That's another fave of mine. The actor who played Keevy, sadly, died very young (I think in the late 70s), but he played a great part! Yes, the guitar miming on TAGS wasn't always that 'spot on,' but the mood tended to be successfully created, due to a combination of everyone working together. The Jim Lindsay episodes, to the 'trained musi-calley eye,' show that there are in fact several guitar parts playing (sometimes with very noticeable effects (e.g. reverb (in the second episode)) on the pre-recorded tracks, while James Best mimes to them. The Darling episodes, I think, actually were mimed to a pre-recorded version of themselves, as getting a good, clean recording wasn't possible with the microphone/recording setup used on the soundstage. So, they were playing, but they weren't...just depends on how ya look at it! :-)
Now, the studio musicians who actually did play on the mimed scenes did a very commendable job, and it would be just plain wonderful for all of that incidental music to some day make its way to an official release. Also, when I think of incidental music, I think of that guitar tune that makes appearances in the fun girl episodes (at least one - when the fun girls are dancing to Andy's radio/phonograph) and then, in re-arranged form, in "Like Father, Like Son," when Aunt Bee is teaching Opie how to dance 'box-style,' again to Andy's radio/phonograph. Also, the band who played at the dance in one fun girl episode...I'm not sure if they were actually playing. Phew...well, that's a lot of thankin' for early Friday morning! -C "Barn" _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
