Then Ira and I would spend a day a week after school in my basement and I would play for him stuff I wrote…I threw so much away before he and I tried a few…I respected Ira’s opinion and only Ira’s opinion…If he thought it kicked ass, we would try it. We, like everyone else who got bookings, we were a “cover band”…kids wanted the hits of the day…and if you could nail them you earned a following…it wasn’t until 1967 or so that I thought I had written anything good enough to actually perform live. I had been writing little ditties since I was 8 years old with Grandpa…silly stuff. What was the first song you ever composed? Ira Pack and I were truly like brothers and even though a band was my idea, he was such a superior musician he made the final “hiring” decisions as to who would play bass and drums…we went through many guys. He felt most of the bands could play the songs but not sing them well…the “jagged edge” somehow came out of that. He was the best player I ever saw among my gang of friends and he admired my voice: he said we would have an “edge” on the other local groups mostly because of my falsetto.
Having decided to start my “own band”…I found Ira Pack (Guitar, Backing Vocals) who was an incredible player for his age, actually knew theory and harmony and taught guitar (while in high school) at a local music store. I had met other guys by gigging and started playing in my basement with a bunch of them. So I learned music wasn’t all fun and games. After about 6 months he kicked me out of the band. When we played Detroit teen clubs the girls would populate my side of the stage, and I mostly was relegated to just strumming while my “boss” played and sang. Ask around, I was better looking than the band leader, I sang better than the band leader. You can say this is egotistical but it’s the truth. Also as I approached 16, I became very popular with the local girls. They played bars in Canada and occasionally had to have some guy in the audience say he was my “dad” because I was too young (15) to be there. They needed a second guitar player who owned an amplifier, (which I did), and they played around town. There were older guys I met who had actual bands that played ‘Teen Clubs’. I was the neighborhood kid who the older 16, 17, and 18 year old girls wanted at their parties because I could sing and play. What bands were you a member of prior to the formation of Stoney & The Jagged Edge?
I learned harmonies in my head, and could do “Ooo Baby Baby” by Smokey Robinson in falsetto…now that was a big deal at 14. Somewhere around that time I discovered I could more than carry a tune…I could actually sing.
Stuff that had interesting vocal harmonies fascinated me, like The Miracles, then I discovered I could knock off some Elvis Presley (my mother and my aunts told me I looked like Elvis Presley…). I got a few lessons when I was 13 or 14 on guitar. When did you begin playing music? What was your first instrument? Who were your major influences? I was 7 or 8 when I started to fool around with grandpa, so I guess he inspired me that I could learn to play stuff, starting with Christmas carols on the violin. I got an old guitar from somewhere and he taught me to play it with four strings. He could play the violin by ear, and the harmonica, the ocarina, spoons, and ukulele. To keep us fed she had to work, so my grandparents basically raised me, and grandpa was an Irish fiddler. Where and when did you grow up? Was music a big part of your family life? Did the local music scene influence you or inspire you to play music? “We didn’t really want to sound like anybody” Dave “Stoney” Mazur was the quintessential Detroit frontman. The quartet formed around early 1966 and played with many major acts. It does not store any personal data.Stoney & The Jagged Edge interview Stoney & The Jagged Edge were one of the wildest, heaviest and outrages groups coming from Detroit. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.
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