About Mike Daly

Since he was very young, Mike Daly has sung whenever the opportunity presented itself. As a child, he sat in with various lounge bands at Catskills resorts and New Jersey-based Elks lodges, possessing a mature repertoire that proved he listened to too many of his mother's records.

As he grew from child progeny to teen idle, he stopped badgering said lounge bands and began to teach himself to play the bass and six-string guitar. He enjoyed modest success with several high school-based bands, and enjoyed dreams of rock stardom, until ...

...One day, Mike found himself thrust unwittingly into adulthood. Soon his musical pursuits took a back seat to the "American dream" of working dead-end jobs, paying rent, and going to bed early. In his spare time, however, he honed his guitar prowess just enough to be able to play his growing list of original songs at parties.

By his mid-twenties, Mike was confident enough in his abilities to try to earn some extra scratch doing solo/acoustic cover gigs at local bars. Soon he was joined by a friend, in an act called The Thing With Two Heads. Subsequently, another friend came on board, and then another, to create a four-piece cover band called The Daly Planets. The music was louder, and much, much better. The bar tab increased exponentially.

It was also around this time that he began recording demos of some of his own songs, which he would then play for anyone who offered the slightest encouragement. These demos eventually begat Every Damn Day, an original band that achieved popularity in at least two good-sized New Jersey cities. The band released several CDs over the course of a decade, and continues to record and perform to this day.

Which brings us to the present. The events of September 2001 prompted Mike to pursue the real "American dream" — a job he could really love. Thus, he has begun to devote more time to being a musician. The solo/acoustic gigs have resumed in earnest. The cover band, once abandoned, has returned, rechristened The Planets. The original band has been writing, rehearsing and recording new material. And a karaoke machine has become a major component of Mike's growing performance schedule.

Stay tuned to see how the story progresses.