It's my name! When I first went solo the stage name was "Dick Savage P.I." (was that influenced by Dick Tracy or Magnum P.I.?!) but I eventually (and wisely, I think) dropped the "P.I." I don't even know why it was there in the first place!

I love to play live and will do so wherever, whenever, for whoever is willing to lend me their ears! I like playing support for good bands.

I used to say "It doesn't change much for me personally, I'm a get-out-and-gig kind of musician," but I seem to use the internet more and more for promotion, especially now that I'm recording at home and don't have to pay a lot of money for studio time. It's a wonderful way of getting music 'to the masses' without forking out for CD production. I guess the industry will just have to live with that. I still don't like the low quality of mp3, though... bring back vinyl!

Can I sign with an indie?

I started back in the nineties playing in a band called Who Moved The Ground? (records still available, kids!) and when, after 7 years of fantastic low-key success, we split, I started to do the odd solo support slot for friends' bands and I've kept it up ever since.
I also did a fun project with mates in 2002 called "The Treatment", which was a set of punk/ska covers of our faves (e.g. The Smiths, Suzanne Vega, etc.) CDs still exist of that too!
I currently play in a band in Pilsen, Czech Republic called coldfeet
and we also play a couple of more updated, full-band versions of songs available here.

My latest project is DSPI, an alter-ego of mine who remixes anything and everything (including my songs!)

Mozart, Killing Joke, Nick Drake, The Specials, Star Wars (yes, the film!), John Otway, The Beatles, Jane's Addiction, The Wonder Stuff, my dad, Culture Shock/Citizen Fish, The Clash, Dvorak, The Smiths, The Smashing Pumpkins, you name it, if it's good - I'm influenced by it...

Almost anywhere in the Czech Republic

I used to use a battered old Hohner 6-string electro-acoustic (except the electro bit doesn't work any more) but I recently forked out for a new Ashton , and very nice it is too!
I also use an acoustic bass converted from an old 6-string jumbo, an egg and a friend's didgeridoo. Oh, and Jim Dunlop 0.73mm nylon plectrums... the best that money can buy:-)

All the tracks here were recorded on my PC home studio, with Cubase LE4 and a Lexicon Alpha audio interface.