Email: Don

Spawned from a misguided genetic experiment attempting to splice the DNA of an Alaskan Yodeler and a Himalayan conk shell player, Don Day entered the scene some time in the late free-love to early Flock of Seagulls decades.  Legend has it he entered the world with a bottle of valve oil in one hand and a copy of the Kama Sutra in the other. 

 

Don, or "Double D" as the guys from cell block C liked to call him, first discovered his love of music at the tender age of 6 when he walked in on Father Patrick VonSnorkell playing butt-bongo with the other alter boys.  "I could just feel the groove" Don recalled in a recent interview, "and I just knew it was something I wanted to be a part of".  By the age of 9, he had settled on the trumpet as his primary instrument.  Hours of practice paid off for Don as he honed his craft, modeling his playing style after such greats as Bugsy Fitzgerald, Jimmy the Weed, and Three Fingers Muldowny.  Unfortunately, just as Don was preparing for his last year of high school band, he suffered terrible injury after he hit his first "High C" and passed out, causing him to fall backwards onto his very own Harmon mute.

 

While the outpouring of support from his family and friends was simply overwhelming, Don found himself disheartened that the doctors and experts all agreed he would likely never be able to play his beloved horn again.  That was until he met his life mate Pat.  Pat touched him in ways he hadn't been touched since those early days in the rectory, and reminded him of his love for music.  Don made it his life's mission to play again, to play better than ever before.  It took many years of intense physical therapy, psycho therapy, and even some electric shock therapy, but he finally proved the doctors wrong.  His first performance after the long hiatus received such stunning reviews as "This dude plays like a man possessed", and "That soul patch completes the package".  Even Father VonSnorkell was quoted as he left Don's dressing room, "I laughed, I cried, I felt everything". 

 

While certainly an inspiration to us all, Don's return to glory doesn't come without scars.  "To this day, my farts have a muffled metallic sound to them", Don has said, "Pat always teases me, but I have learned to live with it"