Peter Holsapple

Peter Holsapple

Peter Holsapple (born February 19, 1956) formed, along with Chris Stamey, the singing, songwriting, and guitar-playing core of the dB's, a 1980s jangle-pop band from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He became the band's principal songwriter and singer after Stamey's departure. The dB's were at the forefront of the guitar bands from the southeast in the 1980s along with R.E.M., Let's Active, etc. The dB's never achieved the prominence of R.E.M. but were critically recognized and are still greatly appreciated today. The band, with Stamey back in the fold, has reformed with new material in 2005-2006.

Holsapple was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, moving with his family to North Carolina in 1962. He played in bands since 1964, professionally since 1970. His band Rittenhouse Square with Mitch Easter, Chris Stamey and Bobby Locke released an independent album in 1972. When Rittenhouse broke up, Holsapple joined future dB's drummer Will Rigby and several other high school friends in Little Diesel, a proto-punk rock band that ran against the tastes of Southern rock. Little Diesel's album "No Lie" (produced by Chris Stamey in 1974) was released on twenty 8-track cartridges, and it was finally re-released in 2006 on Telstar Records. College broke the band up, but Holsapple continued to write and sing, eventually moving to New York from Memphis, where he'd recorded at Sam Phillips Studio with Big Star engineer Richard Rosebrough, three months into the dB's existence. He joined as keyboard player and backing vocalist, but he quickly began submitting his songs, playing guitar and singing lead vocals alongside Stamey.

After the dB's broke up in 1988, Holsapple worked as a full-time guitarist and keyboardist for R.E.M. on the "Green" world tour. He participated in the writing and development, as well as the recording of their 1991 multi-platinum release, "Out of Time", but subsequently left R.E.M. due to disputes over songwriting credits [http://orangefox.svs.com/rem/crawled.html] . Holsapple subsequently joined Hootie and the Blowfish as an auxiliary member.

Holsapple joined the Continental Drifters (no longer extant), for whom he had first produced some demos and the "Nineteen Ninety-Three" album. The band was originally based out of Los Angeles but the members eventually relocated to New Orleans. The band included members of the Dream Syndicate, the Bangles and the Cowsills. Holsapple subsequently married Susan Cowsill and had one child with her, a daughter. The group went on to record three well-received albums, an EP of Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson covers, and several tribute album tracks that unfortunately did not translate into a lot of sales.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Holsapple relocated from New Orleans to Durham, North Carolina.

In 1991, he and Stamey reunited to record an album entitled "Mavericks". Holsapple also has one solo album, 1997's "Out of My Way" which is out of print.

In September 2005, the classic line-up of the dB'S performed two shows in Chicago and two in Hoboken, New Jersey. December 2006 brought Stamey-Holsapple Christmas shows in North Carolina. The Bowery Ballroom in NYC hosted the dB'S in January 2007, and in February 2007 the dB's made a brief appearance at Cat's Cradle in Carrboro NC. A new album is expected as well.

External links

*http://thedbs.com
*http://www.littlediesel.net
*http://www.continentaldrifters.com


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