WeirDave on MTV

In 1991 during the height of my career in the nightclub business I was working in a club in Orlando called The Cuda Bay club. At the time, I had been working in the club business for several years. My partner in crime is known as Stan "the man" Priest (Stockshakers.com). We had been together as a DJ and light jock for several years and through many different clubs and cities. We were known as Weird and Feared. During a trade convention called Lighting Dimension International or LDI for short, we both sat on panels that were open for discussion about our individual art form. I was voted light tech of the year and Stan became a Billboard ® reporter. In that same year Disney ® teamed up with MTV ® to stage a state wide dance contest to be held at the newly opened Pleasure Island club called Mannequins. Since I was given my name WeirDave by another DJ (Thanks Seb!) due to my dancing style and over the years many people would come to the clubs we worked at to see me dance, I decided to enter. The contest lasted about a month. There were about 3000+ applicants over the stages. I won my stage and went to the semi's. After winning the semifinals I had one week until the finals. I was nervous because the songs that they had been picking for the contestants to dance to were not my style. I was hoping that out of all the songs that they were using that I would get lucky enough to get KLF's Eternal which was the best one of the bunch back then for a gothic style person such as myself.

For my semi I had to dance to Marky Mark's Good Vibrations. I was not pleased but as I said I won the semi's so I just kept my fingers crossed. At the finals I did get the song I wanted but my shoe flew off during my dance. I was a little shaken but I was determined and .... I won!!! The Grand Prize was a trip to NYC to film 15 episodes of Club MTV!!! These episodes were the equivalent of 2 YEARS worth of shows and we did it in 2 days! It was a rush! So now you know where I got the above picture from. Occasionally they show an old episode of Club MTV and you just never know you may just see me!

I converted some old VHS tapes of me dancing "back in the day" You can watch a couple of clips from them by clicking below! The Movies are in Quicktime Media Format (MOV) and they are large in size so if you are on dialup don't even bother! It will still take a couple of seconds to start even on broadband so be patient!

dancing at the Cuda Bay Club in Orlando Florida for local TV Show

Link to a video from MTV

Link to some photos of me dancing