When Robert California brought in his own band, was the drummer the same one from youtube fame a few years back? In the end when he was playing with Kevin he seemed to have the same style.
Nevermind, it is. I just saw his name in the youtube summary under the video window and it just happens to be paused on my TV with his name on the screen under the word “co-starring”:smack:
Overall, I thought it was probably the best episode so far for this season.
It would have been nice to see Kevin play the drums a little more compitently. I doubt he could match YouTube Guy’s skill, but throw the poor guy a bone, man!
I wonder why Creed doesn’t get invited to jam with Kevin Malone and the Zits? Probably just a little too weird.
Anybody know who the guitarist was? It sure looked like Sheryl Crow…
I agree, that was one of the stronger shows of the season. Well, except for the crotch-grabbing. I wonder how long Pam’s replacement will be around.
Also the funniest cold open in a while.
I know Ed Helms is pretty musically inclined, and Kevin and Darryl (I don’t know the actors’ names so I’ll go with their characters) have proven in the past they can play their respective instruments. The ringers that James Spader brought in were clearly musicians- they just had that look as soon as they walked into the scene, even before they started playing. But was Spader really playing, or was he just “acting” like he could? The harmonica is easy enough to fake just by going through the motions; plus he was sort of hanging in the background a bit.
I don’t know if the harmonica track was added later or if they were really jamming. If it was a real jam, I’m doubly impressed.
Very unlikely that any of the non-guest actors actually play the instruments they’re shown playing in the scene.
Why would you think that? Ed Helms definitely plays the guitar and banjo. The actor who plays Kevin isn’t a great drummer or anything but that was really him playing. How would they fake that?
How would they fake it? It’s TV - everything is fake. Actors pantomime since their job is to act, and someone who’s job it is to make music for the soundtrack does their part. Even if they want “intentionally bad” music, the actor will still fake it so they can add the right feel of intentionally bad-sounding music that the director wants to the mixdown in post.
Craig Robinson (Darryl) plays keyboards in a band called The Nasty Delicious and Ed Helms (Andy) plays banjo in a band called The Lonesome Trio (Andy also played “Dueling Banjos” with Dwight on an earlier episode). Brian Baumgartner doesn’t play drums.
Even if they play an instrument in real life, it still doesn’t mean that they were actually playing it in a scene (and that the audio was recorded there at the same time instead of separately in a music studio, which is more likely).
Watch those goalposts go!
Nope - maybe I was unclear in phrasing it, but the point is that what you see the actors doing in a scene is very unlikely to be what you are hearing. Just about everything besides dialogue is added in post (and even sometimes dialogue has to be re-recorded due to problems with the audio recorded on set - it’s called ADR).
And also, whether an actor plays as a hobby in his free time or not is irrelevant, since the recording for the show would have still probably been done by someone else.
Even the ringer musicians probably weren’t playing what we hear played, at least not recorded during the filming.
The keyboard player looked somewhat familiar to me. Is there a list of the musicians?
Drummer – Steve Moore.
Keboardist – Robin Swenson.
Guitarist – Linda Taylor.