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Hmmm .. I'm mildly curious what R does for a living to support his obvious gear jones??? actual professional music composition/production made it difficult to keep what meager gear I had working ..let alone wallow in it!! perchance R is D>B> Cooper ???

<> that's an affirmative .. knew about the Grace Knight stuff ..but I can't find an e-mail address ( label? Whitlams whatever? ) GP

<< am a 49 year old (hits the front in the geezer stakes)>> not by many laps, my friend .. I'm coming up on 64!!! Phil K

< Dave>> I get it .. but I'm pretty sure he's somewnere in the 3 or 4 million in the Sydney /Melbourne axis .... BTW: I love your country!! .. I did the production music for a big commercial installation in Melbourne about 10 yrs ago .. ( Collins Centre??) ..and had a great time in both Sydney and Melbourne .. Phil Kelly

Since a batch of you blokes seem to be from Austrailia, I have a query for you : Have any of you run into ( or better yet, have an e- mail address for ) and old friend of mine named Larry Muhoberac .. he's a great American keyboard player/arranger/ producer/etc who's been living down there ..i think in or near Sydney ..for a great number of a years ... any information you might unearth on this guy would be appreciated: thanx: Phil (GP) Kelly

Dan: sure .. I'd be more than happy to send anyone some "stuff... but, with the following caveats: 1. I don't do MP3s .. ( and I don't wash windows either ) If anyone wants to hear anything, e- mail me ( blind style) and tell me what kind of things you're into ..I'm in the process of installing a Masterlink HD in my dubbing chain, ( so I can send CD-Rs like the rest of the world does these days) but what was promised to have arrived and installed "two weeks ago".. aint here yet ): ... so.. for the time being, all I can send anyone is stone age cassettes ... I hope this changes real soon ... oh yeh: GEAR!!! ( I forgot that in my initial post ) pencils/erasers score pads of various sizes 73 suitcase Rhodes ( for real .. mint condition .. needs tuning ) that's it .., when I moved to WA , I gave my vintage '90s MIDI rig to my son to tool around with .. however, I may invest in a new Mac G4 with a honker HD , a good Keyboard, ( open to suggestions ..currently leaning towards a Kurzweil 2600 ) and a decent notation program ( probably Sibelius ) (not trying to go back into the production bizPencil )

Okay.. here goes : Phil Kelly ( aka Graypencil ) currently semi-retired composer/arranger/former drummer now living in Bellingham WA after thirty some years in the music industry - in Dallas, LA, and NY in the early '60's "road days".. Although a lot of my career was spent writing music for film, TV and advertising, I have done a bit of jazz stuff along the way : as a player, I started out in the tail end of the big band era working with Si Zentner, Les Elgart, Ralph Martiere, the Tex Beneke version of the Miller ghost band, among many others .. I also while in Dallas, played a batch of gigs with the "southern road version" of the Tonight Show band that was assembled out of Dallas to cover the gigs that the expensive LA guys didn't want to do on weekends.. Jazzwise, I also did a bit of work with Terry Gibbs, Red Garland ( in Dallas ) and did a batch of trio stuff with Denny Zeitlin and Albert Stinson ( rip ) in the eary '60's in San Francisco. I also was the drummer/arranger for a whole batch of vocalists in the '60s ... among them Julius La Rosa, Frank D'Rone nad briefly, Mel Torme. After a pretty good whack of arthritis curtailed the playing in the mid '70's, I basically spent my time as a writer and producer cranking out music for all kinds of commercial uses... over 1200 radio/tv spots and 350 industrial and educational film scores ( and several features so bad they only turn up on cable at 4 am in Fargo ND ) These days, I'm for the most part retired, and I love sittin 'up here in WA on my ASCAP and AFM pension ... I still do a bit of work for old clients, a bit of record sweetening, some production library stuff... and the occasional pop symphony arrangement here and there .. and other stuff .....if asked WEll ... that's the GP CV ...