He has been using Fernandes guitars for a long time. In 2013, a punk rock band Zebrahead offered him to join them as the lead guitarist after Greg Bergdorf left the band and he accepted it. In the same year, Keith Barney, who was the guitarist of a hardcore punk band, Death by Stereo, left the band, so Dan took over Keith's place as the lead guitarist. He joined the band in 1996 but they broke up in 1999.
He was formerly the guitarist for a hardcore punk band called Eyelid, which was formed in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California in 1994. He has been using Fernandes guitars for a very long time. He is the lead guitarist of the bands Death By Stereo (since Oct 1999) and Zebrahead (since 2013).
Erlewine continues today as the godfather, mentor and all-around authority in the world of guitar repair and luthiery.Dan Palmer (born August 14, 1978), who is originally from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, is an English guitarist and now lives in Whittier, California, United States. After several years of regular column contribution, Erlewine decided to publish all of his written works on guitar repairing, as well as some extra stuff, in a volume entitled The Guitar Player’s Repair Guide, a book that has seen numerous editions over the past several decades. Soon Erlewine was penning a column for Guitar Player and Bass Player, as well as a music publication out of the U.K. It was there that Erlewine was spotted by Athens’ own Stewart-Macdonald, which would offer Erlewine a job that brought him to the little town of Athens in the mid-80s. The videos caught the eye of the musical instrument industry, and in 1984, when Erlewine attended a National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) convention, he was asked to demonstrate his talents at the booth maintained by Jim Dunlop’s company. In the early ‘80s Erlewine made the first of what would be many, many guitar repair videos, an endeavor that was encouraged by one of his brothers who had been involved in the early days of computer technology. After another band break-up, Dan moved back home and got back into the business of guitar repair more seriously. Erlewine would even go on to play in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band’s drummer, Sam Lay’s band for a short stint in Chicago. In 1967, the “summer of love,” Erlewine’s band opened for Cream in San Francisco, one of many notable musical phenomena that took place around that time for Erlewine.ĭuring this time, Mike Bloomfield of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band served as Erlewine’s mentor. Throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s Erlewine traveled a lot, mostly with various rock bands, including his second band, The Prime Movers, which starred none other than James Newell Osterberg, a.k.a punk rock royalty Iggy Pop. He began learning his trade as a teen in the early ‘60s, working at a local music shop.
With decades of music experience under his belt, Erlewine has both performed extensively with rock ‘n’ roll and folk bands and worked on hundreds of instruments. Dan Erlewine has worked on an awful lot of famous guitars, some of which have been strummed by the likes of Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia and many other notable musicians.
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