{"id":2121,"date":"2024-11-12T21:41:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T05:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.todayforeverzine.com\/cms\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:34:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T04:34:49","slug":"10q-caged-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayforeverzine.com\/cms\/2024\/11\/12\/10q-caged-view\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Questions with Caged View"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Balancing heavy riffs with flowing melodies and intensely raw lyrics, Caged View are a Bay Area hardcore band featuring former members of Allegiance, Embrace The End, King Woman, and Set Your Goals (just to name a few). After releasing their demo online<\/a> in late 2022 (later rereleased on cassette by New Knee Records<\/a> in early-2023), the band has since been hard at work playing shows and recording new material that will soon be realized as a brand new eight song 12\u201d EP on GGT Records<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Heavily influenced by post-hardcore\/punk, Caged View may draw comparisons to Quicksand, (early) Jawbreaker, or Helmet, but also incorporate elements of sound from bands like Rites of Spring and One Last Wish. Both raw and refined, Caged View match heavy riffs with intense, introspective lyrics to superb effect.<\/p>\n

Currently recording at Sharkbite Studios<\/a> in Oakland, California with Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City), Caged View plan to release the new material with GGT Records<\/a> in early 2025 and we can\u2019t wait to hear what they\u2019ve got coming! In the meantime, their demo is available to stream on all platforms and in physical form on their Bandcamp or from New Knee Records. And, while you wait, check out this 10Q with guitar player Duane Harris that originally appeared in Today Forever print issue #03!<\/p>\n

For more information, check out<\/p>\n

Caged View’s bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n

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GGT Records homepage<\/a><\/p>\n

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*The original text for this Caged View interview appeared in Today Forever Issue 03 in June 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n

**All text copyright Today Forever 2024, please do not duplicate without expressed editorial permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

Photos by: Steph Gray – www.xofinn.com<\/a> – @xofinn<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"Nikki: Where are you from and who\u2019s in the band?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Duane: We\u2019re a band called Caged View from the San Francisco Bay Area. I\u2019m Duane Harris and I play guitar. Ross Trenary plays second guitar and Mike Quirk plays bass. On vocals, we have Pat Piccolo, and, on drums, we have the one and only, Joey Raygoza. I can\u2019t complain about the band lineup – it\u2019s a solid group of guys that I enjoy making music with.<\/p>\n

Can you describe your sound in one or two sentences?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My go-to answer is that we\u2019re kinda hardcore, kinda punk, and kinda rock. I also like to think that Caged View is \u201ctraditional post-hardcore,\u201d which might be a new way to describe a band. That\u2019s a hard question to answer, though, and someone else may have an entirely different answer to that question.<\/p>\n

What do you hope listeners will come away with after their first time hearing your music or seeing you play?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I started the project with Joey, my goal was to start a band that could play different types of shows, whether it be hardcore, punk, rock, metal, or whatever. I\u2019d like to think that we\u2019re on our way to accomplishing that. We\u2019re very much rooted in hardcore, and we\u2019ve essentially only played hardcore and hardcore adjacent shows so far, but I\u2019d like people to hear Caged View and realize that while hardcore is VERY diverse in 2024, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a band that sounds quite like us.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not trying to say that we\u2019re super innovative or original, but the bands and genres that we\u2019re pulling from don\u2019t seem to be at the top of the list in terms of influences in hardcore right now. In addition, each of our backgrounds put us in a unique place in terms of songwriting and approach.<\/p>\n

What are three artists or bands that influence your sound or the way you write and perform music?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since I\u2019m the one getting interviewed here, I can only speak for myself, but then again, I write the majority of the music, so I can speak to what I\u2019ve drawn from while coming up with riffs and ideas that I bring to the table.<\/p>\n

Quicksand – Slip: This is certainly no surprise to anyone who knows me, but Slip is one of my favorite records of all time, and some stuff on our demo is very much influenced by that record, such as \u201cI Was A Stranger\u201d and \u201cRecycled Air.\u201d<\/p>\n

Skip Candelori bands: I\u2019m pretty inspired by late-era Turning Point, Godspeed, and Memorial Day. These bands mean a lot to me and have certainly influenced my songwriting in Caged View.<\/p>\n

East Bay Punk: I\u2019m not going to mention a specific band, but a lot of the old East Bay and Gilman punk\/hardcore bands in the late \u201880s to mid-\u201990s. Being from Northern California, a lot of us grew up on that stuff, and there\u2019s a rawness and urgency that comes with it. It\u2019s also fun and catchy. If you listen to our song, \u201cPush,\u201d it\u2019s essentially a homage to old East Bay Punk.<\/p>\n

