The Guitar Player

I am 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,  I did the survey and I came out a rhino and it stuck. Shralping, is a surfing term which means tearing up the waves, but one of my friends when he saw and heard me play exclaimed, “you’re schralping!” I put the ‘c’ in schralp to make the adaptation to the guitar and the ‘c’ can stand for cutting (as in “cutting heads”).
The definition of schralping that has now been crystallized is this one:

Schralp: verb (Schralping), when there are more notes coming out of the guitar than the fingers seem to be playing.

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).”

The Empathic  Rhino

My favorite quote:

“Treat someone as they appear to be and you make them less than they are. Treat someone as if they already were what they potentially could be and you make them what they should be” Goethe

Survival Skills

The way I finance all of these wonderful creative projects in Music is through my teaching career. I am so fortunate to get paid for something I love so much -interacting with young people and sharing “other” ways of approaching their world. In other words character education derived from the more noble traits that are available to us humans such as gentility, humility, courage, generosity, gratitude and of course loving kindness.

Friends

These  are friends I admire. There are people who in their own way honor that which is creatively expressive.

Rob Moses Kung-fu Master
http://goldenharmonykungfu.com/portfolio/rob-moses/

Alex Machacek
http://www.alexmachacek.com

Richard Hassebrock
https://www.facebook.com/richard.hassebrock
https://www.crosscutdelux.com/

Bruno Rony
http://www.webdesignpasadena.com
http://www.losangelesbikers.com