stuff that he did that just that we're we're so real and you know every time
man you must have burst blood vessels and there were many times where I almost
passed out my throat is raw practically bleeding's January 6 was an epic day to
be a Dragon Ball fan because not only do we get the epic return of Yuya takahashi
the animation supervisor behind the beautiful episode 122 on that same night
we had the return of Brian Drummond the original English voice for Vegeta he
came back on Dragon Ball super episode 44 but then in episode 45 he had a
full-length episode so you guys were very excited to talk about him and you
guys gonna stop talking about it in the comments section and on Twitter so here
we have Brian Drummond joining us today my man
welcome to anime live reactions what's going on all right hey man it's exciting
to be here I'm happy to be back on on the show for a couple episodes have a
little fun but it's great to talk to all you guys and obviously like you're
saying all the responses and that and the stuff spanned the tweets have been
coming in people are really excited so it's showing the love it's great it's
really it's really great no it was it was awesome because a lot of the og and
the old school people know about Brian drum and they know who you are they grew
up with you but some of the younger folks are the people who are new to
Dragon Ball it was a great opportunity to really teach them about who you are
the original mean that is it's over 9,000 story behind that we'll talk about
that you know for a small portion of this video but how did this happen how
did you end up in Dragon Ball super who approached you when were you approached
what can you tell us about how this happened well it was Chris and I you
know will tweet back and forth the odd time and Chris sub just sent me a direct
message and one one time number of months ago I said yeah we should get
together sometime and he said here's a cool guy I've heard the same about him
and maybe we'll just get together and hang
for a couple of beers in Dallas one time and then we left it at that and then a
couple months later he fired me off a DM and said you know what there's this role
coming up and he had mentioned something in the past about maybe we'll find some
part for you and we'll throw you in I said yeah sure D McCall he said there's
this role coming up but that's um I think maybe I'd like you to play it yeah
I'm not I wasn't really following Dragon Ball super I didn't know much about it
and he said believe it or not there's a duplicate vegeta role that shows up for
a couple episodes and he wanted to I got an update coming up here go away but he
said you know I'd like you to play it I said I think the fans will love it
they'll they'll get into it and I agreed I thought that's a phenomenal way to
sort of pop in do something fun and and give the fans a little bit of a little
bit of something too and as opposed to Chris just playing both the roles which
is what they could have done throwing a slightly different tweak on it I think
that we thought it'd be really fun for the fans and a little bit of a hint to
the Past and yeah so so I booked a studio in Vancouver worked it out fit it
into my schedule did a four hour session and we just the direction was done out
of Dallas but I was recording in Vancouver and we we put it all together
and in four hours and it was a blast had a good time and then just waited for it
to come out which just did holidays so my phone was going off the off the hook
you know I was like what is happening yeah so you telling me you recorded the
end of episode 44 plus episode 45 and episode 46 in four hours
yeah yeah yeah you squeeze it all in in four hours it came back pretty quick and
and I mean I've done a lot of dubbing before so if I was new to it it'd be
different you can stumble through trying to nail that stuff down but I've done
that character he comes back to me really easily and and and then dubbing
is not that big of a deal the guys at the studio I work with all the time and
we had a couple of tech issues so we probably blew about a half an hour just
trying to get an everything nailed down and but so the actual recording with a
break might have been maybe three hours of war but it was pretty it was pretty
good but it all came together I mean I never saw the final result until it
started to tell was put together I was working on my part so it was good Chris
hadn't even recorded his stuff yet Shawn and I think have done some a hit but I
don't think Chris had recorded his is part of those episodes yet so it's fun
to see it put together now if you remember so you did a video last year
with my buddy keep them one-on-one oh yeah yeah yeah so it was a great
interview and towards the end of that video you said that if you ever had to
do Vegeta again you will bring a bucket of water in preparation for you bring
that bucket and I there's ice there was there was gallons of water there I was
all ready for it I mean it wasn't as near near as much of the amount of
fighting I did when I when I did the series so you know it was like and we
did so much screaming and it's multiple episodes of yelling and fighting but
this one actually felt pretty pretty easy compared to what I what I
originally did and I was really new to the business when I first started and
first worked on as Vegeta on Dragon Ball so I didn't have the skills to sort of
know how to hydrate as well and not to push it too hard so actually some of
those screams some of that early stuff that I did that just that were so real
and you know everything like man you must have burst blood vessels and there
were many times where I almost passed out my throat is raw practically
bleeding sand I wouldn't do it that hard anymore because it's really not good for
you for a long term as a career as a voice actor but back then I pushed it
pretty hard and now I know how to sort of get through those sort of yelling
sessions and not quite not tax myself as much so it wasn't too bad but I had the
water there ready three or four glasses maybe not a bucket but I was ready yeah
it was great one of my favorite lines was when you said a Gatling gun and just
