Imagine my surprise to see that the Blues Foundation's award for 2013 Song of the Year "I Won't Cry" by Janiva Magness featured Dave Darling!! I'm so impressed, Dave, I had no idea. I'd also never seen a good photograph of him, but here's a whole video of Dave (in the white hat) tastefully strokin' his Gretsch:

Janiva, "I Won't Cry" co-written by and featuring Dave Darling

Multi-talented!

Too Awesome, at first I wasn't sure, then he started walking around looking at all the equipment wire harnesses during the song.....gotta be Dave.

Nice find!

Jeff

What kind of music do you think a 914 man would play ? Gotta be the blues . Cool stuff and nice find. WTG Dave bringing the blues to the teener people.

WOW !!! You go Dave........Awesome.....I would have never known.

Pretty cool, but Damp Dave needs an Olympic Blue Hat to complete the ensemble.

Thanks for sharing this! That lady has great pipes, and it's a good song. I'll have to send it around to the family, they'll probably get a grin or two out of it.

BTW, nobody in that video is fat enough to be me...

--DD

That DD is the guitar player. Janiva is a great blues singer...

"White people got no business singing the blues, EVER". George Carlin. RIP

That's a great performance of a great song!! CONGRATS!!

Did anyone notice that the first comment under the video is "914"

weird...

Steve is a member here, lovely Signal Orange -6.

This is a shock though. I though Dave was the "Maverick Cellist". http://www.daviddarling.com/bio1.html

That, too.

Plus a stunt-man. And an astronomer. And more...

--DD

Oh.... so.... MULTIPLE personalities? Wow. And a fat stunt man? Double wow.

KUDOS Dave!

Sounds like a Tremolux.

nice

....Catsoutofthebag!
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DD King

Very cool, nice tune.....

I work at Cisco with Dave and thought this was real...I pinged him before watching the video and realizing it was a joke. I started talking to him about music and asking what he plays...fail haha he then proceed to tell me this was a joke. Are there other 914 music people out there? Here's a playlist from my 18 piece big band group: The Anker Big Band http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlcpAq6h6mY...A99&index=1

Cheers!

-Luke Anker

Not real? Luke, the blues are REAL, and that ain't no joke! Check with Dave. He's modest, but pry a bit and you'll find he's a stunt man, too! Or was, when he was skinnier.

I usually don't appreciate sheet music bands so much, but I'm now a fan of yours. Is that Ben FONG-Torres? If so how's he doing? Good, I hope, and laughing a lot?

Lots of music here, I recall a sub-set of these folks being in some clown band that got a reputation. Posse? Clown Posse? And Rico Suave, of course, but nobody else can stroke his Gretsh like Dave can!

How do you know ben torres? Small world.

There's quite a few musicians out here.

I played rhythm guitar and background vocals for Uzed Karz back in the '70s

Skinnier--and about 15 years older. (!! My uncle Dave is a TOUGH OLD MAN!)

--DD