QD Earl

- The 1st of 5 children born to the late Gloria Ann McClain, a strong woman who gave all for her children and never discouraged them from pursuing their creative talents. David, a Newark NJ native, developed his artistic and musical interest at a very early age, beginning with reading the sunday comics or singing along with songs on the radio at age three. the love for music and art manifested itself in all aspects of David's young life from organizing neighborhood pre-teen parties and "borrowing" his parent's and other friends 45's and LPs to DeeJay the parties to forming a singing group to perform at the parties, to creating the flyer art about the party. Creativity was in the blood. At age 10 he purchased his 1st 45 with his own allowance and never stopped, comics and records, drawing and "making tapes" is what kept him busy. David's musical tastes include a wide variety of genres, including Soul, Jazz, Pop, Disco, Soft Rock and House. A graduate of Arts High School in Newark NJ, and then attending S.V.A. in New York, he always preferred to surround himself with people who have that same creative energy and attitude. His 1st professional work in comics was for Blackthorne Publ. in 1987 that included logos and character designs for their line of color books, around that same time he joined up with Ben "Rebel" Thomas who formed the "Rebel Productions Group" and then "Next Rebellion Productions" where he honed his skills as a rapper, writer and producer and graphic artist, providing logos, flyer designs and album cover art for a number of projects. A member of the recording group "Lost Children" who's single "Love & Contradiction" was featured in the Cynthia Rothrock movie "Rage & Honor II" the future looked promising. With an album and production deal with I.R.S./Tribal America records Next Rebellion was busy, but after working on the Raveman Logic ep. Beyond Gray Matter and remixes for the Pato Banton single Beams of Light it was time to move on. Concentrating more on his artistic abilities David began pursuing work with the Independent Comics industry, becoming a penciler/inker for comic companies like ScriptGraphics, Beatnik, Third Eye and Landmark.
Also working in the large format graphics field as a pre-production graphic artist/designer. In 2000, along with longtime friends and DeeJays Raheem Classick and T.Maurice, formed the mobile DJ unit "Unlimited Music Merchants" providing the musical tone for numerous events and parties over the years. Even though David's musical interests are varied his concentration has always been stronger in 2 genres in particular..."Disco" and "SlowJams" a never ending pursuit of musical masterpieces in these recording categories has resulted in a massive collection or rarely or never before heard songs and artists from the 70's and 80's an age of music that will never be duplicated again. And that brings us to the present. In this age of the high speed internet and global community it is his duty to spread these sounds to the uniformed, the message of love,tolerance and FUN from this age in music is sorely needed for the generation of today and he's ready to do his part.