> Anyone on the list familiar with who might have been playing > horn (and the rest of the personnel) on the LP album > "Metamorphosis: Dynamic arena"
> Mystery solved. BTW - there isn't a ton of horn audible on this album but > the first cut on side one, "Earth mover" has some licks that sure DO sound > like the Tom Bacon Peter, I have the "Metamorphosis" album (unless there's more than one). Look closely and you'll see that Dave Krehbiel is indeed there on the cover. Dave was a friend (and teacher, as I also took a few lessons) of mine (and my wife) about 20-years ago when we were in the Travis AFB military band. At the time I was a rabid record collector, and I happened upon the "Metamorphosis" LP. Knowing we were going to Dave's house within a few weeks from then, I decided to take the LP with me and to ask him about it. Fast-Forward to Dave's house: As I pulled LP from a plastic shopping bag, I pointed to the cover photo in an inquisitive manner... <nudge-nudge, wink-wink> he smiled, rolled his eyes, and said something to the effect of, "Guilty!" If I recall correctly, Dave told me that the "brains" in the "Metamorphosis" group was the flute player pictured on the cover. Dave characterized him as an intense musical genius whose mind was always at work, and he went in many musical directions... all at once. Not content to simply twiddle on his flute for the Detroit Symphony, he fomented the wild mix of rock/classical/Jazz fusion heard on the Metamorphosis LP. To the best of my recollection, the whole concept sprang from the mind of this flute-dood, though his name is now lost to me. As a matter of fact, this coming October will be 20-years since my wife and I stood in Dave's living room in Mill Valley (outside SanFran) discussing this LP with Dave and his wife Carol. While he was naming off the "Metamorphosis" players and giving me a bio on each one, the phone rang. It was someone in "the city" (again, San Francisco) offering him half-a-G-note ($500.00(US) ...and those were 1984 bux!) to show up for a commercial "jingle" gig. He looked like he was trying to find a way to apologize, and I told him he needn't. So, carrying my blessings (which he didn't need), Dave took off for the small studio... a place to which, as a former "rock star" (choke!), he was no stranger. It was the last time we ever saw him. When Dave left the San Francisco Symphony behind, he retired to somewhere around (I think) Big Sur in California. And though we've corresponded occasionally over the years, I try not to bother him too much. From what little I know of the professional music biz, he's earned his rest. jrc in SC PS: Are you familiar with the Neon Philharmonic's "Morning Girl" hit from that same late-60's time period? Not the same style, "Morning Girl" was a genuine hit, and was the work of one Tupper Saussy... about whom I know nothing. "Morning Girl" didn't just "use" an orchestra (nothing new there) but rather, "incorporated" the orchestra, players from the Memphis area, I think. The "Morning Girl" song was, essentially, a little 4-minute opera in a pop-rock style. Although it was a rather unique tune, I consider Puccini's reputation to be still-intact. ~r _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
