Dave Shul - Guitar

I’m Dave Shul I hope all is well in cyberspace. I play guitar in Spearhead. I've been involved in the Bay Area music scene for about 20 years and joined Spearhead in April of 1998. My favorite part of being in Spearhead is traveling and meeting local folks, because I don't usually get to see a lot of the sites as we are moving from place to place so quickly.

I first started playing guitar at age 12. My older brother had a guitar and I used to sneak into his room and play it, because every time I'd ask him for a lesson he'd bop me on the nose and say, "get outta here you ...!"  At age 13 I went to Cazadero Music camp at the Russian River in northern California. Among the teachers were Bobby McFerrin, Eddy Marshall, and John Santos.

I put out my own album in 1999 called Welcome to the Conga Club featuring a whole host of Bay Area musicians, all of whom I've come to know over the years.  My on stage gear, for those who might be interested:

Fender American Standard Stratocaster (My main axe) 
1970's Ibanez Les Paul custom Larrivee steel string acoustic guitar

Amplifiers: Fender '65 reissue twin Fender acoustic

Effects and floor pedals: Electro harmonix Q-tron 
LIne-6 Digital Delay pedal 
Line-6 modulation pedal 
Mesa Boogie V-twin distortion pedal 
Boss compressor 
Dunlop Crybaby Wah Wah pedal

Strings: DR strings