Create your own visitor map! Finally, in album form, a new CD of vocal songs from Scott McDavid. "This is totally independent, so until I get setup on iTunes or CD Baby etc... please email me if you'd like to buy a copy" - "I got tired of waiting to be able to go into a high grade studio to record these songs, so I polished up the home made demos the best I could. That's what this album is... self produced all the way (except, Kerry Denton and Sean O'rourke each play drums on a track). Please check it out at scottmcdavid.com
Influences
Well, I'll just give you the first 5 that come to mind. D. Ellington, C. Corea, Beatles, Steely Dan (Fagen), M. Davis, Brecker Bros. &.........................
I'll try to be brief.
Composer/Keyboardist/Producer/sometimes engineer.
I am originally from Birmingham Al. I moved to Atlanta in 1991.
I started out at about age 14 playing the drums in garage bands, even though I took piano lessons while in school (grades 3rd-5th), but the piano lessons were interfering with football/basketball so I stopped doing the lessons (wished I hadn't)... It was all garage band stuff, with little gigs...churches, parties etc... until I was out of high school. Then I gigged in clubs during college. Continued to play clubs around Birmingham after college with various bands and singers... i.e. KD Ryzer '82-'85; joined up with a band called Split The Dark (1986 MTV Basement Tapes winner) in '85, this band toured the southeast a lot... left them in '87 and moved to Key West Florida for awhile, playing with a Sax player Elmo Hooten... we gigged every single day/night... moved back to B'ham... built a recording studio with some folks and did a lot of jingle work, also continued to play with local bands... Moved to Atl. Ga. to work for a production house... in '92 I hooked up with some Atlanta musicians and continued to gig locally... later that year I left the production company and went freelance to compose for jingles, broadcast, and films... (just a little film work so far, but its been picking up lately). In '96 I, unintentionally, stopped playing live for a few years and actually worked as a Mgr in a computer business... eventually, hooked up with "The Mustangs" in '02. And, I still work with them, as well as several other local bands from time to time. I continue to do composing jobs for Documentaries, Jingles and other corp. music stuff... see more here ... Over the past couple of years my friend Mike Bruce, fellow Mustanger and drummer, and I have been writing songs together, some of which are posted right here on "MY SPACE". During my career I've had the privilege and benifits of working or sharing the stage with some Good ones like: Joe Walsh, Hall & Oats, Trick Pony, Branford Marsalis, America, Mark Wills, Nigel Olson, Dee Murray, Ray Charles (well, same event, but a different stage)... and actually they have all been 'good ones', I'm just dropping "Star" names so you'll be thoroughly impressed. I've got some awards on the resume too: 5 Addy awards, 5 Silver Mics, a Tele, and a "runner up" ribbon from a song contest back in the early '80s......... Well, I tried to be brief.
I listened to "wait for it" today and heard dr. Winston o"Boogie. or someone doing a pretty good impression of him saying "they were standing still". You rascal. You know the next line is "eldorado" spoken by ohnonothimagain.
Hey man, That's cool about Mike being on the Ferguson show. Being the old geezer that I am, I'll probably fall asleep before I get to see them. I guess I could record it but it'll probably show up on YouTube anyway!
