Dave Schramm is an American musician best known for his stint as the lead guitarist for Yo La Tengo during the band's early years.
He began his music career with a late incarnation of Human Switchboard, a short-lived group heavily influenced by The Velvet Underground and Joy Division.
During this span, he contributed to their debut recording "The River of Water" and the band's highly acclaimed first LP, Ride the Tiger.
Meanwhile, he continued writing songs with the Schramms, and after being signed to European label Normal Records, the band released its second album, Rock, Paper, Scissors, Dynamite in 1992.
Around this time, much of the original lineup had left the band, and a more-or-less new version of the Schramms released two albums in the mid-1990s: 1994's Little Apocalypse and 1996's Dizzy Spell.