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Artist
Dave Munkhoff
12+ albums
bluesrockbluesrock
about
Dave Munkhoff took his first guitar lesson on his 12th birthday. By the age of 14 he was playing in bands and teaching guitar at that same music store in upstate New York. At the age of 15, his band released their first recording of original songs, music written by Dave. Soon the band was getting radio air play and doing concerts with various headliners of the day. Such as The Outsiders, The Happenings, The Barkays, Mytch Ryder And The Detroit Wheels. Dave Munkhoff In the mid 70's, Dave toured the eastern states and Canada with "Wail", a popular hard rock band out of Rochester, New York. Wail was the big thing in upstate New York, opening shows for people like Ronnie Montrose, Melissa Manchester, Black Sheep(Lou Gram), Cheap Trick, and various one hit wonders. From there, he was hired by a major Toronto production company to play in the band Thor. The producers also used him on other projects, where he recorded everything from disco, punk, latin, rock and jazz, often playing all of the bass and guitar parts himself. In '78, Dave Moved backed to Rochester, forming his own band, The Dolphins, with Charlie Oyer on vocals, Jim Hall on bass and Michael Root on drums. Charlie left the group and was replaced by Phil Naro. Before the band really had a chance to develop into a long term project, Dave accepted an offer from Billy Sheehan to join his new band. In 1979, Dave moved to his native state of Florida and did studio work in Orlando and Tampa. In Tampa, he recorded with some C
