Dave Catching
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| Dave Catching | |
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 Dave Catching performing with the Eagles of Death Metal at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, British Columbia
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Dave Catching |
| Also known as | Darlin' Dave Davey Jo Snohawk |
| Origin | Memphis, Tennessee, USA |
| Genres | Stoner rock, hard rock, desert rock, garage rock revival, blues-rock |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter, producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass guitar, piano |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Associated acts | Queens Of The Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, Tex and the Horseheads, The Ringling Sisters, earthlings?, Mondo Generator, Smith & Pyle |
| Notable instruments | |
| Gibson Flying V | |
David (Dave) Catching (born June 7, 1961) is an American musician from Memphis, Tennessee.
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[edit] Recording career
Catching has played the guitar for well-known hard rock bands Eagles of Death Metal, Queens of the Stone Age, Tex and the Horseheads, The Ringling Sisters, earthlings?, and Mondo Generator. He is also a member of Yellow #5, and the Gnarltones. He regularly appears on the music improv series, The Desert Sessions. He also appears as guitarist/organist on the two albums of the Mark Lanegan Band. In the early '80s, he was in a band called Cock Rock, that played at the legendary Antenna Club.
Recently Catching has been associated with the desert country rock band, Smith & Pyle. He contributed to their debut album "It's OK to be Happy" which was recorded at Rancho de la Luna and released in 2008.
Catching is also a co-owner and founder of The Rancho De La Luna recording studio in Joshua Tree, California, and currently resides in Joshua Tree and lists New Orleans, Louisiana as a second residence.
[edit] Musical equipment
With Eagles of Death Metal live performances Catching plays his 1980's Gibson Flying V through a simple tuner and distortion pedal and Supro amplifer with a 2x12 cabinet. He is also endorsed by and uses coiled red Bullet Cable During recordings he also uses some of Jesse Hughes Matons.
With Earthlings?, he uses his 1958 Fender Stratocaster or his 1972 double cutaway Gibson Les Paul through a tuner Rat pedal, Cry Baby, BOSS Digital delay, Phase 90 into a Silvertone Twin 12 and Fender Super Reverb amplifiers.[1]
He uses a Ampeg Dan Armstrong guitar when playing with E.O.D.M.
[edit] Partial discography
- 60 Watt Reality (The Ringling Sisters, 1990)
- Queens of the Stone Age (Queens of the Stone Age, 1998)
- Rated R (Queens of the Stone Age, 2000)
- Human Beans (earthlings?, 2001)
- Songs for the Deaf (Queens of the Stone Age, 2002)
- A Drug Problem That Never Existed (Mondo Generator, 2003)
- The Desert Sessions 9 & 10 (2003)
- Demon Crossing (Yellow #5, 2003)
- Disco Marching Craft EP (earthlings?, 2003)
- Here Comes That Weird Chill (Mark Lanegan Band, 2003)
- III the EP (Mondo Generator, 2004)
- Bubblegum (Mark Lanegan Band, 2004)
- Lullabies to Paralyze (Queens of the Stone Age, 2005)
- I Got a Brand New Egg Layin' Machine (Goon Moon, 2005)
- Death By Sexy... (Eagles of Death Metal, 2006)
- Impeach My Bush (Peaches, 2006)
- Dead Planet: SonicSlowMotionTrails (Nick Oliveri and the Mondo Generator, 2006)
- Neptune (The Duke Spirit) (2008)
- It's OK to be Happy (Smith & Pyle) (2008)
- Heart on (Eagles of Death Metal, 2008)
- Saturnalia (The Gutter Twins, 2008)
- Humalien (earthlings?, 2009)
[edit] Trivia
Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner sported a tanktop which read "Dave Catching is a fucking legend" on 8/8/09 at Lollapalooza.
[edit] References
- ^ Maton Guitars - Artist: Dave Catching Retrieved: 2008-12-30
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