WELCOME TO MY ARCHIVES

So I realized I needed a place to put up all my archives. Well here it is!
Let's start with this piece below and if it's popular, I'll add plenty more.
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"JIM HENSON'S THE GHOST OF FAFFNER HALL"


This was a 13 part series using entertainment to teach music principles shot in the late 1980's. In the USA it aired on HBO and in the UK on ITV.

My regular character was Riff (seen on the left), one of the music loving occupants of Faffner Hall.



Some of the highlights of this show were the fact that Richard Hunt (Scooter/Beaker/Statler/Sweetums) had a main character, we got to use much of the supporting puppet cast from years of The Muppet Show and we got to play, sing and hang out with so many talented musicians. Working with music has always been one of the most fun aspects of Muppet work.

In honor of Thomas Dolby's current tour and new DVD and CD, here's some behind the scenes pictures and video of a rare scene from one of the episodes he appeared in. Being a fan I was very fortunate that the producer Jocelyn Stevenson indulged me and got him on the show. How cool is that? Of course he was great fun to work with and he didn't seem to mind me being a fan geek too much. Although the scene was broken up into about three segments for shooting, I seem to recall after rehearsing we got everything in no more than two takes. What a pair of pro's eh? Oh and we both sang live on set, no pre-records or anything like that! I remember during the end of one take (the one we didn't use) having the fly ad-lib some joke (maybe about flies and doggie poop?) and cracking him up. Ahhh those were the days........

Click HERE to view some behind the scenes pictures. Note all the juicy Fairlight and Moog gear in the background!




Click HERE to view the ancient video clip.



You can check out the latest directly from the man himself by going to:

http://www.thomasdolby.com

Also, feel free to buy his new DVD of "The Sole Inhabitant" HERE and his CD of "The Sole Inhabitant" HERE or on iTunes.





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Click HERE to view the TV photo album.