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Dan Singer and Players Repairs History
My name is Dan Singer and I've been a working musician since I was a child.
I'm a pretty good singer / vocalist, an adequate guitarist and a decent songwriter, as I hope you think by the audio tracks found on this site.
I was 7 years old when I took my first piano lesson and when I was 11 or 12 years old I started taking guitar lessons from a guy named Al Carness at a little store on Laurel Canyon Blvd. owned by some old coot named Duke Miller. Al and his partner, Mike McGuire, soon bought the place and called it Valley Arts Guitar.
When I was 15 they gave me a job as their wide-eyed teenage janitor. I'd come in after school and on Saturdays, clean the teaching studios, bathrooms, mop the floor, etc. Eventually, they moved the store to Ventura Blvd. in Studio City, where it became one of the premier music stores in Los Angeles and one of the great custom houses in the US.
Since then I've been playing and singing with my band - currently The Dan Singer Band - working in music, working around music, working on instruments... owned my own club for about 6 years, had countless other jobs, etc. - but mostly I've been playing music and working on guitars, because... that's what I do best.
In 2002, I moved up to the central coast of California, where I lived in paradise and was able to make a living playing music every night (and weekend days) and work alongside Syd Carr for Ed Frawley at Central Coast Music in Morro Bay doing stringed instrument repairs.
Important Note:
I was 7 years old when I took my first piano lesson and when I was 11 or 12 years old I started taking guitar lessons from a guy named Al Carness at a little store on Laurel Canyon Blvd. owned by some old coot named Duke Miller. Al and his partner, Mike McGuire, soon bought the place and called it Valley Arts Guitar.
When I was 15 they gave me a job as their wide-eyed teenage janitor. I'd come in after school and on Saturdays, clean the teaching studios, bathrooms, mop the floor, etc. Eventually, they moved the store to Ventura Blvd. in Studio City, where it became one of the premier music stores in Los Angeles and one of the great custom houses in the US.
Since then I've been playing and singing with my band - currently The Dan Singer Band - working in music, working around music, working on instruments... owned my own club for about 6 years, had countless other jobs, etc. - but mostly I've been playing music and working on guitars, because... that's what I do best.
In 2002, I moved up to the central coast of California, where I lived in paradise and was able to make a living playing music every night (and weekend days) and work alongside Syd Carr for Ed Frawley at Central Coast Music in Morro Bay doing stringed instrument repairs.
Important Note:
I was living in paradise.
I moved back to Los Angeles to care for my aging mother and aunt.
It's why I am here.
Make no mistake, you are important to me.
However, they are family and come first.
Please, understand that and forgive me if it sometimes gets in the way.
It's in my blood.
Music is my first and truest love.
I've been fortunate enough to have had many incredible musicians share the stage with me or let me share the stage with them, or both.
Current and/or previous members of my little band of misfits include "Mississippi" Mike Hightower, Hank Van Sickle, George Nastos, Manny Alvarez, Steve Trovato, "Guitar Jack" Wargo, Jay Leslie, Bobby Schneck, Danny Ritter, Kirk (Arthur) Trachsel, Ronnie Lee Cunningham, Alex Davis, Jim Kersey, Greg Brown, Jud Davidson, Syd Carr, Ed Frawley, Tracy Morgan, Lenny Blue, Eric Garcia, Peter Freiberger, Stephen Hunter, Carmine Sardo and, of course, Bruce Cornett (and geez... so many more... sorry if I've left you out!).
Current and/or previous members of my little band of misfits include "Mississippi" Mike Hightower, Hank Van Sickle, George Nastos, Manny Alvarez, Steve Trovato, "Guitar Jack" Wargo, Jay Leslie, Bobby Schneck, Danny Ritter, Kirk (Arthur) Trachsel, Ronnie Lee Cunningham, Alex Davis, Jim Kersey, Greg Brown, Jud Davidson, Syd Carr, Ed Frawley, Tracy Morgan, Lenny Blue, Eric Garcia, Peter Freiberger, Stephen Hunter, Carmine Sardo and, of course, Bruce Cornett (and geez... so many more... sorry if I've left you out!).
Many have gone on to work with the likes of Slash, Aerosmith, Weezer, Glenn Hughes, Edgar Winter, John Mayall and the Blues Breakers, Vivian Campbell, Eric Clapton, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt and many, many more.
Music is my first and truest love.
I'm happiest when I'm on stage with my friends or when I'm at my shop working on instruments.
It's good to do something you love and I can't wait to get up every day and go to my shop.
For more information, send me a request via my Contact Me page
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