Dave Sherman

I think what so many people are struggling with—besides the details of Friday’s events—is an emotional disquiet brought on by trying to understand an event that is ultimately irrational. There is nothing I could hear that would “make sense” of what happened. I think the more we try to u ...

A recent issue with a number of my clients lately has been that they seem to be creating their own problems. It occurred to me that it’s kind of a universal theme and that to some extent, we all do it.  So, I’m going to generalize a bit about how sometimes it’s human nature to make life more difficult than it has to be, and then try to tie it in to how musicians do the same thing, only on a much

I feel the need to address the reaction to the last column before moving on to this weeks’ subject.  When I decided to write about starting a movement, what I anticipated was that some people would leave comments at the bottom saying “yeah…that’s a pretty good idea, you should do that.”  I figured I’d read a coupl ...

I’m a firm believer in synchronicity. When a number of seemingly disparate things happen at the same time it makes me think that it happened for a reason and that they are ultimately connected. Late last week I had this happen and it definitely encouraged me to take this column off the page (um…screen) and into the real world.  Before I get ...

The latest epidemic in terms of drug abuse/addiction that’s going on right now starts in everybody’s medicine cabinet. I’m going to discuss how out of control prescription drug use currently is, using the examples of stimulants and benzodiazapenes.  My big proble ...

Apparently the last column had a pretty big impact. Judging by all the emails I’ve gotten and the feedback from the editors at AP, they have asked me to do this column on a biweekly basis. I am now questioning the judgment of the editors of AP. The ...

Who the hell is Dave Sherman and why was he asked to be a monthly columnist in AP? Good question. I’m a sober/life coach for touring musicians. You don’t know that I’ve spent the last five years working with roughly half a dozen artists that have appeared on the cover of this magazine. No, I won’t tell ...