Hi, I'm Dylan.
I'm a songwriter who beatboxes. If you haven't heard of beatboxing, imagine taking a drum kit and having it surgically implanted in your mouth. I save a lot of money on drummers that way and if the crowd looks tired, I just drop a beat on them and then all of the sudden they go tribal. It's pretty fun and it's cheaper than dousing people with ecstasy. And legal.
After high school I went to Berklee College of Music where I was thrown into Boston, MA which is full of the best musicians I've ever seen. I worked with Paul Simon, sat in on master classes with John Mayer and Joe Satriani and wrote and jammed with amazing talent from all over the world. I also defeated the one arm pushup man. (If you ever lived in Boston, you know who he is....this was not an easy task.)
Since dedicating my life to music, I have grown weary of the derivative, materialist content a large part of the music industry has taken. I'm kind of sick of songs about girls asses and taking shots and the same lyrics and chord progressions again and again. Aren't you? Maybe just a little? Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for a good dance or top 40's song (they are in my cover show set list all the time) but music is supposed to resonate with the human soul, not just human reproductive organs. We're more than boozing sex hounds. We are creators, inventors, leaders, writers, organizers, lovers, friends, mothers, fathers and children. Our minds have more to offer one another, so let's begin to show it!
I'm so passionate about music, I don't really do anything else. I want to move people, change people, inspire people. I want them to walk away from my performance with new ideas and the uncontrollable urge to do something they've always wanted to do but simply haven't yet. I love human connection and real heart to heart conversation and there is hardly a better medium than music.
My goal as a musician is to re-invigorate people love for the story of a song, the way it was in the 60's and 70's (the golden age of songwriting) without sounding like I got my bell-bottoms and my bowl cut in the same groovy shopping mall plaza. I also hope to meet you and chat with you about music, life, death, existence, art and anything that antithetical of small talk.
See you soon.