The Muppets
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The Muppets
Anybody know who and what was the helicon in the leaving Smalltown number in The Muppets?
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Re: The Muppets
Do you have a movie clip or audio file of his recording.. I'm interested to see who it would be
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Re: The Muppets
I have searched youtube and have so far failed to find a clip that shows the section I am talking about.
Will keep looking
Will keep looking
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Re: The Muppets
might be no help at all, but here is a picture of the scene, you can see him in the far back.
http://www.me-on-a-diet.com/wp-content/ ... y-song.jpg" target="_blank
http://www.me-on-a-diet.com/wp-content/ ... y-song.jpg" target="_blank
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Re: The Muppets
Chances are that the person with the helicon was just an extra actor and not a real player.
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Re: The Muppets
It just sickens me to think of that.hbcrandy wrote:Chances are that the person with the helicon was just an extra actor and not a real player.
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Re: The Muppets
Total reality, though.Bob Bigalard wrote:It just sickens me to think of that.hbcrandy wrote:Chances are that the person with the helicon was just an extra actor and not a real player.
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Re: The Muppets
All of the musicians look like high school or maybe college age, agree they could be actors. Possibly recruited from USC or some other area band?
The t-bone player is getting into the role
The t-bone player is getting into the role
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Re: The Muppets
I hope it's generally known that in 99% of the movies or tv shows (ads, too) since whatever date (probably the 50s sometime, I'm really not sure), a person shown on screen playing an instrument is NOT actually playing. The actor's unions and the musicians union have agreements that keep that from happening, or give a lot of pay to the musicians who actually do play. I can only think of one instance in the last 20 years, there may be others---Robert Altman's "Kansas City". And it's a smorgasbord of great players, including Christian McBride, Ron Carter, Fathead Newman, Joshua Redman, Nicholas Payton, and a great singer and friend, Kevin Mahogany. The music is really the best part of the film, and the recordings were done on the set, in a building in the 18th and Vine district in KC.
Often they use musicians who have SAG cards, so the faking is a lot more believable. A past friend, whose name evades me right now, used to make some good money doing that.
I'll have to ask Vince Giordano, but I don't think he actually played on screen in "The Aviator". He was on the soundtrack, and was shown in the movie, but not "live", IIRC.
Often they use musicians who have SAG cards, so the faking is a lot more believable. A past friend, whose name evades me right now, used to make some good money doing that.
I'll have to ask Vince Giordano, but I don't think he actually played on screen in "The Aviator". He was on the soundtrack, and was shown in the movie, but not "live", IIRC.
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Re: The Muppets
A friend played the drums in the Goldie Hawn movie "Swing Shift" as part of a big band - he was on the set for days, and he is a professional musician - but all that can be seen of him in the final cut was the top of his head...