Me, Kent, Q and Don – clockwise from the bottom.

This is one of my favorite photos of the band.

This is me at Don Coles home recording studio.

Here’s Don Cole and Kent Hall.

Another photo of Kent and Don.

Bill Clark and Don Cole.

Dave talks a little about the band:

The guys in the band are Kent Hall (drums, percussion, keyboards, vocals), Don Cole (trumpet, keyboards, guitars, vocals), Dan McHugh (bass, guitars, harmonica, vocals) and Bill Clark (guitar).

They are also all songwriters, too, and they have a lot of solo material not found here, but when it becomes available we’ll try and set up a site where you can get some of their solo album information and downloads of their songs. Some very good, eclectic music being produced by those guys.

Kent lives in Granite City IL with his wife Kim, Don lives in Downtown St. Louis off Jefferson Ave., Bill lives with his wife Kris and 3 kids in St. Charles and Dan has a home in Pacific, MO. They are a great bunch of guys and I’m very proud to have them as bandmates.

I live in Catawissa, MO with my beautiful wife Torri and my fantastic son David (whom we call Muggy after my brother Vince). I built our house and the studio on 5 acres where we have a German Shepard named Hoppy (who is growing rather vicious as she gets older, so “Beware Of Dog”). It is really nice out here in “the sticks” with a lot of forest and abundant wildlife. My wife and son garden a lot in the spring and summer, but me? Not so much – I had enough of gardening when I was a kid to last me a lifetime. I like to BBQ on the back patio and watch them, though. Oh yeah, we have a large aquarium with a big mean Oscar, a foot-long Plecostomus, two Angel fish and a Black Bug-eyed Goldfish, who looks like he might not make it much longer – I suspect the Oscar torments him at night.

Update 1-16-2009: Yep, the Oscar relentlessly attacked the Black Bug-eyed Goldfish (which I have since found is properly called a Black Moor) until he actually ate one of his telescopic eyes, ultimately resulting in his demise shortly thereafter. He also apparently killed one of the angel fish; however, this is only speculation as there were no witnesses, and the angel fish’s floating corpse showed no discernible damage prior to his unceremonious flushing.

Needless to say these events upset Torri and Muggy, but I tend to accept things like this philosophically: they are only fish, and big fish will always kill little fish. In fact that may turn out to be an important life lesson for Muggy. Here is a video of our aquarium of terror: