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wise, but visualize the type of emotion we Heights, the bass player, he floats regularly, etting back to music, David’s father
want to convey in our songs. Floating’s but I think he’s out in Ohio. I’ve gotten Ghad written poetry, and David actu-
amazing.” Ricky Armellino; he’s the vocalist for a ally used a line of his poetry in the song
band called This Or The Apocalypse, an- ‘Glory Daze’ on ‘Charm City’. David tells us,
n fact, it turns out that the whole con- other metal band, floating.” “The line is ‘I can see everything you say,
Icept of ‘Charm City’ was a floating But surely floating is quite expensive? it’s written on your face.’ That first stanza
idea. And when on tour, David tries to get And these days bands don’t make much was written in ’78 I think, which is a kind of
the bands they tour with to go and float with money touring. Is it really worth paying $60 cool thing. The only thing I got to keep from
them too. or more to float for an hour – when they my dad was his lyrics, and I got to use one
“I’ve got bands to come to my spa in could do something like yoga for free? of his lines and put it in a song. I thought
West Chester… I’ve gotten more local David says it is. that was kind of cool.”
guys… I know a guy from Hawthorne “The idea of salt water is that you’re not Black Velvet asks if David saw himself
feeling the effects of gravity and that’s in some of his father’s poetry. Does he feel
something you can’t get in the yoga room. the same things that maybe he felt?
Physically, your muscles and your whole “Yeah, it’s pretty trippy,” replies David.
body are not being affected by gravity, and “Looking at it for the first time I was defi-
that for 60-90 minutes on top of there being nitely really reflecting a lot, just the patterns
no sensory input, there’s really nothing that I saw. I can’t tell if he was a depressed
else like it – unless you go to the Dead Sea person, but at the time that I was reading it,
and put ear plugs in. And my friend actually it seemed like his perspective was kind of
just did that and he said that was really sad, and I saw similarities in not only him,
sharp, all the salt, so I don’t know if that but my grandfather and myself. It was kind
would be fun either!” of a cool, eye-opening experience to be
able to have a look into his life at the same
age as me, 20 years ago. It was kind of
wild.”
ith the album being called ‘Charm
WCity’, we ask David what he’d ulti-
mately like the city he lives in to be like – or
world, even? “I don’t think there’s anything
wrong with the world. I just think we’ve got
to love ourselves,” replies David. “I feel like
once everyone loves themselves then the
world will change. And it’s kind of like how
you perceive it. If everyone changes their
perception, then it changes…”
And with everyone needing love, David
confirms that he does too. It’s one thing
that he’s searching for. “I feel like I’m chas-
ing after my own heart. I feel like everyone
else; I’m just trying to get through the day
and find that love that we’re all looking for.”

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Words By Shari Black Velvet
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