Dave Teichroeb (pronounced tike-robe), has been active in the music scene of Guelph since he moved there in 1987. Several bands (Dizzy Maroon, Dissemblers, Plaster Cowboys), a highly respected record label (DROG) that released 70+ recordings nationally across Canada and a solo career under his own name with three acclaimed releases to his credit.  His new album Canadian Whiskey - thirteen Teichroeb originals inspired as much by not being in Canada as living in Texas Rob Reid of  the Kitchener Waterloo Record gives this quote - "The songs are about place, either a specific location, or the process of getting from one place to another. His wistful songs are delivered through a voice that might be described as whiskey-tainted or resembling a dusty Texas back road." The Toronto Star has this to say  ...wonderful musical moments — rustic acoustic accompaniment and unpolished vocals give the album a strangely old-time feel — and several wry and wistful songs ...Canadian Whiskey bears all the earmarks of his best work as a songwriter.  The other news is the re-creation of his alter ego - the Plaster Cowboys, A 6-piece Alt-Western band for the folk weary and the lost believers of country music. They will join him at most larger shows.

 For the last three years Teichroeb played weekly around central Texas, notably at the infamous Cheatham Street Warehouse for his popular Friday Happy Hour where he quickly gained a following for his Canadian influenced song writing. Right now, Dave is playingmost weeks in Guelph and area refineing his live show and building solid sets of music with the Plaster Cowboys. Dave and his music has been heard at festivals, on network TV, nationally on CBC radio, college radio, and various compilations. Dave is a solid solo performer who has been described as making a room feel like Canada. An understated story teller he delights in combing personal experience with personal opinion.

 His 2nd full-length album called Yesterday Motel   received rave reviews. The Toronto Star's roots reviewer, Greg Quill, Call Yesterday Motel an independent masterpiece. You can listen to a musical review that CBC did for Yesterday Motel. It is a real audio file found at the Bandwidth Disc of the Week site and features many of the songs. 

Dave Teichroeb’s first solo recording, dog tales is considered by Bill Stunt (CBC –Bandwidth/Global Village) and Richard Flohil (The Record), to be one of the best Canadian releases of 1999. His songs have received rave four star reviews across the country, been featured on CBC TV and Radio, and charted in the top 10 at college stations. Now affiliated Echo Magazine calls him a “solid songwriter and gifted guitar player with a comfortable drawl not unlike Stan Ridgeway”. Chart Magazine and The Record compare his writing and singing to fellow Canuck, Ron Sexsmith. Mike Beggs of Toronto's Eye Weekly says, “ Austin in the Springtime is the best ballad never to come out of Texas and his million dollar arrangements are just as good – he gets stoned and savvy on the road before coming home to tell us, The Truth Doesn't Matter Anymore.” 

You may also know Dave Teichroeb as the D in DROG, an independent label he co-founded with Lewis Melville in 1993 which has released over 70 recordings by Ontario musicians. Artists in the DROG catalog include Rheostatics, Skydiggers and Chris Brown and Kate Fenner. Teichroeb's professional musical career starts in 1987 in Guelph when he formed rock band Dizzy Maroon and later Dissemblers in 1991.

Complete Dave Teichroeb Discography; 1987  Dizzy Maroon   Dizzy Maroon
1988  Dizzy Maroon Crashing In!
1989  Dizzy maroon Shakin (unreleased) 

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Some History....

Dave moved to Guelph, Ontario form Alberta in 1987 and formed Dizzy Maroon, a blues-rock outfit that climbed the local ladders to become a number one live act in the region. Three releases on cassette captured their blues rock sound and dynamic live show fronted by Sean Danby. Highlights for Dizzy Maroon were winning the Am109 talent Search, Hillside Music Festival and numerous openers for the great bands of the late eighties. 

Dissemblers formed out of the ashes of Dizzy and became a well respected local band releasing two albums (Talk To Me and Dissemblers).  They constantly giged throughout Ontario, and toured Northern Germany  twice in 1996 and 1997. Often better liked outside there home town with Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern being a favorite place to play over the years. Dissemblers have not played again after the fabled July show at the "Negenborn To Be Wild" Festival in Deustland. Eye witnesses say it was the show of their lives and is captured somewhere on video. Too many questions were left unanswered. The mystery continues!!!