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CHOOSING A DUMMY:
"I tell them I need a volunteer to be my dummy.
Then I try to find a guy who is frantically waving at me to choose his friend.
Then I pick that guy instead."
from www.newinformation.com (Copyright © 1998 NewInformation Presentations)
SCORCH:
"There was a flash in my brain (as corny as that may sound, I really DID see a flash) and in a snap
all of my daydreaming about psychology, those awful teen years, and my interest in gothic mythology
crystallized and fused.
Scorch the Teenage Dragon just popped into my head, looking pretty much as he does now."
BUFFALO BILLY:
"Billy is one of my oldest and most evolved characters. He's the chance I have on stage every night
to be the kind of kid I always wanted to be. He's bright and precocious; a natural leader and a very
much a con-man. His only real goal is to simply get away with things.
(What former child doesn't identify with that?)"
THE EARLY YEARS:
"I was very determined to be heard," Lucas says. "They were either going to laugh at me or laugh with me,
but I sure wasn't going to be ignored. I learned early that an act using vocal manipulation could be
accepted as more than a gimmick if done well. I also learned to think fast or duck.
One night a drunk
heckled me, so I had one of my dummies heckle him back. The audience loved it, and when he kept it up,
so did I. The crowd was roaring. The guy cursed the dummy and came up on stage ready for a fight.
A couple of his buddies restrained him, but I wasn't in any danger because the guy was actually trying
to punch out the dummy. It was a compliment, in a way, his believing the prop was talking, not me."
from www.newinformation.com (Copyright © 1998 NewInformation Presentations)
VENTRILOQUISM:
Vents reflect how "...We fragment our own lives,
talking differently to our mothers, fathers,
friends, bosses and children"
from Urban Desires
HIMSELF:
"I pride myself on being a real good stand-up (comic) with puppets", "I'm just a stand-up with a trade."
from "Ventriloquists make voices heard", June 19, 2000, by Kirk Baird, LAS VEGAS SUN
"Crazy people talk to inanimate objects and so do I, but at least mine talk back."
from Richard De La Font Agency
WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A GOOD PERFORMER:
"Good lip technique, so it doesn't look like you're talking;
good puppetry or whatever it is you're manipulating;
and finally, you've got to be funny"
from "Ventriloquists make voices heard", June 19, 2000, by Kirk Baird, LAS VEGAS SUN
BEING CALLED THE WORLDS BEST VENTRILOQUIST:
"I'm really just the best in my price range"
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