About Dan

Oh boy. I deleted all that was recently here since I haven’t updated this thing is 12 years. There will be new stuff one day when I get around to it. I’ll leave the bit below about my roots for now. Email me. dan@toneandvolume.com

Now, if you want to hear about the way-back…

I was born and grew up in the land of corn and basketball, Evansville, Indiana.  Growing up with older siblings, I was exposed to much cooler music than the typical adolescent.  A steady diet of The Eagles, Michael Jackson, Queen, The J. Giles Band, Joan Jett, David Bowie and The Stones gave me a rock and roll head up on the other toddlers and grade schoolers who were listening to Disco Duck and Fraggle…whatever that was.  From there I had a heavy diet of music, music, music. Countless hours were spent listening to music, from Abba to Black Sabbath, amazed that I could hear the “room sound” on the drums of Autograph’s “Turn Up The Radio” at the age of 12. Many summers of lawn mowing came after, where every cent was put toward video games and stereo equipment.  My mom had to drive me to the local Hi-Fi store to buy my first real stereo, at the ripe old age of 14.  Bose 401s, a Yamaha integrated amp, and a Poineer 6 disc CD changer.  Like it was yesterday.

Time passed…I bought lots of speakers….and amps.  I can stop any time I want to.