Dave Thompson

I didn’t like piano lessons and preferred hockey. So my mom eventually got me guitar lessons at a local music store that shuttered a few months later. But I’d practiced hard all summer so Mark and Jeff and I started our rock band “Onyx” and took over the world. In the meantime, I took lessons with Bob McFee and Tibor Puskas, played in various freelance situations, studied harmony and arranging with Jim Howard, and went to Berklee in Boston where I got a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Composition under Herb Pomeroy, Ken Pullig, Hal Crook etc.