Dave Grove

NAME: DAVE GROVE

 

BIRTHDATE: FEB. 18, 1967

 

GEAR: I CURRENTLY AM USING A 4 PIECE 1968 BLACK DIAMOND LUDWIG DRUM SET WITH A MID 70's SUPRAPHONIC SNARE AND I ALSO USE A YAMAHA CLUB CUSTOM SET WITH A CUSTOM BAMBOO SNARE. MY CYMBALS ARE ALL PAISTE.

 

FAVORITE BLUES SINGERS (LIVING): SAM MYERS (ANSON FUNDERBURGH & THE

ROCKETS FAME), B.B. KING, KEB'MO' & ROBERT CRAY.

 

FAVORITE BLUES SINGERS (DECEASED): ALBERT KING, FREDDIE KING, MUDDY WATERS.

 

FAVORITE DRUMMER (LIVING): JIM KELTNER, WES STARR, CASEY JONES, AND OF COURSE STEVE GADD.

 

FAVORITE DRUMMER (DECEASED): AL JACKSON JR., JOHN BONHAM.

 

FIRST RECORD YOU PURCHASED: ZZ TOP "DEGUELLO"

 

FIRST BLUES RECORD: "SHOWDOWN" WITH ALBERT COLLINS, ROBERT CRAY & JOHNNY

COPELAND ON THE ALLIGATOR LABEL, FROM THEN ON I WAS HOOKED.

 

RECORDINGS YOU APPEAR ON: "WRONG SIDE OF TOWN" STUDIO RECORDING WITH THE

CODE BLUE BAND AS WELL AS SEVERAL LIVE RECORDINGS, ALSO WITH THE CODE BLUE

BAND.

 

MUSIC CAREER FOCUS: LIKE MOST MUSICIANS, I WANT TO PLAY MUSIC AS A FULL TIME JOB AND TO PERFORM WITH AS MANY MUSICIANS AS I CAN WHO LOVE PLAYING THE BLUES.

Personal Statement:

Dave Grove:

UNLIKE MYSELF, WHO FOUND BLUES VIA THE MANY ROCK & ROLL VERSIONS I HEARD GROWING UP, I WOULD LIKE TO TELL THE YOUNG UP AND COMING BLUES MUSICIANS THAT IF YOU HAVE NOT YET, YOU NEED TO GO AND GET DISC'S OF B.B.KING, MUDDY WATERS, HOWLIN' WOLF, ALBERT KING AND LISTEN AND

LEARN FROM THESE GIANTS OF THE ELECTRIC BLUES, WHOSE MUSIC IS THE FOUNDATION OF ELECTRIC BLUES AND WHOSE STYLES HAVE INFLUENCED SO MANY OF TODAYS CONTEMPORARY BLUES AND ROCK MUSICIANS.