ALCHEMIST
6/8/2009 10:00 PM at GasLight Revival
435 South Huntington Avenue, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130
Cost: Always Free
David took his stack of guitars to California and played with bands
all around Los Angeles while also doing professional studio work.
While in Brooklyn, Trevor found himself broke and living in a
cramped apartment, but still felt inspired to play. Setting up his
drums in his apartment wasn’t an option and neither was
coming up with the money to rent a practice space. Trevor then made
a decision to focus on an apartment-friendly instrument: acoustic
guitar. He ended up befriending a downstairs musician, learned some
chords on his wife’s old guitar, and songs naturally and
organically started to come together. David, now residing in Los
Angeles, continued to hone his songwriting and playing skills. He
found that his catalog of material started to grow at a rapid rate,
almost too fast for the band he was in. So he tucked some songs to
the side, keeping one pile for himself and another for the band.
After three years of uphill battles with musicians and personal
demons – an all too familiar story – David eventually
grew tired of the Los Angeles scene and in 2005 found his way back
to his roots in a town just south of Boston, songs and guitars in
hand. Thru the years the two would check in from time to time and
discuss where they were musically, personally, and professionally.
They found that their experiences had been very similar even though
they both spent the better part of their mid twenty’s living
in two separate cities on different sides of the country.
Eventually Trevor decided to follow suit and move back to his roots
in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was only a matter of time before the
paths of David and Trevor were to cross again. In October 2007, for
the first time in six years, David and Trevor came together to make
music. With the failure of their first project on the front of
their minds, they knew that they needed to approach things
differently the second time around. This time they knew they had to
handle all aspects of being a fully functional songwriting team and
band, all the way from writing the songs to playing all the parts
on the recordings of those very songs. And that they did. A new
band was born. This is now the project that has come to be known as
Gaslight Revival. Enjoy.
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