David Starkey

David Starkey is the bassist for Death and Taxes, a new rock band composed of veteran musicians from Los Angeles area rock acts, is scheduled to release their new CD in mid 2008. Their new CD, titled "Inevitable" is a blend of straight ahead Hard Rock with a definite twist. Jay Link, lead vocalist, and his bandmates, started this project on a whim. The three original band members had all played together in the 1980s. They went into a Los Angeles studio and, after four days, came out with four songs. They started sending the four song EP around to see if it had any merit. Since putting out the four song "teaser" CD "Waste of a perfectly good CD" in April 2003, thousands of fans have expressed a huge interest in Death and Taxes. During the last eight months of 2003, Death and Taxes was played on over 40 internet radio stations worldwide. Two of their songs have had incredible chart success: "Trust", which charted at ..6 for 2003 in the Radio Wave End of Year Rock Charts, and "Serenity", which charted at ..36 in the Rock Charts. The band has also had 12,300 downloads of their songs on Kazaa/Cornerband during the past 6 months. The band has been very fortunate to work with Grammy nominated producer/engineer Eric Fahlborg. The nucleus of Death and Taxes are Jay Link on lead vocals, Michael Cutting of Holy Soldier fame on Guitars, David Starkey on Bass, and Paul Monroe on the drums. Currently, the band is a self-produced, self-managed, independent act, who will be putting the finishing touches on the 11 song CD in 2008.