Showcase

May 13 Showcase

Dave Law & Gerry Brown, the Axes of Evol

(Their music is still evolving)

by Dave & Gerry, with Dan Grove

Dave and Gerry went to different military colleges together way back in the hippie days, before many of us were born. They both played in rock bands at their respective military schools, where they weren’t very military.

After college Gerry flew in the Air Force for 10 years active duty and 18 years in the Air Guard. He flew for the airlines for 5 years, worked for an FAA contractor for 6, worked for NASA for 16, and is now on his 5th career as a Civil Servant (yes, he’s from the Government – and he’s here to help). He moved back here from Hampton VA in 2006, heard about the Folk Club from Marjorie in a music class last year, and has hardly missed a Tuesday since. If he’s not here, he’s not in town. He has been playing “with” the guitar since he was thirteen. Then in 2003, after 40 years of frustration, he decided to take guitar lessons ... he discovered he should have started much sooner. Until last month with Dave, he hadn’t played in public since May, 1968.

While Gerry was pursuing his various careers, Dave was extending his post-military, new found “hippie life,” rejecting authority and building a log cabin on 15 acres near the Continental Divide in western Montana. During those 6 wonderful years he continued playing folk music, cowboy songs, and even some old fiddle tunes with the locals in the nearby saloons. Those magnificent Montana Rockies inspired many of his original tunes (some of which are still a work in progress). Dave reluctantly moved back to Virginia in the 80’s, and for the past 3 years he and his wife Kate, their son Matt and dog Sam have been living out in the Shenandoah Valley. To find work they eventually returned to Reston, where Tom Passin introduced them to the Folk Club of Reston-Herndon and Gerry Brown last August. “Thanks, Tom! Hello, Gerry,” and the rest is history. “We all really like it here now.”

For their showcase, Dave & Gerry will do a bit of bluegrass, with TM Hanna sitting in on mandolin, plus some Neil Young, Grateful Dead, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Beatles, and Cat Stevens, with an original instrumental of Dave’s tossed in to spice it up. Wear your bell bottoms and tie-dyes, we’re rolling back the clock from hip-hop to hippie and celebrating with the Axes of Evol!
 

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