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When I was living in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, I found myself doing live concerts at some of the various bars, and community functions under the 'nom de stage' of "JUKEBOX" Dave! So coined because of my extensive repetoire of songs that I play and sing.

It was a unique opportunity to get some live recordings and work on some stage concepts despite a meagher budget. But then music has never been a money issue to me. I play and sing, because I love to play and sing. If somewhere along the way, I earn a little money, then that is just a little icing on the cake. I have ALWAYS believed in "MUSIC for PEOPLE, not for PROFIT!"

I do it because I love to do it! Simple as that! But as a result of spending about 4 years or so playing the "JUKEBOX" Dave personna, I wound up with a number of images related to both stage and music, and they are presented here for your enjoyment.

Special thanks to Jim Tilden "BOSSMAN" Brown for helping me put together some of the later concerts that I did while in Idaho. He provided a better sound system, technical assistance, recording of some of the shows (excerpts soon to be posted in the recorded music section of this website), and was often quick to invite me to do warm up shows for him prior to his own concerts at various bars and functions around the Coeur d'Alene area which helped to publicise the "JUKEBOX" Dave personna in general. His help and friendship were greatly appreciated.

CONCEPT CONCERTS by "JUKEBOX" Dave

The "GOODBYE 'JUKEBOX' Dave" Show
(Concert date: Dec. 1999: 4th Street Alehouse)

Personal and family issues demanded that I leave Idaho, and return to the Cincinnati area where I grew up (Walton, Ky: 20 miles south of Cincinnati, OHIO). Jim Tilden "BOSSMAN" Brown helped me put this GOODBYE "JUKEBOX" Dave concert together as my last performance in the Coeur d'Alene/Hayden, Idaho area.

While this concert was not as dramatic as the shows that came before it (see below)... it was, none the less, a great show with a giant screen TV behind me on stage, displaying animated fractal zooms and color cycling. The concert was also filmed by a guy named GABE... but I never got the video from him. He filmed and was going to dub me a copy, but somehow the copy never made it to me... BUT, thanks to Jim Tilden "BOSSMAN" Brown, I have at least a cassette recording of this concert which I am currently trying to digitize and post process so that I can post some or all of the audio of that show.


The "STONEHENGE" Show
(Proposed Date would have been in the spring of 2000.)

I was in preparation for another theatric type of concert just before I had to leave Couer d'Alene, Idaho. I was going to do my next show on a stage that had giant foam pieces which were going to look like STONEHENGE, with the performer on the side of the circle where the stones were tall (so they could be used to hide stage lights), and part of the audience would have actually been inside the circle near the broken stones side of how STONEHENGE exists today.

If personal and family reasons hadn't brought me from Idaho back to Cincinnati, then it would have been another memorable "JUKEBOX" Dave concert. Don't know if the idea will ever get down now, but if I do manage to put together a concert here in the Cincinnati area, then it would be nice to finally do the STONEHENGE concert idea.

The "FLIGHT 420" Show
(Concert date: Nov. 1996)

Another classic show I did, was to decorate the stage so that it looked like the inside of an airplane cockpit. I came onstage and pretended to be the pilot of this imaginary airplane, of which the entire bar was part. Periodically in between songs, I would come up to the mike and in the voice of an airline pilot, I would make various announcements about the status of our 'concert' flight. "This is your pilot... please be advised that the smoking lamp is now lit, and your are encouraged to party hearty while we listen to this next song by the Moody Blues"... or "This is your pilot speaking... I am pleased to announce that we are very high right now... cruising at an ethereal altitude of about 25000 ft, and at the speed of light... as we listen now to a tune by Proco Harem".. or whatever song I was going to play next.

The funny part about this show, which clearly spoofed marijuana smoking (flight 420... 420 is the code for marijuana amongst stoners), and made use of the airplane illusion, was that after piloting the bar on an imaginary cruise for about 2 to 3 hours, I finished the concert; packed everything up; and went home... As I was sitting at home, I suddenly jumped up and thought to myself, "OH NO!!! I FORGOT TO LAND THE PLANE!!!!)... and so it was that all the passengers about flight 420 that night are still cruising somewhere around the universe in an un-piloted illusionary plane!!!

There were yet again, no pictures of the stage or of the show. I was really spending a lot of time on stage concepts and design, and I was doing all on my own for most of the shows, so I never had anyone to help me take pictures make any recording for these early "JUKEBOX" Dave performances. I will try to upload the sketches I created from which the stage design was conceived. I will post as soon as I can!

The "MUSHROOM RING" Show
(Concert Date: Summer 1995)

I had a very limited budget to do shows. But in preparation for one show, I went out and bought some poster board and set about cutting and pasting and coloring the poster board into a collection of 6 mushrooms, ranging in size from 6", 10", 14", 20", 28", 36" high. They were of course of the Amanita Muscaria kind and was painted with red caps and white spots. These were arranged around me on the stage like a fairy circle, which was covered with various nature posters (and other hidden atmosphere lights), and even a tape of gentle forest sounds playing softly to give the illusion that I was playing outside in a forest.

I then stuffed the mushroom caps with strings of christmas lights from underneath, where they could not be seen. The lights in the mushrooms were connected to a small control box I had on a table beside me on stage, that I could dim, brighten, turn on and off, the mushroom lights to emphasize various songs... like fading the mushrooms slowly out right at the end of a Jimi Hendrix song, or suddenly turning the mushrooms on full blast just as I started a rock song of some sort. The nature soundtrack also made for some interesting musical 'fade-aways' as the music quieted and the nature sounds were all that was left after a song was finished.

All and all, a great concert, and there were lots of great comments from people as they came into see the show and the mushroom ring on the stage and the various posters, and decor. I heard one guy say, "I don't know who this guy is but I like him already!!!"

The unfortunate part was that I didn't get any pictures of the stage or of the show. I will try to upload the sketches I created from which the stage design was conceived. I will post as soon as I can!