The Music Blog

I had originally thought I would have my next music CD done by January; but I have been side tracked by many things as of late. Many of the new tunes have been written, but it still feels like a few other things need to be let out first before I finish up the recording of it.

I still may have it finished soon, time will tell. My visit to Illinois has been an interesting one, but I am really looking forward to returning home to California. My last concert in Illinois for the foreseeable future, will take place on Saturday March 22, 2008, from 8pm-10pm at the Borders Books in St. Charles, IL. This will be my farewell concert to Illinois and the Midwest, and for the latter part of 2008/2009 I will be focusing on performing on the west coast.

For the friends I have made in Illinois, it would be great to see you for this last midwest concert, before I start my California tour!

Most of my performances are still on hold while I work on several projects. My current estimate for the next CD to be released (#10) will be in January 2008. This will be an all acoustic guitar with voice CD. Shortly there after (Perhaps Feb/March 2008) I hope to release a rock CD that I am also currently working on.

Stay tuned!

Its been a busy fall for me. For the first time in a ton of years I have had a break from the music performance schedule which allowed me to focus on a few other things. Several years ago I had reconnected with some martial art friends that I had been out of contact with for many years, one whom I had first worked with back in the 70’s. I learned several materials from him over the years, but due to the martial arts organization I was with I was not allowed to practice this material as I made the mistake of being an instructor with them for many years, until I left them in 2003. For the last 3 years I have gotten down some old material as well as learned some new material and last month I tested to 7th Black Belt over 20 of the new materials I have learned in the last 3 years. Now I am free to work with anyone which has been wonderful, but it also means I have a lot of material catch up to do in order to get all my older material up to shape, so this time off has been great.

Now that this test is behind me I am now working on my next CD release which will make #10! At this point I have several acoustic guitar pieces written with no lyrics and only 2 songs with lyrics, so I may decide to make this just an instrumental CD. I hope to release this before the end of 2007.

Being a musician full time sure seems to make one think. Lots of driving, almost 90% driving, 10% performance.

After the gig at the Skokie Art Fair in brutal heat and humidity I have decided to be somewhat more selective in performances.

For the first time in 7 years I have nothing scheduled on my performance calendar. As I look back in retrospect of all the gigs/performances I have done in the last 7 years, which total 1382 performances in Colorado, Illinois and California it is time to regroup. In that time I have performed live on a radio station in Davis California, a TV show in Plano Illinois, a TV show in Highland Park as well as radio play on Mystic Soundscapes radio, soem radio station on the east coast and one in europe. During all this I have released 9 music CD’s! So, now I am regrouping, I have written some new material I am very excited about and I feel it is some of the best I have done. I am going back into the studio to work on my next music CD, number 10!!. This one may take a lot longer than all the rest as I want to make sure it feels right. More news to follow…..

This past weekend I did a performance at the Art in Air Art Show in Webster Groves Missouri, which is my old stomping grounds. In fact right accross the street from the fair was where my Jr. High school used to be located (Plymouth Jr. High).

In all the art fairs I have performed yet, this one was the best. All the staff were friendly, (even the people watching the parking and directing cars), the stage was really cool, the best sound system I have seen at ANY art fair, and the sound guy really new what he was doing. All the art fairs should take lessons from the team that runs this one!!!

I had a wonderful time, and really enjoyed the fair…. Thanks Webster Groves and Art in Air!!!!!

It has been a very busy year for David, releasing 4 full length music CD’s in less than one year!!

The Official Release Date for David’s new Acoustic/Music CD “Too Young For This” is Dec 1, 2006…

Copies of this CD will be available at the Moon and Star LTD Art Store in Sandwich where David will be performing on Sat Dec 2, 2006.

Hopefully by January you will be able to purchase this new CD online at iTunes, CD baby and a host of other online music stores…

I have just finished my 8th CD entitled “3rd Life of Mind”, a New Age Ambient Soundscape CD. I am really happy with the way it turned out. For those local folks who will be at The Celebration For Natural Living (http://www.tcnl.org) I will have them on sale there. It will take some time, but its been submitted to all the online retailers as well, so when its available to purchase online I will post a message here on where/when you can purchase it!

Its been a busy year this 2006!! I have now released 3 CD’s in one year; and who knows I may be able to finish up the acoustic CD I have been working on now and then as well!

Stay tuned!

I will be performing today at the Long Grove Fine art fair in Long Grove on the main stage from 2pm-5pm.

Downtown Long Grove

I will be performing at the Pot Belly Sandwich Works in Warrenville every Wed and Fri from 11:30am-1:30pm, and there may be another location on another day.
Stay tuned…

David will be performing from 1:30pm to 2:30pm on guitar and voice and then will be teaching an African Drum workshop from 2:30-3pm.