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ROBERT (BILLY) MCPHERSON - PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN
composer and music teacher
email - goodsax@theregents.net
EXPERIENCE
1962 - 1964 - TACOMA WASHINGTON
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Clarinetist - Clover Park High School Band and Orchestra (Tacoma Washington)
1964 - 1966
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Clarinetist with U.P.S. Tacoma Symphony Orchestra.
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Music Education major at the University of Puget Sound
1963 - 1966
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Saxophonist with the "REGENTS" (Tacoma Rock & Roll)
1966 - 1968 - WASHINGTON D.C.
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Clarinet, Saxophone, and flutist with the United States Air Force Symphonic BAND and Orchestra - Colonel Arnold D. Gabriel, Director - Headquarters command, Bolling Air Force Base (Washington D.C.) - Lyndon B. Johnson administration.
1968 - 1971 - LOS ANGELES, HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA
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Recorded and toured with:
The Buddy Miles Express (Mercury and Columbia Records)
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The Albert Collins Blues Band
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HIGH VOLTAGE (L.A. R&B horn band - Columbia Records)
1972 - 1989 - ATLANTA GEORGIA
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Recorded and Toured with the avant guard Jazz Rock group "THE LATE BRONZE AGE" (founding member - Landslide Records, Atlanta)
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Worked and recorded with the Sammy Duncan Traditional Jazz Band (Dixieland and swing - ATLANTA ALL STARS - Jazzology Records)
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Worked full time in Atlanta recording studios, jazz clubs, top 40 lounges, bars and hotels.
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Founding member of the fabulous, lucrative and versatile Atlanta band "THE LEAGUE OF DECENCY".
1989 - 1998 - SEATTLE WASHINGTON
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Dick Powell Blues Band
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Hughes Blues Band
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The full tilt, full blown, full time, full sized and full cost "NORTH SIDE HOBBY ROCKERS"
1998 - Margaret and Robert McPherson moved to fabulous Lake Quinault
me and Margie visiting Stonehenge
our home
Presently, I still perform music and play some professional gigs. I am the guitarist and solo clarinetist with the Craig Wellington jazz
orchestra - big band (sponsered by the ELKS club of Aberdeen Washington).
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STONEHENGE Science and Archaeosophy page - UPDATED - Oct 28 2005 - The mystery of the Y and Z holes solved plus new drawings and mysteries discussed (and solved).