David "Skinny Devil" McLean

About Me

David M. McLean is an independent musician who runs Skinny Devil Music Lab , performs solo (clinics & gigs) or with his duo ALIEN BLUE, teaches privately, writes instructional columns for a variety of music web-sites, conducts the "Guitar Gods" interview series for Tinfoil Music , runs a small recording studio, and more. His solo work features rather outlandish electric & acoustic guitar (hard rock format), and his duo finds him almost exclusively playing acoustic guitar in a bluesy format. Check out David's SOUNDCLICK site at David M McLean . For SKINNY DEVIL MUSIC LAB T SHIRTS, please CLICK THE BUTTON!!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/15/2005
Band Website: skinnydevil.com
Band Members: David M. McLean .....plus additional musicians for special projects - here are current and one of many past projects:

Alien Blue - David (guitars & vocals) & Blue (vocals).

Skinny Devil Circus - David (percussion & vocals), Blue (percussion & vocals), Stephen Casals (percussion & didgeridoo), Matthew Florez (percussion), plus special guests.

Aur'a-Sen (now defunct) - David (acoustic & electric guitars, percussion, vocals), Glenn Smith (lead vocals), Howard Horn (bass), Mike Froedge (drums & percussion).

Get the debut CD "AN ALIEN BLUE" here:

Influences: Musically? Everyone...but especially anything extreme and percussion & guitar-centric. Preference for solo or small ensemble, but large ensemble when it's done right (Beethoven, Elfman, etc.).

Are you in Lexington, KY? Come join us!
Click here to check out
The Lexington Musician Meetup!

Click here to check out
The Lexington Drum Circle Meetup Group!
Everything else? Sagan, Hefner, Locke, Kant, Jefferson, Pythagoras, Takamatsu, Pirsig, Laird, Gilgamesh, Lucy & the first sapien to touch fire & his descendent who segued from manipulative to referential language, ancient Greek pankrationists, Gillean of the Battleaxe, Maslow (Hierarchy), Kohlberg (Moral Development), Tony Alva (Dogtown), Knaus & Denny...oh, and this guy right here:

If you live in LEXINGTON, come join us:

Click here to check out
The Lexington Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group!
Sounds Like:

Record Label: Skinny Devil Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

MySpace & YouTube

So this MySpace page has constant problems with the player since their "up-grade". My apologies to the folks who have been visiting (since we were getting between 30-70 plays per day for quite some ti...
Posted by David "Skinny Devil" McLean on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:02:00 PST

Skinny Devil Up-dates

Just a quick note to let you know we've experienced various problems this summer with the web-site and the mail. We're still trying to resolve mail issues, so if you've attempted to contact me r...
Posted by David "Skinny Devil" McLean on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:28:00 PST

Psyopus and more!

I just posted an interview with the amazing Christopher Arp of Psyopus. If you've never heard Chris play, do yourself a favor.....http://www.tinfoilmusic.net/guitar-gods-mainmenu/7 9-guitar-gods/1933-g...
Posted by David "Skinny Devil" McLean on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:44:00 PST

Kelly Richey, Between the Buried & Me, more!

So much going on it's hard to keep up... 1) New "Guitar Gods" interviews are up: Grammy nominee & Dove Award winner & guitar legend Phil Keaggy, Between the Buried and Me (BTBAM) guitar wiz D...
Posted by David "Skinny Devil" McLean on Tue, 20 May 2008 08:21:00 PST

Guitar Gods: Badi Assad, Phil Keaggy, Muriel Anderson, Jerry Belsak

Just a quick note to let everyone know that we've up-dated the new "Guitar Gods: Badi Assad" interview (included several bonus questions and new photos)... http://www.tinfoilmusic.net/guitar-...
Posted by David "Skinny Devil" McLean on Tue, 06 May 2008 07:06:00 PST

Badi Assad, Tonya Kay, Joel Wanasek, more!

Just a quick note to everyone to let you know a few things going on in the Skinny Devil Universe! 1) I had the pleasure of interviewing the incredible Badi Assad for the "Guitar Gods" series (be su...
Posted by David "Skinny Devil" McLean on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:40:00 PST

Tonya Kay (part 2) & "Memory Crash"

Part 2 of my interview with the AMAZING Tonya Kay is now on-line:http://www.tinfoilmusic.net/artists-at-the-edge/84-b leeding%20edge/1888-20-questions-with-tonya-kay-part-2My brief review of the latest...
Posted by David "Skinny Devil" McLean on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:30:00 PST

Steve Stevens, Tonya Kay, more!

1) Part one of a 2-part interview with the amazing TONYA KAY is now on-line at Tinfoil Music www.tinfoilmusic.net , 2) A review of the new STEVE STEVENS' CD "Memory Crash" will be available at Tinfoil...
Posted by David "Skinny Devil" McLean on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:50:00 PST

$ for art contest; compilation CDs

Not sure if "jobs..." is the proper category, but...1) We're holding an art contest at Skinny Devil Music Lab ( Skinny Devil .Com ) - just draw a new logo or a picture of the Skinny devil, or a pic of...
Posted by David "Skinny Devil" McLean on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:15:00 PST

Newspaper & YMCA guitar

An article from January 2, 2008 on the guitar program at the YMCA - which is now sponsored by Gibson Guitar's Gibson Foundation:http://www.kentucky.com/141/story/273682.html...
Posted by David "Skinny Devil" McLean on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:05:00 PST