Bman's Blues Report

David Randall Shorey – a.k.a. Gashouse Dave – was born in Concord, Massachusetts and played in bands throughout New England, opening for major acts like the Young Rascals, The Animals, The Youngbloods, Jimmy Smith, Starship, Fleetwood Mac and The Doobie Brothers. After a while he packed up the truck and moved to Lake Tahoe and then Mill Valley, where he eventually played bass and guitar with the late Mike Bloomfield for about 4 years, doing tours and recordings on the Takoma, Chrysalis and TK labels. He has also played guitar with a lot of artists, including The Judds, Big Joe Turner, Stevie Wonder, Elvin Bishop and Nick Gravenites, among others. Gashouse Dave is a bluesman at heart, with a natural lived-in voice that no teenage sensation can approximate. While the music is rooted in the Blues, the lyrics and indeed, the entire vocal attitude are steeped in the literary influences of writers such as Jack Kerouac, Raymond Chandler, William Carlos Williams and many others. His love of...

David Randall Shorey 1947 - 2009 Antiquarian projectual/ backwards Slipping. fretless. Intrinsics, a lively ticket-taker, over-the-phone-punch it in, orderform and the dreams don't come. Not like the way they used to. Driveway cardboard. They don't arrive altogether. The treads of incomplete sentences. This thing is bigger than me now. I can tell the difference between good and bad writing (finally)> laughs. A short fall from insomnia and blessed chemical, return to the ozone. My perpetration. get offa my chip. Hit me band. Fellas. What it is. HEY. In the moment of now, like ECKART TOLLE, Lady oprah's dog, and I am down with it? Gimme three. horns. Kiss myself. The antiquity of the thing? Simple. ALL new Violet. The old, replaced en masse. It's broasted. Shane said something about it. Knowing when you're done. or sometimes the decision is made for you. -- Dave's Last MySpace Blog - Wednesday, January 07, 2009 If you support live Blues ac...