David Neil Cline has been recording and performing heavy rock for 3 decades. As a child, he learned to play music from his multi talented father who in the late 50's early 60's played in the band Danny and the Zeltones (later changed to Zelrocks). The leader of the band being Danny Zella, they released a hand full of records some on the label Big Top Records. David received his first electric guitar and amp at age 9. By age 15 he started playing clubs and weddings in the Detroit band Hustler. At age 16 he played clubs in a band called Sextion. In the late 70's, David and Sextion member John Sanchez formed the original band Predator. Predator preformed, wrote and recorded songs for about 5 years and in 1984 released a cassette album called "The latest and Greatest of Predator". They broke up soon after.

David's first solo album "A Fit of Rage" was recorded in 1985 at the same recording studio that Predator recorded at. It wasn't released until 1987. The album was only released on vinyl on the indie label Gazochtahagen Records, distributed nationally by Important Records. In 1991 it was released on a CD called "A fit of Rage (remix plus two)" with two new bonus tracks added. The album was re-mixed and re-mastered to CD again in 2007 with another two bonus tracks added. This is the 20'Th year anniversary CD for the "A Fit of Rage" album. The CD looks exactly like a mini version of the original vinyl album inside and out including record grooves and all.

In 1986, David formed the band Trama and played the larger venues in the Detroit metro area with bands such as Seduce, Halloween, Murder City(who became Sponge) and opened for many national acts such as Rick Derringer, Foghat, Paul Di'Anno(formally of Iron Maiden), just to name a few.

David's second album "Malefic Influence" was recorded in 1987 then released in 1989 on cassette and vinyl. This album was also on the Gazochtahagen label and distributed nationally by Important Records for a short time. These now collectable vinyl albums have been seen going for up to $100.00 an album in France and other areas of Europe. The song "Crazy Dream" was in regular rotation at a radio station in Turkey. And the song "Governmental Brainwash" received quite a bit of airplay on Zrock in Detroit and Flint, Michigan. In 2000 Malefic Influence was re-mastered to CD.

In 2001 David released a third CD album called "Thorough Scrutiny". Most of the tracks were originally recorded in the early 1990s in various basement type studios. Some vocal, keyboard and lead guitar tracks were recorded in 2000. Taking a kind of Frank Zappa approach to the production, intertwining the songs with weird keyboard effects and strange events, most of which were members of the band fooling around in the studios while recording. It definitely gives you a look into the different and very unusual minds of these very Talented musicians. The song "Fate of Pain" was used in a Canadian movie sound track called "Stupid People do Stupid Things" a Damien Gilbert production. The same song also appeared on many compilation CDs and got lots of airplay on Internet, cable and satellite radio stations. Thorough Scrutiny also includes two remakes. "Follow Me" written by the late blues guitarist Rory Gallagher and a very cool live version of the song "Snort'in Whiskey" by Pat Travers.

After a licensing deal with the German record label "Rock it up Records", the import CD called "The David Neil Cline Band/A piece of History/The Best of" was released in 2007. The CD contains 4 remixed songs from each of Davids previous albums plus two never heard before bonus tracks.

After a long drawn out relocation process and the birth of a brand new recording studio, David has just finished his fifth solo album called: The David Neil Cline Band/Flying in a Cloud of Controversy. David being the producer, engineer, performing all lead and backing vocals, lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars, bass, Hammond organ and assorted percussion. Jeff Giovannangeli on drums, The late J.D Donnelly (from previous albums):bass on two songs, Todd Reed: lead and rhythm guitar on a couple tracks, and Jim Morris of the Jim Morris Band played lead guitar on 4 tracks. The very angry and political lyrics most definitely fit the title and are sure to stir up some kind of controversy. We now have promotional copies available for radio stations, magazines and record labels. The final CD package will contain a DVD full of live performances from over the years plus a production video of the radio single "Road Rage". The unfinished version can be viewed at: myspace.com/davidneilcline

All lyrics can be found at: http://davidneilcline.com/lyrics.htm

Release date: mid-summer 2010.  

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