Dancing Dave and Friends is a project to put more radical soul into the Digital Underground. I try to dance through my whole life, so I've learned how to dance and do other things at the same time. I've discovered that I actually play keyboards better if I dance at the same time. You know, that's how dynamic players used to rock the house. Or sometime I play in sitting Zen meditation position, to clear and focus my mind, that is all. Now keyboardists can choose from hundreds of sounds and tweak the ambience and groove in so many ways, but there are universal roots in natural rhythms and energy flows and you've still gotta find a way to express yourself in a groove. I started banging on pots and pans before I even hit Kindergarden, and then switched to piano as soon as I could lay my hands on one. By the time I was a teen-ager I was playing electric keyboards in a band with my brother, a guitarist. I learned about the roots of groove music from a colorfully eccentric old Cajun Bluesmaster and chef known as Mighty Shu-Bee Villery. This guy has played with everyone from Clifton Chenier to Muddy Waters to Willie Nelson. And his gumbo is second to none. To the right you can see me teaching my baby NEICE CAMMY to jam, though it may be a few years before she turns up on a Dancing Dave and Friends recording. How often did you hear the TV "news" report the fact that the Bush and Bin Ladin families have been partners in business and crime for decades? ! Does it take an intense underground cultural revolution before the crimes of Presidents such as Nixon or Bush can be exposed? The rapper Paris was raising consciousness about all the official 9/11 lies long before New York newspapers dared to do any such thing! Sometimes music can reach it's highest level helping people through their darkest passages...think of Jimi Hendrix. Music can be a powerful way of raising consciousness. It sticks in peoples hearts and minds and changes how they see things. John Lennon, Bob Marley and Alanis Morissette understood that well. Regime change involves a change of groove. My most popular station at mp3.com was the positive movement music station "How Does It Feel to be One of the Beautiful People". It included pictures of both musicians and peace protestors, and that turned out to be a powerful combination all over the planet. A British Samba Groove band says ONLY MUSIC CAN SAVE US NOW. that only someone like , , ,, Cheryl Seal, Aaron McGruder,, , or Al Franken can face the terrible hidden truth about it? Well, we know Britney Spears won't help us make sense of our Orwellian nightmare! Those guys rock! So here we are getting into the biggest wave of movement culture and political activism since the '60's and '70's. We've got a corrupt Presidential Administration in Washington guilty of So will we get the satisfaction of watching the Bush gang be tried for their crimes? Only if more Democrats are elected to the U.S. Congress and some powerful progressive songs from anywhere bring people together and open up our minds and media. Then all the evidence of the Bush Regime's crimes will be able to make a difference. So get involved in the movement wherever you are, and give Freedom, Peace, Truth and Justice a chance! Musicians from Ani DiFranco to Public Enemy to the Asian Dub Foundation have contributed to these sonic manifestos. There's plenty of popular recordings on the net for free, so if you want people to support your music by buying it, you have STAND FOR SOMETHING. It's been a long road, but now we have a MOVEMENT. We need the movement to save our future, and the movement needs music to channel people's energy into grooves that bring us together all around the planet. TIMES LIKE RIGHT NOW OR THE NIXON ERA ARE ACTUALLY WHEN MUSIC IS MOST NEEDED AND IMPORTANT.