Interview with Dave Greenslade

“It’s a natural thing” is a phrase Dave Greenslade repeatedly uses to describe various happenings his long career was strewn with – still, isn’t it the most telling sign of a great talent: to accept what occurs due to the person’s own subconscious processes as something that’s par for the course? Of course, the venerated ivories-driver’s love for nature, which got manifested in quite a few pieces Greenslade composed over the years, and his spell with a band called NATURE seem purely coincidental in such a context, but Dave’s conceptual thinking – the cornerstone of the albums he recorded with COLOSSEUM and GREENSLADE as well as the veteran’s solo oeuvre – doesn’t feel like a matter of happenstance.

February 4, 2025