It was close to midnight and I was lazily zapping through the programms until something caught my eye. I didn't see much before I pressed the record button of my videorecorder, I didn't have time to think, but I recorded the major part of the Bang Bang video clip that night. That is the magical part of my story: I didn't recognize neither the video not the song, I simple did it for no obvious reason at all - simply because I was hooked
I watched the video a second time and I thought that this guy was really different. Ask me why! I don't know, I think because David came across as shy (oh, he does, he's trying to avoid the camera etc) at least in my eyes. He was different from the other persons and of course there was the beautiful voice of his saxophone. Until then, I underrated this instrument, although you can hear it on many rock'n'pop tracks. It never really stood out from the crowd of intruments for me, because I listen to the songs as a whole - without concentrating on the single instruments, but this sax had a voice, singing out of pure joy!
I caught fire that night and decided to look for some CD in the record shop. They had, I think, three CDs of his, Taking Off, Close-Up and Voyeur. I picked Close Up (because it had a picture of David on the cover [I didn't have any other criteria]) and although I wasn't overwelmed, I quite like the album. You know that this album is considered one if his pop albums and this made it easier for me to overcome the junk I used to listen to and get into David's music. Maybe the fire would have died out, if there hadn't been Night Music. I was made aware of that show and recorded it from the beginning. The first show I saw was the one with Ruth Brown and Geore Duke. It had a lot of close ups, humor and joyful music and I continued to watch and tape it. It got better and better.
At that time, I also began to discover the internet. I used to surf for hours and had a lot of fun, but strangely enough it never occured me to search for information on David until one day about maybe one and a half or two years ago. Of course I dicovered the official site soon.
Also, I began to fall in love with the thought of having my own website. I didn't know about what it would be, I didn't care as long as it was mine.
When I learned more about David, I began to like him more and more: his attitude, "If it's good music, it's good music", is something I can really identify with. Music has got to make me want to dance, sing along, cry or laugh. It must touch my heart and my soul. Good music is music that is good for you.
I hope that this is something people learn from him and keep in mind, because you will miss so much good music, if you specialize.


It was August 98, friday, a very disappointing friday and I was mad at the world. I needed something to do, something to keep my mind busy, something that would stop me from thinking. What I did was learing html. I downloaded a short introduction into webpublishing and learned by " trial and error". I was fun to see a site with my browser that I created minutes ago with the notepad.
Since I was by now disappointed about the official site (because it was updated only every three month or so(, I decided to make my site a site about David Sanborn. I grabbed all the info I had and wrote a biography and a discography (it was clear from the beginning that this site would be in English for one simple reason: more visitors). Together with the main page, the two sites went online on monday (Aug 17th - I think).
The rest of the page developed from my surfing through the net. Whenever I found a piece of information, a picture or soundfile, I incorporate it into my page. Actually, this page grew on it's own. I planned nothing! The site happened to me, it's not something I can controll. Suddenly it was there and I have to take care of it. The most important section for me is Night Music: David and Jools invitied so many different artists, that the research for the bios on Night Music, introduces me to many different people, personalities, styles - it's amazing. Also the show compensates for not seeing David live.


So, about two years after my first contact to David's music, I have been learning more about David, html, email friendships and myself than I ever imagined. Bang Bang is still special to me (I sometime joke about it being David's theory of 'How The Universe Came About'). I listen to it before important decisions or just because I feel like it. I'm really hooked.