David Kemper (born David Law Kemper in Chicago, 1947/8) is a drummer. He was a long-time member of both the Jerry Garcia Band (1983–1994) and Bob Dylan's band (1996–2001). He was with the Jerry Garcia Band for the last eleven years of Garcia's life. Kemper joined well-known Dutch progressive rock band, Focus, for a short period in the mid-1970s, playing both on the Mother Focus album and on tour. He has also played with Mike Stinson, Elkie Brooks, Dennis Wilson (on the Bambu sessions) and Bernie Leadon. He played double drums with Jim Gordon on Barry McGuire's "Don't Blame God", on his Lighten Up album in 1974.
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“You can much sooner dry you by such a fire as you can make in the woods than in anybody’s kitchen, the fireplace is so much larger, and wood so much more abundant.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)