Alice's Garden Band Bio & History
Dave Devine: Lead Vocals, Bass Guitar & Keyboards started “Alice's Garden” in 1994, with Jay Costanzo on Guitar & Stasek Onikul on Drums,
after leaving the band “Amnesia”.
” Alice’s Garden” Released their 1st CD “Sands of Time" in 1996. In 1997 Dave replaced both Jay after he moved to Boise Idaho with his new family & Stasek when he left to play with "Skinny Puppy”. Dave Replaced them with Jesse James (aka Jesse Martin) on Guitar and Jimmy Briggs on Drums that line up finished the 2nd CD " Alice's Garden"(aka "As I Walk") in 2002, shortly after Jimmy was asked to leave the band, within a year Jesse left the Band to move to Swisshome, Oregon with his new girlfriend. Jesse was asked to complete the 3rd CD after Dave Devine went to Spain to finish writing the Music, But Jesse refused to come to California and record. So in late 2004 Dave brought in the Guitar Player David Hansen and his old friend Stasek Onikul to Record the 3rd CD "Across the Water", This CD was completed in 2005. After the completion of the 3rd CD, David Hansen Retired & moved to the California Desert. In late 2007 Rob Lloyd on Guitar joined the Band "Alice's Garden" and now their working on their 4th CD called "Black Moon" with a completion date of fall 2009. This new CD so far has Dave Devine's signature Dark sound & screaming vocals with a slight twist of European Industrial. Alice's Garden is in the final recording process of the CD "Black Monn"
Special Notes:
There are also a couple of “Live Digital” CD’s floating around out there,
These are analog studio Jam sessions given to band members in preparation for studio recordings. The 1st “Alice’s Garden Live” recorded in 2001 with Jimmy Briggs on drums & Jesse James on guitar .
The 2nd called “Closure" in 2004 with Jesse James on Guitar &
John Dioniso on Drums who was in the band for a very brief time.
These are now also available to all as part of the total “Alice’s Garden” collection.
