Dave Nealon: Guestbook
Sandy and Sherwin Tusing
August 15, 2008
Hi Dave, what an wonderful website. Your music is awesome. You are blessing to our church family. We definitely need to get a CD or two or three and join one of your evening gatherings. Will look forward to it. Thanks for blessing us with your musical talent!
Coach Mack
July 11, 2008
Hi- When I was a Quaker we practiced the traditional unprogrammed worship by waiting on the Holy Spirit to lead our time together. As a musician, it felt a bit odd at times to worship where there was no planned music, and to have a place to be able to wait for the noise in my head to quiet. You are right that music can add to the noise, but it can also add to the quiet or help transition into calmness -depending on the setting. The sense of overexposure you mention comes to me when I get ambushed by someone else's music like when a TV commercial comes on, or someone is playing loud music in their car. Sometimes I use music to set my mood, sometimes I seek silence. Freedom to choose is a great thing in music (especially when I can choose a Dave Nealon song...)
July 11, 2008
Tonight, Beth and I played for 15 minutes for about 10 four year olds. We got em riled up, jumping and clapping, and then we invited them to wind down, relax, and soothe their minds. That doesn't prove that "music hath charms to soothe the savage breast", [William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1, Scene 1], but it can be effective.
In some ways, I think that music is overdone in our lives. There's too much of it. We need more silence. But for me it's also one of the best ways to communicate certain things.
What do you think? How do you use music effectively? Do you ever feel overexposed to it?
Dwayne Martin
June 23, 2008
What a way to start a Monday morning!! I came in early and turned up the Dave songs and now I am ready to take on the day!
Your awesome!
Bob Nealon
August 15, 2007
Dave,
I love the Frank Devoney fiddle song. Keep up the good work, and see ya soon!
Bob
Vickie Sly
July 2, 2007
Dave, you are SOOO incredibly talented! I am honored to know you and your family. And, I am definitely buying your CD!
Dwayne Martin
June 22, 2007
I feel like I know a famous person!!!
John White
May 15, 2007
Dave,
Tim Boyer sent the link to your website. Great to see a fellow DJO Alum do great. Listen to some of the songs posted sounded great. Play up in N. VA soon we will be there.
matt kelly
May 14, 2007
Hi Dave!
Zero time to write at the moment, but saw your link on a DJO listserve. Dang Sam! You look the same. Very cool to catch up w/ a leetle bit of you and yours. I promise to listen soon, but right now I need to pick up my own kids from music class. Rock on, amigo.
m@
Tim Boyer (DJO Class of 1980)
May 14, 2007
Hey Dave, here's another O'Connell Alum saying - Way To Go! Both Denise (Reilly) and I are thrilled about your continued success.
Mike Gadell
May 9, 2007
Dave - Saw the update in the Knight News - I can say I knew you when! You still sound great.
Mike
Anne Duff Chappell
May 8, 2007
Hey Dave: just got our O'Connell Knight News and saw your website mentioned. Way to go! So proud of you for following your dreams. Hope to catch your show if you are in the Northern Va area again.
Anne Duff Chappell - Class of 1980
Diane Cooke
May 7, 2007
I heard about the website through our H.S. alumni publication. Great work, Dave! Glad to hear you're still doin' it.
Who'd have thunk it back in 1st or even 12th grade! Keep on singing, Dave!
Diane
Richard Kokinchak
April 25, 2007
Ryan Nealon told me about this website
love the music
-Rich
Dave
April 13, 2007
Here's a great new verse to "The Revolution's Over" sent in by old buddy Mack Arrington, a fine multi-instrumentalist and life coach. (www.mackarrington.com)
Keepin' the customer satisfied
I wish I was homeward bound
Plugged into virtual reality
Sounds of silence can't be found, found
Sounds of silence can't be found.
Did you catch all three song references? All by the same artists!
Dave
April 11, 2007
Here's a challenge for you!
I've written a new song--sort of goofy, of course--below. You can do two things:
1. Identify one of the songs (or TV commercials) hinted at.
2. Write your own verse and submit it here.
___________
The Revolution's Over
Copyright 2007 Dave Nealon
The revolution's over now. Lay down my old guitar.
The Rolling Stones couldn't get no satisfaction so they're hawking credit cards, cards.
They're hawking credit cards.
The revolution's over now but we're still 8 miles high.
Imagine more possessions now. It's easy if you buy, buy.
It's easy if you buy.
Oh deep in my heart, I do believe down by the riverside.
You say you want a revolution in your heart this time, time.
In your heart this time.
The culture war is long since won, but who knows at what cost?
And while we're toasting our champagne I wonder what's been lost, lost.
I wonder what's been lost.
The revolution's over now. Can't you read the signs?
The generation lost in space kinda wasted my precious time, time.
Kinda wasted my precious time.
Oh deep in my heart, I do believe down by the riverside.
You say you want a revolution in your heart this time, time.
In your heart this time.
The revolution's over now. Almost cut my hair.
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind but Dylan's selling underwear, wear
Dylan's selling underwear.
Abbie Bealob
March 17, 2007
Gadzooks! You're famous!
Hey! You! Yeah, you! The reporter guy! Get over here! I wanna introduce you to a real star!