like yeah the power the emotion
now you really felt that in people who weren't familiar with you they said wow
whoever's doing that voice is good as experience knows yes that every kid yeah
that was great direction too they knew when to push me and you know I haven't
done some of that dialogue before and they said well Chris would probably do
it like this let's hit it like this and really smoke it hard and so you know we
worked it to make sure that they got the Riesz they wanted and but it didn't take
too many times to sort of finally find the sweet spot
now when you when you were back to the studio you were doing copy Vegeta yeah
he's trying to kind of be mimic or be reminiscent of the how you used to do
Vegeta back in the day yeah or did you try to give it a slightly different
flavor how did that work well we wanted to Chris when I try to Chris had another
session to do that morning so he wasn't directing me in this session but Chris
talked to me in the beginning of it before we started and said because I
said you know you want me to be trying to I mean it would be kind of funny I
mean he had to try in the early days had to try and mimic my voice when the show
moved from Vancouver to Dallas and then he sort of morphed into his own version
of Vegeta and it changed over time and I didn't know whether he'd want sort of
the over 9000 type voice Vegeta that I did or whether you'd want he'd want me
sort of mimicking his version of Vegeta and he said no said for the fans I think
let's just do old-school Vegeta the way you used to do it like the early on and
sort of the higher pitched sound that I used for him early on that sort of evil
version that I had back then and that's um that's what we went with so that's
that was that was sort of collaborative that we came up with that plan right by
the way guys for those of you watching you can always hit him up on Twitter I
have a link in the description below and you see on the screen you're welcome and
you're open to talking to the fandom you actually usually respond on Twitter and
you're not very shy about that so guys don't be shy
hit him up yeah let me question ask me stuff I usually try and like and answer
questions that I can answer sometimes stuff is the fans in our fandoms are so
much more knowledgeable sometimes than me
I'll get hit up with questions that they asked about remember this episode when
you did whatever and I have to go guys this was like twenty four years
twenty twenty years ago that I might have worked on those specific episodes
and sometimes it's hard to recall exact events and timing of twenty years ago
when you worked on something but yeah they can people can fire me questions
and I'll try and answer stuff as best I can and right I've been liking as so
many of the really positive responses that have been out there from people
it's been really nice and it's very positive like I said before guys you
have another chance to hear Brian Drummond tonight at 46 on Adult Swim
it's gonna be awesome go can you tell us there's this little
event some people say it's gonna be a big event I'm very excited for it it's
called Camejo con yeah and it is happening on May 4 from that weekend of
May 4th right you were recently invited to be part of a panel can you explain
and what that's all about and what is your involvement with the with the con
well I have no ads Eero idea what I'm gonna be doing when I get there but same
thing Chris said when we worked on this and previous to it he said hey you know
there's this con coming up and and there been a lot of people are interested
maybe if you want to come and maybe the will will get the the promoters to get
that information out to you and I said yeah sure I'd love to come down and and
actually a lot of the interest so I want to come down and meet some of the the
cast of the show now some of them that'll be there and go have a couple
pints with some of them and just chat see the fans and then when he said it
was strictly a Dragon Ball convention I said absolutely
Peter calamus my body one of the original Goku's from up here is going
down as well he hit me up with a call and said this will be fun we'll go down
there together and so I don't know what I'm gonna be doing I'm open to anything
you know we'll probably some panels I'm sure we'll do something crazy for the
fans that'll they'll just bring the building down I don't know maybe we'll
have a scream off or a some wrestling competition I don't know what it'll be
it'll be that's what it's gonna be it'll be good it'll be really good yeah chance
for me to just to see some of the fans and you know obviously in that when we
have chances for for autographs and for and for for for talk
had all that kind of stuff I'm looking forward to just saying hi to as many
people as I can seven been down there I think the very first invite I ever had
to that wasn't even a convention it was like a comic book shop in Dallas way
back in like shortly after dragon ball first came out invited me down to do a
signing in one of their stores and this was probably mid 90s and that was the
very first place I went so it'll be fun to go back to Dallas and do a convention
to see some of the fans down there I'm looking forward to a lot yeah I'm
excited too I'll have a link in the description guys so you can get your
tickets I'm gonna be there I'm confirmed I got my plane tickets and booked yeah
it's gonna be awesome it's gonna be a lot of other content creators of
influencers in the community people who have contributed to to the culture and
positivity of the Dragon Ball fandom there's gonna be a lot of people there
so definitely make sure you guys go there now can you talk to us about some
of the projects that you've been working on where have you been what have you
been up to lately well everybody always ask you know what
what you've been working on when you focus on a certain thing I mean I am DB
is probably the easiest place to find where I've been I've been doing a ton of
stuff it's um but not as much dubbing work pre lay really you know takes
precedent in in so many areas it's a it's obviously financially far more
