Sidebar before The Sidebar: Early Dave
Read along as I slowly recount the history of my act...this is going Wayyyyyy back...
While 2000 to 2002 is part of the official history of my musical act, and is the first time I ever played solo for other people, it was not the first time I ever made music on my own. I was banging out tunes and making up songs a full ten years before all this started…
From 1990 to 1992 I was a prolific songwriter and musical experimenter. Starting with an acoustic guitar we had lying around (again, probably belonged to my brother) I strummed incompetently, regardless of tune or fingering, and wrote an album called NOW UR PISSING ME OFF. Which my future band-mate jumped on and generously donated his skills to make a tape cover…unfortunately, lost to the ravages of time and messy rooms.
Over the next two years as the band left equipment at my house between practices, I made up songs…keyboard, toy guitar, toy xylophone, feedback from amps, even a hilarious (at least I thought so) spoken word album…and a foray into Modern music. I was heavily influenced by Karheinz Stockhaussen and Henry Cowell, two modernist composers who seemed to be doing whatever the hell they wanted…so, at the onset of my early teenage years, so did I…
All this culminated in an album that I actually sent in to Dr. Demento, the radio host. That Album was entitled “Wicked Personal Experience” and opened with a song that I revived for an early Davey G and the Keyboard show(“Everything Annoys Me”). The good Doctor ACTUALLY WROTE ME BACK and said he while he liked what I was doing, he couldn’t play it “at this time.” His criticisms and suggestions came from a place of love, and I could tell he actually did listen to it. He praised my bright sense of humor and my “economy of form” (I know when to shut up.)
It was pretty awesome…. (IF I find the letter, I’ll post it…)
Hey! you! Buy my zine! It's Awesome!!!
http://davecookson.tripod.com/Davezin...
While 2000 to 2002 is part of the official history of my musical act, and is the first time I ever played solo for other people, it was not the first time I ever made music on my own. I was banging out tunes and making up songs a full ten years before all this started…
From 1990 to 1992 I was a prolific songwriter and musical experimenter. Starting with an acoustic guitar we had lying around (again, probably belonged to my brother) I strummed incompetently, regardless of tune or fingering, and wrote an album called NOW UR PISSING ME OFF. Which my future band-mate jumped on and generously donated his skills to make a tape cover…unfortunately, lost to the ravages of time and messy rooms.
Over the next two years as the band left equipment at my house between practices, I made up songs…keyboard, toy guitar, toy xylophone, feedback from amps, even a hilarious (at least I thought so) spoken word album…and a foray into Modern music. I was heavily influenced by Karheinz Stockhaussen and Henry Cowell, two modernist composers who seemed to be doing whatever the hell they wanted…so, at the onset of my early teenage years, so did I…
All this culminated in an album that I actually sent in to Dr. Demento, the radio host. That Album was entitled “Wicked Personal Experience” and opened with a song that I revived for an early Davey G and the Keyboard show(“Everything Annoys Me”). The good Doctor ACTUALLY WROTE ME BACK and said he while he liked what I was doing, he couldn’t play it “at this time.” His criticisms and suggestions came from a place of love, and I could tell he actually did listen to it. He praised my bright sense of humor and my “economy of form” (I know when to shut up.)
It was pretty awesome…. (IF I find the letter, I’ll post it…)
Hey! you! Buy my zine! It's Awesome!!!
http://davecookson.tripod.com/Davezin...
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