I was born in Kentucky and grew up in Tennessee where bluegrass was my first musical influence.  Learning how different instruments interacted with each other and told a story without vocals was a big influence.  After moving to North Carolina I had only played guitar but joined my first band that played mostly alternative rock.  They needed a bass player so I made the switch from guitar to bass.  Like most guitar players I didn’t know anything about bass or it’s role in a band but I played it just to be in a band.  I really hated it at first until I discovered my first bass influence, Les Claypool from Primus.  I was like, Ok really dig this guy because he was doing something really different with the bass so I dove into what he was doing.  I short time after that I was watching TV one night and ran across a band call Bela Fleck and the Flecktones where I saw Victor Wooten for the first time. This guy was incredible!!!  I had never seen anyone play like that before and I knew that I wanted to play like that.  Everything from that night on changed for me in the way I thought of bass playing and what it’s role is, and what other roles it could play.  That was the beginning  for me of immersing myself into the world of  Jazz and Jazz/Fusion.  From then on I have played all kinds of musics ranging from Rock, Jazz, Blues, R&B, Gospel, and everything between.

 Dave cut his teeth in the marching band has been playing the drums since the age of 11.  Combining the balls of Zeppelin with the touch of Beauford he has put his time in logging 12 + bands throughout the triangle and DC.

Born in Seattle and raised in NC, Tyler has crafted a style which fuses elements of blues, funk, grunge rock, and reggae. As a songwriter, singer, and guitarist he has been in the game playing live shows since the ripe age of sixteen. He developed his sound through both performance and recording and has made two full length solo albulms as well as a series of full band recordings. An original member and co- founder of the disbanded “The Liquid Courage Band”, he is now back in the game with a fresh group of musicians who bring new sound and energy. A year after moving to Chicago and playing shows with other groups Tyler combined forces with Luke Gale and began writing and searching for other musicians with similar conviction. Shortly thereafter they stumbled upon a stellar rhythm section and are getting booked faster than they can write songs.

Luke Gale, a southern man at heart, is a self taught guitar player from Chicago. Although medicine is his career, he is ever so passionate about music. He has played with several groups in the Chicagoland area as well as in Charleston, Champaign and Bloomington, IL.  Luke’s sound and playing style, which often incorporate simultaneous lead and rhythm parts, draw comparison to no other. Hendrix, Vaughan, Reggie Wooten and Freddie King (another Texas bluesman), are amoung his musical influences. Another stylistic influence of Luke’s is Albert Collins. By utilizing his index finger as a pick a la Albert Collins, Luke is able to coax various tonal nuances from his amplifier. Luke plays a custom, handmade Brian Moore iM9 electric guitar, and a taylor acoustic/electric.