GEOFF CASTELLUCCI 'Monster Mash' - Vocal Coach REACTS
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Geoff Castellucci spins his silky smooth bass vocals to great effect on this classic Bobby Picket Halloween Tune.
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I believe this was Filmed at PattyCake Productions, Layne the beatboxer of Voice Play is one of the owners, That was Kathy Geoff's Wife who did the make up!
Yes. It is the Villain's Lair from PattyCake Productions. It was also used in Geoff's Misty Mountains. (Headless Horseman was filmed at Geoff' s parents house.)
Layne and Tony have a lot of content on their RUclips channel PattyCake Productions.
that low note was a D1 and the woman at the end is actually his wife 😀
and yes Geoff Castellucci does all the arranging and everything himself with occasional help from his wife i believe.
Thousands of women just got so disappointed when they heard he has a wife already.....
This was filmed at Pattycake Productions- twice, as it turns out. The first time, Geoff had a makeup artist in to assist, and as he told his Patreon, they missed the mark and accidentally made a horror film. So they had to reshoot the next day, but the makeup artist couldn't reschedule and so Kathy (Geoff's wife, and the dead lady in the video) did the makeup instead. And trust me, this is the better video- he released a behind the scenes video on Patreon showing the former shoot and what they needed to correct. And he did use a choreographer for this (the BTS has a funny clip of Geoff practicing the dance while barbecuing), and personally, I love the dance they created.
That patrons only version is an absolut hoot. I laughed all the way through.
@@christinestromberg4057 Me too! But at the end, I could absolutely understand the reasoning behind the reshoot. Much better creative choice, overall.
@@CynicalTesuji Yes I know but to see the dancing all through was just so funny. He's so brilliant.
@@CynicalTesuji I was thinking of the wide shot static version of the second shoot. That's what I saw first.
@@christinestromberg4057 Right, I forgot the static shot (which is a delight on its own). I'm a process junkie, so I was really focused on the BTS video; it's always fascinating to see how these things are put together. Although seeing that static shot video also clarified some things about the editing process. Geoff (and the other VP guys as well!) are so talented at all aspects of their production!
I think Wolfman was scratching fleas? LOL....isn't this just the most fun video? Geoff is so darn talented, and I always love your reactions
PattyCakes Productions is owned by Layne Stein ( beatboxer of VoicePlay) and Tony Wakim former VoicePlay member. He had a choreographer and the dead woman on the couch is his wife Kathy. Geoff did everything and Kathy did the make-up.
I don't know how so many miss it, but 3rd Geoff is Frankenstein's monster. The song deals with the 'Big 4': Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein and the Mummy. The Mummy is only represented in the dance.
Especially since the costume is the quintessential Frankenstein's Monster costume. Maybe he's just not "green" enough...
@@angelcelestenz he’s not green enough and the wolf man in the middle isn’t hairy enough…but the outfits are iconic enough that I knew right away who each member was supposed to be.
Re your comments around 9:50 about Geoff starting to work on this in the summer, he actually put Monster Mash together remarkably quickly. He put a poll out to patrons on Sep. 6th to ask for Halloween song suggestions, then released the video on Patreon Sep. 30th. He arranged/filmed (twice, since the first version of the video didn't work)/produced/edited the whole thing in a little under a month. The man works fast, which is extra impressive considering he does it all himself (with production managing assistance from his wife).
Not to mention this is his side hustle, he still shares arrangement duties with Layne for VoicePlay.
Wow - not a lot of lead time there.
@@randiskye4444AND on top of all that, he’s got a little boy as well, so being a great dad is yet another reason he is such a remarkable human being. Seeing him and William together in their little family videos is so freaking wholesome I have no words 😊
They're based in Orlando, so it's a hot spot of production people and facilities for Disney and Universal. All the guys in VoicePlay worked for one or both at some point in their lives.
Yes his wife was there the whole time. One thing I can count on VoicePlay for is to leave me with a smile.
