Dave started his musical career playing guitar and piano in a school band in Essex in the sixties. After leaving school he started playing piano in pubs and later joined a local band as a vocalist. During this time the bands’bass player suddenly left and so he took over and has concentrated on this instrument ever since.

In the seventies he worked with cabaret artists and debuted with several big named bands of that time eventually forming his own band playing covers. Living on the coast the summers would be very busy playing in the holiday camps around east anglia whilst the winters would see mainly function band work.

After many years Dave gave this up on the eve of the Millenium deciding that he’d had a good run over the years and now was a good time to hang up the old bass guitar. Then, as every musician will tell you, the yearning to play again re-surfaced and so he put an advert in the local yellow paper and Alan gave him a call.

Whilst always admiring the vocal talents of the Beach Boys, Dave was at heart an old Rocker loving bands like the Rolling Stones, Status Quo and Bad Company but has since rose to the musical and vocal challenge of the Brian Wilson creation.

His eldest son, Christian, is a chip off the old block playing bass and vocals in his own band whilst his thirteen year old daughter, Laura, often asks "Who were the Beach Boys Dad?" to which he replies, "A legend sweetheart, a legend".

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