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About Me

Jazz Improve Guitar Playing/instructor Health Care Worker in LTR with a Beautiful Curvy Mother of two wonderful girls.Played music since the age of 9. My instrument of preference and mastery is guitar. However, I have played other instruments in the string family including Bass, Mandolin, Ukulele, and Steel Guitar. Studied music both privately and in college, most notably with Jazz Master Al Turay who knew his stuff.Currant instruments of choice: 1966 Fender Telecaster, 1951 Gibson L5-C, 1953 Gibson ES 175, and a 2005 Gretsch Double Anniversary.Bands: Modus Operandi (late 80s), Little Big Band (1999 to 2002), Clockwise Titans (2001), Jeannie and the Lamps (2006).Band leader, improve coach, guitar teacher since 1999.Employment history of interest: Virginia Mason for 16 and half years. Left in August of 2005 to form Rehabilitation Institute of Washington with James Moore, PhD (Director) and Heather Kroll, MD (Medical Director).Spiritual background: Member of Seattle First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

My Interests

Guitars, Guitars, & More Guitars. Plus Some Amps to Go with Em.

I'd like to meet:

Fellow musicians, here, there, and everywhere, interests in playing and learning good music.

Music:

Jazz, Rockabilly, Swing, Bebop, Rock, Blues, and vintage Country. You know the Texas Swing stuff and Nashville up until about 1965. Not much into Garth Brooks - bar music kind of stuff.

Movies:

Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard, Bron Yesterday (1950 version please!), The Apartment, Dr. Strangelove, To Kill A Mockingbird, A Face In The Crowd, Young Man With A Horn, Rear Window, Midnight Cowboy, The Odd Couple, Little Big Man, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Five Easy Pieces.

Television:

PBS, Mariners Baseball (Only sports team I like) Weather Channel, History and or Discovery Channel (Not so much and more as they've moved more towards the fantasy that Oswald did it). Favorite all time shows would have to be Ren & Stimpy and The Mary Tyler More Show. Rocky & Bullwinkle, All In The Family, and The Bob Newhart Show would be fair runner ups.

Books:

Better books on the subject of JFK's Assassination, Authors include Mark Lane, Jim Mars, Peter Dale Scott, Josiah Thompson, James Fetzer, Dick Russel, and Gaeton Fonzi. 20th Century Presidential Biographies on FDR, HST, JFK, LBJ, & RN. Watergate. Nafeez - The War On Freedom, Bamford - Body of Secrets, Yergen - The Prize, Brzekinski - The Grand Chessboard, "The Jazzmaster Cookbook" by James Grantham (Simply the best book I've run across on the subject of Jazz Improve Theory), XTC Songs & Stories, Psychology/Mental Health books on the subjects of Bipolar, ADHD, Borderline Personality Disorder, and the DSM, Alice Miller's For Your Own Good. History on the subject of Aircraft & Warplanes.

Heroes:

Favorite Guitar Players: Danny Gatton (Overall), Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West, Noel Boggs (Hillbilly/Western Swing), Charlie Christian & Django Reinhardt (Vintage Swing), Les Paul (Everything) Kenny Burrell & Wes Montgomery (Bebop Jazz), Pat Metheny & Bill Frisell(Modern Jazz) Johnny Winter, Freddy King, & Roy Buchanan (Blues), Junior Brown, Albert Lee, & Jerry Reed (Country), Jim Campilongo (Modern Twang), Steve Howe, & Jimmy Page (60s & 70s Rock), Frank Zappa (Iconoclast) Andy Partridge & Dave Gregory of XTC (80s English Pop), MOJO NIXON (Freak!), Rick Erickson (Amp Repairs).

My Blog

Amp Philosophy

Disclaimer: You will not read this in Guitar Player Magazine or any other publication of it's ilk as this post goes against the grain of the ads found in these rags and their stakeholders. The Truth: ...
Posted by Stringbender Dave on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:41:00 PST

The Amps Of Dave

What precipitated my move toward Fender amplifiers had a lot to do with the recording I was doing in the early 90's. I only had two amplifiers that worked for recording purposes. The first one being a...
Posted by Stringbender Dave on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:54:00 PST

Microphone Philosophy & Technique

Almost every guitarist I have known has dabbled in some form audio recording or sound reinforcement. Any audio engineer will tell you that the recording process is about microphone placement. However,...
Posted by Stringbender Dave on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:57:00 PST

Its "Natural" The Story of My ES 175

I took possession of a 1953 Gibson ES 175N (single P90 natural finish) guitar back in February of 1998. Overall this guitar has played very well and worked great for all kinds of Jazz gigs. From small...
Posted by Stringbender Dave on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:11:00 PST

Heres "Twang Thang" The History of My "66" Telecaster

The Project: This guitar was to become my dream child and a major project. I bought the thing for $450.00 back in 1986 as a birthday present to myself. It had a hard ash body in a natural finish with ...
Posted by Stringbender Dave on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:02:00 PST