This story begins with a humble street Bard / Musician / poet / preacher,
traveling far from his native habitat ...
Then known as Diamond Dave, he traveled across the u.s.a. and mexico
spending many a day on a corner
playing beats on his drum... rhyming to eat.
Diamond remained in street corner obscurity, aside from a short
but profitable stint
with G.F.E.(Ashville, NC) and with Grandpappy
(poet/jedi/lyriscist/musician ).
It was 1998 when he acquired the mythical beast Pu-chi, and
then headed to Portland, OR. and linked up with D.J. Scorpio to form JACK NEVERWACK
IT was there that Brown was lucky enough to witness the birth of the
Cavemacks
(old-school friends from 1987) but that's another story.
After scooping a beat (Ronin) from D.J. Scorpio a.k.a Dr. ILL
Mack Natural, he returned to his native habitat... Madison, WI.
As winter descended across the land he
all-together disappeared or (as some would say) crawled under
a log. only to emerge
as the . . .