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Ep. 27 Dave Mulholland (Seattle/Austin)
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Dave Muholland grew up greatly influenced by the musical taste of his older sister as well as the music he was hearing in Northern Virginia record stores like Penguin Feather and Kemp Mill Records. In fact, he spent so much time hanging out at Penguin Feather while he was under 18, he got a job cutting lawns and cleaning up the parking lot and received his payment in records.
Dave’s English teacher in High School was Virginia Grohl, mother of a drummer who eventually moved to the Seattle area and drummed for a local band. Interestingly enough, whenever Dave Grohl shopped at Tower Mercer, the conversation with Dave Mulholland was less about music and more about how Grohl’s mother was doing.
After graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA he made the decision to move to Seattle in 1991 after spending some time visiting a friend. Looking for a job he applied at Tower Records #185 at 5th & Mercer under the Space Needle.
Starting in the Video Store and eventually moving into the music store, Dave became the Buyer for the Blues, Country and Folk sections. Working in the biggest record store in the Pacific Northwest gave Dave a front row seat to some of the events happening in the Seattle music scene. In this week’s episode, Muholland remembers Kurt & Courtney shopping in the store just a few weeks before Kurt left this mortal coil. He also remember the time a year later when a clerk asked Courtney for her I.D. when she went to pay for her purchase with a check.
Dave Muholland was encouraged to pursue management with Tower Records and he made the move to Austin, TX, a place he had been visiting somewhat regularly. But once there, he found the vibe in the city and the attitude towards Tower was infinitely different than what he experienced working in Seattle and shopping on the East Coast.
Dave also walks us though the difficulty of holding things together after announcing that the store would be closing and having to hold onto staff for a couple months.
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