Celebrating Portland Musician Dave Camp
b'Last week, Portland lost someone who breathed glittering joy into the local music scene. Dave Camp passed on July 15 after a months-long, profoundly public struggle with stomach cancer that rallied a community around him.
Camp was a renaissance artist, Portland style. He played and sang with a slew of bands, especially some of the more colorful, art rock projects like the Nowhere Band, which performed the Beatles\\u2019 \\u2018White Album\\u2019 every Christmas with seasonally themed hijinks, in addition to other concept albums. He composed music for commercials and documentaries like \\u201cAndy Warhol\\u2019s Factory People\\u201d and \\u201cThe Wanted\\u201d through his publishing company, Lift. And he had his own band, a psychedelic, disco glam extravaganza, Stereovision, with his business partner, Nancy Hess.
\\u201cDave was the person who said yes to everything, and then figured out how to do it,\\u201d said Hess. \\u201cNike wanted a song that sounded like a \\u201820s big band horn section. I was horrified, and he was like, \\u2018no problem.\\u2019 He pulled out his guitar and whipped out some chords. It was the kind of thing where he could play guitar, and you\\u2019d be like, right, he\\u2019s a great country guitarist. Then he\\u2019d play drums, and it\\u2019s right, he\\u2019s great disco drummer.\\u201d'