Last week Mitch de la Guardia proposed a little audio project for Buck Hopper’s Furry Basketball Association: a post-game catch-up conversation between John Stoat and his former teammate and fellow Britisher Ambrose Slade.

I’ve missed playing Stoat and I’ve long admired Mitch’s vocal work, so I really couldn’t say ‘yes’ fast enough. He put together an excellent overview of the games and teams (since he’s actually involved in the FBA’s games, while I just show up and slur into the microphone when B-Hop tells me to) which I totally failed to memorise. We riffed some insults back and forth over chat, and then we launched into a recording.

No script, just some bullet-points. The beauty of experience is that it lends you the confidence you need to extemporise like this, especially when coupled with an equally skilled performer. Sure, it’s going to be a little rough and it’ll need some editing to tighten up the tempo (Mitch did a pretty spectacular job trimming the rambling narrative down to a half-hour story) but you’ll get the kind of spontaneity that’s very tough to fake.

The original post is here:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9214909/

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