START PLAYING DRUMS....
When he was 5 or 6, he was playing along with Led Zep and Cream songs with his older brothers on littles box with pencils ! That's where it begins...But when he get 12, it becomes serious.

FIRST BANDS...

ESCAPE (him with 2 guitarists, no bassist). Then he got another band, SABOTAGE, with the same 2 guitarists, but the added a singer. Couples of gigs, but nothing serious.

ENDORSERS....
Tama Drums, Paiste Cymbals, Remo Drumheads, Pro-Mark Drumsticks, Meinl Percussions

SET UP...
Drum : Tama Rockstar DX (it's not an Artstar Custom like they said everywhere !!!!) 2 kits : one in wine red cover and one in mirror/metallic cover.   8"x8" tom, 10"x10" tom, 11"x12" tom, 12"x13" tom, 13"x14" tom, 14"x15" tom 5 1/2"x14" StarClassic maple snare, 16"x18" floor tom, 16"x20" gong bass 18"x24" bass drums (2)

Cymbals : Paiste : 14" Sound Formula Heavy hi-hats, 22" Signature Dry Heavy Ride, 8"-10",12" Signature Splashes, 18" Signature Thin China, 22" Novo China 2002, 20" Signature Full Crash, 18" Signature Power Crash, 16" Signature Full Crash, 17" Signature Power Crash, 18" Reflector China Type 3000, i found a Cowbell on his kit !

Drumheads: Remo : Falam K on snare drum, clear Emperors on tops of toms with clear Embassadors on the bottoms, clear Embassadors on bass drums.
DrumSticks : Pro-Mark's model 2B hickory with nylon-tips
Percussions : Meinl : Timbales and Congas

INFLUENCES...
From John Bonham, Buddy Rich, Tito Puente, the old Iron Maiden....He's verry open-minded on that..... He's verry into jazz too.

NEWS ABOUT DAVE...
He did an instructionnal book with Chuck Silverman about 5 or 6 drums transcriptions of some Grip Inc. songs. Who's Chuck Silverman ?? He's a drummer and he owned a kind of drumshop instrutionnal books/videos. The project is called "POWER GROOVES" and it will be released this fall. There's supposed to be a video too, but i'm not sure.