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Sat, 6 February 2010 A few years ago the Disney Company came out with an interactive plush Mickey Mouse called "Pal Mickey", Pal Mickey was deigned to actually interact, or react to electronic signals in the Disney parks, so if you were in Epcot he would tell you about things in Epcot, if you were at the Magic Kingdom he would share facts about that park and so on. While this pull string toy from 1976 is no where NEAR being up to THAT level of technology, it is an interesting parallel to think of this as a sort of precursor to that is some (tiny) way, and thought provoking as to how far the technology we would devote to something that is "just a toy" has advanced. Comments[0] |
Wed, 2 December 2009 This Episode was recorded late in my December 2008 trip to Walt Disney World, this was after Mousefest, and it was also the one day that my wife, Carlene, chose to join me in the parks. Since she had been in a lot of pain when walking for a while leading up to the trip she used an ECV this day, which worked out well as otherwise I would have not been able to cover so much ground going back and forth around World Showcase. I had a schedule for the World Showcase Players and knew coming into the park when they were performing, butwhat I did not know was which times were for thier "regular material" and which sets they would be doing thier special Holiday skit A Christmas Carol. So when they did their first set of the day I was there but they were performing King Arthur and the Holy Grail so we got the set times for A Christmas Carol and continued on our way. Working our way all the way around to Mexico before putting it into reverse and working our way back to the United Kingdom for this afternoon set.  Comments[0] |
Sun, 29 November 2009 This Episode was recorded early in my December 2008 trip to Walt Disney World, this was the "split day" of Mousefest, in fact this was the last thing I did before leaving Disney's Animal Kingdom for Disney's Hollywood Studios. 
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http://wdwnt.com/ Note: since they did not turn off the speakers of the nearby Background Music, you can hear it a bit (in the background) of this set, but most of the time the Percussion overwhelms it. FULL show notes can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/miu53 Comments[0] |
Sat, 28 November 2009 This Episode was recorded on the last day of my December 2008 trip to Walt Disney World, Mousefest was over, and I decided to end this trip in the same park in which I started the trip, enjoying some of the great live entertainment found in the Magic Kingdom. This was one of many Christmas oriented sets I recorded last year that I didn't manage to get out before Christmas. 
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Sat, 4 July 2009 In celebration of Independence Day a set of patriotic music by the Spirit of America Fife and Drum Corps. Photos for this set can be found at http://tinyurl.com/bbdp51 .  Comments[2] |
Thu, 25 June 2009  In this episode, recorded during Mousefest 2008, we drop in at Camp Minnie-Mickey at Disney's Animal Kingdom, and listen in as a talented Disney cast member makes the day of many of the guests who stop to listen to him. Photos for the episode can be found at http://tinyurl.com/bbdp50 if you'd like to hear him in the OTHER role he plays with Disney go on over to http://www.myspace.com/rustycutlasspirateband Comments[0] |
Mon, 16 February 2009  Mousin' It Up!
Big Brians Disney Podcast
This Episode was recorded on the last day of my December 2008 trip to Walt Disney World, Mousefest was over, and I decided to end this trip in the same park in which I started the trip, enjoying some of the great live entertainment found in the Magic Kingdom. In particular I wanted to catch a special set by the Main Street Philharmonic, comprised completely of songs from Disney movies, I had recorded the same set a few days previous with mixed results, and with the experience I gained with my new recording device this set came out much better. links
http://wdwnt.com/ Music
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Thu, 25 December 2008  I really enjoyed my recent trip to WDW, there were MANY bits of Christmas related audio I wanted to get out before the actual date of Christmas, but due to limitations of time I had to choose just one, and knowing that it HAD TO BE this one. I am QUITE pleased with how this came out, and hope you enjoy it too! Miss Matlin lets her interpreur do most of the actual speaking until just before the end, when she adresses the audieance briefly, it is net to view if you ever get the chance because she is very expresive in her signing of the Chritmas Story. Merry Christmas Happy Chanukah and Happy Holidays in any form you celebrate it! Comments[0] |
Sun, 7 December 2008  In this micro-episode I share a "lost-audio" tidbit first produced a
few years back when Lou Mongello put out a call to the podcast
community for input on his Seven Wonders of Walt Disney World series
where he wanted to do a segment on the Cast Members, probably Walt
Disney Worlds greatrest wonder.Comments[0] |
Wed, 3 December 2008 Mousin' It Up!
Big Brians Disney Podcast
This Episode is a continuation of the October 11, 2007 trip report, and it was taken immediatly after the Jungle Cruise audio from episode 46, in it we take in my favorite attraction in all of Walt Disney World, Splash Mountain .  links
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Mousin' It Up!
Big Brians Disney Podcast
This Episode is a continuation of the October 11, 2007 trip report, and it was taken immediatly after the Pirate Tutorial audio from episode 45, in it we enjoy a voyage on the World Famous Jungle Cruise, Skipper Norman has a delivery style which has grown on me, I liked it ok on the initial trip down the rivers of the world, but I like it even more now. 
