Dave Catching

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Dave Catching
Rancho de la Luna
Instrument(s)Vocals, guitar, bass, piano, synthesizers, keyboards
Years active1978–present

David Catching (born June 7, 1961) is an American musician from

earthlings? from 1993-present, and Queens of the Stone Age from 1996-2000, a former touring member of Eagles of Death Metal from 2003-2017 and the current operator of the Rancho De La Luna recording studio.[1][2]

Career

Catching performing with the Eagles of Death Metal in 2009

Catching has played the guitar for well-known hard rock bands

Yellow #5, and Gnarltones
.

Catching has been associated with the desert country rock band,

Rancho de la Luna and released in 2008. He currently resides in Joshua Tree, California
.

Catching was on stage with Eagles of Death Metal during the November 2015 Paris attacks, and escaped the Bataclan with the rest of the band. Catching talked about this at length on the show Conan Neutron's Protonic Reversal,[3] Rolling Stone[4] and other media.

Musical equipment

With

Orange Amplifiers. He also used an Ampeg Dan Armstrong guitar when playing with Eagles of Death Metal. Catching also uses HipStrap vintage styled guitar straps. He is endorsed by and uses Ernie Ball
ultra slinky guitar strings, coiled red Bullet Cable.

Catching released a signature fuzz wah pedal in 2015, the Roadrunner, through Dr. No Effects.[5][6]

In 2023 partnered with

Rancho de la Luna as 'an unequalled sonic enhancement device befitting such a fantastic, uniquely wonderful, talented man as Fred Drake

From 1993-2015 with earthlings?, he used his 1958

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer fame, but opting out at the last minute for an acoustic bass.[8]

Catching co-founded

Rancho de la Luna recording studio with Fred Drake in 1993. After Drake's death in 2002, Catching has since run the studio and continues to this day, hosting such musical acts as Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Iggy Pop, Daniel Lanois
and many others

Partial discography

References

  1. ^ "Dave Catching: Joshua Tree, CA & Rancho De La Luna". tapeop.com. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  2. ^ "Aston microphones: David Catching – Musician, Producer, Engineer". astonmics.com. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  3. ^ "Protonic Reversal Ep111: Dave Catching (Rancho De La Luna, Earthlings?, Eagles of Death Metal, Desert Sessions, Queens of the Stone Age)". radioneutron.com. January 17, 2018. Archived from the original on June 14, 2020. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  4. ^ "Eagles of Death Metal Guitarist on Debut Solo LP, U2's Help After Bataclan "Gandalf of desert rock" Dave Catching and friends celebrate the magic of the Rancho de la Luna scene". rollingstone.com. May 31, 2017. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  5. ^ "DAVE CATCHING Eagles of Death Metal". tcelectronic.com. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  6. ^ "Dave Catching – Equipboard". equipboard.com. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  7. ^ [1] Archived December 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Shopping With Greg Lake". Ladies of the Lake. Retrieved August 10, 2015.