David Howard on guitars, mandos, bass, banjo, shakers,all vocals,drums,wooden train track (Thomas The Train),guitar case drums and real drums, recording and sound, and any thing else that has to be done, etc, etc ,etc........... Lone Mountain Sound and Studios
Influences
. 70's rock , Folk , celtic
Led Zeppelin, CSNY,A Krauss,Blue Highway,Grand Funk Railroad,Hendrix,John Cowen,Uncle Earl, Blue Moon Rising,Eagles,Poco,Graham Nash,The Band, NittyGritty Dirt Band,Monroe,Greatful Dead, The Corrs and many many more.
Sounds Like
a good stew. a little bit of everything thrown into the pot ! {:o)
Who is David Howard? That is a question many will be asking for a long time I guess. In many ways I am finding myself again and in many ways I am finding new things also. I have played music all of my life and its a part of the fiber that makes me who I am. Many years ago I left my first love of instruments the guitar for other needs in the bands I played in. Don't get me wrong I love playing the mando ,banjo, bass etc. but the guitar (The Blonde ) has always been what I loved playing the most. Awhile back I found a great friend Valerie Clark (The Profunda) and began not only a great friendship but a musical journey that has got me in touch with my inner voice again by her writing. It has taken some time but I think the vocals are well on their way back and the Blonde and I have reconnected again. This "Journey" I'm sure will take me in many directions before I am done. Bluegrass will always be what I want to play but the other styles must have their place also. I hope you will join me on this journey as I find my place in this musical world. I would love to have you along for the ride. Expect changes from about everything done in the past for nothing is ever finished till its finished. All I really want to do is good recordings and share the music that lives in me. I am....David Howrd up on this mountain called Lone Mountain.... I said once That Less is more and more can be great. I am but a small voice in a big loud world but I am unique. If you listen close enough you might hear the inner voice inside me. {:o) I am also Lone Mountain Sound Co. Over the years I have the great chance to do and provide sound for some of the greatest artist in the field of bluegrass and Americana music. Acoustic music to me is and can be the hardest music to mix and get right. The many different types of acoustic instruments is a challenge I will always love.
Peace and Love David.............................................................................
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Coming from the viewpoint of an actual writer, what exactly does it mean to BE a writer, you ask? Well, I guess that's a question that has many different answers, different answers which still somehow amount to the same general idea: Writers are people who are allowed to contradict themselves left and right while still making perfect sense. We can make people think in ways they never have thought before, show them what it's like to explore the mind at a deeper level, and because of this fact, we are drawn to like kinsmen. We are drawn to constantly, and we will influence anybody who crosses our paths, anybody who has an open heart and an open mind.
The life of a writer is always an interesting one as a true writer can create an entire world right in the corridors of his/her mind. So many have to get out of the house in order find entertainment, but a writer doesn't have to be the one to find entertainment: We create it. We write what we have lived one day, and the next we write what we have never seen before, but it's just as real. We can 'place' ourselves in any situation, and when it's all said and done, it's like we have walked in the shoes of the entire world in one night. We can read the hearts of others, see it in their eyes, and yet it breaks us when they fail to see it for themselves. For we feel the pain of those who do exist, and we even feel the pain of those who don't.
Upon first meeting a writer, though, perhaps we don't always make perfect sense to those as a passerby. Initially, maybe we don't make sense at all, and despite our realizing that, it's still mystifying when people don't understand us as we may understand more than we care to. We oftentimes see ourselves as normal and the rest of the world as strange. We are drawn to things we are not to have, and as for the things we are to have, we can drive them away by these roller coasters of emotions we live. Our joys and sorrows rise and fall at the drop of a hat, and it's so easy to become frustrated when folks aren't on the same emotional level that we are, but that also is hard to do when our own emotional levels can change so quickly. We can be understanding yet so impatient at the same time. Our minds and hearts may connect one day, and we are normal. The next day, just our minds or just our hearts are working, and we become a mere shadow of ourselves. It all depends on things like a word being said or not said, the weather being stormy or sunny, or a certain song repeating itself on the playlist.
We, as writers, are said to feel things a lot stronger than the average person would feel things, and whether that's true or not, I'm not quite sure. I do know that we look into things a lot longer than the average person, so perhaps it's that extended period of commitment time that makes our feelings flourish into something just that much more. We're said to love deeper than anyone, and yes, we do know the depths love. We can see the fullness of love - It's emotion - And yet so often fail to show it on the outside, or we over-express it on the outside. We also know of pain in heart break. Even when we may be totally in love, we can still perceive the opposite end of the spectrum as love's finest touch can somehow remain at our lowest. Because of this, masks can be taken on and off depending on a given situation, and instead of merely borrowing a mask that is already made by another, we can simply create a mask within our words alone, penning ourselves into being whoever we want to be. Yes, we do want the world to know who we are, and yet we close ourselves off to the world so that it can never know who we are. It's all part of the thrill, the thrill of being a 'mystery'.
Writers are extremely deep and gifted people in this world, and while the gift is always meant to be a positive one, we sometimes have ways of corrupting ourselves with it. We tend to want to repair or attack at times in our writing, and as a means of self-defense or revenge, we sometimes want to lash out in words, and words cut deeper than any knife you've ever held in your hand. We do crave the good things we write about, but the bad things become our own therapy, and we resort to them often. In our therapy writing, we want to be left alone, and yet while we're alone, we still desire the physical touch of another. It's the contradiction of it all - The classic description of a writer. We contradict contradictions, make the unbalanced balanced, and we think of ways of making a complicated world much more understandable in our own minds.
Peace...Valerie and David Profunda~Rock
Hey David, nice to hear from You and what a NICE studio You got You!!! I am ok, lots of things going on though, and that means less time here. How are You yourself? What changes... concerning studio music or? Hope anyhow everything is going great and that You now can relax a little and are getting a marvelous Friday and upcoming weekend!
Hi David, I love your new studio! I recently added some software to my new (used) Mac computer and can now record again after a few years without any recording equipment. It's a great feeling.
Well, I hate to hear that you did that too. But I am glad that I am not the only one who accidently drilredl though one of their digits. Now I don't feel too bad. (lol)
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