TOMMY MANDEL In addition to Tommy Mandel's recent position as keyboardist for Bryan Adams, his touring experience includes stints with Ian Hunter-Mick Ronson, David Johansen (post NY Dolls, pre-Buster Poindexter), Dire Straits, Todd Rundgren, John Waite , and Little Steven, and Richie Sambora-All Stars, as well as local gigs with Bo Diddley, Lou Christie, Paul Butterfield, Elaine Caswell, Darlene Love, The Chantels, and Otis Rush. He has played on CDs by Tina Turner, Byran Adams, Dire Straits, The Pretenders, Bon Jovi, The B-52's, The Clash, Nils Lofgren, Shannon, The Spinners, Bel Biv Devoe, TKA, Tremaine Hawkins, AHA, Meco, Foreigner, John Waite, Cyndi Lauper, Peter Wolf of J.Geils Band fame, The Violent Femmes, Live at CBGB's, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, Joe Pesci, Takanaka, Yoshihiro Osawa, Debra Blando the Brazilian Blonde, Zooco, Mondo Boffo, Christine Lavin, The Payolas, Mick Ronson, Ian Hunter, and others. Mandel scored, with Brad Feidel, the Avco Embassy film, Deadly Hero, which starred James Earl Jones and Don Murray, Up Up and Away, featuring the "All American Girls", Wunderkind, an experimental film, as well as a recent seven minute to-picture Industrial film for The Lifetime Network. He scored five string quartets based on the music of Jim Steinman that were the Overture for Meatloaf's recent world tour, which premiered at the Hudson Theater in New York City. In addition, he has written and orchestrated two full length operas, the first of which, Joe's Opera, was mounted at LaMama Theater and St. Clement's Musical Theater Lab, both in NYC, and optioned twice for Broadway production. The second piece, Sea of Simile, an Underwater Operetta, was performed at Sarah Lawrence College, where he is employed as Musical Director by the Theater Department. He has also composed and recorded jingles for Antonovich Furs (sorry), Gorton's Fish Stix, Fa bath soaps, and The City of St. Louis Tourism Bureau, as well as played as a sideman on campaigns for Coke, Cadillac, Promise, New York Telephone, Starburst, Chemical Bank, and Chevrolet, among others. He has also animated 64 minutes of his second RockPopera on his Mac. More on the way. After gigging and prowling London, Berlin, Paris, South Africa and Australia, Pavarotti's Festival in Italy, Rolling Stones tour dates, and the Far East including Vietnam, India, Baharain, Thailand, Maylasia, Korea, and Japan (for 10 trips), another movie soundtrack, TV work, and successful distribution of his New Music collections, as well as eventual productions, live or animated, of his two Poperas, are the events "on the edge of sea and sky", to which he is irresistibly being drawn.