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Mon, 1 December 2008 Mousin' It Up!
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This Episode is a continuation of the October 11, 2007 trip report, and it was taken almost immediatly after the Woodys roundup audio from episode 43, in it we enjoy Captain Jack Sparrows Pirate Tutorial, which is given several times a day adjacent to the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction.  links
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Tue, 25 November 2008 Mousin' It Up!
Big Brians Disney Podcast
In July of 2007 I put out an Independence Day show using the patriotic songs the Voices of Liberty did during my trip in June of that year, I knew at the time that I wanted to put the other songs from those sets into some kind of a show, and here it FINALLY is! 
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songsThe Voices of LibertyThese songs were all recorded on June 16 and 17 of 2007, if you would like to see the original line up of the sets you can check the lists of the sets in the trip report, http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/trindex.htm#06.07 as the list here will be of the ones in the episode. The photos and song lists for the sets are on pages 18,19,and 20 for the date of the 16th, and the those related to the sets I heard on the 17th are on pages 32, 33, and 35...man I took a lot of pictures that trip!
SELECTED PHOTOSBelow: I don't have a perfect photo that caught the whole group on the 16th but this one comes close, Krista was conducting this day. 
Below: While on the 17th Dirk was conducting (one gentleman is not visable in this veiw, but it was the closest I had to the whole group in one shot that day. 
Ray had the the solo on Rockytop, Tennessee (also on Black Is The Color Of My True Loves Hair) 
Dirk, the conductor on sunday the 17th, ( pictured above )did the solo on the version of Oh Susanah that played in this episode, yet that was the only one of the three soloists who did this song where I did not get a "Susanah picture" where the soloist picks a lady out of the audience to be his Susanah, so here are the other two. First heres JC 
actually I got TWO photos when Ray did his... 
...it's too bad that the third shot didn't fire that would have been "the tug". 
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Tue, 4 November 2008 For full details on this short episode please head over to the Mousin it up Blog: http://bigbrian-nc.livejournal.com/#entry_8075 Comments[0] |
Mon, 3 November 2008 Mousin' It Up!
Big Brians Disney Podcast
Continuing the Oct 11, 2007 trip report, we take in one last set by the Toontown Tuners (this time in Fantasyland) before moseying over to Frontierland and seeing Woody's Cowboy Camp. 
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songsThe Toontown TunersEven though they were performing in Fantasyland the Tuners were wearing their normal overalls, as opposed to their Cinderellas Royal Saxophonists garb.
Woody's Cowboy Camp
Selected photosOctober 13, 2007I only took a few pictures during the hour or so this episode takes place within the 40 minutes of this episode. 
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Fri, 10 October 2008 I listen to A LOT of Disney podcasts, and usually a podcast that "occasioanlly" talks about Disney just won't stay on my plylist for very long, there is ONE notable exception to that though, I've been listening to Comedy4Cast for a long time now, since back in the low double digits, (he recently published episode 151 ) and recently I had the opportunity to finish something his show inspired me to start a while back. It all goes back to a running gag about milestones in podasting and how a lot of folks make a big deal about episode 50 or episode 100 well Clinton didn't make a milestone out of episode 100, he celebrated a TRUE milestone instead...episode 103, well my mind tends to think in musical terms and the mention of episode 103 triggered an idea for me and in fairly short order I had some lyrics written down, and even took a couple of stabs at recording, BUT I kept flubbing the lyrics AND it occurred to me as I was recording that Clinton only uses POD SAFE MUSIC, royalty free stuff, so as I ran out of time to record that day that project went to the back burner, and it stayed there a LOOOOONG time, several episodes back Clinton introduced a new concept the virtual table of random things, which has been a GREAT way of getting fun, interesting, humorous feedback from his audience BOTH via email AND by the Super Secret Phone Line (360) 515-0004 (But DON'T tell anyone shhh! it's a secret), well it finally dawned on me that I could leave a virtual CD of this tribute to Clinton show on the Virtual table and host the audio in my libsyn account (but without publishing it to my podcast feed, since it's not an episode of my podcast) so without further adieu...
