"I tell her about my worries for the future, and how comforted I am by my songs, which are a record of the state of my esthetic soul over these otherwise dry years." --David's Journal, April 28, 1987
From 1970 to 1995, while David was completing Bushman and trying to find a way to make St Elmo's Fire and other films, he wrote most of his Waldsongs, many of them for or dedicated to friends and lovers. Composing and recording songs consoled him during "dry years" when he had few opportunities to display his enormous talent and intelligence in other ways.
Toward the end, he wrote to his son, Nighttrain, that he was prouder of these songs "with all their blemishes, than of anything else I have ever come up with, except the St. Elmo's Fire script. These songs and that script give me faith when the infidels come screaming." We think they're great and should be preserved.
Toward the end, he wrote to his son, Nighttrain, that he was prouder of these songs "with all their blemishes, than of anything else I have ever come up with, except the St. Elmo's Fire script. These songs and that script give me faith when the infidels come screaming." We think they're great and should be preserved.