Photo by Chris McKay

Farmer Dave Scher

Role in Beachwood Sparks:
founding member, keyboardist/steel
guitarist/occasional vocalist on:

Desert Skies/Make It Together
Midsummer Daydream/Windows 65
Beachwood Sparks
Grandaddy/Persil/Beachwood Sparks 7" split
Once We Were Trees/Wake Up, Little Suzie
By Your Side
Once We Were Trees
Make The Robot Cowboys Cry

Other appearances:
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Wiskey Biscuit  -  Santa Ana River Delta Blue  (2000) lap steel
Future Pigeon - Golden State of Dub (2001)  
The Tyde - Once (2001) organ, lap steel
Miranda  Lee  Richards  -  The  Herethereafter  (2001) lap steel
Ileen - Bride, Pt. 2 (2002)  
Wiskey Biscuit - Zig Zag (2002) lap steel
The Tyde - Twice (2003) additional keyboards, lap steel
Nobody - Pacific Drift: Western Water Music, Vol. 1 (2003)  
All Night Radio - Spirit Stereo Frequency (2004) vocals,  guitar,  pedal steel,  keyboards,  sound effects
Dios - s/t (2004) pedal steel
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous (2004) producer
Neal Casal - Return In Kind (2005) organ, strings, sounds
Mia Doi Todd - Manzanita (2005) lap steel
Nobody - And Everything Else… (2005)  
Kate Earl - Fate Is The Hunter (2005) pedal steel
The Quarter After - s/t (2005) lap steel
The Like - Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking (2005) lap steel
Mt. Egypt - Perspectives (2005) steel guitar
Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory - Tree Colored See (2006) additional keys, slide guitar
Future Pigeon - The Echodelic Sounds of… (2006) lap steel, organ, sitar
The Tyde - Three’s Co (2006) lap steel
Pete Yorn - Nightcrawler (2006) steel guitar, melodica
Let’s Go Sailing - Chaos In Order (2007) pedal steel
Vietnam - Vietnam (2007) producer, musician
Johnathan Rice - Further North (2007) producer, pedal steel, keyboards, sound effects, backing vocals
Gary Louris - Vagabonds (2008) backing vocals (as a part of the Laurel Canyon Choir)
Other involvements:
Gold Winter People, Bee Venom, touring with Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins, touring with Interpol