Clive Metcalfe
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British musician Clive Metcalfe, a student from Southampton Art College and Chelsea School of Art in the early 1960s, played bass guitar as a member of the 1965 band The Abdabs (a.k.a. The Architectural Abdabs, The Screaming Abdabs) with Roger Waters (lead guitar), Rick Wright (rhythm guitar), Nick Mason (drums), and Keith Noble & Juliette Gale (vocals).
They were known as Sigma 6, The T-Set, and The Megadeaths as well as adopting the various Abdab monikers. They played rhythm & blues covers and some original material by the band's manager, Ken Chapman. The group was "available for clubs and parties", according to their calling card.
Following (or because of) the marriage of Wright and Gale in 1965, Noble, Gale, and Metcalfe left the group. Syd Barrett (guitar and vocals) and jazz guitarist Bob Klose (lead guitar and vocals, replacing Metcalfe) joined Waters (now "demoted" to bass guitar), Wright (moved to keyboards and organ), and Mason (still on drums). Klose left after a short tenure, unhappy with the direction of the band. Barrett took over lead guitar and the bulk of the vocal & song writing duties. The remaining quartet went on, eventually becoming the Pink Floyd.
After leaving the band, Metcalfe returned to his artistic roots as a goldsmith and a painter, also as a tutor at the Sir John Cass School of Art. He established his own gallery (http://www.visualizethefuture.co.uk/pages/gall_trail.asp?a=dispitem&iid=8) in 1999 with his wife, Christa Metcalfe-Hofmann, in Deal, Kent. Some of Metcalfe's works have been displayed in the Bridgeman Art Library (http://www.bridgeman.co.uk) and in exhibitions.
Reference
- Pink Floyd Biography (http://www.bandhunt.com/artist_site/band.php/pi003/) - (Note: Refers to Bob Klose as Brian Close, perhaps in error)
- All Music Guide (http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDMISS70403211511500090&sql=B9qn8b5c4psqh)
- Bridgeman Art Library (http://www.bridgeman.co.uk/about/collections.asp?type=&topic=564) (Google cache (http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:HtKO0Cz4xfYJ:www.bridgeman.co.uk/about/collections.asp%3Ftype%3D%26topic%3D564+clive+metcalfe+pink+floyd&hl=en&ie=UTF-8))
- Visualize The Future (http://www.visualizethefuture.co.uk/pages/gall_trail.asp?a=dispitem&iid=8)
- Miles (1980). Pink Floyd: A Visual Documentary. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-825639-48-4
- Dallas, Karl (1987). Pink Floyd: Bricks In The Wall. Shapolsky Publishers. ISBN 0-933503-88-1