The Amalgamated Rock and Roll Website of Dave Manoucheri

The Album!  She can't take much more, captain!

After a hiccup with the estate of Jimi Hendrix...recording is finished.

Again.

There's no easy way to put it.

The solo record has been delayed.

The last week of May (2019) I was on my way home from my day job and a massive accident happened.  I was injured, amazingly alive, but…

YES! I brought 6 guitars and 3 amplifiers.
YES!  I used them all!

I hit the studio again and in a flurry of recording and mixing am that much closer to the reality of my first solo album!

"When the…

Hitting the Studio Again!!!

I'm going into the studio again April 17th and 18th (2019) in order to continue the long process of finishing my solo album.

Tentatively titled "When the Giants Fell", the album will hopefully be out end…

I got an email recently asking the status of the solo LP, and when I think it might get released.

Well . . . it isn't just a matter of funds, or time, or any of the other sundry single…

Every year, on the anniversary of my wife's passing, I got together with the kids - yes, all four of them - and put together a video commemorating the last year.  It always had the memory of their mother in…

I have gotten a lot of questions in the last few weeks that center around who influenced that first single?

Initially?  It was my late wife, as I was very sad and it caused me to write the lyrics.  But…

In 1989 or 1990 (I forget which, call it lapses in the synapses) I had had enough of the cheap guitars and fighting with the tuning machines and intonation of my guitar.  I had bought a used 1985 Fender Stratocaster…

Since the first single was released on April 22nd (2016), I decided you should get to know the gear that is dear to my heart.  All that I'm profiling here is what's been used in the recording so far.

Part…

The Ain't Got No Time (Rock and Blues) Band

Considering that my first single comes out tomorrow, April 22nd, as of this writing . . . I thought there was a very important group of people you should meet.

None…

When the Morning Comes

I decided, after much deliberation and fretting and sweating and stress, that the first single from our recording session should come out.  This even though we're still in the process of rehearsing and recording the rest…

On the Dot

I have someone in my life that has been there longer than most.

It's my green Fender Eric Clapton model Stratocaster

You might think this is an odd thing to write about, a gearhead kind of thing…