Artist description David Meese is a singer/song writer.David works with the Arel production team for backing tracks.Many Columbus, Ohio musicians have taken the stage with him.

Music Style Guitar Oriented Retro Rock

Musical Influences Santana, Black Sabath, Bon Jovi,

Artist History David, formerly the drummer for "Toys", called Stephe in late 1997. David told him that he had entered into a partnership on a project studio to record some songs he and others had written. The partnership had not worked well. There were scheduling problems and creative differences that made David’s work environment less than blissful and not very productive. David and Arel Compact Discs and Tapes struck a bargain that they would commit to seeing this CD completed. And that Stephe would personally oversee musical and technical production while, Executive Producer, Tom Heffner helped with facilitation.

Group Members David Meese: Guitar & Vocals ------------- Stephe: Lead Guitar, Bass, Drums, & Keyboards

Instruments Electric Guitar, Drums, Bass Guitar, Electric Keyboards

Albums Hold On!

Press Reviews HOLD ON-DAVID MEESE (AREL RECORDS)Out of Ohio comes guitarist/vocalist David Meese (not to confuse with David Meece, the Christian rocker). His CD 'Hold on!' is basically filled with 80s typed American Melodic (Hard) Rock. Instrumental it all sounds very good, partly due to the help of multi-instrumentalist Stephe who also produced the record. He did a very good job, but the only thing I need to add here is that the lead vocals of David are a bit average. The CD starts with "True lovers", a slow tempo rocker with some 80s partyrock references (a la CRUE). A nice first track, but the best songs can be found towards the end of the album. These are "I know you are the one" (cheerful uptempo melodic rocker) and "Time" (midtempo melodic rocker). In these songs the vocals of David sound better and also the sound is pure melodic rock. Weaker songs are tunes like "I need love", "Bring it on home" and "Come on". Check out David's music at: http://www.aardvarks.com/arel/index.sht and e-mail him at: Arel-Recording@att.net (Points: 6.5 out of 10)Gabor KleinbloesemEditor of Strutter'zine

Location Columbus, Ohio - USA

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