Beck: Live in PuppeTron
Jun 1st, 2006 by Hil
(Photo by Special P)
Like Jose, I’ve been interested in the puppets that formed part of Beck’s concert at the the Sasquatch Festival in Royal Gorge, Washington on Memorial Day. Previously, they had appeared at the Fillmore in San Francisco, and in Davis (there is an itinerary there). According to the SFGate Culture Blog, Beck hired the puppeteers from Team America to travel with him
and perform the real-time marionette puppet show of the band on the stage directly behind the real band, with the results shown on huge video screens. There are some cool Flickr photos and over the last few days I’ve been tagging my favourites - some lead to larger sets.
Oh and Jose, I found another video.
Cool. A lot of interesting info. :-)
The puppets were built by a company in LA called Puppetown Productions, Inc. owned by BJ Guyer. He also puppeteered along with Frank Langley, Carla Rudy, and Rob Saunders from the LA Puppet Guild.
Thanks so much for letting me know, LA FX Guy. I was wondering who made the puppets, and it’s often difficult to find out. We you involved? And were the puppeteers you mention also involved with Team America, or did the article I refered to get that wrong?
Yes they were involved with Team America. Frank Langley was the Puppet Lead on it and can be seen in the behind the scenes videos. BJ was also the Puppet Producer on Comedy Centrals Crank Yankers as well as a builder and puppeteer.