When he entered the University of Washington, Dick thought he would be an engineering major, maybe working for Boeing… “But in about two quarters I realized that would be a terrible mistake and I switched my major to broadcast communications,” recalls Dick. The experience may have predestined his career as a high profile traveling troubadour, a career that blossomed while he was still in college.ĭick and his wife Mary have four children and two grandchildren and they make their home in Bellevue But his musical talent was evident well before that and he vividly remembers performing in a school Christmas pageant when he was six- or seven-years-old. “I started taking piano lessons at the age of nine,” he adds. “My mother sang and played the piano and I loved music and singing from the get-go,” says Dick. I have a younger brother and received a sister as a Christmas present when I was seven.” “It was a stable childhood with both parents at home.
Dick describes an idyllic-sounding childhood, growing up during the post-WWII years in Seattle’s Madison Park neighborhood. “I have the requisite webbed duck feet,” quips Dick of his status as a native Northwesterner.
If you’re beginning to think Dick Foley sounds like a modern day Renaissance man, you’re right!ĭick was born and raised in Seattle, and attended the University of Washington. Today he applies his skills in the healthcare setting producing educational and clinical videos at Virginia Mason Medical Center. Clash the Truth was issued in early 2013 on Captured Tracks.Dick began his professional career as lead singer for The Brothers Four The next Beach Fossils album featured drummer Tommy Gardner and production from the Men's Ben Greenberg. Pena and Payseur worked together on the group's next release, 2011's What a Pleasure EP, before Pena left to focus on his own group Heavenly Beat. Beach Fossils' debut 7" single, Daydream/Desert Sand, was released on Captured Tracks in February 2010 their self-titled album was released on the same label later that year. Bassist John Pena and guitarist Christopher Burke were brought into Beach Fossils' lineup later that year, after Payseur had single-handedly put together the recordings that would comprise the group's first album. Bassist John Pena andīeach Fossils, a band whose reverb-slicked indie pop compares favorably to acts like Surfer Blood, Best Coast, and the Drums, formed in 2009 as a vehicle for the solo recordings of Dustin Payseur. Beach Fossils, a band whose reverb-slicked indie pop compares favorably to acts like Surfer Blood, Best Coast, and the Drums, formed in 2009 as a vehicle for the solo recordings of Dustin Payseur.
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