Jimi Hendrix and Edward Van Halen and Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Johnson and Joe Satriani and I mean, the list kind of goes all over the map from then.
Jimi Hendrix.
Jiminy, Geppetto, Blue Fairy, Stromboli, Coachman-- oh, and the whale.
And Jimi walked in and started jamming with us.
And Jiminy Cricket originally was a bit of a sort of question mark.
And Jiminy just sort of wasn't a worry until she turns up under the table.
So artists like Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead, their music is almost synonymous with acoustic feedback.
I can't be Jimi Hendrix jumping around on stage with this instrument.
And it was Jimi , and he went, uh, did anybody record that man?
We've got Jimi , sex on legs.
Should it sound like Jimi Hendrix?” And he goes, “Make it sound like Battlestar.” And he walked away.
Audrey plays Jiminy Cricket, does the voice, and is one half of the puppeteering team.
I didn't want Jiminy to look like she was from any of those.
Very often Jiminy is performed on a sort of dark canvas.
And because Jiminy is on the floor a lot of the time and you're looking up, you sort of need the freedom to go, oh, if her nose is
So shall we give Jiminy a bit of a demo and talk about some principles?
He was like Jiminy Cricket guiding Pinocchio down the right path.
I read the story about you and Jimi Hendrix.
Guitar players-- like if you watch Jimi Hendrix, yeah, he's playing the guitar.
Lots of the original concept drawings for Jiminy, different expressions, and just began immersed into what creative process led
Disney to end up with Jiminy the way he looks in the film.
how to puppeteer something as complicated as Jiminy Cricket.
So that Audrey can jump Jiminy by herself.
This is like legend-- it's like seeing Jimi Hendrix at the bar.
Sorry, Jimi .
and Helen Wolfe got started on one and Jimi Hendrix got started on a cigar box guitar.
So it's worth saying as well that Jiminy is female in our version.
And there's a moment when the Fox attempts to kill Jiminy with an ax.
played it before and-- what we found out later-- ended up influencing people like Jimi Hendrix and Chuck Berry.
But if you think about scenes like this, Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock.
And so we did a majority of rehearsals with one of our two Jiminys in unfinished form.
So in the Disney movie, Jiminy turns up at the beginning.
And I think that was a Saturday when we were told that Jiminy-- It was mad.
It was very, very much like Jiminy.
And we get an hour at the end of the day to play with Jiminy.
He's probably best known today because he lent his voice to the sound of Jiminy Cricket in "Pinocchio." He sings, very
outside Vicky's door oh Daniel says as the light Dawns on him jimie Grins
I thought I had to be like, Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix to make it in a band.
So on 8th Street, between 6th and MacDougle, Jimi Hendrix was building his studio.
And you'll see a poster next to it that B.B. Headlined over Jimi Hendrix.
You know, in the Disney branding, Jiminy is part of the theme park branding.
I felt like, in my head when I picture Jiminy, I thought like, oh, he's got a little green pea head, and he's got that sort of little pinched mouth.
And so throughout rehearsals, we had very nearly finished the finished Jiminy, which is great, because it means you can sort of road test things.
And then in her right hand, Audrey's got two rods that go from Jiminy's arms, which she's holding sort of like kind of crazy reverse chopsticks.
how Frank feels about nepotism that don't want to offend Frank so they they they they don't offer jimie some of the
You know, the Bob Dylan, the Neil Young, the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Jimi Hendrix, and this whole explosion of peace, and justice, anti-Vietnam.
Because like anybody else, I sit back and go, wow, Jimi Hendrix was once mainstream.
Because he became so influenced by Sly and the Family Stone, which I loved, and Jimi Hendrix and all.
Whereas now, certainly my experience with my kids is that at school they can go and take classes and they can actually sit grades playing Jimi Hendrix tracks.
So you can, I like to think of Jimi Hendrix and the fact that the invention of the amplifier--he played the amplifier and