Geoff's higher range is so lovely. I know he's known for his loooooooow base, but I wish we had a chance to hear him do more higher up now and then.
Agreed!
I don’t know of anything from VoicePlay that really showcases Geoff’s higher range, although he does use it in most of his solo stuff. Tim Foust of Home Free has pretty close to the same range as Geoff, and has three songs that I can think of off the top of my head that show his higher range well: a cover of Brooks & Dunn’s hit “My Maria” with Austin Brown, a cover of Cam’s “Mayday” with Home Free, and "Snow Globe” with Home Free, which he co-wrote.
@@DennisKovacich You guys should check out his cover of Blackbird
@@turcj, I have, and as I said he does show a lot of range in his solo work. But Tim’s songs that I mentioned have him going up high and staying there.
@@DennisKovacich High and Dry - Geoff spends most of it in baritone and tenor territory.
I love when you watch Geoff because you geek out. It makes you one of the better reactors
The 4 main dance steps which get more elaborate as the song progresses: Arms out (Frankenstein's monster), arms back claws up (Wolfman), arm in front of face as if holding a cape (Dracula), arms wrapped around torso (The Mummy). And the 'backup Geoffs' are Dracula, Wolfman and Frankenstein's monster. They appear jerky because he recorded them while the track was playing at a slower speed, then when he replays them in the main video here with the track at normal speed, they're just slightly faster-looking, but keeping the time (basically, the visual equivalent of how they did the Alvin and the Chipmunks voices and their accompanying tracks).
And yep, that note you focused on at the end, it's a D1. Also, the corpse bride is Geoff's real-life bride Kathy, just lying there unnoticed the entire time. Oh, and a fun detail: As he begins to dance with her and your attention's on them on the left, all the way over on the right, "Frankie's" doing a bit of flossing... :)
Your reaction to VoicePlay's Oogie Boogie song was the first time I heard Geoff sing. THANK YOU so much for introducing me to him and to VoicePlay! I'm so happy to see that you've become a fan of his too! Have you considered joining his Patreon? (A couple other reactors have recently.) It would answer a lot of your behind the scenes questions, and Geoff is really great to his patrons. And he's totally worth supporting, of course! 😊
P.S. Please react to his cover of High and Dry!
He mentions Dracula, Wolfman, and I think the other is his monster. The monster does the Floss at the end, Hilarious. Also Geoff has said “Did you pick up on the "la la la" section? It's Bach's toccata and fugue in d minor, just shuffled and swung”. At the end, there is a hint of Fur Elise. :) Just another bit of Geoff's genius. He had a choreographer for this and the dance represents, slashing, strangling, being wrapped in the cloak, and possibly a bat or a mummy for the other bit. I think perhaps Wolfman had fleas. But who knows. :) When Geoff does "son" you can see Kathys legs move, perhaps she was laughing too.
Kathy twitches 2 or 3 times when he hits the very low note.
The dance usually starts with iconic moves of the various monsters. Arms up in front is from Frankenstein, hands by the hips is a werewolf howling, then came the vampire's cloak to hide his face (thanks to Ed Wood for that), then being wrapped up like a mummy.
@@danuttall I can see the mummy concept but also thought of a bat when it hangs upside down, with its wings wrapped around it. It could b either, or both I suppose.
@@danuttall, I’ve heard that the whole “Dracula hiding his face behind his cloak” thing only came about because Bela Lugosi died during filming, and they finished with another actor doing that.
@@DennisKovacich Yup, Bela unexpectedly died (thankfully not on-set) after filming all his close-ups and saying all his lines for Plan 9 from Outer Space. So Ed asked his chiropractor to fill-in for the long shots, but this man looked nothing like Bela; he was much taller, thinner and younger than Lugosi, so Ed told him to use his cloak to hide his facial and build differences.
The woman who popped up and screamed is Kathy, Geoff's wife, fun fact she twitched each time he hit a low note
does she sing?
