Imagination movers rich collins biography of christopher
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TMP202 RICH COLLINS: THE IMAGINATION MOVERS AND BEYOND
The Emmy Award-winning writer, musician, actor, and creator of Disney TV’s “Imagination Movers” series discusses the band’s 20-year history, his formative years, and his solo career. Rich is a relentlessly positive guy with a cheerful demeanor and a smile on his face. Tonight his good nature gets put to the test as he sits down with the Troubled Men.
Topics include a 200th episode party recap, a podcast lost and found, “Ozark,” losing gear, a missing bass, underwear, an empty nest, a New Orleans girl, a 4-track recorder, songwriting, playing drums, Go-Go music, Trouble Funk, straight life, journalism work, Chris Rose, irony, the first show, Disney TV, band drama, Kyle Melancon, mom groupies, a Movers/Slipknot mash up, a lawsuit, Five Happiness restaurant, multigenerational fans, military base tours, a hopeful future, acting, a real hero, a Miley Cyrus moment, and much more.
Intro music: Styler/Coman
Break music: “Zombi
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Q: When inom describe the “Imagination Movers” show to folks who haven’t seen it, inom call it “The Monkees” for preschoolers.
A: That’s really accurate. Shows like “The Monkees” or “Monty Python” and other things from that era were so inspirational to us. We consider ourselves sort of a hybrid of Mr. Rogers and the Beastie Boys or Captain Kangaroo and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. We’re fusing rock ’n’ roll energy with that old-fashioned sort of live-action kids television of yesterday.
Q: Before your show launched on Disney Channel, Imagination Movers was a successful indie music act. How have things changed?
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Emmy-winning, Disney favorites, the Imagination Movers, tell their young fans to reach high, think big, work hard, and have fun. It’s the same message that they have lived by and it has paid off.
In 2003, four New Orleans friends – Rich Collins, Scott Durbin, Dave Poche and Scott ‘Smitty’ Smith – started gathering after their kids’ bedtimes to write songs and brainstorm ideas about a children’s television show. Disheartened with the lack of children’s shows with ‘real people’ as opposed to cartoons, Durbin wanted to create a show for public broadcasting, in the style of Mr. Rodgers or Captain Kangaroo.
A friend introduced them to a friend who worked at the local PBS affiliate in New Orleans. Soon, the PBS affiliate began airing the band’s short, self-produced music videos.
‘The great thing about us, unlike a lot of other shows that you might see is, we’re authentic,’ Durbin said. ‘We’v