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brief summary of Dr. D'Beatrok's achievements:
As a self taught traps player, rhythmatized such outfits as The Whitefronts, The Philosophers, The Really Boomband, The
Amazons. Though started out playing "Louie, Louie" on a trashcan lid, quickly evolved to the several-suitcases-full-of-junk
level, finally returning to a basic four-piece when the lumbago kicked in around age 35.
With Audio On Ron, strapped on the electric berimbau and the homemade Surfimba (an amplified chunk of surfboard with metal
attachments). Once performed in all styrofoam concert. The Fallen Archies was a band that played only inflatable instruments.
Outside Food is his current band, purely theoretical, which has no permanent members and has never played.
As a solo act, singing and playing the spinach guitar, has been "bounced" from open mic nites for moving tributes
to the great Billys, Joel and Idol. Ultra-hip, underground crowds, uncomprehending of his transavantguardic sensibility,
merely glared at him through the duration of a heartfelt Carpenters medly. Once, though, through the sophisticated use of
mirrors, he was able to convince an appreciative audience that he was the band Chicago.
His sound on the alto sax remains steadfastly obscure since he rarely leave the house with it. Currently vying for space
on Bogden Records' perennially impending compilation album, "Cool Pads and Hot Springs; Amateur White Saxophonists of
Central California in the 1980s". He has an extensive cassette archive, and if anybody still listened to those, boy
would they be impressed.
In a three year stint as musical director for the acclaimed foolsfury theater, composed and performed music and sound
effects scores for the productions The Possibilities, Jacques and His Master, and The Illusion.
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