The RHLC!

[Muppet Newsgirl]

R: That's right, just as long as the little red hairball is on an arm other than mine. (pause) What's this about coral? Are you guys going to the Great Barrier Reef or something?
MN: (groan) That's chorale, Richard, not coral.
R: (chuckle) I know, I know. I just couldn't pass up a dumb joke.
MN: And in the old days, that joke would have gotten you groaned out of the read-throughs.
R: No, Jim won the award with the one about violins on television. That and the one about the pillage idiots.

I play the guitar and bass, but I've gotten a little out of practice as of late. Blame the pressures of academia.

 

[Skye]

I have always thought it would be fun to play the guitar... and the drums, too. But at the same time, I really love what I do play (and sing, hehe). It's fun to be musical!

 

[CensoredAlso]

Hehe, chorale, coral. Cute...cute joke. :groans:: )

Is the bass harder to learn than the guitar or about the same?

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

I'd say it's easier. If you can play the guitar and read guitar music, you can certainly play the bass. A bass usually has four strings, while a guitar has at least six, so fewer notes to learn. And it's mostly playing individual notes in a repeating sequence rather than intricate chord patterns.

Scooter: Hey, Mr. Bassman, you've got that certain something...
R: Except in this case, the bassman happens to be a lady.
S: Yeah, I know, I know, I'm just singing the song as it was written.

 

[The Count]

Heh... You think that's weird? There was this one street scene where David and María imagined that they were a two-headed monster wearing a red sweater with two necks and one body as they tried to understand the Two-Headed Monster better.

And of course, there's the lost 2HM sketch I fondly remember where they want to go on a picnic promoting the sponsor letters, P and R. Each head has a few items that start with each letter, alternating between them as to what they want to do, finally arriving at going on a P picnic. Before it starts to, as Richard's head says, R rain.
The fun part was whenever Richard's head took over to say one of his R items, he flipped up a little diagonal tail to turn the letter P into an R, and then when Jerry's head took over, he flipped the little tail down turning the R back into a P.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Aw yeah I remember that, the flipping letters in the air. Ah nostalgia!

Hmm, a lot of attempts to understand The Two Headed Monster it seems. All part of the diversity plan I suppose!

 

[CensoredAlso]

That's interesting that Bass is easier than Guitar. Either way, I'd like to try that at some point too (of course I want to get better at guitar first lol).


Aw...now this is just sweet. Life Magazine article 1990:

"As often as not, the job of the Muppeteers was to blend their beings into one, and part of the trauma they felt at Henson's death had to do with the realization that a piece of themselves had been torn away. When I asked Richard Hunt, whose characters included Scooter and Beaker and Statler, what it had been like to work with Henson, he said, 'We shared the same heart.'"

"Upstairs there was a growing file of letters from children. One of them read, 'God must have needed Muppets in heaven.'"

http://www.muppetcentral.com/articles/tributes/henson/hensonarticle6.shtml

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

Well, the bass helps provide depth and set the beat. The guitar's job is mainly to provide the melody.

I read that article only a day or two ago. The title is "It's Not Easy Being Blue." And Richard, poor guy, certainly sounded blue at that moment.

"God must have needed Muppets in heaven..." I wonder if that's one of the letters Richard read an excerpt from at Jim's memorial?

 

[CensoredAlso]

I saw the article awhile ago but elsewhere. It was taken down and I figured I wouldn't find it again. I was grateful to see it was on MC all the time! Yeah it must have been so hard, Jim's death happened so suddenly when things were going so well.

Yeah it very well might have been one of the letters read at the memorial. (I know, it's morbid, but I'd like to see it, lol).

And actually I'm glad to have read that part. Just recently I was pondering why good things always have to end in this world. That did kind of provide with an answer.

Coincidentally, this was put on youtube today, (don't know how long it will be there though! Lol)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SopRps5sqYw

I really liked this, it's so complimentary of Jim and his work.

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

Ah, when Fox actually did news instead of political propaganda. But that's a discussion for another forum.

That was a nice story; I wonder who the guys walking in and out of the Henson townhouse were. Didn't look like the Muppeteers to me. I guess they would have arranged to be elsewhere when the news vans descended.