She used to sing professionally (she and Geoff actually performed together in various shows at Universal for many years, most notably the Beetlejuice Graveyard Review, where he was Frankenstein and she was the Bride of Frankenstein). She's stepped back from the stage and is the production manager for Geoff and VoicePlay now, though.
Since nobody said it, the low note is a D1 Subharmonic.
You should react to Voiceplay, Hoist the colours. It's breathtaking!
I second this.
That's Mrs Geoff.
Wolfman has fleas.
I've been dying for you to react to this! It's so creative and entertaining. Now, PLEASE check out Voice Play's recent releases: Hoist the Colours (from Pirates of the Caribbean and EPIC), and I've got Friends on the Other Side.
It’s hard not to giggle with this song.
the woman, is Geoff's wife... and it was fun - the whole video... love it
The three characters are suppose to be Dracula, Wolfman and frankenstine's monster. Also all the motions they do are suppose to mimic the 4 iconic monsters.
In order: frankenstine's monster, Wolfman howl, Dracula and his cape and the mummy.
Isn't the far right supposed to be Igor? The song talks about Igor and his chains.
@@candilunsford2878 Not Igor, no hump. That's Frankenstein's monster. Oh yeah, Wolfman's got fleas.
@@candilunsford2878 The song also starts off with the singer/narrator talking about his the monster on his slab getting up. singer/narrator is Dr Frankenstein - the far right Geoff is his monster. As Nightthorn Igor is famously portrayed as having a hump on his back (and is technically not a monster, just a lab assistant) - and the far right monster's costume is quintessentially Frankenstein's monster.
Geoff is dr Frankenstein, then dracula,wolfman, and Frankenstein's monster. This is awesome!
The three other Geoff’s are stated in the song: the guests included Wolfman (middle), Dracula (left), and his son (right - doing the floss at the end). This was very creative and another totally Geoff vocal. And,finally, we have a Monster Mash dance. I love his wife Kathy’s scream face as she “wakes up”. Thanks for your reaction
What's great about Geoff's low notes is that he really leans into them. As a first soprano myself, you hit that high C for a crotchet or quaver, and then you move on. Here, you really get to feel and appreciate the beauty of those low notes. That's why his voice worked so well in the cover of Sixteen Tons.
It's the same background as his Misty Mountains just different accents.
I swear everything they do is gold whether Solo or all together. If you haven't seen it yet, you should definitely react to VP hoist the colours. It's epic, even by voice play standards
Tony Wakim was a baritone for VP and wanted to get into productions so he and Layne bought Pattycake Productions. Tony's full into it, Layne is split between the studio and VoicePlay and probably another couple of things. The Geoff clones are Dracula, Wolf Man, and Dracula's son. The dance moves start off with Frankenstein (arms out straight), Wolf Man (arms bent with the claws up), Dracula (right arm raised and bent across the collar bone to support his cloak), The Mummy (arms wrapped around his torso). Love that Wolf Man has fleas. If you saw Drunken Sailor by VP the drunken sailor was Bucky who for a short time back before the name VoicePlay, was 4:2:Five. He did the choreography for Monster Mash, and occasionally sings minis with them. He is also a voice actor with Disney. He has a couple of videos on How To Sing Really Low.
This was my first exposure to Geoff. Monster Mash is my favorite Halloween song and I heard there was a new version out. I loved it and started searching for more of him and VoicePlay. I've been listening to them everyday. I appreciate your reviewing this one.
Sad that you haven't reacted to any Voice Play or Geoff in months...they have had so many amazing things come out...
You are always fun to watch, and this was no exception! Thank you Ken and thank you Geoff..💐💐
left to right, Dr. Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman, and The Monster. And the lady is the Bride, both in the video and in life. And D1. Yes, I'm sure.
yep, he does the arrangeing, the choreography, the video, and the editing right up to the final edits. Phenomenal.
That's Geoff's wife, by the way. She's like the crew boss.
Dracula, wolfman & frankenstein. Yes he does the choreography & all the vocals. The woman was there on the couch the whole time. That was Kathy Geoffs wife.
