DAVID

 

Name

David  (TGMDJM)

 

Position

Rhythm and Lead Guitarist & Backing Vocals

 

Musical Influences

My influences are Dream Theatre, Free, Iron Maiden, 
Metallica, Back Street Crawler, Whitesnake (Sykes Era), Nile, Bob Marley, Jeff Buckley, Peter Green, Eric Johnson, Jimi Hendrix,  Napalm Death, Katie Meluah, Robert Fripp, Blue Murder, Carcass, Von Kempelin, Metallica, The Beach Boys, Corrosion of Conformity, Gov’t

Mule, Steve Stevens, Edgar Winter, Bruce Springsteen (only

early stuff though) Bob Dylan, Candlemass, Pentangle, Yes,

Tasavalan Presindenti, Primus, Sausage, Genesis (early stuff

like Selling England by the Pound and The Lamb Lies down on

Broadway), Liquid Tension Experiment, Transatlantic, Mastodon,

Led Zeppelin - The list is endless!!
 

Heroes

John Petrucci,  John Sykes, Paul Kossoff, Ayrton Senna, Damon Hill,

Mike (for the camp bravery!), Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, Kirk  

Hammett, My Family, My Friends, George Harrison, Frank Williams, Patrick

Head, Tony Iommi, Edward Norton, Yasuhiro Wada, Ellen Macarthy, Jools

Holland, The Ramones, James, Aaron Turner,Mika Hakkinen, Joey Dunlop,

Barry Sheene, Valentino Rossi, Michael Schumacher, Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

Peter Gabriel, Marillion, Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson, Robert Fripp, John Myung,

Steve’s mate Mike Portnoy, Jordan Rudess, James Labrie, Kevin Moore,

Joe Satriani, The Edge, Scott Gorham, Brian Robertson, Phil Lynott Brian Downey,

Martin Taylor, Sophocles Papas, Andreas Segovia,Rock Bitch, Jimi Page –

You get the picture!

 

About you

I'm an obsessive Formula 1 fan and I haven't missed a racing or qualifying lap since 1994. I started watching earlier than that but 1994 was the first season I watched in its entirety. Don't ever talk to me about F1 because I'll end up chewing your ear off about it for hours and you'll get really bored. I try to avoid talking about it, especially with friends and people I care about as it bores the pants off them! I love music in general but really like guitar gods such as John Petrucci, Eric Johnson and John Sykes. I'm also into good food especially oriental stuff like Japanese and Thai, also like wines. I have been a vegetarian for 11 years now. I have a Weimeraner named Millie. She's nuts and lots of fun! I have been playing guitar since I was 8 years old so that's about 20 years. I always dreamed of being a rock star playing Stadiums etc but I guess it's too late for that now. That's why we formed this band, we wanted to bring a big show to local people. We started off small but we all decided we were in this for the long haul so we took no money from gigs for over a year in order to buy better equipment to enhance our show! It'll probably never end so it's a good job we do it for the love of it! Music and playing music is very important to me as it is to the rest of the guys so you should be seeing us around for a long long time. I live to rock as do the rest of the guys, music is the ultimate art form, it touches everybody but hurts no-one. It brings strangers together in mutual happiness and generally makes the world a better place! Rock on and Keep it Real!!

 

If you were stuck in a lift for 12 hours, which  person

would you like there with you?
Michael Schumacher or Muhammad Ali