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Dave Zirbel

Hello from Northern Ca

About Me

I like keeping it simple. Besides hanging out with the family and working the day gig (printing wine labels), most of my spare time is playing music. I like meeting new musicians and play with many different groups. It keeps things interesting and challenging, and sure beats working on the house!! Some of the groups/artists I've performed and/or recorded with are The Mother Truckers, Johnny Dilks & the Country Soul Brothers, Trailer Park Rangers, Four Year Bender, The Thugz, Wilson Gil & the Wilful Sinners, Buckeye, Belleville, Jeff Mattison & the Wayard Angels, Grotus, The Bottom Dwellers, the Cowlicks, Broken Spoke, Matt Lax & Nearly Beloved, I See Hawks in LA, The Lucky Dawgs, Laughing Gravy, Hot Spur, The Real Sippin' Whiskies, Jenny Kerr, Sammy Hagar, Grotus, The Goldbrickers, Dave Gleason's Wasted Daze, Gary Claxton & the Hellbound Honkytonk Band, Rick Binkley & Bad River, The Old Boot Band, Blackbird Stitches, Doug Jayne, Josh Davis, One Horse Town, and Dave Isnley's Careless Smokers. There's more but the names escape me right now.

My Interests

I play guitar, Dobro and the pedal steel guitar.

Music:

I like most types of American roots music and I try to be open minded about all types of music.

Movies:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The Last Picture Show, Eraserhead, Night of The Iguana, Mad Max

Television:

I killed my television over 15 years ago!

Books:

On the Road, and biographies about tragic artists/musicians.

Heroes:

James Burton, Jimmy Day, Sneaky Pete, Vance Terry, Jerry Garcia, Roger Miller, Syd Barrett, Robbie Robertson, my late uncle Jerry Sneed, and the Beatles