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Johnny Fever
Big MO
I think it all started when I was 8 years old. I
went to my uncle's house to see the
damage from a fire they had. In the corner
was a acoustic guitar that was burnt on the
back. I picked it up and was looking at it.
My cousin Mike had been taking Guitar
lessons but he didn't like it. He said if you
want it you can have it. It went in the car
and that was my first guitar. My father and
oldest sister played guitar so I ask my sister
to teach me a song. She taught me how to
play House Of The Rising Sun. A year later
my mother ask me what I wanted for
Christmas and I told her I wanted a electric
guitar. She baby sat for a week for a
neighbor lady. For that the lady gave her a
used electric guitar and amp. That started
my love for Rock music. By the time I was
in the 6th grade me and a couple of guys
gigged our grade school. Then some guys I
grew up with started playing and we started
playing at any party we could find. By the
time I graduated from high school I knew
music would be part of my life no mater
what. I started spending more time playing
with records and learning more licks. I love
to learn from records where else could you
jam with Jimmy Page, Richie Blackmore,
Carlos Santana, Randy Roads,Gary
Moore,Eric Johnson, and many more. I
bought a Les Paul copy and played it so
much I wore the paint off the neck. Me and
my Brother in law put a band together
called The Sniper Band and started
playing clubs. It turned into a full time job
playing six nights a week. We played
outside once for a crowed of a couple
thousand people. That is when I learned
how much I loved to play for a audience
and when I started dreaming of playing in
front of a Arena full of people. We had a lot
of fun playing full time but it wasn't much
of a living. We just about starved. We
played any gig we could get.That band
broke up about a year or two later and I had
to get a real job. It would be a while before
I played in another band again but I would
keep playing and learning from records. In
that time period I would get my Gibson Les
Paul Custom and my 100 Watt Marshall
stack. Wow! It doesn't get any better than
that. On my way to work one day I would
hear on the radio about a Guitar contest. A
two minute guitar solo is what you had to
do. I went home that night made up a solo
that lasted two minutes and went to the
contest. I won that leg of the contest. The
prize was music equipment. Just what I
needed. Now that I had all the music
equipment I needed it would be time to
play in a band again. I started playing in a
band called The Ritz Band. Back in the
Clubs again. In that band we would open
for a band called Humble Pie at an out
door concert In Ohio. This was my dream.
Bad weather messed up the concert. We
still played the next day but not the arena
full of people I was hoping for. Because of
the rain I met and jammed in the motel
with Steve Marriott the lead singer and
guitar player of Humble Pie. A experience I
will never forget. The best part of it all was I
felt like I was a better guitar player then he
was. That would make me work harder. I
went on to play in several other bands
before I needed a break away from the
band scene. Everyone that plays has to get
away for awhile but once it is in your blood
it never leaves. I would keep playing and
learning more. In this time period I would
wear the paint off the neck of my Les Paul.
Several years later I would have to go back
and play in a band. I missed playing for the
crowd. I joined a band and after 6 months
that band fell apart. With out a Sound
System you can't play. So I bought one to
keep playing. In that band I met a keyboard
player. He and I would start over and build
a new band called The Night Deposit
Band. I found our Bass player at a Blues
jam. Later we would find our Sax player at
another blues jam. I am so happy to be
playing live again. When I'm playing I am
in a world of my own. I'm hoping to have
our first CD in the next year and still waiting
for that dream to come true. If it doesn't
happen that's ok as long as I can keep
playing for the crowd.
went to my uncle's house to see the
damage from a fire they had. In the corner
was a acoustic guitar that was burnt on the
back. I picked it up and was looking at it.
My cousin Mike had been taking Guitar
lessons but he didn't like it. He said if you
want it you can have it. It went in the car
and that was my first guitar. My father and
oldest sister played guitar so I ask my sister
to teach me a song. She taught me how to
play House Of The Rising Sun. A year later
my mother ask me what I wanted for
Christmas and I told her I wanted a electric
guitar. She baby sat for a week for a
neighbor lady. For that the lady gave her a
used electric guitar and amp. That started
my love for Rock music. By the time I was
in the 6th grade me and a couple of guys
gigged our grade school. Then some guys I
grew up with started playing and we started
playing at any party we could find. By the
time I graduated from high school I knew
music would be part of my life no mater
what. I started spending more time playing
with records and learning more licks. I love
to learn from records where else could you
jam with Jimmy Page, Richie Blackmore,
Carlos Santana, Randy Roads,Gary
Moore,Eric Johnson, and many more. I
bought a Les Paul copy and played it so
much I wore the paint off the neck. Me and
my Brother in law put a band together
called The Sniper Band and started
playing clubs. It turned into a full time job
playing six nights a week. We played
outside once for a crowed of a couple
thousand people. That is when I learned
how much I loved to play for a audience
and when I started dreaming of playing in
front of a Arena full of people. We had a lot
of fun playing full time but it wasn't much
of a living. We just about starved. We
played any gig we could get.That band
broke up about a year or two later and I had
to get a real job. It would be a while before
I played in another band again but I would
keep playing and learning from records. In
that time period I would get my Gibson Les
Paul Custom and my 100 Watt Marshall
stack. Wow! It doesn't get any better than
that. On my way to work one day I would
hear on the radio about a Guitar contest. A
two minute guitar solo is what you had to
do. I went home that night made up a solo
that lasted two minutes and went to the
contest. I won that leg of the contest. The
prize was music equipment. Just what I
needed. Now that I had all the music
equipment I needed it would be time to
play in a band again. I started playing in a
band called The Ritz Band. Back in the
Clubs again. In that band we would open
for a band called Humble Pie at an out
door concert In Ohio. This was my dream.
