Dave was born in Jersey City, NJ on August 4th, 196-something.  His first instrument was a set of drums he received at Christmas, at about he age of 5 or 6.  His older brother got the guitar (which he never played).  One day, in a sibling brawl, Dave put his foot through the body of his brother's acoustic guitar.  Mom and dad were not amused.

At age 8, Dave received his first guitar.  It wasn't until he was almost 10 that he began taking guitar lessons.  Dave studied with a number of teachers through his grammar school days.  By early high school, Dave was studying classical guitar.  Dave studied classical guitar for three years, one of which was with the renowned classical guitarist, Emmett Finley of the Bayonne Conservatory of Music. 

From 1976 through 1986 Dave had played in many cover bands, covering artists such as Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Robin Trower, Deep Purple, The Scorpions, Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Van Halen, Sammy Hagar, Foreigner, The Cars, The Ramones, Joan Jett, Lita Ford, KC and the Sunshine Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Outlaws, Donna Summer, Devo, Tom Petty,  BTO, CCR and many, many more.  Some of the bands that Dave played in during this time were Satelyte, Black Fury, Lazarus, X-Caliber, Rampage, The Satelytes, a Southern Rock band (name unknown), The Cone Heads, The Resistors and Partner's in Crime.  Between 1980 and 1983, in addition to performing in bands, Dave worked privately as a guitar instructor.

In 1986, while living in Cleveland, OH, Dave joined Stone Pony, an original hard rock band.  Although Dave was already writing original music, it was here that he began to concentrate on original material.  Since then, Dave has focused his energies mainly towards his original music, under the project name Leatherfish.

In 1990, Dave took a much needed break from music, to pursue other things.  As fate would have it, the break lasted longer than anybody could have imagined.  It wasn’t until 1995 that Dave began writing and recording again.

Since his return to music, Dave has played with the original bands, Fillher,  Chipper Dove and Bullcock and the cover bands Smokin' Rose, Hard Luck, Volume 11,  If 6 Was 9, Modern 8-Track and Fully Loaded .  Dave is currently a member of the rock cover band Shooting Blanks the acoustic duet, Whiskey Sweet.

Dave uses Gibson, Jackson, BC Rich, Fender, Jay Turser, Kramer, Hamer, Ovation and Aria Pro II guitars and basses, Kawai, Yamaha and Korg keyboards, Ernie Ball strings, Fender picks, Zoom, Boss, Morley, Digitech, Akai, Korg, Tascam, Alesis and ART electronics, Shure and MXL microphones, Crate and Peavey amps and Samson wireless systems.