Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:34 pm
Just a guess but I seem to remember reading that it was Marcus Rojas.
If it's the original movie you're talking about, that was Tommy Johnson and Jim Self. I was a student at USC at the time those sessions went down, and remember talking to them about it. In addition to using two tubas, if you listen carefully, you can hear places where they went back and overdubbed additional parts. I seem to recall Tommy mentioning that Danny Elfman would call him up, ask certain things about the tuba, what could it do, could these notes be played, etc.
Although Danny's written some nice licks for the basement dwellers on other scores, nothing comes close tuba-wise to being so completely over the top - writing, playing, heat in the final mix, etc. Gotta love that pedal-A to pedal-C doubled an octave up in the opening...
...Dave