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David Rowe

I'd give my left arm to be Ambidexterous.

About Me

I grew up in Asheville, NC. I blew up lots of stuff as a kid. Started playing piano by ear at 7. Took lessons, hated my teacher, quit after 2 lessons, still play. Started playing drums and percussion at 12. Took lessons, loved my teacher, still play (ocassionally) Went to high school. Played in Drum Corps. Started Playing Guitar at 15. Still Play. Became Drum Corps captain. Joined band, Fenris Wolf, on guitar at 15. Started playing clubs. Met lifelong friends. Still play with lifelong friends. Recorded in Nashville at 16 with Fenris Wolf. Recorded 2 more albums with Fenris Wolf in High School. At 18 went to Berklee College of Music on Performance Scholarship for Guitar. Majored in Film Scorong and Music Business. Played for Sony in NY and LA for 2 years. Met very talented song writer and kindred spirit, Jason Roman in Boston. Played acoustic shows all over the North East. Moved, with Jason back to Asheville, NC at 22 and joined up with former Fenris Wolf bass player, Brad Gray to form Deacon Brody. Moved to Athens, GA at 23 (I think). Recorded First EP with Deacon Brody. Got gigs at 40 Watt and old High Hat Club. Started Touring the Southeast with 4 different drummers. Mephis master drummer Dan Orchik joined Deacon Brody permanently and moved to Athens GA. Toured all over the damn SE over and over and over again. Recorded live album "Splitter" from live show in Asheville NC. Continued to tour. Into NY. On to CMJ festival. Into FLA, etc. Recorded full length album, Songs From A City of Marigolds at 24. More Touring. 99x ATL shows. Opened for David Gray IndigoGirls, Angie Aparo (when Angie played for us and 2 other people :) ), Jump Little Children. Played 99x Big Day Out at Lakewood (now Best Buy) Ampitheater. Played SXSW in Austin Texas. Played Variety Play house. Played the Roxy. Toured from Florida to Colorado to Boston, NY, and all pointsd SE over and over and over. Produced "Freaks and Stones" by Chris Moore. Produced "Spotlight" by Soundtrack Mind Formed The Spins, wrote and produced "1". Have played on and/or produced loads of recordings since. Joined The Tamara Burch Project. Formed The Moby Dicks. Joined Countdown to Ecstacy. FormedThe Ice Cream Men. Joined the Astro Puss Puss. Joined CAT, Jerm and Ritter (unamed project) And, of course, still write, sing, record, perform loads of my own stuff, etc.....and looking back there are 100 things I've forgotten, but screw it, I did my best.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/11/2006
Band Members: On this page, mostly stuff I've written, performed, and recorded myself. But usually some other stuff from bands I'm in as well. Band's I'n currently in: David Rowe (yup, myself), The Tamara Burch Project (guitar, vocals, songwriting), CAT and friends (guitar, vocals, songwriting), Chris Moore (guitar, songwtiting), The Moby Dicks ( Led Zep cover band: guitar, vocals), The Ice Cream Men (DLR era Van Halen cover band: guitar), Countdown to Ecstacy (Steely Dan Tribute Band: guitar, percussion, vocals), The Astro Puss Puss (Stax era soul band: Keyboard (rhodes and hammond b3,vocals).
Influences: In general, I like most types of music that are done exceptionally well.My personal list (very incomplete):Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, Police and older Sting, Old Metallica (before they started sucking the tit of commercial rock), Prince, U2, The Chieftans, Gaelic Storm, (Pretty much anything celtic), Soundgarden, Jeff Buckley (rip), The Husbians, Sebadoh (Harmacy in particular), Radiohead, Rolling Stones, (sigh, ok i guess) Steely Dan, Old Van Halen, Van Morrison, Ani Difranco, Michael Hedges (rip), Megadeth (mostly old), Iron Maiden, Bjork, Bonnie Raitt, The Beatles, Built to Spill, Guns N Roses (only Apettite for Destruction), Pearl Jam, Brad, Tears for Fears, Ice Cube, Paris, David Wilcox, Alister Fraser, Doc Watson, Brad Paisley, Fiona Appel, Ween, Ben Folds Five, Segovia, The Gypsy Kings, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, James Brown,....did I mention Led Zeppelin?
Sounds Like: All the thunder of the Russian Army on the march, infused with sprinkles of chocolate gently kissing the lips of a woman who longs for her lover, laced with a bit of Jung and Newton holding hands in a genetically engineered meditation garden, with a generous side of aromatic grits and bacon, and a small tablet of arsenic for dessert? Who asks this kind of question anyway? It sounds like what you hear.
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