Dave was the signed as the main writer for WB recording artists KINDRED 2 albums – Produced by Chuck Negron the lead singer for Three Dog Night the top group in the world with mega hits “Joy to the World” and “Celebrate”.

Personnel was Dave Bluefield keys, Marty Rodgers vocals and songwriter, Bernie Mysior
Bass, Gloria Gaioni vocals and great dancer (Shindig) and Ron Grinel drums – Sandy Szigeti (RIP) guitarist was replaced by Bobby Cochran nephew of the great rocker Eddie Cochran, Ron was replaced by Jimi Ericsson.

The band toured with Three Dog Night and opened for them and was seen by an estimated 500,000 folks, many of whom went to their local record stores (yes, back when Vinyl ruled) only to find Kindred was not on the shelves! When our management was transferred from Joe Sutton (Ricky Nelson and Neil Diamond) to Reb Foster and Assoc (Three Dog Night, Steppenwolf) – Foster had a great relationship with Dunhill Records(who was Three Dogs company) but zero with Warner Bros.. What this meant to us 22 yr old. Rock star wannabees was that without that critical timing to match the records in the stores with the city where the concert and local radio station interviews were -without any distribution -meant we missed sales and lost out as “neverbees”.
We surely had a GREEAAAT (Tony the Tiger) time and got to see the world as well as cement relationships that would last 40+years, but oh what might have been if we weren’t relegated to become a classic record biz “write-off”.

We met many of the top acts of the day and were inspired by their talent – other bands besides Three Dog Night were ‘Tim Buckley (RIP), Badfinger, Black Oak Arkansas, Uriah Heep, Steppenwolf, John Mayall, Richard Pryor (yes the amazing genius RIP). After every Three Dog Concert, during their encore Kindred would come on stage and jam with them and a few years later Chuck Negron asked me to join the Band and touring with them I got to play with the Turtles, Gary Pucket and the Union Gap, ‘Spanky and Our Gang, Chicago, the Beach Boys and of course Ringo.

Reach for Fitness was a very special opportunity to provide the music and the hit song Heart to Heart Hand to Hand a handicapped kids video – with Ann Margaret Cybil Shepard Jane Fonda Betty White John Ritter and Donna Mills and other top celebs providing voice-over – Richard Simmons then wanted to work with me again on the Silver Foxes.

Silver Foxes – A production company in Santa Monica contacted me to create Big Band Swing music for an exercise video for Seniors -only these seniors were Dustin Hoffman’s Dad, Sylvester Stallone’s mom. Al Pacino’s dad and Richard Simmons mom. When my own mom and dad watched and slow- danced together it was a touching moment I will never forget.

“AaRanger in the Rainforest” (Music R1 C4) is heard by 90 mill, people daily in the world of ambient background music.

I remember being in between the 2 doors leading into a Coco’s (Restaurant chain) in Downtown Denver when I heard -ever so softly in the background – a flurry of piano runs that sounded familiar – it was me playing “The Better End” and I got real excited and told the folks I was with : “hey that’s me!’ and they said “what?” “where?” – it was that soft but yet my ear and brain were working in sync that day.

It happened again with another cut in a Standard Brands paint store – Maybe it helped create a mood for deciding upon what color to paint a bedroom.

When I first moved to Aspen for real and had an amazing apartment with a home recording studio right in the middle of town – I got a very strange call late one night and was asked if I could record a live vocal – I said I guess so (mostly cause it was late and there was minimal traffic outside my window in the heart of town) and the next thing I know
it is Don Henley – a hero of mine from the Eagles – in town (where he has his own place) needing to record a PSA for a project very dear to his heart -The Walden Woods Project- a not-for-profit organization dedicated to protecting the historic woods in Massachusetts where author/philosopher Henry David Thoreau first championed the concept of land conservation. Henley has chaired the organization’s board of directors since its inception, and now he’s up here in my living room recording his voice. I was just dieing to ask him all kinds of questions about the Eagles and the days at the Troubadour at Los Angeles where he and Glenn Frey would hang out and eventually landed in the Linda Rondstadt band – I was there too, mixing it up but never got the chance to meet until here in this mountain resort town. He left as quickly as he arrived but that did not stop the phone from ringing since apparently word had gotten out that he was recording ‘somewhere”.

I still have the DAT tape we made that night and now all I have to do is find antiquated DAT player to see if there are any remarkable out takes to put on YouTube. Just kidding -it was and is for a noble cause and I am proud to have served this important conservation.

JOHN OATES of the great duo of Hall and Oates moved to Aspen CO and became my neighbor and music compadre in our small mountain town. We met and gigged at Jamie Rosenbergs Great Divide Studio and jammed on stage at a couple of Charity Events at the St.Regis Hotel grand ballroom.