Somewhere Still Waiting

So this is the result of the past two years of my life. The joy, the pain, all the new feelings I never knew existed, and everything in between. When I wrote all the material for the first album, I was still finding my niche and exploring my writing abilities as they developed. For this album I feel like I grasped exactly what I was feeling and learned how to channel it into the words I was writing. I began to write this album in the fall of 2004 before In Headfirst was even done mixing and immediately knew these songs had something new, a different feel and source of inspiration than my previous songs. They are largely about taking the next step, moving on and finding a new person within myself no matter how terrifying it is to do so. I felt a deeper connection to the things going on in my life and found inspiration to write in everything that affected me. It wasnt until I moved to London in January of 2005 that the album began to really write itself. Immediately upon arriving, I felt a void, as if I had left something so very important behind, something so fragile that it would surely shatter if I didnt return. Thats when I began to let go and find myself again. All of the things I held onto so tightly started to fade away because I found that they really weren't as important as I initially thought. The people that hurt me time and time again were left behind and I could finally take a step forward and write about the change that was going on inside of me, which was a topic previously untouched. I wrote such a huge chunk of this album overseas, so much so that I considered naming it for that place somehow, but I felt that Somewhere Still Waiting encompassed the feel of this album better. After all the discoveries within myself and how I look at the people in my life, I found that I really am somewhere still waiting for that one thing to come along and knock me down once more, that one thing thats gonna force me to redefine myself all over again.

Bio

Born in Atlanta, GA and raised in Rochester, NY, Dave has always been surrounded by music. His mother, a singer, always encouraged him to take up an instrument but after a short stint on clarinet at a young age, Dave soon lost interest in playing music. This interest was soon restored when he discovered rock music and soon had ambition to play guitar. At age 12 he began guitar lessons only to have his teacher decide to stop giving lessons, leaving Dave only with the basics of guitar. Years later, he began lessons again, this time with a teacher who truly saw his goals in playing and encouraged him to learn through the music he loved instead of tedious exercises. This method kept him interested and after 3 years of lessons, Dave had learned many hard rock and heavy metal songs by such artists as Metallica, Black Sabbath, and Ozzy. At age 18 Dave left for college in Buffalo, NY and had to stop taking lessons. In college, Dave was exposed to many different kinds of music and soon became interested in acoustic singer/songwriters such as Dave Matthews and John Mayer. In the summer of 2002, at age 19 Dave purchased his first acoustic guitar and soon thereafter found inspiration in his life to begin writing lyrics. After writing a few songs, he began to find his style and learned how to channel his life experiences into the songs he was writing. By the spring of 2003 he had nearly 15 completed songs and began working on a 6 song demo which was completed by the summer. Dave continued to write and experiment with different sounds on guitar based on the type of music he was listening to at the time. This added variety to the songs he was writing. In the summer of 2004 with over 20 songs written, he entered the studio to record his independent debut acoustic album. Dave felt that keeping the album acoustic sustained the intimacy of playing to a small crowd, an aspect he felt important to the music. After recording 12 songs with producer Mark Roland in Cicero, NY, he continued to mix the album remotely from Buffalo throughout the fall and eventually put the finishing touches to the album. Releasing in December of 2004, In Headfirst is a journey into the past 2 years of Dave's life, taking you through his delight and hardships, questioning life, love, and the future along the way.