David Marks (musician)

David Lee Marks ( born August 22, 1948) is an American musician. He is best known for his membership in the early years of the Beach Boys.

Life

Marks grew up in Hawthorne, California, on. He was a neighbor of the Wilson family and was friends with their son Carl Wilson. At the age of 10 he began to play together with Carl guitar. They found their own style very quickly and played guitar-based instrumental pieces and songs by Chuck Berry. When the Pendletones, the predecessor group of the Beach Boys founded, Brian Wilson decided as the fifth member of the band alongside his brothers and Mike Love for the older by four years, Alan Jardine.

Marks thus was not a founding member of the group, he was not even there when the Beach Boys recorded their first songs and had their first minor hit with " Surfin ' ".

Marks only came into the band, as Al Jardine got out just this, around 1962 to go back to college to study dentistry. Marks was thus 14 years old when he joined the Beach Boys and the band signed to a record deal with Capitol Records. He took over in the band's rhythm guitar.

It was at this time not insignificant for the band, as his guitar playing complemented very well with Carl Wilson and he contributed a lot to the sound. Except on the debut album for the song Summertime Blues, he hardly controls at vocals.

Already in mid- 1963, when Brian Wilson for health reasons could not attend the upcoming tour, Al Jardine came back as a bassist in the group. Thus, it was for a short time six Beach Boys. After a dispute with band manager Murry Wilson of the 15 -year-old Mark left the band and finally decided to go back to high school.

In the same year he founded his own band, Dave & The Marksmen. Only a year later, the band received a recording contract with A & M Records. Another of his band, " The Moon", also received a recording contract with Warner Bros. Marks began in the late 1960s to study jazz as well as classical guitar and classical composition. He worked in Los Angeles as a studio musician, and went with some formations on tour.

In 1972, as well as Bruce Johnston was released on the Beach Boys, Marks received an offer to come back as a bass player in the band. He refused, however. Only in the 1990s, he initially joined sporadically with the Beach Boys, and went back in 1997 with the band on tour. In 1999, he had to spend however due to his drug and alcohol problems 30 days in a rehabilitation clinic and decided not to go on tour. In addition, hepatitis C was found with him.

At the turn of the millennium he joined sporadically in the now three Beach Boys -related groups and is also at official Beach Boys dates here. In 2007 Jon Stebbins published the biography "The lost Beach Boy" on David Marks.

In 2012, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the band The Beach Boys, Marks played both on the studio album, That's Why God Made the Radio and on the complete anniversary tour lead guitar. In 2013 he went with his fellow Beach Boys Brian Wilson and Al Jardine and Jeff Beck on a joint tour.