Dave Busch is the Schralping Rhino. The name derives from two places. The Rhino comes from an animal book which bases the type of animal you are on a questionnaire of human characteristics. A group of friends one night, at a gathering, did the survey and he came out a rhino and it stuck. Shralping, is a surfing term which means tearing up the waves, but one of Dave’s friends when he saw and heard him play exclaimed, “You’re schralping!” Dave put the ‘c’ in schralp to make the adaptation to the guitar and the ‘c’ can stand for cutting (as in “cutting heads”). As the definition on the home page comes from the webmaster as he experienced Dave’s playing, all agree that the definition of schralping has now been crystallized.
Dave uses the guitar in this intense fashion as a transducer for his music. Music for Dave is a core experience wherein which he transmutes the oft times tragic and poignant emotions of the young people he’s worked with for nearly thirty years. This is a cathartic improvisational expression. When doing pure improvisation he tries to get into a state of resonance with the way he has been touched by young people and then releases it through his playing. Other emotional, monumental events and people serve as inspiration for his music as well. “He’s a sensitive and loving guy trapped in a rhino’s body (this is the transcriber’s input! - MDLAM).”