Any love for David Garza?

Blast from the past. I'm guessing it was 1992/93 that I had the pleasure of doing a few shows opening up for David. My band from St.Louis had gotten some press from billboard and rolling stone after losing a national battle of the bands to The Verve Pipe. Anyway we wound up getting hooked up with a good attorney, good production company, producer Keith Olsen, and hit the road. While traveling through the Southwest we got the chance to do shows with him. On top of being amazingly talented, David was just a super nice guy. I remember playing scrabble with him in Fort Worth a few hours before watching him completely hold a packed club in the palm of his hand! If I'm not mistaken he was just putting out Con Migo. I would love to see him perform again and if anyone gets the chance don't miss it. I remember someone asking us to describe Dahveed and our rhythm guitar player said imagine if Los Lobos put on a show with a very energetic Paul Simon as a special guest. I thought that fit fairly well!

 

I liked Mirror Ball. I saw him do a show once with just a drum machine...I wasn't so into that.

The curse of the mid-level artist strikes again.

JD

 

I have his disc from the later '90s. "Mirror Ball" maybe? I do like some of the songs on it, but I don't love it.

 

I know we did a few shows with him in Texas back then. I'm thinking the place in Fort Worth was calle The Hop? There was a place in Austin called Steamboat? Played with him in Memphis as well. That was a long time ago. A lot of time in the van and a lot of beers so the names might not be correct. Check out his cd's culture vulture, con migo. There's another one that I can't remember the name of. They were before the Atlantic stuff.

 

He was part of a Best Buy TV campaign in the mid/late 90's called "Find 'Em First," where the artists had to look into the camera and declare, "you don't know me now, but you will."

I think the spots were more offputting than intriguing - and no one from that series really did become a breakout star. It probably was a kiss of death, in a way.

Having said that, I thought David Garza's "New Kind of Love" had a fantastic fuzzed-out T Rex vibe. GREAT song!

 

I saw him play back a few years ago. AMAZING! Ken Stringfellow opened for him- and while I'm a huge Posies fan, David smoked him- it was very reminiscent of Jeff Buckley. I've never been a huge fan of his albums- but definitely go see him live.

 

Hey, I like David Lee Garza Y Los Musicales. My favorite song is Hasta Quando, but I'm a Tejano, what did you expect?

 

Yes, I have eyes wide open as well. Great talent!

 

I stand corrected! The song still sounds fresh...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyvYz-Wxogo&feature=PlayList&p=3DA82A5629011C78&playnext=1&index=3

 

Huge fan!

Used to see him at the Trees in Dallas.

Have 3 of his albums, two from that period back in the early 90s.

In fact, I was inspired by this thread to go to Amazon and re-buy Culture Vulture and Eyes Wide Open.

 

Wait, you played The Hop in the early 90s?!

Who the hell are you and who did you play with?! I probably saw you!