Naaa, it was Patrick O'Hearn.
I was working off a mobile e-mail platform and didn't have access to the web when I posted before, but O'Hearn was the bass player for the "Zoot Alures" Zappa Band as well as for Missing Persons later. The 2008 Dallas performance of Dweezel's "Zappa Plays Zappa" tour opened with the title track. Here is a link to a P. O'Hearn Bio: http://www.musicianguide.com/biographies/1608003520/Patrick-O-39-Hearn.html Oh. The studio, it is apparently Deep Cave Studio (or records) and is in Bat Cave, NC. http://www.epinions.com/content_119979675268 I gather that this period in O'Hearn's career is over, but perhaps he has some residual interest in caves, perhaps he would be willing to perform in a cave for some regional gathering of cavers. I don't think the music he produces today would be likely to (literally) "bring the house down." _____ From: Don Cooper [mailto:wavyca...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 6:36 PM To: rdmilhol...@charter.net Cc: Minton, Mark; o...@texascavers.com Subject: [ot_caving] Re: [Texascavers] RE: Music in Caves Ah yes, that would have been Don Van Vliet - otherwise known as "Captain Beefheart". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart They recorded "Bongo Fury" in 1976 right here in Austin at the World Armadillo Headquarters. -WaV On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:13 PM, RD Milhollin <rdmilhol...@charter.net> wrote: Definitely Wakemen, sans Yes. The album was recorded live, with a full orchestra if I remember correctly. I seem to remember he set out on a tour with the whole ensemble, but the costs were too great and it ended before schedule. Unrelated, I seem to have a foggy memory about a former sideman of Zappa, from the Bongo Fury (recorded in Austin, center of .) days who after going solo concentrated on mood music and established Cave Records somewhere in NC. This is a stretch, but I think his studio was in a real cave. _____ From: Minton, Mark [mailto:mmin...@nmhu.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 4:42 PM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: [Texascavers] RE: Music in Caves Gill, >The musical bill-of-fare was Jethro Tull's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" I was a big Jethro Tull fan, but I've never heard of that one. Neither has <http://remus.rutgers.edu/JethroTull/songs.html> and <http://remus.rutgers.edu/JethroTull/disco.html>. Maybe it was someone else? Rick Wakeman of Yes had an album by that name. Mark Minton
