ABOUT

Booking: dava@livepainter.com HEY VOTE FOR ME HERE RAWARDS OCT 1st Over the course of 2.5 months ALL RAW artists are eligible to participate in RAWards and perhaps win the national title of RAW Artist of the Year in their craft.  Any bands out there wana have me at there next gig or party, i can adapt my style from intense to mello low key what ever will work,i am inspiered by music and i am just lookin ta do what i do create. bio: I first got started after listening to live music my whole life. And then hanging out with my musician frends while they jam, Ihen I found myself allways wanting to participate and i thought, well what do i do best and how can i colaberate and shazam, It hit me like a total brick wall, I paint and why not during live music, I was allready doing it i just didnt relize it when i paint in my studio i would have the music on, so i ran it by my drummer friend Zach Morris and so we tryed it and got a weekly gig in petaluma for a few months,I realy like the spontanious creating totaly in the moment and started hiting up bands in 2003 and incouraging other artists to try this. i found out later that i was not the first to come up with this idea but there had been others like denny dent allready doing it for many years,i was happy to hear that and exited

INSPIRATIONS

MUSIC SUCH AS THESE BANDS I PAINT ONSTAGE WITH:(Bands Neal has performed with include)f:..Pepper,Fishbone, Alfred Howard & the K23 Orchestra,:..Chris Poland, :..Eric Mcfadden,Gabby La La,Larry Carlton, New soul underground, New Orleans Social club,:..Gooferman, Les Claypool Hatters Ball,Brandon Hess, Forrest day, Eric Mcfaden,poor Mans whiskey, Madera Humana, Skerik, Mike Dillon, Frogdog Rocks, OHM, Shannon Kurfman, Shiny Toy Guns, the pervs, hope 56,Mike Gibons, PSI, Taking Fire, Delta Nove, Bondage Fairies,.. Rocco Deluca, Fat Head, Simon Stinger, Hello Donkey, Raw Delux, The Moldenato Quartet,Cast of Clowns, Roger Bolt, The Chief of Splendor, Urine Love,The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The J L Styles band, DJ Modika, DJ Rainbow,:..Mystic Roots The Frisky Kitty Girls, The Liquid Girls, Medicin Drum, Miribu, The Ron Kobayashi Trio, System Failure TV in Hollywood,Darrel Mansfield, Insecto Circus, Man against Machine, Jenifer Vazquez, Fontanel, Gilli Moon, Kokopelli,The Curent, Acacia, frog dog,Used Blues Band Grampas grass, the kolab, Neal has opened for neil innes of monty python ,The Dirty Dubb Band. MOST RECENT BANDS AND MUSICIANS I HAVE SHARED THE STAGE WITH: singer/songwriter and San Francisco native Jamie Clark, The Miles Schon Band,monophonics,crash landing,Warren Haynes.

FAVORITE THING ABOUT RAW

MUSIC ENERGY PAINT

MAKES MY WORLD GO ROUND

JUST PAINTING LIVE ONSTAGE DURING MUSIC IN THE MOMENT FORGETING ABOUT EVERYTHING