"John S. Hall and I were at school at an incredibly glamorous institution by the name of Queens College sometime in 1985 or so. John and my brother Tom were singers for a band called "You Suck" and because of them, my group, "The Shoestrings," an Everly Brothers - type duo, go our first gigs in Manhattan. John was impressed with me and my partner Rob Meyer's stuff and one day out in the quad he told me he was asking various writer friends to write songs for the new hippie band he was starting called "Purple Sunshine," and he asked if I would write one as well. The idea of a hippie band, especially with John as the front man, seemed funny back then; whereas now, starting a hippie band would definitely be nauseating since certain recording artists and the fashion business have taken it a bit too seriously. That afternoon I worked out some of the song in my head on the way to my grandmother's house in Queens, and when I got there, I picked up my uncle's classical guitar and knocked out Mr. Johnson in about an hour. I knew John would like the line 'I've known Mr. Johnson since before I was born.' It was exactly his type of humor."
Currently, Mr. Dave Keener (the band) can be heard regularly in such places as the Sidewalk Cafe and CB's Gallery on New York's Lower East Side. As Them Keener Boys, Dave and his brother Tom also produce, write, and act in the long running downtown variety spectacular Bowery Frolics, at the Dixon Place Theater (a recent show featured John S. Hall as a special guest) as well as the annual St. Patrick's Day extravaganza, Sodom & Beghorrah.
"Way Out," Mr. Dave Keener's twelve-song cassette of all-new material can be purchased for the low, low price of $8 by sending a check payable to David Keener to:
The above text was all written by David Keener. Thanks go to him for providing this information to me for the site.
Just for the heck of it, mention this web site when you order the tape. Dave Keener was unfamiliar with the Web when I first approached him about all this, and it might be interesting for him to see how useful it can be for advertising relatively unknown, cool artists like himself :)
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