lucrative than the dubbing side of things are there's not as much dubbing
work in Vancouver all the ocean studio still does a fair bit of it I've been on
a handful of shows there recently but not not not piles I've been working on
lots of prelate shows and you know from from preschool shows to to daytime shows
Marvel stuff whatever maybe lots of lots and lots of stuff I can't even remember
what some of the last anime work that I that I've done like a star's full series
type work I mean def note and Black Lagoon there's
probably some of the bigger ones that were aware that we wrapped up even a
number of years ago that were sort of full series that I that I
put time into but aside from that played Wolverine and a number of marble series
that were done up here and dinotrux is a big animated kids show that I'm working
on and ready jet go is a great PBS show that I'm working on you're busy it's
yeah I've the past probably five years have been the busiest of my life and and
that's what sort of takes me away from doing as much dubbing because dubbing is
pretty time-consuming compared to the prelate work and most performers usually
do prefer the peel a work if you can get it because you're in the room with all
the performers it's like being on stage with them and and we're all banging off
each other having a blast and it's it's a really good time so if I'm if I'm
getting on those shows they end up taking precedence over the over the the
dubbing shows but but but I'll never forget obviously DBZ was my very first
anime show ever second ever show I got of all the shows I did a GI Joe series
with sue blue just before I got Dragon Ball Z so it's got a soft spot at the
spot in my heart as one of my all-time favorites and and even not just because
it was one of the first shows just because Vegeta is and I never knew
anything about him at all as I imagined Chris probably knew very little about it
as well when he first auditioned you just don't know what Technic there is
about to come what's gonna been I just got you know okay here audition for this
guy he's a little he's a prince he's got a bad attitude
he's megalomaniac he's sort of smaller in stature he's not like a big guy so
don't use deep voice and I threw something out there and and and bury
cast me from Funimation on this and away we went and I didn't even know where it
was going or what this crazy show is about I just knew there was a pile of
screaming involved and it was the first and only show I ever completely lost my
voice on was this show on an eight hour session but back when we were allowed to
do eight hour sessions we're only allowed to do four now we had eight
hours and I lost my voice and it was I was going out to dinner after and it was
gone it was like nothing there scary times yeah it's a well you know I
know it's coming back but I just knew I had over done the screaming and it was
just toast and I wouldn't do that now because you
know if you got to work the next day you can't push it that hard or yours
show up to work and you can't do jobs you've been even hired to do so I don't
push it like that so much anymore just to save myself for the other gigs right
but it's just a hoot now as as an artist and as as you've been doing this for
many years yeah can you tell us about some of the
interesting people that you have met in the industry opportunities that you that
you would have never had if you weren't doing this some interesting stories well
interesting people and interesting stories it's always funny when you get
thrown those things right what I love about voiceover its funniest is some
unlike film and TV there's there's a seems to be a lot of ego in film and TV
and there just isn't in the voice-over community you'll see it with guys the
big names even like Mark Hamill and that just you don't see there's this guy's it
just but right here you know they don't have the they don't have an ego and
they're you know it's like we're sort of brothers in arms and brothers and
sisters and arms will show up and the newest guy is as welcome as as a veteran
like myself or Chris or Mark that have been doing this for 20 25 30 years
they're just invited into the into the fold like anybody else we might give
them a little bit of a rough ride and playfully you know if they're honest
with us but it's never like well okay I get this special room and you have the
cheap seats over there and you get the cheap mic and I'm on this it's this one
and I only want you know orange M&Ms before I begin my session and none of
that sort of exists what I love about this business is that everybody's just
really casual like we have parties with with all the voiceover guys we just
recently had a really fun one where I had a big Christmas party here couple
weeks before my holidays were fifty voice actors from Vancouver and their
significant others came over and we all were here for about two and a half hours
having a bit of a Christmas party know we all went saw Star Wars
right afterwards so we were it was almost all of us except for a couple
other people we had the whole theater to ourselves 50 of us watching the show
together and it's really fun I mean that's not something you probably most
people do with some of their cohorts or their or their workmates and yeah so
yeah just but everybody I've worked with in the past are great like the
characters and the phenomenal actors like like Pete calamus and and scott
mcneil and and gary chalk and ian corlett and you everybody knows these
names matt hill vincent tong there's just a there's a group of actors up here
that are just phenomenal and it's a treat to work with them a treat to go to
conventions with them whether they're some of the the fun you know brony Pony
conventions or whether the some of the the great anime conventions or whether
they're mix of the sci-fi anime conventions the fan Expos it's it's a
crazy business and that's probably why you love it as much as the reason that
that we do it's just got a great the fans are great and the and the the
artists are great too from the artists that do the work behind you the actual
artists compared and the voice artists it's just it's such a fun industry to be
