David Doig: Guestbook
David Doig
September 30, 2008
Students from the Bayport School of Music will perform at the Bayport Expo 08. The event will take place on Wednesday October 15th between 6:00-8:00 pm at The Bayport Flower House located at 940 Montauk Hwy. in Bayport, NY.
The event showcases many of the areas local businesses. Come on down and support your local community!
Sam
September 25, 2008
Suberb site! Nice work! Good background, lively!
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John Petrucci
July 26, 2008
i really appreciate... keep it up
Regard,
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alexandr
July 6, 2008
Hello
Dennis Finnegan
June 30, 2008
Hey Dave,
It's been quite a while. How are you? The website looks great. Drop me a line.
Dutch Progressive Rock Review
April 18, 2008
In 1978, when punk started to rule the world, American (New York) band Cathedral released their debut album Stained Glass Stories. Although the music on their debut contained strong influences by bands such as Yes and King Crimson it immediately showed that Cathedral had the ability to turn these influences into a style of their own. Especially the upfront bass work by Fred Callan and the totally unique way Tom Doncourt played the mellotron made an incredible impression. In my opinion it’s totally justified to call Stained Glass Stories one of the best progressive rock records to come out of the States ever. I’m pretty sure that the album must have had an influence on Anglagard. With the growing popularity of punk, however, the possibilities of releasing progressive rock records got more difficult. In 2003 the band finally got back together again to start rehearsing for their next album. They experimented for three years and after a year of recording their second album The Bridge was released by the end of 2007.
On this album Cathedral consists of lead vocalist Paul Seal, drummer Mercury Caronia IV, guitar player David Doig (who replaced original guitar player Rudy Perrone who left the band because the three years of rehearsing proved to be too much for him), the earlier mentioned Fred Callan on bass and Tom Doncourt on mellotron and other keyboards. So that’s four of the five original members. After nearly thirty years these guys haven’t slowed down one little bit. They certainly did not take the easy way on The Bridge. It is an album that takes all of your attention and a lot of spins before it uncovers its beauty. It’s not an immediate friend. As on their debut the music of Cathedral is still dramatic, full of passion and in places dark. Progressive rock is still at heart of their music but they’ve taken onboard some new influences. There are some David Bowie influences on Satellite and The Lake reminds me of Peter Gabriel. And lastly there are some hints of avant-garde. Those moments reminded me of bands like Underground Railroad (on Angular World for instance) and Deluge Grander. Main influence however is still King Crimson.
The level of playing is terrific throughout the album. New man David Doig is a very versatile guitar player and displays his acoustic abilities on the brilliant Kithara Interludium. An acoustic guitar piece of more than six minutes which impresses from start to finish. You can hear a lot of his acoustic skills throughout the album, whilst on the other side of his guitar spectrum is the mad solo he plays on Angular World. Paul Seal has the perfect voice for this grand and dramatic music, which is convincing and full of passion. Fred Callan's bass playing is often the driving force of the songs - very upfront and aggressive. Tom Doncourt leaves the soloing on this album mostly to David Doig but his keyboard work hasn’t really changed much since Glass Stained Stories. He does use some other keyboards now but there is still a lot of mellotron to be heard on this album. And I must say his keyboard work impresses again. Listen for example how he uses a strange keyboard melody first and then follows this with some beautiful mellotron strings on Satellite. Or the pitchbends on Monsterhead. Or his string chords at the start of The Secret. Brilliant stuff. And finally drummer Mercury Caronia IV who has a very varied style of drumming, utilising an array of percussion. But I believe he’s using an electronic kit for this album and I really don’t like they way it sounds - it makes the album sound a little compressed. So please next time use a regular drum kit. But it’s really the only negative thing I can find.
There are too many highlights to mention. Still I will name two. Number one would be the album closer The Secret. A very progressive song (also with some great saxophone playing) that displays perfectly all the things that are great about Cathedral. Dramatic, grand, dark in places and that finale! Incredible song. The second highlight of the album is the Crimsonesk Angular World that completely lives up to its name. The Bridge is an impressive album from start to finish and as I said earlier it will ask for your complete attention and several spins to get your head round the music. It’s not an easy album but the rewards are very, very, very satisfying. I hope they won’t wait another thirty years to release the third album.
