Dan Padilla

“Low aim, not failure, is the crime.” –Bruce Lee Dan Padilla is Gene Doney, Davey Quinn, J Wang, and Matty. They live in San Diego, California and formed in 2005. Davey and J. are also in Tiltwheel. Gene’s a full-time graphic designer. Matty’s in Madison Bloodbath. In every town or city with a DIY punk scene, there’s always a small core of people who continually get shit done. For going on two decades, members of Dan Padilla have been setting up and running shows, recording, helping touring bands with food, floors, and friendship. They’ve been all-around DIY ambassadors. They also all like to drink. A lot. Like “after this case and the next case, we only have three cases and a couple 750s. We’re running low” drinking. This isn’t boasting, competitive drinking. Often, it’s not fun drinking. Let’s face it. If you’re over thirty, have moved out of your parents’ house, and come to realize that “anarchy!” means no bridges, public libraries, streets, or fire departments, idealism’s a much harder pill to swallow; especially when you’re looking at it through possible liver damage. But the dudes in Dan Padilla have fought hard to remain ethical, moral, and honest well after more vocal members of the DIY punk community have “moved on” to the comfort and status quo they once claimed to despise and swore they’d “burn to the ground.” Dan Padilla just wants some public space and the freedom to play what they’ve created… and the cops can still go fuck themselves. It’d be pretty hard to find four other guys whose musical self-depreciation matches their talent for rough-hewn, yet melodic music. And let’s make sure we’re all wearing the same watches: Dudes in this band preceded the existence of Hot Water Music, so roll any bandwagons back into the barn. Dan Padilla play punk that could be soul. It could also be country. It’s versatile. It doesn’t contradict the spirit of either Naked Raygun or Otis Redding while embracing both in completely inobvious ways. It’s gruff-voiced, cuddly underbelly, hard-earned DIY punk with secret, catchy-yet-twisted, and drought-hardened guitar lines that scrape the listener like running through a dense thicket of chaparral. Burritofornia will ever be in their debt and probably won’t ever know it. Discography: 2011: As The Ox Plowes (LP - It’s Alive, Razorcake, Dirt Cult) 2009: A Collection Not perfection (Comp - Little Deputy) 2009: split with Drunken Boat (Fast Crowd, Must Yearn) 2008: split with Pretty Boy Thorson & The Falling Angel (Fast Crowd) 2008: split with Dude Jams, Shang-A-Lang, Gordon Gano’s Army (Dirt Cult, Fast Crowd) 2007: Foosball Club (LP - Fast Crowd) 2007: split with Gleam Garden (Snuffy Smile) 2007: split with Madison Bloodbath (Fast Crowd, A.D.D.) 2007: split with The Tim Version, Hidden Spots, TiltWheel (A.D.D.) 2007: split with Chinese Telephones (Fast Crowd) 2006: Dan Padilla (LP - A.D.D.) RIYL: Leatherface, old outlaw country, shirts off, California burritos (they’ve got fries in ‘em), happy clown faces, sad clown faces, drinking clown faces, “remember that time we got drunk together?”, Happy sadness, Sad happiness, The Future Virgins, and The Partisans.