Honorable Mentions: I\u2019d be remiss if I didn\u2019t mention Hum and Helmet. They may not quite be hardcore or even punk, but they do influence the band as a whole, and I know that while tossing around ideas for songs, we often reference the approach of both bands. The ringing out and atmospheric aspect of our song, \u201cBacklight\/ Reflection\u201d certainly draws some influence from HUM.<\/p>\n

\"\"How long have you all known each other and have you ever been in bands together before?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A long time! Ross, Mike, and I go back well over 20 years, as we all grew up in Redding, California, and played together in Some Still Believe and, then again, in Allegiance. We all knew Pat during the SSB days, and, later on, Allegiance would play shows with both of Pat\u2019s old bands, Embrace The End and Beneath The Ashes.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve ONLY known Joey for like 15 years (laughter). I met him back when he played in Crucified. He and I did do a band together at one point many years ago with Doug Weber (Terror & First Blood) and Dante Campanile (Secret People & Allegiance), but we broke up in frustration because we couldn\u2019t find a singer. It\u2019s too bad, I thought those songs were pretty sick.<\/p>\n

What is the origin story of your band name?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We were tossing around ideas for a while and nothing was sticking. Pat eventually came to the table with Caged View, which is a reference to a Redemption 87 song. We all liked it enough, and it\u2019s a tip of the cap to one of the best bands to ever come from the Bay, so sure, why not? Picking a band name is seriously the worst aspect of being in a band. No one can agree on anything, and once you think you have a cool name, it gets shot down or it\u2019s been taken by someone else.<\/p>\n

Is there a particular city, country, or specific venue you\u2019re dying to play?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We played our first show in March, 2023, and outside of local Bay Area shows and a SoCal weekend we did a few months back with No Plan and No Lights, we haven\u2019t played anywhere else yet. So, really, I\u2019m down to play anywhere new! I\u2019ll always have my favorite venues that I love playing, such as 924 Gilman, Che Cafe in San Diego, or Chain Reaction in Anaheim, but really, I\u2019m mostly excited to play anywhere that I can see old friends or share the stage with bands that I admire.<\/p>\n

With that said, it\u2019s important to mention that three of the guys in the band are dads, and we\u2019re all busy with our work lives, so finding time to play out of town will always come with some hurdles. In addition, both Joey and I are also in other bands, so I keep my touring expectations relatively low for Caged View, but if opportunities pop up and timing permits, we will certainly make it happen.<\/p>\n

\"\"Does everyone in the band pull from the same variety of musical influences as you or do you have a diverse range of musical tastes in the mix?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everyone in the band has pretty eclectic tastes, but the fact that we\u2019re essentially elder hardcore kids now, it\u2019s safe to say that our musical tastes have expanded as we\u2019ve gotten older. I can\u2019t think of a specific band that we\u2019re all in agreement on, but HUM & Helmet might be in that conversation.<\/p>\n

Again, I can\u2019t speak entirely for everyone, but there are bands and artists that everyone seems to be inspired by, but there are also others that are unique to each of us. For instance, Joey is a huge fan of anything related to Danzig, I love everything Walter Schreifels has ever done, and as long as I\u2019ve known Ross he\u2019s been really into Converge. Pat listens to a lot of straight-up hardcore and metal bands with crazy indecipherable logos and Mike seems to listen to everything, which if I\u2019m being honest, is probably the easiest way to answer this question, as it applies to all of us.<\/p>\n

If you could put together the ultimate show bill with you and 4 other bands\/artists, from any time period or genre, who would you choose?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m just saying the first 4 bands that come to mind – The Clash, Beastie Boys, Rancid, and Quicksand. You can also throw Youth of Today in there as a secret opener! And it would take place at 924 Gilman. That would be a seriously wild gig.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s going on right now and what\u2019s coming down the pike?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As of right now, we\u2019re going to focus on playing shows when we can, including another weekend together with our friends, No Lights and No Plan, later this summer. If you haven\u2019t heard either band, do yourself a favor and check out both of their new LPs – they are incredible! Speaking of records, we\u2019re also writing for a record that will be released on GGT Records from Seattle. We haven\u2019t officially announced that, so I guess that\u2019s a bit of an exclusive drop. We\u2019re taking our time with that, so I imagine it won\u2019t come out until late 2024 or so.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Nikki & Matt, for taking the time and interest in Caged View and including us in Today Forever. It means a lot!<\/p>\n

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