It would solve a lot of the problems in our world.
#OH GOD RON PARKS AND REC FULL#
And so, my last show, Full Bush, I had a song called the Ukulele Song, and the theme is that we can improve ourselves, if we all would just go down to the shop and build ourselves a ukulele. I absolutely had no desire to learn the ukulele, but what I did as a touring comedian was I wrote a song about a ukulele. What about a ukulele? Those have plastic strings. And I said, Well, gee, you’ve just terrified me out of attempting this. If you shave it and construct the shell too lightly, then when you tighten up 200 pounds of pull on the steel strings, it will explode. If it’s too heavy, it’ll sound like you’re just playing a two-by-six with guitar strings. I read three different books about building acoustic guitars, and all ended with, You’ve got to get it just right. It was in that moment I said, I’m going to make my own guitar, and that’ll hopefully sound just as crappy as I sound on an any other instrument, but it will carry the magic of having come from my own hands.
#OH GOD RON PARKS AND REC HOW TO#
It’d be like the kid in the neighborhood whose parents bought him the most expensive bike, but he doesn’t know how to ride it. And I would say, I sound just as mediocre as I do on my own guitar.įinally, after a few sessions, I said I’m never going to buy this $12,000 vintage guitar. And I would take it back in the little room and I would play it. And so, there was a handful of years during Parks & Recreation that I kept going into the rare guitar shop thinking, Today’s the day I’m going to buy my favorite guitar. It’s the most expensive vintage guitar you can buy. It’s the guitar you hear at the beginning of Pinball Wizard. For a few years I was trying to buy a vintage Gibson J-200, which is an enormous, beautiful, country western guitar, a rock star in its own right. The ukulele is the elementary school for the guitar builder. The point of ukuleles seemed like a great educational step towards full lutherie.
In your work shop you are making ukuleles now.
And I slowly plugged away at the guitar and taught myself over the years to get to the point where, I think, two different reviews have now called me nearly competent. For the first 30 years of my life, I said, God, I would love to be able to do that someday.
And that form of joke delivery always thrilled me. Once I got to theater school somebody around me was playing an acoustic guitar and writing funny songs. We never sat around the wood-burning stove and got together on a rendition of “String Of Pearls” or anything like that, but, I guess there was a great love of music and that just really stuck with me. Our household wasn’t super musical, although our parents encouraged us to play music. Was music something in your household growing up? Or is that something you discovered on your own as you grew older? You have a few comedy songs, and you play the guitar and the ukulele. I said, I’m so sorry for this new new boob you have as a figure head, now you have one of your own. I mean, things are pretty intense I had to commiserate with audiences over there. It was in so far as I’m poking fun at all of us humans for the political mess that we’ve gotten ourselves into, both nationally and globally, and so touring my show around England and Ireland I couldn’t help but mention some of their own situations are quite dire. Is the current political climate over there palatable or noticeable? I was a little nervous about it until I discovered the audiences there find me to be just as much of a jackass as American audiences do. I’m besotted with those green islands the food, the drink, the people, and the landscape thrills me to my core. I was able to speak with America’s sweetheart humorist about his newest show, being a character actor in the real world, his love of music, and a lot more.
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