Conclusion: 9.5 out of 10
LEO KOPERDRAAT Dutch Progressive Rock Page-Leo Koperdraat - www.dprp.net (Mar 2, 2008)
WILLIAM DOIG
March 14, 2008
I JUST LOVED YOUR MUSIC.WELL DONE.
Chad Goodstein
February 23, 2008
Hey! You were my eartraining teacher at fivetowns in 1996-97 .. having perfect pitch made that class quite easy :) keep rockin
myspace.com/Restaurantband
Steve
November 30, 2007
Hey Dr. Doig,
When I saw you played before the Dregs I knew I had to hear you and that we would connect. Very nice site. THANKS, Steve
ROBERT DOIG
October 19, 2007
AS ALWAYS ANOTHER GREAT EFFORT, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK.. MISS YOU ROBERT
Kathy Seff
September 27, 2007
Hi David!
We're looking forward to having you perform at our upcoming First Friday Gallery Event on 10/05/07. The events are always fun (I work here and I have fun go figure!) so this one should be no different! And Loughlin Vineyards will be there as well doing wine tastings so it's all local -schmocal!!
ps- great site
David Doig
September 24, 2007
Tom,
Thanks for your comments! I have changed the BAB link on the Cathedral site. The digital distribution via itunes should be up and running in about two weeks. It takes between 2 weeks - 3 months from the time they receive the tunes until they are available for sale in their store!
Dave
Tom Kelley
September 23, 2007
David,
On your Cathedral website, the link to WBAB is bab.com which is an arabic website. The link should actually be www.wbab.com. Also, I love the samples I have heard from you and the band Cathedral. I can't seem to find it on Itunes though. Your music is really interesting and I wish you the best of luck.
Tom
Brandon Dyke
April 9, 2007
Hey David,
I am a guitarist from Greenville SC I would love to buy a score of Children song from you. That is a great piece of music. I am working on a solo guitar project right now. I also play in a guitar duo called Spatha( myspace.com/spatha) I think it is cool that you play classical and in your progressive band! Makes for a great diversity in your playing.
good to meet you,
Brandon Dyke
Nance Koslow
March 23, 2007
WOW!
Hi David,
Obviously all is well :). We should try to get together soon.
Nance
P.S. I expected nothing less from you!
Pasquale A Bianculli
March 4, 2007
Hey David..nice to see you here! Good luck in all you do. Thinking back to the old CIG days...wow... a long time ago.
Pat
Michabest
January 14, 2007
Hello, nice site!
kurt faba
September 8, 2006
HEY DAVE!!! HOWS IT GOING?
KURT
Dave Doig
August 23, 2006
MARK,
Great to hear from you! Last time I saw you, you had your 1st Ryan. Sometime you have to let me check out your Ryan Collection! I'm currently working on a new CD which I hope to release early next year. Stay in touch!
Dave
MARK BOROVINA
August 21, 2006
NICE TO SEE YOU ARE DOING WELL. YOUR SITE IS GREAT. IM DOING GOOD GOT THREE RYAN'S THE 4TH IS ON THE WAY SOON. LOVE GUITAR. GLAD I MEET YOU EARLY ON IN MY GUITAR VENTURE. STAY WELL. KEEP ON TRUCKING. MARK
David Doig
June 9, 2006
Hi Chuck,
Glad to hear you are feeling better. I think what happened with the teacher site is that I placed another student in your former time slot. That eliminated you from access to the site. Sorry! I am really enjoying playing the William King guitar I purchased from you. Thanks!
Talk to you soon
Dave
chuck heineman
June 5, 2006
How have you been? I tried to contact through the teacher site,but for some reason I could not enter it.
I'm feeling much better and within the month I want to start lessons again. I miss playing.
I like this site very much.
Have a good day,
Chuck
Dave Doig
April 13, 2006
Thanks!!-Matthew-John-William and Charles, for your kind comments. In an unsound world, its nice to know a few people are actually listening.
Matthew Bermudez
April 6, 2006
Dave - Awesome and inspiring work! I finally have heard something released in the past decade that makes me smile. Thank you.
john schmeiser
April 6, 2006
i would say the world needs more of you, but then it would be too easy, wouldn't it ?
William King
February 2, 2006
nice work David !
charles heineman
February 2, 2006
Hi Dave,
I love your new site--very sophisticated. I also like the album very much. When I come for my lesson Tuesday, I would like to buy two of them. The track Jim is one I especially like.
Have a good day,
Chuck