Resolutions - Dave Hause

One of the many things over the years music has offered me is the great joy of a new discovery.
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

http://www.davehause.com/

The Beginning

It is said that music can soothe the soul, that music is an art and music can mend a broken heart.

At an early age, I discovered that music is something that has many different styles and each person has their own opinion about music - what is cool to listen to and what is not.
This journey of music has taken myself and others on a path that is just something that I could talk about for forever. If you've ever been around me and started talking about music, well you just opened that big can of stories and opinions. You can ask any of my past or present friends, co-workers and musician friends. Sometimes these discussions can be an interesting debate about a band, a song or a style of music. Other times it can just be myself or others being big-headed about our passion.

I also have a bit of a background when it come to music and being in a music scene. For 15 years, I worked at various record stores in the Chicagoland area. I've been a musician in the Chicago music scene for over 25 years. I've recorded bands, promoted bands (local and international), been a roadie, put on our own local music festival with over 1,000 in attendance for 3 years in a row, etc., etc., etc.
So you get the point that I'm not some guy who just listens to some music as a thing I do in the car when I'm driving...it's in my blood.

With Lo-Fi Noise Makers, I hope to tell the stories of some of my favorite music. Whether it's some band you've heard of or some local band I recorded, my idea is to pass on to others some of my stories and fun music history.

                                "You Didn't Have A Choice"

  

I was born in Chicago but when I was 18 months old, my parents and I moved to Warrenton, Virginia. My dad was in the Army and he was stationed at Vint Hill Farms - 7th RRFS in Warrenton.

25 miles away was Washington D.C., which I did visit a few times in my early childhood and it looks like it had an impact on me. I was at the Capital Building, I went to the Smithsonian. In 1968, we also visited during the Poor People's Campaign which showed me some hardcore facts of life at and early age.
 http://www.blackpast.org/aah/poor-peoples-campaign-december-4-1967-june-19-1968

                             

We lived there from 1968-1969 and would make frequent trips back to Chicago to see my grandmother. My parents got married young and were just teenagers when we would make our 10 1/2 hour drive back and forth from Virginia to Chicago. During this time, they would listen as much as they could to WLS. It was a big Top 40 station and it played a big variety of music.

This is how I grew up on Chicago radio...WLS until the mid 70's.

Here is a chart from the time period I would have been in the car on my listening tours. http://www.oldiesloon.com/il/wls061068.htm

My first song I would sing over and over and over ended up being something that still to this day makes me tear up a bit. As the story goes, I would sing and play this (on my rocking plastic guitar) for HOURS in the car on these drives. Over and over. Yes, it drove my parents nuts but this is how it started.

I heard this for the first time in many decades back in the late 90's when a CD was put out that featured music from "The Flintstones". My song "Let The Sunshine In" was on it. I do have to say that a flood of memories and old feelings hit me like a brick. It was such a great and odd feeling.