Bad weather messed up the concert. We
still played the next day but not the arena
full of people I was hoping for. Because of
the rain I met and jammed in the motel
with Steve Marriott the lead singer and
guitar player of Humble Pie. A experience I
will never forget. The best part of it all was I
felt like I was a better guitar player then he
was. That would make me work harder. I
went on to play in several other bands
before I needed a break away from the
band scene. Everyone that plays has to get
away for awhile but once it is in your blood
it never leaves. I would keep playing and
learning more. In this time period I would
wear the paint off the neck of my Les Paul.
Several years later I would have to go back
and play in a band. I missed playing for the
crowd. I joined a band and after 6 months
that band fell apart. With out a Sound
System you can't play. So I bought one to
keep playing. In that band I met a keyboard
player. He and I would start over and build
a new band called The Night Deposit
Band. I found our Bass player at a Blues
jam. Later we would find our Sax player at
another blues jam. I am so happy to be
playing live again. When I'm playing I am
in a world of my own. I'm hoping to have
our first CD in the next year and still waiting
for that dream to come true. If it doesn't
happen that's ok as long as I can keep
playing for the crowd.
It all started in early 1955. Born to the parents
of Earl & Rosemary Overton. As for my mom,
she planted the seedy by playing "The Yellow
Rose of Texas" when I was a baby on a 45 LP.
When the record stopped, my mom would say
that I would start to cry and then she would start
the record over and I would stop crying.
As I grew older, I latched onto my sister's 45's.
Dwayne Eddie's "Hot Rod Lincoln", which I
would sit in from of my parent's Zenith Stereo
and beat on cardboard boxes with wooden
spoons. This led my parents to buy me a cheap
drum set. Well, that didn't last long. My dad
saw an ad in the newspaper for a Slingerland 5
piece kit for $200, which he bought for me.
Coming to find out later, I purchased the drum
set from the local band "The Boy's Next Door."
I proceeded to teach myself to play the drums
to the beat of Grand Funk Railroad, Cream, and
Santana, just to name a few. I also was
interested in playing Bass Guitar. I took lessons
at Arthur's Music Store which lasted three
weeks. There was just something about playing
"Mary Had A Little Lamb" and "Twinkle,
Twinkle, Little Star" after listening to Black
Sabbaths' "Ironman,"
My first band started in 8th grade. Jim Pennel
played bass and John Nugent and Herman
Means also played guitar. I played the drums -
our band name was "The Illusions, Inc." or gigs
were playing YMCA, sock hops, ad pool parties
at the ripe age of 14. After that band came
MTHJ Express, then Dry Heat. These bands
were the last time that I played drums. I started
playing Bass in the following bands: Buck
Tooth, Riff Raff, The Phorus, Today's Icons, and
Ulterior Motive to present day Night Deposit
Band.
My job is simply holding down the bottom end
and be one with the drums. This band has
been a blast to play in and with the line-up or
musicians, who could go wrong!
of Earl & Rosemary Overton. As for my mom,
she planted the seedy by playing "The Yellow
Rose of Texas" when I was a baby on a 45 LP.
When the record stopped, my mom would say
that I would start to cry and then she would start
the record over and I would stop crying.
As I grew older, I latched onto my sister's 45's.
Dwayne Eddie's "Hot Rod Lincoln", which I
would sit in from of my parent's Zenith Stereo
and beat on cardboard boxes with wooden
spoons. This led my parents to buy me a cheap
drum set. Well, that didn't last long. My dad
saw an ad in the newspaper for a Slingerland 5
piece kit for $200, which he bought for me.
Coming to find out later, I purchased the drum
set from the local band "The Boy's Next Door."
I proceeded to teach myself to play the drums
to the beat of Grand Funk Railroad, Cream, and
Santana, just to name a few. I also was
interested in playing Bass Guitar. I took lessons
at Arthur's Music Store which lasted three
weeks. There was just something about playing
"Mary Had A Little Lamb" and "Twinkle,
Twinkle, Little Star" after listening to Black
Sabbaths' "Ironman,"
My first band started in 8th grade. Jim Pennel
played bass and John Nugent and Herman
Means also played guitar. I played the drums -
our band name was "The Illusions, Inc." or gigs
were playing YMCA, sock hops, ad pool parties
at the ripe age of 14. After that band came
MTHJ Express, then Dry Heat. These bands
were the last time that I played drums. I started
playing Bass in the following bands: Buck
Tooth, Riff Raff, The Phorus, Today's Icons, and
Ulterior Motive to present day Night Deposit
Band.
