Whether it's a new band your friend or co-worker told you about, or a Big Band song that you've just heard for the first time and it just blows you away.
Some of the best feelings I have enjoyed is when discovering something new at a live show.
Here it is, right in front of you and it has your full attention. By night's end, you have discovered something new and amazing.
As fortune would have it, one of those special nights would happen on May 21, 2011 @ the Double Door in Chicago.
Tommy Stinson - Slobberbone - Dave Hause
Tommy Stinson, bass player extraordinaire (The Replacements, Guns N' Roses, Soul Asylum), was out on a short tour to promote his new solo CD - 3 shows in total at the time. Tommy had been playing on and off as the bass player for Soul Asylum, so I naturally thought, let's go see Tommy and Slobberbone, who I had heard but never seen live before. I asked my wife Patty if she was interested in going. She checked out the line up online and agreed we should go. She really was interested in seeing the guy who was opening the show, Dave Hause. To my surprise, many of the Soul Asylum traveling crowd was in attendance, as well as some new folks we would meet for the first time.
What happened next is just one of the things: right place, right time, right people and a magic night of music.
Dave Hause got his punk rocker street cred from being the singer of the band The Loved Ones from Philadelphia, PA They have released 2 albums and several EPs.
In 2010, Dave recorded his first solo CD, Resolutions. When listening to the CD, you get the full band experience in that other musicians are playing. When you went to see Dave Hause on his solo shows, it was a man and his acoustic guitar, his voice and his songwriting. One of the first things I noticed about Dave's solo CD and his writing is that it was very different from punk rock with a singer/songwriter kind of quality.
After this night, Dave has became one of those people Patty and I see live as much as possible.
We have also had opportunities to talk to Dave about music, songwriting and life in general. He's just a great guy and a great singer/songwriter musician.
This discovery is something that opened us a new door into a entire new world of music and friends.
Patty with Dave Hause
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