1. David Sullivan Lovering was born on December 6,1961 and is an American musician and magician.
28 Facts About David Lovering
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David Lovering is best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band Pixies, which he joined in 1986.
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David Lovering pursued a magic career as the Scientific Phenomenalist, performing scientific and physics-based experiments on stage.
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David Lovering was born in Winchester, Massachusetts and grew up in Burlington, Massachusetts.
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David Lovering got a job at a Radio Shack store with Murphy, and the pair often played practical jokes while at work.
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On Memorial Day 1985, David Lovering attended Murphy and Kim Deal's wedding service.
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David Lovering had stopped drumming by this point and was at first unimpressed by the trio's performance of the band's songs.
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David Lovering co-wrote one of the tape's songs, "Levitate Me" and appeared on the cassette's front cover, jogging naked with his back turned to the camera.
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David Lovering then joined Santiago's band The Martinis, appearing on their song "Free" on the soundtrack of Empire Records.
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David Lovering was very impressed by some of the illusions, and later said "I had to learn how to do it".
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Zabrecky convinced David Lovering to apply for a performers' membership to the Magic Castle.
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David Lovering's act combined his electrical engineering knowledge with his stage performance experience.
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David Lovering shuns traditional magic tricks, and prefers "things that are more mental, using mental powers".
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David Lovering became part of The Unholy Three, a trio of magicians that resides at the Magic Castle, and performs "a new wave, alternative, avant-garde kind of magic".
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David Lovering toured his act across the United States as the opener for Frank Black, Grant-Lee Phillips, the Breeders and Camper Van Beethoven.
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David Lovering performed his act at the Shellac-curated All Tomorrow's Parties music festival in 2002.
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David Lovering later commented that his performance at the festival was "perhaps my greatest achievement".
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David Lovering resumed drumming, appearing at some Frank Black and the Catholics shows.
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David Lovering appeared on one track of The Martinis' 2004 album The Smitten Sessions.
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David Lovering added that "the saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved".
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David Lovering appeared in the 2006 documentary loudQUIETloud, which covered the Pixies' 2004 reunion tour.
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David Lovering's father died midway during the tour, and Lovering began drinking heavily as a result.
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David Lovering toured with the Pixies throughout 2005 and 2006, while performing at the Magic Castle on Friday nights with The Unholy Three.
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In 2007, David Lovering played a benefit concert for Wally Ingram as part of The Martinis.
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David Lovering is a practicing magician; when the Pixies were unable to perform during the COVID-19 lockdown, he began posting videos of his magic tricks on the Pixies' Instagram account.
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David Lovering has been metal detecting since the age of 11, when he purchased his first metal detector, a Bounty Hunter VLF 840.
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David Lovering began metal detecting in his backyard in Burlington, Massachusetts, finding many colonial era coins.