My job is simply holding down the bottom end
and be one with the drums. This band has
been a blast to play in and with the line-up or
musicians, who could go wrong!
Drivin D
David’s drumming career began in southern Indiana at the young age of 2, watching his dad
and uncle play in a country band at the local Moose Lodge. It was his uncle’s drumming that
captivated David’s attention as he stood intently at the foot of the stage and watched, and of
course banged away between sets. By the age of 6, David was playing snare drum and brushes
with his dad at small parties and family outings, wherever music was desired. His playing
continued to progress as he grew.
He received his first drum set at age 10, and he was definitely hooked by that point. As a
teenager, he naturally gravitated from country to more rock and roll, spending hours in the
basement playing to records. He was also actively involved in the school band program,
playing in the school marching band as well as the concert band. At the age of 13, he was
featured as a drum set soloist during a 50’s style musical medley. It was also as a teenager that
he managed to secure his first paying gigs in public, playing mainly country gigs with
established local artists in the area.
After graduating from high school, David started what would become a 6 year career in the U.S.
Army, not as a musician but as a truck driver. He did, however, manage to continue momentum
as his playing became more driven and his career goals truly began to take shape. He mainly
played with fellow GI’s at the local recreation center until reenlisting and transferring to
Germany. It was there that he actually joined his first real rock band, Glass Hammer. Glass
Hammer played a wide variety of classic and hard rock from the mid-80’s. His playing started to
be influenced largely by John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, Ian Paice of Deep Purple, and Cozy
Powell of Richie Blackmore’s Rainbow for starters.
After the Army, David spent a year in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area playing with his
former Glass Hammer bass player in a top-40 dance band, being exposed to electronic drums
for the first time. He did inevitably wind up back in Indiana however, and soon after started
college at a branch campus of Indiana University as a music major, playing with various local
bands. After seeing world class drummer Kenny Aronoff of John Mellencamp fame perform in a
clinic, David decided it was time to move on to the Bloomington campus where Aronoff taught
privately at the world renowned university. So he transferred and in 1998 earned his Bachelor
of Music degree in percussion performance. Having had the opportunity to study with Aronoff
personally, as well as a host of other truly gifted professionals, David’s playing progressed at a
rapid pace. After finishing at IU, David continued to play while taking care of his his wife and
having twin boys. He lived in the Dallas, Texas area for a short time where he played with a
number of established area acts, playing everything from original hard rock to acoustic
Americana style to hand percussion for an acoustic group. It was after his return to Indiana that
he was fortunate enough to hook up with the Night Deposit Band, where he continues to
improve his playing and growing with this outstanding collection of players and new friends,
hopefully for a long time to come.
and uncle play in a country band at the local Moose Lodge. It was his uncle’s drumming that
captivated David’s attention as he stood intently at the foot of the stage and watched, and of
course banged away between sets. By the age of 6, David was playing snare drum and brushes
with his dad at small parties and family outings, wherever music was desired. His playing
continued to progress as he grew.
He received his first drum set at age 10, and he was definitely hooked by that point. As a
teenager, he naturally gravitated from country to more rock and roll, spending hours in the
basement playing to records. He was also actively involved in the school band program,
playing in the school marching band as well as the concert band. At the age of 13, he was
featured as a drum set soloist during a 50’s style musical medley. It was also as a teenager that
he managed to secure his first paying gigs in public, playing mainly country gigs with
established local artists in the area.
After graduating from high school, David started what would become a 6 year career in the U.S.
Army, not as a musician but as a truck driver. He did, however, manage to continue momentum
as his playing became more driven and his career goals truly began to take shape. He mainly
played with fellow GI’s at the local recreation center until reenlisting and transferring to
Germany. It was there that he actually joined his first real rock band, Glass Hammer. Glass
Hammer played a wide variety of classic and hard rock from the mid-80’s. His playing started to
be influenced largely by John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, Ian Paice of Deep Purple, and Cozy
Powell of Richie Blackmore’s Rainbow for starters.
After the Army, David spent a year in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area playing with his
former Glass Hammer bass player in a top-40 dance band, being exposed to electronic drums
for the first time. He did inevitably wind up back in Indiana however, and soon after started
college at a branch campus of Indiana University as a music major, playing with various local
bands. After seeing world class drummer Kenny Aronoff of John Mellencamp fame perform in a
clinic, David decided it was time to move on to the Bloomington campus where Aronoff taught
privately at the world renowned university. So he transferred and in 1998 earned his Bachelor
of Music degree in percussion performance. Having had the opportunity to study with Aronoff
personally, as well as a host of other truly gifted professionals, David’s playing progressed at a
rapid pace. After finishing at IU, David continued to play while taking care of his his wife and
having twin boys. He lived in the Dallas, Texas area for a short time where he played with a
number of established area acts, playing everything from original hard rock to acoustic
Americana style to hand percussion for an acoustic group. It was after his return to Indiana that
he was fortunate enough to hook up with the Night Deposit Band, where he continues to
improve his playing and growing with this outstanding collection of players and new friends,
hopefully for a long time to come.
Johnny Fever
Kenny
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