David Lovering (born December 6, 1961) is an American musician and magician. He is best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band Pixies, which he joined in 1986. After the band's breakup in 1993, Lovering drummed with several other acts, including The Martinis, Cracker, Nitzer Ebb and Tanya Donelly. He also pursued a magic career as The Scientific Phenomenalist; performing scientific and physics-based experiments on stage. When the Pixies reunited in 2004, Lovering returned as the band's drummer.As a drummer Lovering was inspired by bands from a variety of genres, including Rush and Steely Dan.
[on the 2004 reunion of The Pixies] I'd given up the drums and become a professional magician. And I have to preface that by saying that being a musician, a starving musician, is hard enough. But being a magician is a billion times harder to make a living at. So doing magician shows was keeping me busy, but I wasn't really making a lot of money. I was also, at the time, involved with a really bad, bad woman. So I was really down on all counts. And then I got a call from Joe [Santiago] saying that they had spoken about the Pixies. I had never, ever dreamed that we would get back together.
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