There’s a great article on David Bryan from The Star. It’s mostly focused on Dave’s recent successes in musical theater.
I don’t usually cover Dave’s work much around here. By and large, musicals and their soundtracks aren’t really my style anymore. That’s something that I grew out of around the time that I started college and really started broadening out my musical horizons. In a lot of ways I’ve looked at musicals and their soundtracks as kid stuff. Not because it is, but more because they were what I was given as a child, before I really had the opportunity to form my own taste.
When I went through the obligatory period of ‘teenage rebellion’, I kind of tossed a lot of that music out the window. Once again, not because it was bad, but in an effort to find out what my taste really was. (As it turned out, my taste really doesn’t run toward Broadway musicals, or I wouldn’t be running a hard rock blog.)
All that being said, I still respect the craftsmanship that it takes to create musicals like Dave does. The creative process that it requires is awe-inspiring. Dave does a better job of explaining it in the article. Much like Richie, Dave’s solo efforts outside the band didn’t get the recognition that they deserved for a long time. It’s nice to see him getting some of that recognition now.
Now if Jon would just give Richie enough of a break to let him get back to work on another solo album…
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