David Henderson Bio Page

David Henderson is one of Colorado's finest guitarists. He's a guitarist's guitarist combining over 30 years of rock, blues and jazz influences into an extremely dynamic, expressive, and truly emotional style.

David grew up in the Northeast - Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York, Boston, and Rhode Island. David began his musical career like many of his generation - watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. Guitar quickly became his passion as he cut his teeth absorbing the rock classics of the late 60's, early 70's, and living with Allman Brothers Filmore East LP every day after school. Rock and Jazz fused in the mid 70's (Jeff Beck Blow By Blow) and captured David's imagination as he evolved as a musician. David graduated Berklee College of Music in 1982 and then moved to LA to take a shot at the musician's life. The mid 80's were the wood shedding years, where he played and practiced guitar virtually all day and all night every day. David played and toured with Stevie Woods (Let's Steal The Night) and Gina and Guy Eckstine (daughter and son of the late legendary Jazz singer, Billy Eckstine).

However in 1986, David abruptly left the music business entirely. His love for music was overshadowed by the economics, realities and hypocrisies of the music business. Totally frustrated by this realization, David put down his beloved guitar for 10 years, moved back to the Northeast and focused full-time on the television advertising business and raising a family. In 1990, he went back to school garnering a MBA from Boston University.

In 1995, the world was filled with optimism, creativity and innovation as the Internet revolution blossomed into full swing. As a co-founder and VP of Sales of DoubleClick in New York, David was a leading pioneer of the Internet advertising revolution.

While building DoubleClick, the guitar began creeping back into his life. David pulled the cobwebs off the old guitar and placed it right next to his desk. He would get a chance to play and practice every time Windows 95 would crash and he had to wait for a re-boot - needless to say that was a lot!

In 1998, David moved to Colorado to help build another Internet startup, Matchlogic (later purchased by Excite and then @Home). He formed a band called "Bandwith" with several of his co-workers and began to play live gigs again in Colorado.

In 2000 David left Excite@Home and became CEO of a wireless CRM messaging startup company, SmartPoint Inc. April of that year saw the dot com bubble burst and Venture Capital virtually dry up. SmartPoint would grow from 5 to 35 people then ran smack into the Venture Capital void and dot com depression and was forced sell off it's technology in late of 2001.

Mentally and emotionally exhausted after 3 consecutive startups in 5 years, David decided to take a sabbatical from the technology and business world and spend some time with his wife, two children and music.

So for the past year, David amazingly has come full circle and is back to playing music again every day! He is out "lighting it up" on the Boulder blues jam scene every Monday night at Catacombs and gigs regularly with his new band, The Henderson Brothers Band, with his brother Jon and also the Shelby Johnson Band. David also spends most days in his home ProTools studio writing, recording and playing. He is working on numerous CD and DVD projects including an original CD that is just about finished.

Who knows what's next for David? He is currently out searching for that next technology business opportunity. But one thing is for sure, the passion for music is back, and music and the guitar will always be a huge part of his life!

Rock on David….and keep the love alive for it is our passions that make life worth living!