 After that, I saw pretty much every show that came to (Phoenix)".David was a member of the Scottsdale, AZ based hard rock cover band The Schoolboys at the end of high school in 1979.In the summer of 1980, the band had decided to start writing and performing original songs, grooming themselves to be America's version of Def Leppard, a Sheffield, England band of similar musical genre who were just starting to gain international notoriety.