If you have landed here looking for my new band site please see one of the links to DeuxMonkey. This site is a general news site for all my music projects. Very much like a business card / directory of events. It also posts news regarding many things that do not pertain to certain band entities.

Thank you for your understanding. Please enjoy my music and I hope to see you live very soon.

A lot of guitar players and fans of Paul Reed Smith ( PRS ) Guitars have asked me to see the original drawings of the “Fugly” headstock I designed for Paul Reed Smith Guitars. Here are two of them.

The idea came from simply making a 6 in a row style headstock and stretching the current PRS style into something so Ugly I would like it. I wanted it as pictured with my signature and the logo at tip, BUT Upside down in execution. The builders had to make 5 or 6 first runs in the normal fashion and not upside down first, and these were the ones I used on the Anthrax Re-Union tour. Never did get the upside down one or the ones with the Logo at the tip. I heard Winn and the wonderful people there did in fact make some later on. I think it would have looked really nice with Paul’s signature on there and kept plain as well.

I designed and innovated a lot of really great things with Grover Jackson for the Randy Rhoads shapes and had a great time with PRS having a go with this idea and many others that were tossed around. They make incredible guitars with a passion for the art that is evident in every one who works there.

I wish we could have made the PRS Flying V I designed !!!!!!!!   It was sick. Unfortunately the drawings arrived with me at the PRS factory at the same time Gibson guitars law suit over the Les Paul shape was going on. Making a Paul Reed Smith flying V was my sole and ONLY goal to achieve over there besides the “Fugly” headstock. Paul was actually really excited to do it as well. Would have been the first “Metal” PRS. A flying V with the “Fugly” on it  and 24 3/4″ scale hmmm.. lets see …  carved ten top… !

I am currently in pre production for “The 12″ Rock Musical in New York. There will also be three preview performances this weekend the 19th, 20th and 21st at The Riverspace theater in Nyack, New York.

Tickets for these special preview shows and information regarding the all star Broadway cast and the show can be viewed at this link http://neilberg.com/ .

Opening night for “The 12″ will be on April 1st at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft.Lauderdale Florida.

I am honored to be part of this incredible cast of such famous Broadway stars and of course its Pulitzer Prize winning author Mr.Robert Shenkkan.

Candi, Brendan, Jaden and I will be at the Autism Speaks Walk this coming Sunday (7th) if anyone would like to come say hello and get involved. We (DeuxMonkey) will be doing a lot of wonderful things with Autism Speaks in the near future.

Did a wonderful interview with SMN News located at this location:

http://www.smnnews.com/2010/03/01/deuxmonkey-dan-spitz-guitar/

I have just returned from pre production of “The 12“, . A Rock / Musical written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Robert Shenkkan ( don’t forget his Emmy nominations). This was a wonderful experience and I look forward to being part of the global touring starting in March / April that will start in performing arts size venues.

I have completed tracking all drum tracks with Patrick Johansson at ‘The Barn” studio south Florida for the new DeuxMonkey CD. DeuxMonkey will continue tracking and be on the road globally before summer 2010.