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David Weiss is a unmistakable and nimble-fingered musician/guitarist currently based in Bellingham, Washington (USA) who denotes his playing style as equal parts Spanish, classical, folk and rock guitar, as a music fan can hear on his most recent recording, "Finger Noise".  His workhorse guitar is a Dake Traphegan custom built classical. Weiss has been playing guitar since 1975, and putting it simply, divulges his career objective, "My goal is to self release 3 or 4 albums of instrumental guitar music and sign with a label along the lines of Higher Octave or Narada. I see myself composing for dance, film, TV, video and soundtracks, and building a career as a concert performer."
When requested to let slip his top choice for an effect for the guitar, Weiss resolutely answered, "My favorite effect is in my fingers," and then outlined his musicial goals, "I want to make music that people listen to while they are making love, having a romantic dinner, or relaxing. Because my music is instrumental, I want to transcend the language barrier and speak to people all over the world without the use of words, instead through sonic-inspired imagery." He maintains a desire to, at some point, study with the flamenco masters ("I believe through studying their rhythms and technique I will find a way to embrace my own love for hard rock, blues, Latin, jazz, pop, funk, flamenco and classical guitar and do it all on a single nylon string guitar"), and is at the moment listening to Jesse Cook, Ottmar Liebert, Santana, early Van Halen and Jimi Hendrix. His most important gratification? "I get the greatest feeling when someone wants me to autograph a copy of my CD which they just bought. There's no feeling quite like it," he explains without hesitation.
 Weiss wraps up by noting long-term and forthcoming endeavors insightfully, by saying, "In addition to the follow up for "Finger Noise", I'm working on a tribute compilation CD for my bass player Denny Reynolds who tragically passed away in 1998, producing a new CD for the Pacific Northwest band "Men Without Pants" and building my BIMA record label."
Weiss's discography (available here at Guitar Nine Records) includes one solo album ("Finger Noise").
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