Meet The Daffy Dave Band CD

BiographyThe Daffy Dave BandThe Daffy Dave Band is usually an hour-long fun-filled concert for kids and parents to come together singing, dancing and laughing! That's right! Laughing! The way only Daffy Dave can tickle the funny bones of kids and grown-ups too, all while moving around, dancing, singing, and physically acting out parts of Daffy's infectious audience participation cues. (Kids will want to go to bed early after such fun!) Fresh from premiering Daffy Dave's new movie, Sidekick Productions Presents: "The Silly Adventures of Daffy Dave", The Daffy Dave Band features Daffy Dave (aka Dave Mampel) on guitar and lead vocals, Dusty Buckles (aka Scott Smith) on Lead Guitar and back-up vocals, and Uncle Ben Franklin (aka Mark Stein) on Bass Guitar and back-up vocals. The DD Band set list includes silly original Daffy Dave audience participation songs, traditional kid songs with a silly twist (e.g., "Wheels on the Bus" and "Hurry, Hurry Fire Truck!"), as well as rockin' pop tunes and the always fun, "Chicken Dance"! Award winner and California's favorite, Daffy Dave, (aka Dave Mampel) has been performing professionally as a Variety Entertainer since 1992. His Comedy Magic, Music and Juggling Shows, have been a popular hit with family audiences in many regions of the USA. After hearing rave reviews about Scott Smith in 1999, a talented local musician and record producer in the Bay Area, Dave sought out a meeting with him to produce his first children's album, "Get Down and Funny!" which later morphed into "Silly Party Songs" and has now sold over 10,000 copies, thousands of digital downloads, radio airplay, positive reviews in School Library Journal and Booklist Magazine and has won several "Children's Music Web Awards". One of its songs, "Soccer Rock N Roll" even aired on The NBC Today Show. Scott helped Dave record a total of seven albums and eventually played the character, "Dusty Buckles", on Dave's local TV Show, "Daffy Dave's Tree Fort" which won 2nd place in the 2003 nationally acclaimed, Hometown Video Awards. Scott's multi-talented musical background includes recording with or sharing the stage with Micky Dolenz, Rick Derringer, Larry Coryell, Bon Jovi, Cheap Trick, and members of Santana, Sheryl Crow's band, the Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, Stevie Winwood and Lindsay Buckingham, to name a few. As Dave and Scott continued to turn out more fun children's albums and episodes of Daffy Dave's Tree Fort (co-produced with Peter Lonsky), they formed The Daffy Dave Band to play to local fans that now includes over a thousand families in Northern California and in a growing number of other national and international regions. As the band developed, playing at The Save The Music Festival in Belmont, California, The Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose, California, Coyote Point Museum, The City of Redwood City, Bookstock III and corporate shows for Nvidia, Apple Computers, and others, old members moved on and Mark Stein joined as the Bass Player and back-up vocalist, "Uncle Ben Franklin".Mark helped to Master a few of Daffy Dave's albums and is a long-time friend and associate of Scott Smith. Mark's background includes owning and operating his recording studio and record label and playing in the rock bands Life Of The Party, Symphony Of Satire, Tiny Violins, DMV, as well as several Irish duos and trios, country and jazz bands.Most recently, Kyle Bowers joined The Daffy Dave Band as "Rocker Dude" and plays many of the incredible lead guitar solos on The Meet The Daffy Dave Band album. He was introduced to the band via Scott Smith (Dusty Buckles) who co-owns (with Scott and two others) White Rabbit Studios in Campbell, CA. Some of Kyle's leads remind us of listening to a live Cream concert or Joan Jett. It's so cool to mix up the adult sounds with kids lyrics and attitudes and Kyle helps us accomplish this unique, edgy kid's rock and roll that adults love too!Most of us don't think of silly musicians as educator