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Wed, 1 October 2008 If you want to download the show manually (instead of using a podcast aggregater such as Itunes) then right-click on this link: http://media.libsyn.com/media/bbdp/bbdp42.mp3 and choose SAVE TARGET AS to save the file to your hard drive.  In this time of economic downturn with Walt Disney World seemingly, battening down the hatches for a slow down in business by cutting back on some of its live entertainment groups, it is nice to hear that some folks from the Adventurers Club and Comedy Warehouse may have other jobs on property, I recently leaned that Carol, a talented keyboardist who worked at the Comedy Warehouse, got a job at Rose & Crown Pub, while I was quite pleased to hear this my next thought was, "Does that mean that Pam Brodie has went into full retirement? (she works two days a week in a sort of semi-retirement position), or are they getting rid of Leon Gregory?", it then occurred to me that perhaps there was another option too perhaps they would add some earlier sets, I then realized in the current economic climate that was quite unlikely, and when I got the opportunity to chat with some other fans asked if any of them had heard what the story was, unfortunately it turns out they are getting rid of Leon, in fact his last day has come and gone. Unfortunately times of unemployment seem to be an unavoidable fact of life for most musicians. You know, when you think about it Walt Disney World allows an almost unheard of opportunity for musicians to have regular work without having to travel. I'll miss Leon and hope he lands on his feet, and with his talent and experience, think that he may have a better chace at that than most folks would in his situation, with some luck I may get to hear him play again someday. As for Carol I only caught her once, as for me I only made my first trip to the Comedy Warehouse for the first time last December (and decided I needed to visit it more on future trips, oh well, so much for that!) even from that brief exposure it was clear she is one talented individual. So the next time I'm at the pub in the Great Brittan Pavilion I'll enjoy Carol (or Pam Brodie if it is one of her days) but I'll pause and think of Leon Gregory in a silent toast to him. As I recounted on this episode I first saw Leon perform on the "Trip without a camera" (Celebration 25), but the set in this episode was recorded a few weeks later when I was on a trip where I was able to stop and listen for a full set (RADP 12). links The Let's Talk About Disney Forums: http://www.letstalkaboutdisney.com/LTADForum/index.php The Mousin it up! subsection of LTAD http://www.letstalkaboutdisney.com/LTADForum/forumdisplay.php?f=64 The Yahoo group for the bigbrian-nc.com site and NC Disney news is at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/disneypodcast/ Steve Soares fine site of WDW entertainment schedules: http://pages.prodigy.net/stevesoares/ songs The Extraordinary Leon Gregory
Selected photos October 13, 2007       Video After the first verse of "knock three times" I knew I wanted a video on the next go around of the "knocking". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtm_t2XToiA feedback? Questions? Please.... E-mail Me martsolf@mindspring.com Comments[0] |
Sun, 28 September 2008 This long overdue episode is a return to the Magic Kingdom trip report of 11 Oct. 2007. Picking up right where we left off in Episode 39, we quickly head back down Main Street to Town square near the Emporium where we take in a set of the Main Street Philharmonic, and then spend a little time chatting with and listening to Jim on what ended up being one of his "40 minute plus" sets. 
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songsMain Street Philharmonic
Piano Man Jim
Selected photosOctober 11, 2007a few pictures taken during this episode can be found in the middle of the folowing page.
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Thu, 21 August 2008  This episode is a bit of a DETOUR from the trip report I've been covering. In honor of the Olympic games, now being held in Bejing, China, we'll take a listen to Si Xian, which is a performance on an instrument used in Chinese classical music. The itunes and Libsyn image for this episode this is cobbled together from 2 WDW postcards of the China pavilion. links
songsSi Xian performer playing aERHU / Chinese Violin (link to Wikipedia where you can see one)
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Thu, 7 August 2008  This episode STARTS as a continuation of the audio "trip report" from the morning of October 11, 2007, though I finally get OFF of Main Street U.S.A. this time, heading to Frontierland where I find The Notorious Banjo Brothers and Bob...If that set is not enough for you, then GOOD, because after that we travel back in time to play TWO MORE sets by the guys, first from the December 2006 (Mousefest trip), and THEN from June 2007. In the first two sets all the players are the full time players, the Sousaphone player in the June 2007 set appeared to be a back up player filling in for the regular sousaphonists day off. links The Let's Talk About Disney Forums: http://www.letstalkaboutdisney.com/LTADForum/index.php The Mousin it up! subsection of LTAD http://www.letstalkaboutdisney.com/LTADForum/forumdisplay.php?f=64 The Yahoo group for the bigbrian-nc.com site and NC Disney news is at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/disneypodcast/ The link to THIS trip report in the trip reports section: http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/trindex.htm#rad12 Steve Soares fine site of WDW entertainment schedules: http://pages.prodigy.net/stevesoares/ songs set 1 - October 11, 2007 Ghost Riders in the Sky Notorious shuffle (song they play as they walk) Bugle Call Rag Notorious shuffle (song they play as they walk) Happy Birthday (hayden) I'm an old Cowhand Notorious shuffle (song they play as they walk) Happy Birthday set 2 - December 7, 2006 Foggy Mountain Breakdown Zip A Dee Doo Dah We Three Kings Jingle Bell rock medley including old joe clark (other songs unknown) Sweet Georgia Browne set 3 - June 16, 2007 Notorious shuffle (song they play as they walk) Ole Slue Foot Never Smile at a crocodile (snippet for a joke about a nearby gator) Bugle Call Rag Lover please come Home Notorious shuffle (song they play as they walk) pictures taken during this episode can be found in the bottom half on these pages, from Oct 11, 2007 http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/2007tr/oct/radp12/11th-e.htm from December 7, 2006 http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/mfst2006/7th-f.htm and from June 16, 2007 (with a substitute Sousaphonist) http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/2007tr/june/16th-h.htm feedback? Questions? Please.... E-mail Me martsolf@mindspring.com Comments[0] |
