Throughout the 1980's, Dave continued to work on his own bass technique always searching for ideas. He worked at a rehearsal studio in metro Atlanta and was fortunate to spend time with a variety of talented musicians who influenced Dave's approach to his own sound. In 1990, fate introduced Dave to Mark Bradley as they played together in a band for a mutual friend's birthday party. Coincidently, Jeff Catton was at that very same party and soon, the 3 were playing cover tunes in Jeff's garage. Ideas for songs were brought to rehearsals and as they wrote more & more, they threw out many of the covers. 15 years later Dave says, "It's still as exciting and fun as the first show we ever played!"