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- Dave "Rave" DesRoches is a Canadian rock musician from Hamilton, Ontario. To the general public, he’s the Teenage Head rhythm guitarist who graduated to lead singer and catapulted the band back into the charts; but musicians know him as a session player Dave began his music career in his high school years writing songs and performing driving acoustic rock and folk-pop in and around their native Hamilton, Ontario. This evolved into The Shakers, from 1979-1982 with Rick Andrews, Tim Gibbons and Claude DesRoches. They charted many singles with albums produced by Daniel Lanois and Jack Richardson. Following the break-up of The Shakers, Dave took over as lead singer of the punk rock band Teenage Head. He had grown up with the members of the appearing with them on their "Frantic City" LP, and opening for them with "The Shakers". Dave replaced Frankie Venom who incidentally had worked with Dave on several other projects. Dave continued to aid Teenage Head on an upward trajectory with hits like “Can’t Stop Shakin’”. Dave left Teenage Head after a successful run to try things out on his own. Alongside producer Gary Pig Gold he then formed a group called The Dave Rave Conspiracy, releasing the album Valentino's Pirates on Russia’s Melodiya record label in 1992. To appease cold war era Russian sensibilities however, the album was credited to the Dave Rave Group, as the label was uncomfortable with the word "conspiracy". Notably, the band also included Billy Ficca, formerly of the influential New York City band Television, and Lauren Agnelli, of the 1980s anti-folk band Washington Squares. Valentino's Pirates has become a cult classic, and was the first North American rock album released by a post-Soviet state after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Press surrounding this release included a CBC documentary revisiting Russia with the group as well as 3 promotional videos that were in heavy rotation at Much Music in Canada. Bullseye Records re-issued the album for the first time on CD in 2001. The next Dave Rave Conspiracy album released in 1994, Three Octave Fantastic Hexagram, included many of the players from the Valentino’s album with the addition of former Washington Squares, Lauren Agnelli. However, the band broke up shortly afterward. Lauren Agnelli and Dave Rave formed an incredible creative partnership that resulted in 3 Agnelli & Rave albums over the next ten years including the critically acclaimed Cowboy Flowers Sessions, Heaven and Earth, and Confetti. The Dave Rave Group’s second album, Everyday Magic, was released in 2003 and features players from his former bands such as Teenage Head, The Shakers and bands and musicians whose projects he has worked on in either in a musician’s capacity and/or in production roles such as The Trews, Joe Mannix and Kate Schrock. “Love Fades” and the title track “Everyday Magic” featuring ECMA winners and Juno nominees, The Trews, received airplay at Rock, AC and Campus radio. Dave also co-wrote the The Trews single, ‘I Can’t Say’ with Jack Richardson. Other co-writing credits include bands such as Oliver Black, now Townline, and the Maddhatters and he continues to work with and mentor some of the hottest acts today. Dave Rave spends his time in Canada and the US playing live, producing, writing and coming up with more ideas to bring great musicians together for the purpose of entertaining themselves and the masses. Dave Rave released his Anthology in 2 Volumes worldwide on Bullseye Records in January 2006. Dave Rave has also be released his second jazz-pop album entitled In The Blue Of My Dreams with Mark McCarron in 2007 under the Bongobeat label which was shortlisted for a Grammy that year. Dave Rave has spent 2008 recording a new album as the Dave Rave Group set for release in 2009 and continues to tour internationally with over 100 dates this past year in Canada, The US and Europe.
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