The first song I can remember writing was something called "Country Road" - an appallingly lame reading of what time would prove to be my anti-metier: country music. The path of least resistance, really. The less said about it the better.
In the late 1970s, Gilbert George Neal (a brilliant song writer and musician) and the Paul Rhinedoller (our drummer and "everyman" - also know as the "Gordon Haskell of West Seneca"). Together, we cut our teeth in a terrific little band called The City Victims.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, I flitted around the edges of the Buffalo, New York music scene. At various times I performed in bands, owned a recording studio, did freelance engineering and production, as well as sound design and front-of-house in Rockwell Hall Performing Arts Center.
Although I've amassed a large body of music this page posts only some odds and ends.
My energies these days are focused on a progressive rock concept CD in collaboration with the very talented Frank Altpeter, a founding member of the German Progressive Rock band Waran. The working title is Kings. Another project I'm working on, after nearly 20 years apart, is a new City Victims project.
I'm also a fan and supporter of my dear friend Ron Schiralli's band New Vintage.
Had enough music? Return to danieljslewis.com to take a look at some of my artwork, writing.