Who here has played on a kids tv program?

mrniceguy715 · #1 12-21-2008, 03:47 PM

I mean somebody has to play the music on all these shows on nick jr and pbs. sooooooo fess up!

mrkreuzschlitz · #2 12-21-2008, 09:06 PM

You.......

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voodoobassist · #3 12-21-2008, 09:15 PM

have never done a kids show, but,...waaayyyyyyy back in theday, started out in a religious group,...we did around 30 of the "morning devotional" type shows that used to play at the start of the broadcast day,... way before cable kids, I'm a friggin dinosaur.

We would tape all 30 spots in one setting, two songs with a devotional/sermon type deal in between. It was all live, no retakes, was actually fairly fun for dumb kid of about 17 years of age like I was. Wish I still had those spots,...would be a hoot to watch now.

scotch · #4 12-21-2008, 09:30 PM

I've done some sessions for kids dvd's. Animated stuff, mostly. I have to say that those sessions were some of the most fun I've done. Basically, I played with a small piano/gtr/bass/drums combo & came up with the 15-45 second "incidental" music clips. We played along with the "finished" video w/ dialog & were instructed to "fill-in" music at various timecode points. It was a blast!

willgroove2 · #5 12-21-2008, 11:31 PM

I'm working on a children's music project in Jan '09. The way it's looking I'll be playing on 8-10 tracks on Bass guitar and synth bass covering a bunch of style's with kinda of a world music meet's dance music vibe, should be fun

therex · #6 12-23-2008, 11:38 AM

i have done it, but with a lame school band 2 years ago, it wasnt really fun that time

hbarcat · #7 12-23-2008, 12:51 PM

I once played bass as a onetime gig for a friend of mine who was studying broadcasting, and it was for a class project to simulate a one hour episode of a children's television program.

He did a parody version of Sesame Street and we had to twist the songs around from the normal Sesame Street versions. We made the opening theme song a gloomy thing in a minor key and it sounded really depressing. I had a lot of fun with it and the audience loved it.

Mark Mothersbaugh from DEVO isn't a bass player (that I know of) and I doubt he's even heard of TalkBass, but he sure does a lot of kids' television shows, video games and other stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Mothersbaugh

pbass2 · #8 12-23-2008, 09:38 PM

Done a good deal of kid's and family music, and lucky for me, none of it was cheeseball. All good stuff. Some pop/punk, some electronic(that's right, electronic), etc. Pays a few bills. The kid's market is nothing to sneeze at . . .

lunarpollen · #9 12-23-2008, 09:42 PM

Well it's not really just for kids but about 10 years ago I played guitar in a band, and we appeared on the Uncle Floyd Show...

IanStephenson · #10 12-24-2008, 05:09 AM

Most UK stuff that my kids watch (mainly CBEEBIES) is low budget. While some if it is very good in concept, recording the music is where the cash gets saved - it's all done by one person on keys (and sounds like it). Not many bass players involved :-(

The only new stuff I see that still has decent recordings of a real band is on Playhouse Disney (though even then you only hear a band on the music based programs). "Bunny Town" rocks musically (Disco Pirate Bunnies!!!). The bear in the blue house can REALLY sing too...

We've also got three series of Fraggle Rock ripped onto the AppleTV. Now that's REAL music.