Hunting Keyboards with Bon Jovi's David Bryan
After enjoying a Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band performance, Bon Jovi keyboardist
David Bryan walked backstage to meet E-Street Band keyboardist Danny Federici and discuss his
impressive setup. It was not long before Bryan was writing down Dawk's phone number.
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"David hired me to secure and set up equipment similar to Danny's Hammond B-3 keyboard and
Leslie cabinet," recalls Dawk. "At the time I had no idea who David was. Bon Jovi had just
finished touring in support of its debut. So I flew to New Jersey and, after dinner with the
band at drummer Tico Torres's house, began the arduous task of finding the equipment. After
searching throughout New Jersey, I came across a beautiful Hammond C-3 keyboard in a music
shop. Unfortunately the instrument had just been sold to a local church. The church had put a
down payment on the instrument, but left it in layaway while additional payments were made over
a six-month period. And payments had lapsed.
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"Ironically, David knew the church's reverend, who was this fire and brimstone-type. David and
I went back to the store, looked around and found an older keyboard in the storage room. He
decided that he was going to buy both keyboards. The plan was that I would fix the older
keyboard, which he would then give to the church. He would also buy the Hammond C-3 from the
church. David, the church and the music shop owner all came out smiling.
"Finding a model 122 Leslie cabinet that was in good shape also proved difficult. Eventually,
I built David a cabinet from Leslie parts. During our shopping spree we also bought a 1959
model Marshall amplifier and a 1960/B cabinet that he had me set up to resemble Deep Purple
keyboardist Jon Lord's."