Dave Stanley Band

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“As a teenager and young adult, music was my religion. Music to me is personal, passionate, and meaningful .” – Dave Stanley Daoust

In his 1972 classic “Old Man,” Neil Young famously sang the line, “Twenty-four and there’s so much more.” For Dave Stanley, leader of the Canadian rock group The Dave Stanley Band, that fabled age Neil sang about was both nearly the year carved on his headstone and the year that the rest of his life began.

“I had used up a few of my lives by the time I turned 24,” Dave says, looking back on the year his life turned from a ‘live fast, die young’ cycle to a fresh, new beginning. “Up to that point, my life consisted of constant drinking, several close-call car accidents, small time drug dealing, and a few trips to jail for drinking offenses.”

Dave says a string of broken relationships and spotty employment rounded out his dead-end life and would later fuel the lyrics on his recently released cd, Dave Stanley Band.

“I remember sitting around and drinking with a small group of people – a biker, a prostitute, a convicted kidnapper, and me, and I said to myself, ‘What am I doing here? This is not what I planned for my life at 24.’”

As he lay in bed with a hangover hours later, it dawned on Dave that his world was quickly devolving into a dangerous place filled with criminals and drug addicts.