“I wanted to observe how a radio show happened,” he says. David’s weekly calls led to a rapport, and David asking if he could come to the station and watch Bishop work. “Up until that time I had never called into a radio station,” explains David, who called in to let him know how much he enjoyed the B sides Bishop would spin. Some years later while radio-dial surfing, he hit 88.1 and came upon the voice of the late Michael Bishop, original host of the Old Soul Harmony Show. “I always enjoyed bass, but couldn't sing it, so I decided to play it,” he says.ĭavid's first memory of KDHX “goes back to hearing reggae on the radio on a certain night every week,” he says. This didn’t stop him at age 23 from becoming a self-taught bass guitar player who has played with choirs and in bands. “Music has always been influential,” says David, who took it up in school but wishes he had studied it more and learned to read music. The sounds on these records may have been big bands or early jazz, and David remembers “listening to them over and over again.”
Louis, David graduated from O'Fallon Technical High School, now Gateway STEM High School.ĭavid’s earliest exposure to music was as a child hearing his family's 78 RPM records. For KDHX volunteer David Neal, writer, producer, and voice behind the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday KDHX Concert Calendar, being a part of KDHX is “a plum-pleasing pleasure!”īorn and raised in St.
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