Dave Busacker

b. August 12, 1963 d. March 30, 2021 Musician from Portland, OR. He was first introduced to music by his mother, Virginia, who was a longtime music teacher in Portland Public Schools. He first started playing piano and cello. As he grew up, Dave founded several bands with his schoolmates and friends. He played bass guitar in his first band, Matisse Video. From there, he went on to play lead guitar in the soul-laced trio named the Soulmongers and later as Dial Memphis. In 1992, Dave joined Satan’s Pilgrims and would record eleven full length albums and dozens of singles with them, writing and co-writing much of their repertoire. Right before his death, Dave had just finished his tracks on two full length Satan’s Pilgrims albums that will be coming out later in 2021. In the 1990s, Dave was also a founding member of other bands while still in Satan’s Pilgrims, including playing organ in The Chimps (a Northwest garage band with the members of Satan’s Pilgrims), guitar for The Brothers E. double Elvis tribute band, and the hard rock band Baller. In the 2010s, Dave helped to start The Pynnacles, a psychedelic garage band with Scott and John from the Pilgrims, and Sean Croghan along with Thom Sullivan and Tamar Berk. More recently, he played in The Guildsmen with Scott Fox from the Pilgrims and Dave Berkham of The Reverberations.