Low note was a D1
Layne.(Beatboxer) and Tony(was a featured singer) own PattyCake productions, place where a lot .of his videos are shot. If you are not a 'gamer', one of their recent videos was of the Halo game theme song.....he hits and does a sustained B0 note....love your reactions.....you have a LOT to catch up on with Voiceplay...Did you do a reaction to their 'Hoist the Colors' video......very intense, Geoff is in the 'Basement' for most of the song....enjoy!
The three characters are Dracula, Wolfman, and Frankenstein's Monster. The "Mash" dance represents the stereotypical Frankenstein shuffling with his arms outstretched, Wolfman's claws slashing, Dracula holding his cape before his face, and, representing the last for the big four Universal monsters, the Mummy wrapped up.
Baritenor here. Regarding ströbass, it's modal voice, not at all subharmonic in nature. It's something that I don't have in my voice, at all. It doesn't exist in it.
I got very sick a couple of months ago, sore throat and all, which hadn't happened in maybe 15 years. So for 5-6 days, my voice dropped to that of a full-on true (low?) bass. I not only gained lows (easy modal B1), but lost my highs (anything above a C4, which is usually easy). During that week, I got to experience what ströbass was, first hand.
As painful as it was, I tried singing normally during that time, and it required actual effort for me to actually keep my usual timbre. What was happening when I sang "normally", was that around Eb2-D2, which had become very easy and very resonant notes (not usually the case), there was a change in timbre. My voice switched from a smooth colour, my usual smooth colour to a much more raspy/fry-like sound. I wasn't doing a vocalized fry (subharmonics), I wasn't doing anything special, it just… changed colour. And I was still singing in modal voice. Looking back at it, I should have recorded it.
Then I progressively got better, my voice reverted back to normal, and that register completely disappeared. I am not able to emulate the sound nor the feeling, even on good days, it is completely unique and I would say impossible to fake. If it's in one's voice, then it is there, and it is normal, but if it isn't, it's impossible to properly describe or emulate.
9:03 As stated previously, D1. According to another reactor, that's four notes from not being ON a keyboard. It's ridiculously low.
Also, his cover of Sound of Silence is...shiver inducing. Only his cover has ever hit me that hard.
Equally hard hitting in a different way: Eviör, Trollabundin. "Spellbound" in English. This song is...I don't have words.
it’s the same place he did his misty mountains cover patty cake productions
Charismatic Voice' Elizabeth said the note is a D1, 4 from being off the piano, so really low, lol. It's really impressive the rest of Geoff's range, really. The fact he does the higjs, mid ranges, and lows.
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5:58 acidental subharmonic
I'm glad you reacted to this. I'm curious. Would strohbass (sp?) be the bass version of a falsetto?
Being old enough to remember when Bobby Pickett first released it in the early 60's, all of us kids loved it. There are a couple references that modern audiences won't realize. First of all, "monster mash" was based on the "mashed potato", an actual dance at the time. Second, Bobby's version heavily emphasized voices and facial affects of Boris Karloff and Bela Legosi. While their monster movies came out in the 1930s, we had seen them on TV when the independent stations would show old movies on Saturday afternoons (and a few years later, late Saturday nights when horror hosts became popular). Wisely, Geoff discards a lot of the aping of Boris and Bela, because folks today just know parodies of parodies of parodies of them.
lol Bela Legosi. Some friends and I watched "Plan 9 from outerspace" last night as part of our annual Schlocktoberfest, which Bela Legosi stars in... sort of. Parts of it are actually him. But because he died part-way through filming, other shots of him are actually someone else in his costume but holding the cape in front of their face so you "can't tell" it's not Bela Legosi..
Did you notice that the three 'henchmen' are doing the Universal Monster poses from the poster? Frankenstein, the Wolfman, Dracula and the Mummy. Also, the woman is his wife
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'Giggled' lol you're adorable
His low note is D1 and G#1 and the girl who was woak up by her husband singing her name is Kelly
I love the wolfman doing that hip-swinging dance. His wife Kathy did the choreography. She was also the woman who was the sofa during the whole song.
