Coheed and Cambria’s Claudio Sanchez
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NEVERENDING
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ADECADE AGO, CLAUDIO SANCHEZ FLEW TO PARIS TO VISIT his then-girlfriend for a month, but she was too busy with school to spend much time with him. Lonely and bored, Sanchez bought a cheap acoustic guitar and started assembling the musical and lyrical framework of the Coheed and Cambria saga, a series of five concept albums (the first of which has yet to be written) loosely about a family torn apart by the deaths of three of four children, and by the one surviving son, who is born with a virus in his DNA that will trigger the apocalypse.
At the time, delving into the futuristic imagery and emotional entanglements of the main characters made Sanchez feel less alone, which was payoff enough. Never could he have guessed that 10 years later, he and his current bandmates—guitarist Travis Stever, bassist Michael Todd, and drummer Chris Pennie—would
be performing Coheed’s stories around the world, and that millions of fans would seek their own solace from the fruits of Sanchez’s imagination.
To celebrate their decade of construction, Coheed and Cambria recently scheduled a series of four-night “Neverender” shows in four different cities—early fall stints in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and a December one in London—with each night dedicated to the performance of a complete album, plus an encore of hits.
“I knew it was gonna be a lot of work because we’ve never played 30 to 40 percent of this stuff live before,” Sanchez says two days before the first New York date. “But I felt like it actually made a lot of sense to revisit all the material before writing the prequel.”
Each performance in each city sold out almost immediately.
And it wasn’t just locals who wanted in. Coheed and CONTINUED ›››
THE INDEX Number of drinks consumed by Revolver Editor in Chief Tom Beaujour while travelling to and from and attending our “company weekend” (it was on a Thursday and Friday) in Monterey, CA.: 21 (seven
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