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The
most formal musical training in Dave's past consists of listening
to Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Paul Simon
records while playing along on an ancient rusty guitar and
harmonica. His high school friendship with Drake Descant (composer
and freak) hurled him into a world of musical experimentation,
cross genre playing, and most of all, improvisation.
As
a singer songwriter, he released two solo albums and played
various venues throughout the Northeast. Music was often a
hobbie, taking the back seat behind art, theatre, and social
science during the college years. By mixing his music with
such worlds as theatre, he toured as music director in the
play Marat Sade to New York City and London.
One fateful summer, he responded to a job opening for Six
Flags New England, "Banjo Player Needed". Although
not a banjo player, the Six Flags dixie band would serve as
a summer job for two years during his time at Montserrat College
of Art. It was at this moment that the raucous and festive
sound of old time jazz would be discovered, in Dave's mind,
as a valid structure for modern musical expression.
Dave uses a Gold Tone Tenor Special 4 string, a Gold Tone CC
Tenor 4 string, and a Maple Classic 5 string.
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