Dan Symbol aka Dan Theman aka Dan Aurora aka Dan Uproar aka Supie T!-lead vocals extrodinaire/ Scott Pickering-drum kit/ Keith Pickering-guitars/ Dave Swanson-more guitars/ Jim Donadio-basses. Others who have served include Dave Wilkie- bass, Carol Schumacher-Bass, Doug Gillard-guest guitarist.
Influences
The earth and sky and all around us. If it rocks...then it rolls and if it rolls then it rocks.
Sounds Like
And insane version of sanity come to life before your very ears...
Supie T was born Dan Smiley. Rock and Roll has been in his blood since he was a young man. He changed his name to Danny Bernadette and fronted a band called The Refused Deal in the late 1960's and cut one record for the Cameo/Parkway labe that was never released. He severed time in Vietnam before returning to the USA to rock the nation. At one point he was known as Dan Aurora and later as Superstar Dan Theman. Sometime in the 1970's, he went by the name David Alpipe and hosted his own Johnny Carson styled TV show in Fairbanks, Alaska. His most well known nom de roque has been Supie T. A change to Dan Uproar and most recently Dan Symbol has been his name of choice. His friends that made up his band for several years did so because they believed in his vision.
After a 10-month tour of duty in Vietnam the first thing Supie T wanted to do was start a rock'n'roll band.
Says Supie T: I took the name Danny Bernadette after my discharge, and I had these lyrics that were about all what had happened to me in Vietnam. I had a wife and she was killed and we had a baby that was stillborn, so I couldn't handle it--I went crazy over there. So I was in the psycho ward at the VA Hospital in Wade Park and there was this guy in the bed next to me who heard me sing and said "Yeah, you should write those words down." But it was spontaneous--it was how I felt--what had happened to me--I was just singing how I felt. And then the nurse came in and told him "Don't listen to him--meaning me--he's crazy." But we got it together and that was my first band out of Vietnam--the Refused Deal. And I needed to sing to deal with the horror--it was driving me crazy.
Ahead of his time and yet trapped in his own reality, all that can be said is The Supe Is On!
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