core 2004), PLUS, for the first time ever, our lost sixth LP from 2005, the accurately titled Lost. That's eight fucking albums. That's fucking awesome. Decaf Spoon is fucking awesome. Now read the bio...
Sometime in the summer of 2000 Ricardo Escobar and Evan Kolanko got bored and decided to cut a rap single. Under the name DECAF, they wrote and recorded "Field Style". Using a toy store tape recorder and a Montell Jordan sample this rocking number recalled memories of good times and underage drinking. It was a hit! Ricardo, enthralled by the success of the demo wanted to pursue the project of constructing an entire Decaf album. However, Evan's heart was not truly into the venture and thus the band broke up. Rico was at a crossroads
With Evan leaving the band, Ricardo fell into a period of depression. Before he knew it drugs had taken over his life. He was known as a has-been in the music community. Unable to handle the constant badgering, Rico overdosed on Flinstones Vitamins one tragic night. Left for dead, he was found in a gutter by an old high school cronie, Jeff "Spoon" Lykes. Ricardo knew it was fate.
After a couple of weeks at a rehab clinic, they hit the studio. The two started to jam and they realized that...singing songs about stupid things made people laugh. Decaf was no more, fore DECAF SPOON had been born. So with that in mind they constructed their first album, "Crying Dolpin". This monster album made noise all along the East Coast. With favorites like "Red Ribbons", "Latino Thug", and "Bad Tasting Penis", DS was here and the world will never be the same.
Then the band took a long hiatus. Rico and Jeff went back to college and didn't see each other til the following summer. But they were both determined to keep the DS train rolling. They recruited drummer Dan Hodnett, fellow BHS grad and actual musician, to become apart of the band. Dan's knowledge of music as well as his unique rhyming style were a solid addition to the band. In that summer of 2001, the band recorded their second album, "Prevent the Poopy Pants". Almost double the length of the frst album, PTPP showed a more mature sound. It also featured the band's most groundbreaking single to date, a little song called "Thumb Up". "Thumb Up" was a super-raunchy, ultra-nasty, sex rap that featured topics ranging from beastiality to the anal sex habits of Tim Bayles. It was a hit, and so was the album.
The band knew that another year off would be much too long, so they made plans to go down to Dan's school (James Madison University) in December of 2001 to record their third disc. With producer and musician Chris Overton at the helm, they made "Grundle Goo" in six days. The band hardly slept, pulling 18-hour days to create this masterpeice. It was by far the band's greatest CD to date. The highlight being a song co-written by Jeff's mom called "Abe Lincoln". Things couldn't have been better.
And if that weren't enough, they returned to Virginia just a few months later to cut another album... the way underrated, and totally hard to find "Caution Coitus". This time around, friend Chris Longo joined the party and played guitar on a few tracks. Tracks like "LSD" and "Sorry I Hit the Crackpipe" quickly became fan favorites.
At this point, the narrative becomes a little foggy. Everyone in the band started using black tar heroin pretty heavily (introduced by a mysterious new friend named Rope--more on him in a bit). Rico started playing the bass and, along with Jeff on keys and Dan on drums, the group tried to round out its sound. This Rope fella even joined up, playing a red Fender Strat and constantly breaking strings. Rope was tall and mean, he was perfect. Decaf Spoon was a four-piece. However, the group only played one show--at the Hamilton St. Cafe in Bound Brook--before tragedy struck.
Sadly, in a drug-induced stupor, band founder Rico Escobar stumbled upon a den of rabid squirrels... they tore him to pieces. Rico was just 21 years old.
But the rest of the band moved on... they forced Rope onto the bass, became a trio and moved into the house on the corner of Easton and Hamilton in New Brunswick. The future looked bright. They played a number of rock concerts in New B (most notably a twice weekly gig at JJ's Bar and Grill), a big outdoor festival in Virginia (headlined by the lead singer of Rusted Root!) and a few NYC shows in the village. They were awesome!
In 2004, the band went back into the studio, and this time indeed it was a real studio... Technical Ecstasy in New Brunswick. They recorded "Slippin' Away" in one week. "Slippin' Away" was the first "serious" album Decaf Spoon, and it probably led to their demise. While rich in sweetness and sonic palpability, the disc lacked the traditional DS sense of shenanigananims.
By early 2006, the band was no more... They're probably all giving handjobs on the street right now or something. But thanks to places like MySpace, they're spirit will live on forever. Enjoy the free music and come back often!
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