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About Me

Pedal Steel Guitarist, bon vivant, man about many towns...
not particularly photogenic, but I hope my playing makes up for it (ha ha)

I play primarily with Last Train Home , but also freelance, record, and play regularly with other groups such as the Youngers, and John Powers Band who you will find listed among my friends below...

Please visit my MP3 Link for more examples of my playing than appear in the player here...

and if you desire the unique sound of Pedal Steel Guitar on your recording project please keep me in mind! Geography is no longer an obstical thanks to technology. Please visit my home page Dave Van Allen::Moose MuseMusic for more details!

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/5/2006
Band Website: dvanet.net
Band Members: As a freelancer and studio musician I have played with a wide variety of folks... For about a decade I have played and recorded with Last Train Home , and also play regularly with John Powers , The Youngers , Jet Weston & His Atomic Ranch Hands , and occasionally with Honky Tonk Confidential .
Influences: Bob Dunn (Pictured @ left), Rusty Young (POCO), Tom Brumley (Buckaroos,Rick Nelson), Buddy Emmons, Jimmy Day, Lloyd Green, Joaquin Murphy, Alvino Rey (Movie below), Charlie Parker, The Hanks (Williams, Thompson and Mancini), Jeff Beck, Beethoven, the Gershwins, Esquivel!, Nelson Riddle... and the list goes on forever
Sounds Like: Cascading waterfalls of twang...glissandi emotionalis...metallic crystals sparkling in the starshine...That "whiney thing" you heard on records and never knew what it was called

Last Train Home : From the New "Live @ IOTA" DVD Released Oct 2007- "I Flew Over Our House" by TT Hall

Last Train Home : From the New "Live @ IOTA" DVD Released Oct 2007- "Tonight" by Karl Straub

Last Train Home: Live on National TV 2005 - "Dogs on the East Side" by Eric Brace

one of my heroes, Alvino Rey, in action!

Record Label: Red Beet
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Oldies

I have a saying I pull out when I get fed up with the short lists used by radio programmers of all formats, but particularly "classic rock" or "golden oldies": "I wish someone would write some NEW OLD...
Posted by Dave Van Allen on Mon, 19 May 2008 10:22:00 PST

Tom Lehrer was right.

"For Paradise the Southland is my nominee. Just give me a ham-hock and a grit of hominy!"Succinct and to the point. True wordsmythery in action.'nuff said.
Posted by Dave Van Allen on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:47:00 PST

LTH, Peter Cooper, Fayssoux: Johnson City TN April 18

I will be playing with Last Train Home this friday night in Johnson City, TN at a li'l ol' place called the Down Home. Its a fine, friendly listening club, and we really enjoy playing there. Opening w...
Posted by Dave Van Allen on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:28:00 PST

Sunday Afternoon IN New Hope PA

I’ll be settin’ in with retro-hillbilly-swingers Jet Weston and his Atomic Ranch Hands at John & Peter’s in New Hope PA for a big retro-hillbilly-swing extravaganza matinee around 3 ...
Posted by Dave Van Allen on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:47:00 PST

Playing in Virginia 3-14 & 15

I will be playing the pedal steel guitar in Virginia with Last Train Home this weekend: Friday Night in Harrisonburg, at a new venue called Clementine CafeOpening is Red River Rollercoaster from H&rs...
Posted by Dave Van Allen on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:45:00 PST

A Couple of fun gigs, lots of driving this weekend

Big doin's this weekend- I'll be traveling hither and yon... and miles to go before I sleepSaturday Night I will be sitting in on PSG with my pals The YoungersFebruary, 9 2008 at Johnny & Hons Robey...
Posted by Dave Van Allen on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:02:00 PST

Belgian Exposeur

I recently recorded some steel tracks for a friend I met on line, Matt Dawson, a Brit living in Luxembourg.Matt had turned me on to a British steel player named Gordon Huntley (played with a group Mat...
Posted by Dave Van Allen on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:04:00 PST

Fan-shot video found on web

Was Googling around narcissistically the other night and found this page of fan-shot video of Last Train Home at aJune 2007 iota gig. Ironically we are releasing a Live @ IOTA DVD this month shot in A...
Posted by Dave Van Allen on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:44:00 PST

Lots of Telecasters

I was just looking at my top friends pix and noticed a preponderance of Telecasters on display..what's up wit dat?oh yeah - right... it is, after all, the "Hammer of the Honky Tonk Gods!"and in it's m...
Posted by Dave Van Allen on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:37:00 PST

Saturday night and I just got paid-fool about my money dont try to save...

I will be playing PSG with the John Powers Band John Powers Bandsaturday night 9/29 in Stirling New Jersey at Orphan Annies,1255 Valley Rd. Stirling, NJ 07980 Orphan Annie'sA fine songwriter and picke...
Posted by Dave Van Allen on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:37:00 PST