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Subject: Your inspirations?
I was wondering if any of you look to certain parody artists for inspiration--whether you get your style from someone like Weird Al, Allan Sherman, Lukeski, Bob Rivers, etc.
Or did it just happen all by itself? :o
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Weird Al's "Eat it" first inspired me, but he hasnt really inspired me since then.......
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Weird Al, definitely. But others who are lesser known: Cledus T. Judd, Bob Rivers (used to be a Baltimore DJ before Seattle), Dr. Demento, Barnes and Barnes, Julie Brown (Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun)...and Spaff/Michael Lund, since he's got a CD and some airplay.
Subject: Re: Your inspirations?
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I was wondering if any of you look to certain parody artists for inspiration--whether you get your style from someone like Weird Al, Allan Sherman, Lukeski, Bob Rivers, etc.
Or did it just happen all by itself? :o
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All by itself. I remember making up my own lyrics to songs I knew from the radio as young as 3 years old. My folks tell me it started even younger than that. By six, I was spoofing other things -- movies, books, television programs, etc. in addition to original writing, of course.
John Records Landecker was my first real taste of parodies of popular music, (other than my own parodies, that is.) He was a DJ on WLS Chicago and I think he even had some regional hits with some of his parodies. (Jane Beat the Computer Dane is the title I remember getting some press.)
Bob Rivers is my fave. I'm certainly drawn to his stuff because of some similarities in his sense of humor, but he didn't influence mine.
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The Capitol Steps, based in Washington, D.C., do great song parodies mostly involving political satire. They have been making fun of both the left and the right for over twenty years, and I have been listening to them for over half of that time.
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I was wondering if any of you look to certain parody artists for inspiration--whether you get your style from someone like Weird Al, Allan Sherman, Lukeski, Bob Rivers, etc.
Or did it just happen all by itself? :o
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All by itself. I started spontaneously coming up with parodies of songs back in middle school, around the time I started participating in musical theater. During years of high school, college, and community-theater musical theater productions, and during my relatively brief career as a professional actor and singer in dinner theaters, I composed parodies, mostly of show tunes. It's been a hobby of mine ever since. I also write limericks, and some of my limericks have been published here in Massachusetts.
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All sorts of things inspire me: the silliness everywhere in modern life (drivers, users, politicians, lawyers).. Also what happens when you play with words in a song title (e.g. "Always lick on the white side of the stamp"... how else could an idea come for a song about sticking stamps onto envelopes?)
But the inspiration for my latest one comes from the Iron Maiden BB, where someone drew a pic of Eddie as a Ringwraith:
http://www.spinkamala.com/maiden/pics/ringwraithed330.jpg
...so next one out will be "Ringwraith" to Maiden's "Wrathchild"
Phil
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Who inspired me most was, I think, Chris Pythila, who wrote arguably the greatest parody EVER.
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There was a comedian I saw performing at Carolines back in the mid-80s - Dennis Blair. He wrote and performed his own parodies. Always thought he was very clever and talented. Haven't seen in around in a long time.
Check him out if you ever see his name.
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I think it just sorta happoned on its own...Ive always been changing lyrics in songs, from the start...I mean, it started out as simple as, when we used to sing, "thats what friends are for," in elementary school music class, I used to change the line, "I do believe I love you," to "I do believe I hate you," and think it was funny...
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I think it just sorta happoned on its own...Ive always been changing lyrics in songs, from the start...I mean, it started out as simple as, when we used to sing, "thats what friends are for," in elementary school music class, I used to change the line, "I do believe I love you," to "I do believe I hate you," and think it was funny...
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didnt you write your first one when you saw me and Keith trying to write one?
Subject: Re: Your inspirations?
Chris Pythila's parody is the one that got me writing on amiright...well, the 80s site at the time, since amiright didn't exist yet. I sent I've Got To Pee Now to Chuck as one of of the first 10 parodies or so, then found amiright again two years later doing a random websearch for my name. The rest is history!
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Who inspired me most was, I think, Chris Pythila, who wrote arguably the greatest parody EVER.
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Subject: Re: Your inspirations?
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doing a random websearch for my name.
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I do that occasionally, though I usually have to add "-kerrang" as the editor is called "Phil Alexander", too...
It's amazing the sorts of places my parodies have turned up: 70s Flares websites, Britney not-exactly-fan-sites, and best of all a load of Christian songs with a couple of mine in the middle :-)
Phil
Subject: Re: Your inspirations?
Hmmm... my inspirations....
Weird Al Yankovic has inspired me in so many ways. He has inspired me to make so many parodies about food TV, and dissing/making fun of the original artists. Weird Al is to parodists what the Beatles are to serious musicians. Props to ya, Al!
The guy who wrote "3.14159/Pi" had the funniest parody on this entire site, and I have tried to match up to him.
Jeff Buchoff: The man, the myth, the legend... He inspired me to write parodies of "Love Is a Batllefield' and "Who Can It Be Now." His parodies of those songs were hilaroius, as were mine. You rock, Jeff!
Bob Rivers has had a huge impact on me for the short time that I have known of him (which dates back to last year around this time). The first parody I had known of by him was "Aquaclaus," and I laughed so hard I cried. My "Police Towed My Car" was inspired by his hit, "Police Stopped My Car."
Dr. Seussis sort of inspiring to me. His stories were hilarious and had indigenous (sp?) rhymes.
That's about it. :)
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Weird Al is the end-all. The Lennon McArtney.
My secondary indluence is The Residents, the weirdo experimental group from San Francisco (by way of Shreveport Louisiana) who have been parodying MUSIC itself since 1972. They showed me that the parody doesn't necessarily have to be "about" something significant to be funny. Let me show you 2 of their songs that are "parodies" (but they used original music)
a parody of "We Are The World"http://www.rzweb.net/app/lyrics/ickyflix.html#justforyou
a parody of "Little Sister" (by Elvis)
http://www.rzweb.net/app/lyrics/flowers.html#sister
Subject: Re: Your inspirations?
My inspiration for parodying things? MAD magazine - the classic older ones, not anything after 1972 or so. National Lampoon was another. As for music, it would have to be the usual suspects...Weird Al Yankovic, Dr. Demento, Rick Dees, Tom Lehrer, Spike Jones, and so on. Of course, mis-heard lyrics contribute significantly, since they usually are better than the original ones. And of course, my parents...who in the late 1950s when Perry Mason was on TV written by Erle Stanley Gardner, decided to name me Earl Stanton Garber.
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Weird Al inspired me LOL
Subject: Re: Your inspirations?
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didnt you write your first one when you saw me and Keith trying to write one?
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Did I?
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Weird Al, Alan Sherman, and my father. They are all my inspirations.
From S.T.G.
Subject: Re: Your inspirations?
a buddy of mine who was a police cadet in 1978 with me, wrote a song to Jack and Diane.. I have the rest of it, but used his one line about diane sittin on Jackie.. well you know
the rest. I saw will's work, and wanted to be like him, just a little more variable of topic. I liked the florios, and Michael and Phil.. just wanted to be funny, and prolific.. I have some funny ones, and I think I would be considered prolific.
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a buddy of mine who was a police cadet in 1978 with me, wrote a song to Jack and Diane.. I have the rest of it, but used his one line about diane sittin on Jackie.. well you know
the rest. I saw will's work, and wanted to be like him, just a little more variable of topic. I liked the florios, and Michael and Phil.. just wanted to be funny, and prolific.. I have some funny ones, and I think I would be considered prolific.
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Cool!!!