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About Michael Doc Dreyfuss:
Before “Nice and Queasy,” Michael Dreyfuss (a contributor to various McMahon Group publications) earned degrees in physics and medicine, taught anatomy, researched limb regeneration, and published fiction in Northern Ohio Live and Penthouse magazines. In 1968 he co-founded the rock band McKendree Spring with Marty Slutsky and Fran McKendree.
On tour in the ‘60s and ‘70s, McKendree Spring rocked audiences in Europe and the USA with its innovative style, recording seven albums for MCA and PYE. Line Records (Germany) released five on CD in 1994. A compilation CD issued by Edsel records (UK, 1996) features Dreyfuss’s rock improvisation, “God Bless the Conspiracy” - a work that the New York Village Voice called “the most original use of the electric violin we’ve heard.” Dreyfuss joined with Howie Smith and Bill Cavanaugh in “Snowball,” a 72-track improvisation for electric violin, viola, keyboards, and saxophones on Cyborg Records (USA, 1992). In 1990, as music director of Wyse Advertising, he created a Clio-winning version of Mozart’s “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” in which sampled animal sounds are used to produce the instrumental parts (for the Cleveland Zoo). Collaborating with the Cavani String Quartet he composed and recorded “Ignition” (DFA Records, 1997), a quintet for string quartet and electric viola. “Nice & Queasy” was released in summer of 2006.
Dreyfuss, whose awards include the National Addy and the Clio, is profiled in Who’s Who in Entertainment. Work and artifacts of McKendree Spring are represented in the permanent collection of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.
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