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    Introductions?

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    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 ???

    Introductions?

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

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    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

    Introductions?

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    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

    Introductions?

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    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 :) )

    Introductions?

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    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 ... :)

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