Biography
Dave Cloud came of age listening to rock and roll of the 1960s and early 1970s, and learned to play guitar as a teenager. Cloud first performed publicly in local Nashville record stores in the late 1970s. After overcoming severe stage fright, he started to play solo shows in small Nashville clubs, most notably the dive bar Springwater Supper Club & Lounge. Around this time Cloud formed The Psychotic Night Auditors, a punk rock band so loud and obnoxious that they "cleared the room" at Springwater, prompting the club owner to ban the group "for life."
During the 1980s, Cloud listened mainly to classical music and directed his energies into "private tape experiments overdubbing voices, guitars and other instruments." Eventually Cloud was invited back to Springwater, where he would spend the next several years developing his performance style (including his signature "stage humping" and "phantom kung fu" antics) and a repertoire of original compositions, rock and pop covers, and occasional karaoke. In the process he earned a reputation as Nashville's resident "garage rock lounge lizard extraordinaire."
Since the mid-1990s, Cloud has been the leader and principal songwriter for Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power, an experimental garage rock band that has recorded several lo-fi albums. The band toured Europe in 2006 and 2008, and continues to play shows in the Nashville area.
When not playing music, Cloud works as a volunteer book reader for visually impaired persons; since 1984 he has recorded thousands of hours of audio books and magazines for the Nashville Talking Library. Cloud also has appeared in several films, music videos, television programs and advertisements.
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