Michael Collins - Dayve

Dayve used to be Dave.

Why... I hear you ask the reason for the name change?  Well all I can say is, what an improvement! For if truth be known, you are much more a DAYVE than a ‘Dave’. There are plenty of Daves in this world...  let’s face it.

Apparently in 1966 ‘Dave’, D.A.V.E was voted the year’s most boring name... Quite a feat.  And that generation knew what it was on about: long hair, beads, free love, and cheap shots at God-blessed politicians who wanted to save the world from communism by sending the young heroes of poor people to Vietnam to die in all sorts of strange and horrific ways.

But all that is beside the point... now.

I was there on that fateful day that Dave became Dayve. The sun was shining, and the sky was blue and there were pigeons cooing in the background... (But they could have been chickens in someone’s back yard… I am not certain, as I have lost my replacement hearing aids and which... Well enough said. I am really too embarrassed to go ask Amplifon for another pair. They try to talk me into paying for them. No way! I’d just lose those, too.)

Now... Again with the ‘now’... You would have had to have been there to see the light in his eyes when Dave.. D.A.V.E. was re-christened D.A.Y.V.E...  It was a joy to watch that slight blush as he ‘grooved’ his way into the new paradigm.  His new persona.

As a near-famous film maker... and almost well-known producer and director... I hear he is writing a score entitled 'Dayve’s of our Lives'. Dayve will of course be the star… It will, of course, be a one man show... as there is only one Dayve/Dave. However you spell it.

We love you Dayve/Dave...