Band:

Reece

BiografieWhen I was a boy growing up in Oklahoma, the only music I was exposed to was traditional Country Music, artists like Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Buck Owens and Tammy Wynette were part of my life. We had one of those giant television stereo combos that had an 8 track player in it and my granny would play those 8 tracks all day, I'd pretend I was the singer and sing along. Also as a boy I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show which still seems like yesterday to me, the songs are so memorable... well the older people thought they were singing devil music or something but I'd still sneak a listen when I could. My first Rock and Roll records were Deep Purple (Machine Head) and Alice Cooper (Schools Out) I remember listening to their music and staring at the LP covers for hours, something we all miss nowadays.



At the age of 15 I had to leave home and moved into an apartment with a friend who was a guitar player, he had a band. One day I was singing along to some Led Zeppelin and he asked "Wanna sing for my band?" Of course I obliged. We played yard parties, beer parties and high school gigs, it was my start.



Later I joined a popular group called DARE FORCE we played night clubs with a grueling 7 nights per week schedule, doing mostly covers and some of our own music. After we'd reached our plateau I kept pushing the band to go to L.A. but they were happy being kings in our town, so off I went!



Well L.A. is like a monster who's never full and ready to devour at anytime, seemed like everyone had the same idea as me, never the less I pushed on. Finally I hooked up with guitarist Mitch Perry and we did a 4 song demo which ended up in the hands of Dieter Dierks. At this time he was seeking for a vocalist to replace Udo Dirkschneider in ACCEPT. The plan was to hire an American singer and broaden their base, after a short phone call from Wolf Hoffmann off I went again. I'll tell you I thought I was the master as a vocalist but nothing was further from the truth! I soon learned there's much more to being a singer than just being able to hit the notes! I'm grateful for the strong work ethic while recording with them.



After Accept I was off to L.A. again, this time with a pocket full of momentum and all the goods behind me. I started looking for players and found John Kirk and we formed BANGALORE CHOIR. Only 9 shows later in Hollywood, we had a major deal and we were off and running. The album On Target which sold 25000 copies in the 1st week but it seemed like the melodic, positive Hairmetal Rock scene died overnight, by the way I'm really happy about the resurrection happening right now! We were dropped by the label within weeks and well? Game over!



Affected by the drastic climate change in the music scene I hung around L.A. a few more years, recorded 2 records with a group I formed, called SIRCLE OF SILENCE, we played around but didn't have much success. So one day I just said ENOUGH !!! I'm sick and tired of this and I quit!



I moved to Montana and took a job Ranching cattle, seemed a perfect escape from the madness but deep down inside I yearned to sing!



One day I received a call from an old friend in Dare Force and he said, why not get together and jam? Which I agreed to. We recorded some songs and we posted them on Myspace. About a week later a guy named Khalil Turk from Escape Music wrote me and asked if I'd be interested in a group called GYPSY ROSE in Sweden? Off I went. We recorded Another World in 2007 and released it June 2008, we played some shows including Sweden Rock. I was amazed at the fans who were there to see me sing, carrying Accept and Bangalore Choir CD's from around the world.



When I moved back to Germany in 2008, I contacted Georg Siegl of Metal Heaven Records, he asked me if I would be interested to record a track on the new upcoming Voices of Rock produced by Michael Voss and Chris Lausmann, which I gladly agreed to do.



To date I'm fulfilling a dream by being given the chance to release my first solo record on Metal Heaven records entitled REECE.



This record is truly an expression of my lifes journey... to be continued...



Producing, co-writing and handling guitar duties is the amazing Andy Susemihl, on bass Jochen Fünders and skin smasher Stefan Schwarzmann, I feel this is my best work to date ...



thank you one and all



David L. ReeceQuelle: http://reece-rocks.com/html/david.htmlDiscografiesiehe Homepage www

Reviews

Universal Language - Cover
Wer, wie der Autor dieser Zeilen, nur verständnislos den Kopf schütteln kann, wenn er an eine ACCEPT-Reunion ohne Udo denkt, sollte sich (sofern alt genug, wie der Autor dieser Zeilen aber auch nicht&