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Dave joined Stone Pony in January of 2004 with his unique sax/flute attack. “Playing in Stone Pony is a blast for me,” Dave was quoted as saying to his high school gym teacher/bookie. “Where else can I drink a lot of Miller Lite/MGD, blow really hard and dance, all while holding my instrument?”

Dave has been a musician all of his life. At the age of five he picked up the wood block and jammed along to the sounds of Slayer and Lionel Richie. At age seven Dave toured briefly with Slaughter as their lead wind chimes player until a fight over the spotlight drove him from the band. At age 11 Dave next turned to the alto saxophone in hopes that the world would be a more peaceful place when listening to the sounds of his soul. Shortly after, the US went to war with Iraq, though Dave was too young to understand the implications of this alarming coincidence and he went on happily making hellish noise while the world burned. He continued his musical journey through high school listening to the soft dulcet sounds of Megadeth, Metallica and Iron Maiden and soon made the switch to tenor sax tearing up the Geneva High School Jazz Band with such barn-burners as “Feelin’ Saxy” and “Whole Note Jam.” 

Dave was not through bringing the funk, however. He continued his musical Odyssey at Ohio University where he studied saxophone under ex-Phil Collins sax player Matt James and co-founded the jazz supergroup The Ben Arnold Sextet. Since dubbed the Ben Arnold ‘Sex-Tent’ by adoring female fans, the group tore up the nightclubs of OU playing to packed houses and rocking out on their original charts so hard that a couple people demanded an album. So in the spring of 2001 the band closeted themselves in Babblefish Studios in Cincinnati and emerged with the critically acclaimed album “Sort of Blue.” It featured such classics as “Mexican Squash Dance” and “Jenna;” a song dedicated to Dave’s then girlfriend Jenna Jameson. By the end of college Dave added soprano sax and flute to his arsenal of rock though his fling with Jenna and his days with “The Sex-Tent” came to an end.

Penniless and without love, Dave left the land of milk-and-honeys and attacked the Cleveland music scene. When he’s not tearing it up with ‘da Pony’ he can be found in The Northcoast Jazz Collective, www.northcoastjazzcollective.com cranking out post-bop style jazz standards and originals for apathetic rich people; and Complex Mold, www.complexmold.com an original alt-rock-indie act so rich in controversy that their ‘Behind the Music’ will be released before their first album. When not playing with Stone Pony or his other groups, Dave can be found working on other side projects or in his parent’s apple orchard playing death metal guitar and beating the hell out of his drums.