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Good Trouble, the first single from Dave Herlihy’s upcoming album “now” is continuing to garner significant airplay in Boston and positive reactions throughout New England. Dave sat down with Henry Santoro and performed “Good Trouble” live on GBH’s The Culture Show.

 

Good Trouble is rocking, melodic, and meaningful, and audience response has been swift and enthusiastic. Good Trouble is not just an ear worm; it’s an anthem for our challenging times.
Good Trouble  the music video  
 
For those who don't know Dave Herlihy, he is the former lead-singer of O Positive. A group that were one of the Boston kingpins of early alternative bands in Boston throughout the 80s into the early 90s. O Positive released 2 critically acclaimed EPs - the first on Throbbing Lobster records - and then signed to Link Records and eventually to Epic records. The band were perennial favorites on MTV's 120 minutes and mainstays on Boston's ground breaking stations WBCN and WFNX.
 

New songs for "now"

1.        Good Trouble
2.        Blue Sky
3.        Live Our Lives in Love
4.        One Day
5.        Once Upon a Time
6.        The World is a Beautiful Place
7.        It’s Not the Rain (feat. Bradley J)

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From blowing down the gilded gates of Boston’s WBCN as a student with 1979’s “I Don’t Know How to Act”—a punk rant that coopted the ear of the legendary Charles Laquidara to become a Big Mattress Song of the Week—to redefining “stage presence” as front man of Boston’s nationally-charting O Positive, to solo artist and member of various bands, Dave creates intelligent, intensely emotional music that challenges expectations and pairs quiet introspect with electrifying attitude.

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This love child of Watertown, MA and the Beatles could also elicit credible paternity claims from Hank Williams, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno.  His emergence truly began with the 1983 forming of O Positive, a guitar-driven, indie-rocking outfit that riveted club goers in Greater Boston and throughout New England.  Their high-energy, mesmerizing live performances featured Dave as lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter. Charismatic and kinetic, his presence was a key to attaining both college and commercial airplay across the country and ultimately scoring a recording deal with Epic Records. 

 

Disarray and the eventual reorganization of that label proved to be a difficult hurdle for O Positive to overcome, but they nonetheless dominated the Boston music scene for more than a decade, producing a number of acclaimed EP’s and albums (“Only Breathing” Throbbing Lobster, 1985; “Cloud Factory” Link, 1987; “toyboattoyboatTOYBOAT” Epic, 1990; and “Home Sweet Head” Smashing Records, 1993). 

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The band enjoyed airplay on MTV, rode the Rolling Stone college charts, and headlined extensively throughout the country, sharing stages with the likes of Sinead O'Connor, Bryan Ferry, The Psychedelic Furs, the Pixies and many others.

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Dave himself racked up an embarrassment of rock and roll recognition during that time, including an “Outstanding Songwriter” and three “Outstanding Male Vocalist” acknowledgements from the Boston Music Awards, and as two-time topper of the Boston Phoenix/WFNX Poll’s “Best Local Male Vocalist” category. 

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In the ensuing years Dave has continued to write, record and perform, while exercising his passion for mentoring and inspiring young musicians as a professor at Northeastern University, frequent guest lecturer at the Berklee College of Music, panelist at the South by Southwest Conference, and through his private law practice providing legal advice to emerging artists.

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