David From Earth

 Born in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1950s, David witnessed the very tail-end of the pre-digital world.  Kids walked and rode bikes to school, black and white television was brand new, telephones were land-line, and had rotary dials with no answering machines.  The milkman delivered milk in glass bottles to the door and gave the youngsters rides on his truck filled with bags of ice to keep the milk cold.   The south bay, called the "Valley of Hearts Delight", was primarily fruit orchards and large stretches of rural space filled with pine and oak trees.  Many of the kid's toys were hand-made and board games like Monopoly and Parcheesi, along with card games like Hearts kept the family together after dinner around the table.  David's family used to play a game in which one person taps out the rhythm of the melody of a song, and the others would try to guess the song.  David, as a young adult, sang in the local Episcopal church with his father for several years.

In the early 1960s, large-scale transformation was just beginning as large tech companies like Hewlett Packard, Lockheed, and Intel began creating "Silicon Valley" as they replaced the orchards and farmhouses.  Growing traffic with cars using leaded gas and the resulting smog were a big problem as was the widespread pollution of the San Francisco Bay.  The beginnings of the modern environmental movement were taking shape entangled with the peace and love movement and the conflict of the Vietnam war. 

David was lucky to have been exposed to a wide variety of music from his parent's generation like Harry Belafonte, Bing Crosby, Tommy Dorsey, Rogers and Hammerstein as well as the classical music of Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Brahms and many more.  Of course, the 50s and 60's brought on Folk music with The Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan, Rock and Roll of Elvis Presley and Little Richard,  the British invasion with the Beatles and The Rolling Stones, the San Francisco psychedelic scene with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, modern jazz and so much more.  The times were "a-changing" and changing fast.  Silicon Valley was taking shape before everyone's eyes.

David's "day job" career in corporate America gave him deep exposure and experience in complex database systems to manage Marketing and Sales, Finance, Planning and Manufacturing, and Customer Sevice.  He started in the early '80s on old IBM mainframe systems with tape drives (no hard drives existed)  and evolved to being on world-wide teams implementing large corporate systems including SAP, QAD, MS Dynamics and Salesforce.

David was given early music lessons on the clarinet and Hammond organ, played drums for a while, but at age thirteen picked up a guitar and that was it.  He began learning on the songs of 50s and 60s but quickly started to do variations of his own.  Guitar lessons in folk, jazz, and classical styles gave him a technique that enabled his songwriting to have many influences.   Music technology was also evolving rapidly and David was all in on that.  He started with analog mixers and tape recorders and continuously upgraded throughout the 80s and 90s and into the 2000s to modern digital production systems.   He has been a guitarist/techno-geek for sure.

In 2016 David suffered a large stroke that paralyzed his left side, particularly his left hand, making guitar playing impossible.  Now retired from the "day job", he has adjusted to the music studio environment and is producing his compositions with current digital software (geek heaven).  Now, with his technological, songwriting, and studio skills, along with his newly created "David From Earth" music production organization, he is dedicated to helping save our planet from human-caused destruction.

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