Dave
February 28, 2007
Harold, yes. I've got about 15 new songs that I want to record. I'm playing them out and about for a few months to see how folks like them. Then I'll start recording. So sometime in 2007. (A few of these are in the "Unreleased" section of the Music page. Preliminary recordings, anyway.) Thanks for asking. See you at the next Mennofolk.
harold trotter
February 25, 2007
Just found your website. Thanks for coming to Mennofolk. Really like your music. Any CD recordings in the works? Harold
Dave
February 2, 2007
Leslie and Bill, thanks for the feedback on Strangest Dream. I just now made the whole song available. Maybe it will make more sense. Tiananmen Square did pass through my head when I was writing that last verse: when the tanks rolled. But this is song has a lot of influences, and maybe some different speakers, so "I" and "you" might not be constants. I was also thinking of people whose health conditions make them unable to communicate.
Leslie & Bill
February 2, 2007
Dave, We like the lyrics of Strangest Dream. What is the story behind this song? We wonder if it is the Dali Lama? Is it Tiananmen Square? a minute and a half of the song sounded great!
Leslie Eberly
February 2, 2007
Hey there Dave! I was looking around in your website and thought that I'd say Hi! Your page is very informative! I hope that Bill and I can make it to some of your events:-)
We love playing/singing with you at church! You are a very talented musician and God has blessed you with this great talent!
Dave
January 27, 2007
Joe, Yes, I'll bet it's the same Tom Arrowsmith. He taught me techniques that I thought were far beyond my ability. He really encouraged me to challenge myself. A good teacher--and what a musician! Tom, are you out there? Still playing?
Joe
January 27, 2007
I wonder if you know the same Tom Arrowsmith I know from Marshall HS in Falls Church ?
Saint-Paul Gaffney
January 4, 2007
Great music and fantastic photos.
Jim
January 3, 2007
Best music since John Prine! Great music and great website - hope you and the family had a great holiday. Jim
Karol Neufeld
December 28, 2006
Great website - I'm so happy to see it! I bought copies of your first CD for Paul, Margot, and Adam for Christmas, plus two extra for Bev and Marilou. CD Baby loves me! Next I'll buy them your second CD.
Hope you and yours have had days that were merry and bright. May the new year bring much musical inspiration.
Karol
Dave
December 27, 2006
Hugh,
Yes, the song list for our new CD, Something You Already Know, is on this site on the News page. You'll also find it, plus samples of each song, at http://cdbaby.com/cd/casestudies
Thanks for asking!
Hugh
December 24, 2006
Mark piqued my interest (thanks for the email Mark!) Got a playlist for the Something You Already Know CD?
Mark Rallings
December 22, 2006
Great website, Dave! I let a lot of folks know--hope they take a look and listen. Thanks for your kind words about my songs. See you soon.
Mark Adams
December 14, 2006
Davey-boy! What a neat looking site! And to think...I knew you when! Can't wait to hear some stuff, but will have to download at work...still have snail-pace dial-up here in my neck of the woods.
Smiley
Ryan Nealon
December 14, 2006
Uncle Dave,
This is Awesome!
Ryan
Bob Nealon
December 13, 2006
Dave,
You are my musical hero! Keep up the good music.
Bob
Kim Betts
December 12, 2006
Dave, keep up the great work! Can't wait to hear you play some time.
Dave
December 12, 2006
Thanks for your comments, everyone!
Several folks asked about the site design. It's a template from hostbaby.com, which is a spinoff of cdbaby.com. I can't take any credit, but I hope it's easy to navigate.
By the way, that's an adult light phase red-tailed hawk. In Virginia and North Carolina, at least, you'll see them every mile or so along the highway, but I never get tired of them.
Anna
December 12, 2006
Hey Dave,
I love your website and your music! And now I know why my water never boils. :-) Merry Christmas!
Anna
Mary Walala
December 12, 2006
Hi Dave,
always good to hear from you - keep on keeping on! Regards to your family and Happy Holidays.
Biff
December 12, 2006
excellent website buddy, love the hawk, very slick on the downloads (i'm listening to tell him what you want as i type) hope to see you soon, i need some shellbook lessons. tell beth and the girls we all say hi. you still gonna play at the reunion?
Stefan Keydel
December 12, 2006
Hey Dave,
Looks great! To add to erndog's comments, what did you use to design the page?
Hope you, Beth, and the girls have a great holiday!
erndog
December 12, 2006
Looks great Dave! Cool hawk. In the past two weeks I have had two buzz me while walking and jogging. Now they scare me. How did you do your page. It really looks neat and clean.
Katrinka Fahrney
December 12, 2006
Dave - it's good to hear from you again. Keep it up with the music. I hope you and your family have a peace-filled and joyous holiday!
Hong Wei
December 12, 2006
Hi, dear Dave!
I never doubt that you are a talented musician! Friedrich Nietzsche once said that "without music, life would be a mistake." As my experience showed that music can heal the soul and help create inner peace and harmony. I feel proud of you and all I have to do is listen!
Thank you!
Hong
Stuart Roberts
December 12, 2006
I can't imagine why you omitted the world's greatest rock and roll band from your bio. That would be the "17th Street Electric Gospel Band", of course. Looks great, old friend. God rest ye merry this Christmas. Also send my best to all those beautiful women you live with.
Richard
December 12, 2006
Really nice site! It gives me the chance to tell people that my family is in show business! Congratulations!
Mike Trainum
December 12, 2006
Who put this website together and what have you done with Dave Nealon? This is really good, buddy, way to go!
Jessie Fabling
December 12, 2006
I love your website! It looks great, it's easy to use, and I think that it is really cool that we can listen to your music online! Great job with it!
I hope that You have Merry Christmas Dave! I'll keep practicing over the break. :)
In Him,
~Jessie .>.
Finfer Bealob
December 11, 2006
Golly, Pop! You sure did put together a swell website!
Love,
Finfer