Music always played a central role in David Victor’s life.
David’s earliest memories of the importance of music came from listening to KFRC on the radio, soaking up all the hits, reveling in pop masters like the Spinners, Temptations, Jay Ferguson, Henry Gross, the Beach Boys, Bread, Elton John and so many more.
A little band called Led Zeppelin kept popping up here and there, but their ethereal and powerful music was quickly subdued by the horrible strains of Leo Sayer.
Then in 1978, David got serious about playing the guitar when his sister’s boyfriend was strumming the opening strains of “More Than a Feeling” on the family’s front lawn one summer night.
“How long have you been playing?” David breathlessly asked.
“Two weeks!”
This was the art for him!
Over the years, David kept playing guitar, and for a while there, he got relatively good at it. At one point, he even did a workmanlike job of playing the solo in “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me”, which is still truly beyond him to this day.
Fortunately, the only somewhat easier “Eruption” was the coin of the guitar hero realm, and David passed muster on that, performing the song at his high school senior show.
Quickly thereafter, David joined a top-40 band called Secrets, which played throughout Contra Costa County and even did a road trip or two.
David first tried moving to LA in 1984. Making money proved so difficult in the San Fernando Valley (where he somehow knew he had to be) that he kept moving further and further south, until he was even considering Dana Point.
Before heading that far south (which would have been lovely, no doubt), David ran out of money and moved back to the Bay Area.
Eventually, David went back to college, earning his BSCS in 1989 from California State East Bay.
Music continued to pull at him.
So in 1991, David put together all the songs he had ever written and produced his very first album, “Proof Through the Night”.