The Taylor Neely Band

Let’s Keep Love Alive

Genres: Rock / Alternative

Price: $12.99

Songs and Samples

She Loves Me
Unlucky In Love
Full Moon
Let's Keep Love Alive
Your World
Gypsy Lovers
Changing Times
Fantasyland
No One Like You
Baby It's You
What Goes Around
So You Really Think
You Can't Please Them
Sometimes You're Up

Some Nice Things People Have Said

Dallas Taylor's spirit is a refreshing reminder of courage, compassion, integrity and good humor of which the human heart is capable,and the power of these inner qualities to transform not only one's life and circumstances but also the lives he inspires.
- Kris Kristofferson

I have enjoyed Dallas Taylor's drumming for many years. Dallas and the people he has worked with have had a positive influence on me and my music. Dallas is an affirmation of the human spirit.
- Don Henley

Dallas Taylor is a beautiful man....and fantastic drummer.
- Ringo Starr

About The Taylor Neely Band

About Dallas Taylor

Dallas Woodrow Taylor, Jr. was born in Denver Colorado in 1948 and grew up in San Antonio, Texas. At the age of ten, Taylor's Mom took him to see The Gene Krupa Story. That's when he knew that he wanted to be a drummer. As a youth, Taylor played with the local bands around many small Texas towns, developing his famous style.

In 1967, Dallas moved to Los Angeles with his band, Clear Light. There he found himself among rock's royalty. The band toured and performed with such acts as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and the Doors. Two years later, Taylor was a popular session musician, working with John Sebastian when he crossed paths with Stephen Stills in an L.A. studio. The Buffalo Springfield had just dissolved and Stills was at a loss for musical direction. As Crosby, Stills, and Nash started to evolve, they asked Taylor to round out their recordings by joining in on drums. It was a match made in heaven and they recorded their first record.

After many more albums, Taylor and Stills conceptualized a big band sound and thus was born Manassas. After many gold records and tours, Taylor and Stills went their separate ways.

Throughout his career Dallas has played with many of the great players including Buddy Guy, Van Morrison and Jimi Hendrix! There were many years of pain and struggle, as well as more than a few life and death moments. Somehow through it at all, Taylor and his music have survived.

Thirty-five years after arriving in Los Angeles, the former “Prisoner of Woodstock” has now begun a new life and another journey. Through his intervention work with recovering addicts both inside and outside of the music business, Taylor has helped give back to the community that has given him so much.

About David Neely

David Neely was born in Nashville, Tennessee, December 1950, in the middle of the worst blizzard on record. Around age ten, he got his hands on a crystal radio set and tuned into pop stations WKDA, WMAK and R&B stations WVOL & WLAC.

Many nights he went to sleep with an earplug, waiting for his favorite song, Apache! First thing when coming home from school, Neely watched country music shows on TV. Little did he know he was getting a great guitar education from Chet, Merle, Hank Garland, Jim Colvard, Jimmy Capps, Don Rich, and Grady Martin.

Neely began playing guitar at age fifteen, and like most kids, also delivered papers to save up and buy guitars, motorcycles and hamburgers. (He preferred Gibson 335's and Byrdlands and the Gretsch Country Gentleman.)

Neely was playing a 335 through a Twin and had a chance to buy a 1961 SG Les Paul (fretless wonder, white, 3 gold pickups) from his bass player's brother for $300 and that guitar was probably his all time favorite.

His band was lined up to tour New England playing for the mob in towns like Pawtucket, Rhode Island and North Attleboro, Mass. While they were eating breakfast after work in Providence, somebody broke into their bus and stole that SG and breaking his heart!

David Neely began his work on custom instruments in 1974 after meeting Bill Lawrence, who had just been relocated to Nashville from Michigan and was in the process of setting up the new Gibson Guitar factory. They were constantly going over previous designs and redesigning the latest test models for Gibson. Then Bill decided to leave Gibson and he and Neely started their own company. Thus was born Lawrence Sound Research.

Lawrence Sound Research combined all of their newest ideas in guitar pickups as well as the best of the good old days. Several versions of pickups were released including the first soundhole acoustic/magnetic pickup, the L-90. They went ahead with full scale guitar designs and brought in Tom Holmes to help with production. Neely took over the in-house Custom Shop doing custom modifications and installations.

Some time later, he left to start his own shop and picked up work from the Nashville area professionals as well as the local music stores.

After many years in Nashville, Neely packed up and moved to Los Angeles to work with his good friend, Fred Walecki, of Westwood Music. He had met Fred while on tour with Waylon Jennings. Fred was responsible for major gains in the guitar sciences and had the top Los Angeles clientele as proof of his great understanding of instruments.

About a year later, they brought Rick Turner in to work with them. Rick is best known for his work with the Alembic Guitar Company in the early 70's, as well as the popular Rick Turner Guitars of today. (He is probably the most savvy guy in instrument engineering and no one is more dedicated to consistency and quality of work.)

During this period, Neely also hooked up with Robin Whittle of Real World Interfaces in Melbourne, Australia and helped him market his wonderful modifications to the Roland line of synthesizers here in the U.S. These were a complete circuitry redesign and hardware upgrade to the Roland line up. Their mods to the MT-32, D-110, D-10, and D-20 are now legendary and have been very successful worldwide.

Neely Custom Guitars has evolved over the last thirty-five years. It incorporates David Neely's many years of playing the guitar professionally with the wonderful designers and musicians he's been able to work with.

His years in college studying electronics, architectural drawing, and computers have blended with years of building guitars to aid in the designs of his own line of instruments.

Neely's NepTuneinterval correction has been installed on over 200 guitars as an aftermarket modification and is incorporated in every acoustic or electric guitar that he builds.