| Michael Dahlquist | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Michael Dahlquist |
| Born | December 22, 1965 |
| Died | July 14, 2005 (aged 39) |
| Occupation(s) | Drummer |
| Instrument(s) | Drums |
Michael Dahlquist (December 22, 1965–2005) was a drummer in the Seattle band Silkworm. Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Events 1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father Philip II of France. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making Music. The drum is a member of the percussion group technically classified as a Membranophone. Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Silkworm was an Indie rock band active from 1987 to 2005 The members were Tim Midgett, Joel RL Phelps, Andy Cohen, and Michael
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The early years
Michael Dahlquist was born at Swedish Hospital in Seattle, Washington. Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. He spent his childhood in Bothell, a nearby town, and many vacations were spent at his grandmother’s ranch in Livingston, Montana. Bothell (pronounced /bɒθəl/ is a city located in King and Snohomish Counties in the state of Washington. Livingston is a city in and the County seat of Park County, Montana, United States. Montana ( is a state in the Western United States. One-third of the state in the western part contains numerous mountain ranges (approximately 77 named of the northern In 1969 and 1970, a nine-month trip to Europe saw the Dahlquist clan live on bread and cheese as they traversed the continent. His childhood was filled with creative endeavors: writing (a lasting passion), juggling, puppetry, and tree-climbing, with a little skateboarding thrown in for good measure. Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using a Skateboard.
Michael graduated from Inglemoor High School in Bothell in 1984, and then attended Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Inglemoor High School is a public High school located in Kenmore, Washington. Olympia is the Capital of Washington and is the County seat of Thurston County. Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. In Olympia, he continued to develop his interests in writing and performance. To the former, he studied literature, mythology and mysticism, including a summer program at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where he studied with poets Allen Ginsberg and Philip Whalen. Naropa University is a private Liberal arts University in Boulder, Colorado, the United States, which was founded in 1974 Boulder is a Home Rule Municipality that is the County seat and most populous city of Boulder County, Colorado, in the United States The State of Colorado ( or chiefly by nonresidents) is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. Irwin Allen Ginsberg (ˈgɪnzbɝg (June 3 1926 &ndash April 5 1997 was an American Poet. Philip Whalen ( October 20, 1923 – June 26, 2002) was an American Poet, Zen Buddhist, and a key He engaged in all manner of performance-oriented endeavors, from stage design to participation in and study of Fluxus-style art events of the sort pioneered by John Cage and Joseph Beuys. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> John Milton Cage Jr During this time period Michael had his first experiences as a rock drummer, playing with the bands Flowers for Funerals and Dungpump.
In 1988 Michael moved from Olympia to Seattle. After a few odd jobs, he found himself a home at Yellow and Graytop cab companies, for whom he drove over the next eight years.
Silkworm
In January of 1990, Michael began a personal and semi-professional relationship that would shape much of his adult life. He met the members of Silkworm, three young men recently transplanted from Montana, who were looking to replace their drum machine. Montana ( is a state in the Western United States. One-third of the state in the western part contains numerous mountain ranges (approximately 77 named of the northern He doubled the size of his kit to four drums immediately. Michael was also a member of the Crust Brothers, playing on their 1998 album Marquee Mark. The Crust Brothers, a band formed by Stephen Malkmus and members of Silkworm ( Michael Dahlquist, Tim Midgett and Andy Cohen released one album Marquee Mark, the Crust Brothers ' only album was released by the small Telemomo label on October 15 1998
The activities of Silkworm dominated Michael’s life for the next six years. He also became an avid mountaineer and scaled Mts. Adams, Hood, Baker, and Shuksan. He snowboarded, learned to be a swing dancer, and also found time to play with a local gamelan ensemble. Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a Snow -covered slope on a Snowboard attached to a participant's feet using a special boot set into a mounted binding A gamelan is a musical ensemble of Indonesia typically featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones xylophones drums and gongs bamboo flutes bowed and
In late 1996, Silkworm began curtailing their tour schedule, and Michael talked his way into a job as office grunt at Lizardtech, a local producer of imaging software. Six months later, he bought his first house, a tiny one-bedroom on Seattle’s Beacon Hill. By the time he left Lizardtech as a product manager in the summer of 2001, he had taught himself Perl, HTML, and XML, and had written the Silkworm website from scratch. NOTES FOR EDITORS "Perl" is not an acronym (read the "Name" section below HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure Don't change "Extensible"
In October 2001, Michael moved from Seattle to Chicago, Illinois. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. His bandmates had already made this move, individually, but the band had continued to prosper as a long-distance concern.
In Chicago, he was employed at Shure Incorporated as a technical writer, and he continued to spend a great deal of time on Silkworm and related pursuits. Shure Incorporated is a consumer and professional audio electronics Corporation. However, he also started a web design business and resumed his college studies, as he pursued a degree in visual anthropology from DePaul University. DePaul University is a private institution of Higher education and Research in Chicago, Illinois, U
Beyond music
In the last few years of Michael’s life, he made landmark trips to Italy (twice) and Japan with Silkworm. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. He bought a 2500-square-foot condominium on Chicago’s South Side.
Between late 2001 and mid-2005, he took on the job of editing 145 hours of digital video into a 90-minute documentary film titled "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?," an outsider perspective on the Christian rock music scene. He taught himself film editing from scratch, building a ramshackle Avid system out of home PCs.
Death
Michael died on Thursday, July 14, 2005. Events 1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father Philip II of France. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. While he was stopped at a traffic signal, another car struck his at high speed. His friends and fellow musicians Douglas Meis and John Glick also died. John Glick ( February 7, 1970 - July 14, 2005) was a Songwriter, Singer, and Guitarist for the Chicago
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