Don Caballero is an older Pittsburgh band, which can be seen from their myspace page with their main picture currently being a Steeler's Helmet.  They are obviously proud of their home team.  When the previous band left, the crowd gathered more toward the stage, showing the band had a following.  A large plush orange carpet was laid out and drums were set up.  The guitarists did their sound check, but the drummer was no where in sight.  Then the stage was left empty for quite a long time.  When they finally came on, they started talking about the Steeler's win.  I stopped listening when I saw the drummer take off his pants.  I am not sure if this is standard for them, but I guess the drummer preferred us to be uncomfortable with him in his boxers more than him uncomfortable with his pants on.  He mentioned the delay being because of forgetting his drum sticks.  An audience member mocked him by shouting "Okay drummer".  

The first song was a good one, entertaining enough, but sounded like what they were: three band members.  They were playing math rock, though they do not like the term.  The second song was more filled in to give a sound bigger than they are and it continued the same from there.  The next song was named after a friend whose "dick area" was bitten by a pitbull.  The music turned to more of a videogame tone and was very short.  They took the time between songs to mention their new CD Punkgasm was available.  After this the music continued it's atari sound.  On this song the drummer stared a long while at his hi-hat cymbals as if he did not trust them.  You may interpret as you wish.  The proceeding song finally had vocals, but they were hard to hear.  Someone in the audience yelled out after to turn them up and so they did.  The drummer let us know after the next song that they always play at The Casbah when they come to San Diego (besides once at some sort of YMCA place), ever since "1987".  I may have heard the date wrong as some data does not agree with this date as being possible.    

The music often went into metal influenced parts after this point.  One song went out to a fan who came all the way from Tucson Arizona to see them play.  Also notable was when the drummer tuned his drums, a rare sight during a show.  Another song was jokingly titled after a friend whose dick area was not bitten by a pitbull.  "It was a boston terrier" a guitarist adds.  On the last song the video game sound returned.  I also noticed then that all three bands did not use set lists.  After this last song was played, the band walked off and a pitiful cheer for an encore sounded.  Only one voice could really be heard asking for more.  Instead music from the speakers came on, signaling the end to the show.  The crowd hung around a moment in disbelief at the break of the encore routine, but then began to part.  I liked the show and loved the band's basic sound style.  It's too bad I missed seeing them when they were younger and perhaps played encores.  Maybe it was just a bad day, but still, a good show.