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Member Since: 12/30/2006
Band Website: email us at; [email protected]
Band Members:.....SMACK DAB BIOGRAPHY:Smack Dab was formed by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David John in the summer of 2007 and features virtuoso lead guitarist Nick “Spartacus†Maris; Len Anderson on steady bass, rhythm guitars and funky mandolin; Steve “Stix†Hlavica on big gun drums and percussion; Dan Valk on fiddle, the lovely Leonora D on background vocals, and the occasional pedal steel, dobro, harp, or piano player joining in.Smack Dab has been described as a highly energetic band with a wide array of talent and outstanding performance style highlighted by technical excellence with well crafted musical arrangements of country rock music. They perform original interpretations and outside-the-box arrangements of popular classics and new hot country songs as well as many original selections.Smack Dab primarily plays in Northern California and is on tour to circumnavigate the San Francisco Bay Area from Gilroy to Point Reyes and Pacifica to Antioch............................................
Influences: Eagles (my first band influence, and my first album), Hank Williams (simple and pure), Fleetwood Mac (what a groove), Frampton, George Jones, Patsy Cline, Foghat (I'm a fool for the city), Ambrosia (mellow), Gama, Van Halen (power), Sammy Hagar, U2 (Bono rocks), Del Amitri (Scottish band, Justin is the best songwriter ever), Kent (Swedish band, ja ska da, ping me if you know what it means), George Strait (miracle man), Journey, ELO, Alan Jackson, Patty Loveless, Dwight Yoakam (put the cool in hick), Weezer (unwind my sweater to beverely hills), John Michael Montgomery (pioneered NHC), The Babys (remember them, John Waite lead singer), Brad Paisley (riff master), Allman Bro's, Skynard (soulful southern rock), Nirvana (deep), and yes I will come out and admit Duran Duran (I listened but I didn't inhale).Keating, Pope, Whitman, Frost (the woods are lovely dark and deep, but i have promises to keep, and miles to go before i sleep, and miles to go before i sleep, tell me thats not a great lyric), Byron, Yates, Shakespear, and of course the incomparable and audacious Oscar Wilde (We wont have to look for work and work wont have to look for us. We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars), and pretty much anything ever written or performed that is great.
Sounds Like: Who do you think? ..............Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. (thank you Mr Frost)
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie