Here’s what you all want to know …..NO - I am not leaving the board.

I was hooked on David & David as soon as I heard/saw WTTB on MTV. At 21 I was just waking to the rest of the world. My cocoon of college was over and my foray into the real world, just beginning.

I was immediately taken by the grittiness and open honesty of the song. Oh my god he's talking about dope, right there on the radio!! I grew to love the album as a whole. I have a special respect for any album that compels from start to finish. That one did for me.

Then off the radar he fell. I’m sure my Duran Duran phase didn’t help that either.

In 1990 I picked up Bedtime Stories and liked it a great deal. Sirens in the City is and has been my favorite song of David’s for a long time. A great album, but not one I was in tune with at that moment in my life. I perceived it as a happier record than Boomtown and I wanted darker. In retrospect it was but I just didn’t process it that way at that time.

In 1993 I moved to LA, to chase my dream of working in film. This was a mere 2 months after the riots. The first year I spent in LA was many things but predominantly it was lonely and mildly overwhelming experience for me.

In 94, I was still in a low end job there and involved in a bit too much “partying”. Then I found Triage. That album hit the mark for my state of mind perfectly. All of the phoniness and ill will the city held at that time for me was encapsulated in that album.

I remember driving up Beverly Glen in LA listening to A Secret Silken World and that hooked me. Maybe my proximity in the real world to his lyrics was what did it. This was the true follow up to Boomtown.  An album that saw the world in the dark hues that I did, but still served up excellent melodic hooks and haunting lyrics.

I left LA and still kept DB on the forefront of my musical choices. In 2000 I believe, I found this site and have been a regular visitor ever since.

I’m not terribly political, at least not on par with others here, but I do tend to think in similar alignment to the left here on the board.

It’s been a daily place to come and find out what happening in peoples heads. Always interesting, sometimes enlightening, and certainly never dull.

The biggest plus factor is David’s willingness to chime in. I do care about what he writes, and this board and site have really kept him, as a songwriter and artist, at a prominent position in my life.

Thanks to both David and Dan, both of you please keep it up.