Choreography - Matthew “Bucky” Buckner. It's in the info below the actual video.
she did the makeup not the choreography
The "screaming woman" at the end is actually Geoff's wife making a special appearance.
You need to watch THE Bass Gangs video of "Century" you will be astounded!!
Dracula, wolf man, and Frankenstein’s monster
I don't know if anyone mentioned it, I was too lazy to scroll through the comments, but the woman is Geoff's wife Katie I think her name is. Did you notice when he was hitting those lows she would twitch?
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Loving Geoff's bass you should check out a guy called Marwan Ayman (Part of the bass gang with Tomi P who you have reacted to before) Some of his personal videos are insane. Would recommend his cover of Stay.
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Awesome reaction to a really fun video!
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thank you for this reaction. If you want to hear a powerful, moving song from Home Free please react to their new release Brothers in Arms.
You MUST listen to The Bass Gang - Emperor's New Clothes | (Bass Singers Acapella Cover)!
I can't seem to see it on your videos, so sorry if I've missed it, but you NEED to react to Voiceplay doing the Halo theme because OMG (or Oh My Geoff if you will 🤣)
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The base D! note was a Chest Note, NOT a growl. He's one of the few bass singers who can hit those notes as Chest Notes. If you view his oogie boogie man song, the carries a solid F1 as the last note. Growl Notes are never solid and lack the richness of tone. Your wind runs out very quickly with growls.
That is Geoff's Wife that popped up on the Banshee scream
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Im sure Layne helped him with this arrangment Layne is not only talented beatboxer but he is an awesome arranger for voiceplay
Layne is a fantastic arranger, but Geoff does all of his own arrangements himself! He mentions that he did the arrangement in the video description.
Please do a reaction video of Geoff Castellucci's version of Way Down by Elvis Presley.
You should give a listen to Geoff's version of Headless Horseman
You can see his wife involuntarily twitch at some of those low base notes
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The backup Geoffs are Dracula, Wolfman, and Frankenstein's Monster
Left to right, we have Drac-Geoff.. then Wolfman-Geoff, and finally Frankie-Geoff (notice the chains)
Dracula, wolf man Frankenstein
here is an idea, what if home free and voiceplay merged and made an epic low bass song ,, it would be some of the rawest one could have heard in ages
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0:42 funny you should mention Edgar Allan Poe. Geoff actually did a reading of The Raven on his channel and it's honestly fantastic, I'd recommend checking it out!
Subtitles on please - thanks
Special appearance by his wife at the end.
I bought a bass speaker unit to listen to Geaff
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The other Geoff’s are Dracula wolfman and Frankenstein
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November is Alzheimers awareness month so could you please react to Glenn Campbell's final recording after being diagnosed with Alzheimers in his early 70s? It is I'm Not Gonna Miss You dedicated to all affected by this horrid disease.
hey Ken!
I love your reactions and always wait impatiently for your Geoff/Voiceplay reactions.
I see you liked this video (as we all did). however, I feel your analysis was a bit sparse this time. I really come to you for more than a mere manly giggle, you know ;-)
I value your opinion and your insight. a bit more effort into deconstructing the song and pointing to interesting moments would be appreciated. ;-)
Check out Big Bag John and Ghost Riders In the Sky
That is Kathy sitting beside Geoff. She is Geoff's wife.
Matt Hansen - Yellow
Left to right ... Dracula.... Werewolf... And Frankenstiens monster
REcorded at Layne's studio.
For a great example of how powerful music is try reviewing 'monsters' by James Blunt
Its Dracula, Wolfman and Frankenstein
I understand that the low note was a D1...
Pretty sure left to right: Dracula, Alucard (1st son of Dracula), and Wolfman.
What is everyone’s range here?
From the lowest fry to the highest falsetto note.
F1 to around F5.
You should listen to his rendition of "16 Tons"....I swear I've listened to it 15 times on repeat and it is like butter 😍
Update: nvm...I found it
That’s his wife I believe