Too Many Daves hail from Tampa, Florida, and feature most if not all of your favourite Daves (apart from Dave Lombardo, once of Slayer fame). The actual Daves in question line up thusly: Joe Dave (aka Joe Paez of Vaginasore Jr) plays drums; Dave Disorder (aka Dave DeMedici) sings; Dave Quinn (aka Davey Tiltwheel of, er, Tiltwheel, Dan Padilla, ADD Records etc.) plays guitar and sings a bit; Dave Decker (a photo journalist of some reknown, and member of bandslike Clairmel) plays guitar; Dave Haberkorn (of Crashbangboom, but not silly tracksuit wearing jugallo/dreadlock band, Korn) plays bass.
Weekend at Dave’s is their debut album, having been recorded back in 2010. It’s been out of print for 13 years at this point, but 2026 sees a very welcome and long overdue reissue via ADD Records in the US, and Little Rocket Records in the UK. With reference to the recording of this almost mythical opus, it is widely believed that off of a steady diet of pizza, the Daves trained hard in the dojo of the mind. First off, they tattooed “Decker” on that particular Dave’s back, so the cops could always return him home and he could be spotted more easily in naked marathons. Then they hired Bruce Lee’s ghost who said unto them, “If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.” It is said that Too Many Daves ride themselves. It’s a riddle.
Since the titular whimsical, drunken weekend, it is thought that the world has since evolved, whilst the Daves have been in a holding
pattern of arrested development. Since that fateful weekend, the Daves have been enduring many life tests in the form of felonies, arrests, prison time, flooding, hurricanes, sobriety, health issues, and a revolving turnstile of bass players. The pandemic was seen as a revelation;
Sitting around on the couch doing bong loads became passé without being able to turn that stoner logic into anthems for the disenfranchised.
They went back to the lab in 2024, initially tracking new songs for a future release. A process that lasted into spring of 2026. After many delays, distractions, trepidation, and tweaks, Too Many Daves will reluctantly return with the follow up to Weekend at Dave’s, titled Return of The Living Daves in the autumn of 2026. With the impending return of the Daves to this dystopian landscape sort of imminent, it is advised that in order to survive this apocalypse, you will need to break out your Too Many Daves handbook and take a refresher course on the classic first full length Weekend at Dave’s. Why not start here with this little video accompanied ditty?
Bearing in mind the eternal words of one Albert Einstein Esq., “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction”, it seems only apt to summarise this account with a poem supposedly penned by a Dave who wished to remain anonymous:
This isn’t college. This isn’t sensitivity training. This isn’t a “Safe Place”.
This isn’t the utopia where everyone’s wearing a shirt (but everyone has a monkey).
This is America – from slavery to minimum wage to restraining orders to Mr. Mom.
This is purgatory and alcoholism and weed and jerkdom and hanging with your buddies.
This is the freedom of life, full of fuckups, divorces, and hot dog spinners.
This is a celebration.
This is Too Many Daves and this is Weekend at Dave’s. Fuck the fun killers.
Verily.
Pre-orders go up today (19th June 2026), so embrace this prime opportunity to experience the perpetual purgatory of underachievement and terminal lack of ambition, and snag a copy of Weekend at Dave’s from Little Rocket Records in the UK, or ADD Records in the US.
