David McMillan

Born in Fort Worth, TX, pedal steel player David McMillan started out initially as a guitarist before switching to bass, but his fate was set when he bought a pedal steel guitar. After some on-the-fly instruction on how to tune the thing from Tommy Spurlock, McMillan began studying the instrument in earnest. He spent four years playing pedal steel with Sound Express, the house band at the Iron Gate Club, then left for a brief stint with Roanoke followed by five years working with Sammy Vaughan & the Cowtown Strings before forming Brazos, which occupied his time for the next fo...