Id gone to college with Mike Nelson who was the star of the show at that time and…the name of the particular movie that they were using in this episode was The Dead Talk Back and Mike and the robots… well one of the robots Crow had decided that they would become The Grateful Dead. So they all have, you know, beards and crazy tie-dye t-shirts on and theres a song that they play called Cosmic Freight Train. And then Crow, one of the robots, takes this epic guitar solo. And he [Mike] couldnt get a proper bad guitar sound out of the synthesizer he was using, so could I please come and play a bad guitar solo for them… So I walked in with a Stratocaster copy and a Big Jam Spit-Wah pedal, which was a little orange pedal about this big that did, you know, that quack-like-a-duck sound, like an envelope filter thing. Like Jerry Garcia would use, cause Crow is being Jerry Garcia.. So theyve already filmed it, theyve already taped it. So Im watching a monitor, and they said, Just follow Crows hands and play along. [laughs] And they said, And make it really annoying. So I took a pass at it and I get done and theyre giggling, and they said, Thats pretty good. Can you make it even more grating? And I said, Yes having no idea how I was going to make it more grating. I made a couple adjustments, and they said Every once in a while go [sings] wamp wah wamp wah wamp wah just over and over because thats what Jerry does. When I think of Jerry thats what I think of him doing. I said, Ok. Ill do that. And the next take they said, Thats awesome. Its really really long and painful… They liked it so much they had me do the same thing over the credits. - Andy LaCasse
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 03:25:46 +0000
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