Dave Catching would rather you asked permission before touching his beard. Ever since the Eagles of Death Metal guitarist let his whiskers sprout into a magnificent long white growth, people have been drawn to it. EODM leader Jesse Hughes calls him "the Santa Claus of boogie-woogie," while friend and drummer Barrett Martin refers to Catching as "the Gandalf of desert rock."
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