So why this page and who the hell am I anyway? Oh I'm just a guy who writes about music and deals with things and am a merry soul. If you really wanna know more, go here.
Basically, what happened is that I've been a denizen at the web-boards now hosted at ilxor.com since their start back in 2000. It being what it is, the word got around and more and more good folks joined in to talk about music, stuff and things, as they do to this day.
On May 9, 2001, a poster first appeared and said this, regarding the Beach Boys:
"Here Comes the Night" (1980) is the greatest thing ever to be put on vinyl!"
From this, the seed was born.
Dave Q -- or Dave Queen -- is someone who I don't know too much about in many ways, but that's all right by me because what matters are the words. I do know that he's Canadian by background, he was in London when he started posting but has since returned to Canada, he had a band called the Brazen Hussies (as reviewed here and here), and he was a man of particular opinions about life, arts, politics, society, the UK, the US, Canada, etc. More than once his stories pictured a life that, I'll be frank, I'm glad I didn't have (the neighbors, the coworkers, the place he lived, the drugs...I could go on).
He's also two things:
1) A satiric, humorous, incredible writer.
2) Perhaps one of the broadest-minded listeners ever. He's heard it all and he is always listening to everything and anything, drawing connections and never stopping. He explained it once in this post:
Dad - was quite the hipster, dig? The cat could be found wherever the woodchoppers were swingin' their axes. (This is according to him, and only happened years before I was born.) He liked both bop and cool, and anything Afro-Cuban was immediately purchased. (For somebody whose attitudes are not untypical of a second-generation blue-collar Italian-Canadian, his record collection was pretty lopsided in favour of black music - along with jazz, the other huge chunk of his collection was funk and disco. The 'white' end of the collection was uncannily like Tim Gane's probably is - 'leftfield' rock [since he was getting a bit slow on the info uptake in that department, he'd just purloin mine - post-punk and obscure prog were guaranteed to be stolen], incredibly cheesy garbage ('Hello From Ontario! EZ-listening provincial songs in AstroGroove'), albums of chart pap from Portugal and Lithuania. (For somebody who liked to conduct himself like General Patton most of the time, it was weird how many records he had by 'Experimental Arty Percussion Workshop'-type ensembles, usually 100-copy limited editions by local communes populated by the draft dodgers so plentiful in 70s British Columbia.) I DEFINITELY got my buy-everything aesthetic from him - he'd buy 'Agharta' and 'Chicago XIV' at the same time and give them the same attention on purchase.
Mom was a bit different, she once said the "Beatles were too noisy, the Carpenters versions are what they SHOULD be like", despised Jimi Hendrix ("that HORRIBLE GREASY JUNKIE"), and even disliked that Canadian institution Gordon Lightfoot, for which the mounties burned our barn down.
People noticed. Writers celebrated him, threads were started, he started his blog, he got published...the future awaits (and that means a book sometime, please!).
This page will serve as a general collection of links for those loving the writing of Dave Q. All contributions and pointers and more accepted; contact me at ned@kuci.org.