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Sep 27, 2020 · Dave Evans - Take a Bite Out of Life (Full Album) RIP Dave Evans - December 3, 1940 to April 4, 2021 (I have PDF tab sheets available for 16 of Dave's pieces that I'm happy...
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LP, Album, Stereo. Explore the tracklist, credits, statistics, and more for Take A Bite Out Of Life by Dave Evans. Compare versions and buy on Discogs.
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Oct 2, 2018 · In its liner notes, Evans wrote that Take A Bite Out Of Life takes its title from a Polynesian proverb he heard while in the Merchant Navy: "Eat life or life will eat you."
- 4 min
- Tom Cole
- Introduction
- Hgg5
- Dave’s Recordings and Bits of Biography
- Luthier Dave
- Hgg7
- Hgg9
- Hgg10
- Capturing Dave
- Postlude
- Appendix: Quotes on Dave’s Music
Like many of you, I’ve had lots of guitar heroes over the years: Leo Kottke, Django Reinhardt, Allan Holdsworth, too many to count… But ever since picking up a copy of his Sad Pig Dance LP, Dave Evanswas my guy. I learned that entire album (Kicking Mule Records kindly included a booklet with half the tunes in tab!) and it informed my own style more...
Cut to 2007. My friend Frank Doucette – another huge Dave Evans fan – had been attending Stephen Bennett’s Harp Guitar Gatherings (the “HGG”) as I had – for four years at that point. Players and builders are both a part of it, one of the latter being our special friend and inimitable Brussels luthier Benoit Meulle-Stef. In July, my wife Jaci and I ...
It was only after Frank and I started hanging out together in Los Angeles that he caught me up on all the rare out-of-print Dave Evans albums. I got everything I could (rare copies or burns) and fell in love all over again. His first – 1971’s The Words In Between – was recorded with two mics straight to a reel-to-reel Revox at the Bristol home stud...
As remarkable as his music but even more surprising was the fact that Dave built the guitars he played and recorded with in the early 1970s. No one did that back then. You begged, borrowed and stole, then went to the guitar store and bought a guitar.Period. (Or, like most of us, you first got used hand-me-downs from older brothers and neighborhood ...
The Harp Guitar Gathering must have inspired Dave the luthier. When he came back two years later, he had a brand new harp guitar with him. It was somewhat similar to Pierre’s, but with a sensible seven subs (Ben’s preferred number, which surely influenced him. Dave also adopted Ben’s preferred bolt-on neck design, agreeing it simplified things grea...
Fortunately, we were blessed with Dave twice more! (Hiro would make it back two more times also – for HGG10 & HGG15.) Dave came back two years later when we had switched the location to Milford, CT (Stephen Bennett’s new home). He brought back the same harp guitar, which received the SB “Luthier Challenge” treatment (above), along with all the othe...
Dave’s last Gathering was a great one – HGG10 in Dallas! In a then-record-setting finale, Hiro is front and center, while Dave is off at right. Another personal memory, if I may. Back at HGG7, I played an all-too-rare new original tune (from my DogsCD), after which Dave sidled up, locked eyes and buzzed “You should write more.” And so I did. Someth...
I would spend the next several years leading up 2018 arranging, writing and recording tunes for my epic Norwegian WoodCD using my collection of early-1900s Knutsen harp-instruments. I got “Dave’s Glad Rag” down (on a modern Dyer harp guitar copy, actually), then decided to do a new arrangement of his “Sad Pig Dance” for a giant 8-bass Knutsen harp ...
Hindsight. We never seem to learn just how short and precious life is. I so regret that I didn’t make the attempt to visit Dave for a week here and there in order to interview him, discuss his guitar ethos, not to mention getting his life story. But I expect it wouldn’t have proven fruitful (though the company, food and beer would have been divine!...
Ian A. Anderson, 1971: 1. “Dave is one of that rare breed of people who have a natural ability to produce superb results at whatever they turn their hands to…” Ian Anderson, 2001: 1. “The press…fell on The Words In Between with considerable joy…” 2. “…he’d produced an instant classic.” 3. “…it still sounds fresh and original, a true lost gem of Bri...
Take a Bite Out of Life by Dave Evans released in 1976. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Dave Evans - Take A Bite Out Of Life 1976. The British guitarist Dave Evans, a real dazzler of a fingerpicking, has been recording since the early '70s. His first entirely instrumental album was released in 1974.
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Mar 7, 2021 · Listen free to Dave Evans – Take a Bite Out of Life (Keep Me From The Cold, Whistling Milkman and more). 13 tracks (36:21). Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm.
