The BBC Producers were taken by Dave’s story – how he had been in a motorbike accident, unconscious 3 weeks and declared dead – and came back to life with a goal to play Apache – and play it he did, as You can hear if you want to on the video above.
And while I didn’t teach Dave – we are going to be supporting him on Friday February 22nd – we started a campaign to track down Dave and get him to play Apache one more time.
I’m pleased and excited to say he has agreed and we are putting together a band for Dave especially to relive his glory days.
This will be happening at the open mike hosted at The Devonshire Arms by local band FlatBadger, on Friday February 22nd – the open mike runs from around 8.30pm to 11.30pm.
And ofcourse Dave will appreciate all the support he can get – this will be his first public performance on guitar for some time (though he’s been playing Ukulele in the Nuneaton Ukulele Jam Band).
But if you do come along – You will be able to hear from Dave himself – how he still doesn’t get a Christmas Card from Hank Marvin – who hasn’t forgiven Dave for taking his place, on Apache on the BBC’s 50 years Fender Strat tribute program.
It has been 15 years since Local Guitar inspiration, Dave Whitmore played on BBC Radio’s program Fender Heaven – a tribute to 50 years of the Fender Stratocaster.
Nuneaton Player Dave was in good company – there was Eric Clapton ofcourse, and Jeff Beck, but when it came to a certain instrumental from 1960 Hank Marvin spoke about it, but it was Dave that actually played on the BBC broadcast show.
This will be a great Local Magic Musical Moment
Andre