Dave started his performing career at the age of five, singing the Marine Corps Hymn on a local Cleveland kids TV show, "Uncle Jake". At around eight years old, his parents gave him a Stella acoustic guitar, as he was a fan of Gene Autry, the singing cowboy. He started accordion lessons at 11, playing at school assemblies. But it was when he heard Paul McCartney and the Beatles that he knew bass was the instrument for him. He removed two strings from the Stella guitar and taught himself to play.

     Later he played clarinet and saxophone in the high school band but it was still bass that drove him. In junior year, he sold the sax to buy an electric bass, and got a gig with a local Cleveland band, "The Off-Set". In college, at Ohio University, Dave worked with a four piece all original band "The Sound Pocket", and the cover band "Soft Glass Helicopter" at the Appalachian Lighthouse, a college club featuring light shows ala San Francisco.

     Returning to Cleveland after only two years at Ohio U., he played in numerous cover bands and a Blues Band, "The Erector Set", and that's where his interest in Jazz began. They traveled together to Tucson, but work was scarce and the band broke up. He got a gig with a Phoenix based group, The Lee Meza Show, and was back on the road, playing mostly Ramada Inn lounges in Boston, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, and St. Louis with a few engagements at Harrah's casino in Lake Tahoe. For a few years he toured with an eight piece horn band, Phoenix Express, playing around the midwest, up and down the east coast, and in Tucson.

     Concluding the tour in Phoenix, Dave took a couple years off from the road and studied at Mesa Community College with Don Bothwell in Jazz improv and with Art Zubieni on Upright bass. Joining with some other Phoenix musicians, they formed the band AFFINITY, at the time a four piece band doing mostly local restaurant lounges.

     Affinity saw that Phoenix, being a prime corporate destination, was a strong market for corporate entertainment.The band has grown, and concentrated on that market from then to this day. The demand for this band has seen them performing in major destinations all over the country, as well as Bermuda and the Virgin Islands, including a private event hosted by General Electric for their best customers at the re-lighting of the Statue of Liberty in NYC.

     Dave has also worked extensively in the Valley's jazz scene. This work includes: several years with Chuck Marohnic's Sanctuary Jazz multi-media worship service; the "Arizona Big Band" performing in Wigan England for the 2003 Wigan International Jazz Festival, local legend Margo Reed, former Count Basie vocalist Dennis Rowland. Currently, Dave is playing regularly with "AFFINITY" and free-lancing in the Phoenix area, playing both upright and electric bass.