a part of yeah it is when I met Christopher Savin last year he was
really down to earth really funny yes very sarcastic just it was a blast to
being with him yeah yeah he was cracking me up and then I'm talking with John
Bailey who who does a lot of work for the fine media
yes trailers and and many other youtubers and yeah he's just an awesome
guy really funny yes talking to you so yeah you guys are a great group of
people I just always a joy to talk to you guys
and definitely if for the people watching if you ever meet them in person
don't be shy yeah hello yeah don't be shy if you see a set of at a con or
we're out and about and you yeah just come and say hi we're it's it's not like
you know if you see some superstar and you're gonna be worried about you know
issues with paparazzi or or it's not man we're everybody's down to earth and
that's that's such as the Vancouver in the Dallas guys I've got lots
friends that are working in the in the la crew with like John Bailey's down
there - and Trevor - Val and Ian Colette's there Pete calamus works out
of La Maurice LaMarche all these guys Tom Kenny although
they're all just down-to-earth right it's a it's just a different crowd of
people that are really fun to be around and yeah if you ever bump into us or see
us somewhere come say hi you know we will chat might not be able to chat
forever if you're on their way to a gig but we'll certainly want to say hi
that's for sure let me ask you this what have been besides Vegeta what happens
some of your other most favored and Joba roles that you're plating other shows
where you went into the studio and you're like oh I love this like I'm
selling having so much fun and I know you feel that but that way for a lot of
the work that you do because yeah what you're doing that's that you mentioned
we've kicked in 101 that you just you love it you love the the art form and
you love doing voices yeah but what having some of your favorite looks
well you know there's lots Regina is right up there in the top for anime I
love playing Ryu in Death Note that was a blast to do
because it was such a fun I always wanted to go to work sometimes you go on
an animated show and because you're only there for the parts you're doing it's
hard to follow along and wonder what the hell's going on it's sometimes it's you
can get pretty lost on some shows that are hundreds of episodes and you're not
when you're only a character that shows up here and there you only keep your
dialog so it's hard to really be invested in it but Ryu was a great
character that I always wanted to know what's going on what's happening now
what's what's going on with the series and was very in Black Lagoon was a lot
of fun and really wild wild show the Gundam series work that I did was great
as well I really enjoyed working on that it was a chance where I could sort of
use a voice that was similar to my own and not sort of stress it as much like I
did on Dragon Ball Z but still be invested in the character that's for
sort of anime type work for for freely work man there's been so many great
things that have worked on just had my last pickup session are
on on dinotrux the other day which was a which it was a really fun series to work
on with some great actors getting to play Wolverine for a number of
direct-to-dvd movie pieces I play dr. claw with Maurice LaMarche playing
Inspector Gadget for a new gadget series we did a number of years ago when they
revamped the series and Maurice LaMarche is just a amazing performer and he
played Inspector Gadget and just nails the voice but they needed a voice match
for dr. claw which I came the closest at and was able to do that for a number of
episodes - and when you grow up watching something as a kid like Wolverine or
like dr. claw some of those you get a chance to do it yourself as an adult
that's sort of the sometimes that's the pinnacle of really getting there I did a
kid series called Geronimo Stilton which is a not seeing much here in North
America but huge show it's like the Harry Potter of Italy but we did two or
three seasons of it and I played the lead on that series which was the most
fun that I'd ever done playing drama still because he's just a great great
character and man it's there's like I said there's just a million different
roles and a million different things to to do but those have been some of the
some of the highlights now we spoken about the artists that you are but now
the man behind the arts in terms of your family has rules you're a kid I think
you have what the three kids at this place that's right yeah kids are they
fans of Dragon Ball have do they have they heard of you and your work and say
like wow dad very excited or what is the response yeah they're very aware of it
like if they've been aware of it for a long time they're almost all they're all
young adults now but they kind of grew up with it when they were younger and
and they'd be watching an animated show and and then go and I say hey that's me
doing that voice they'd look at me like what like it doesn't make any sense that
you're that cartoon it just doesn't it doesn't compute when they're younger but
now that they're older and my oldest son Aiden he's in theater school and was and
is pursuing it as well he's done voicing before my middle daughter is going into
the arts production side she's probably gonna work in film my youngest
daughter's is is in her final year of high school and she's gonna probably
rule the world she is amazing at everything so it's hard to know but they
all grew up and to me I'm just dad and they're like oh yeah
there's that another one of those voices he does this so it's it's not nearly as
cool this is you but you might think when it's your kids or like net just dad
doing another voice it was been helpful when I was reading stories through them
when when they were younger but I don't think it's that big of a deal with the
Bev anymore right because they round it and we're all very arts based family
where we love theater we love film we love science fiction movies animation
that they've all grown up around it and I imagine they'll all be sort of a part
of that industry in their lives just because they've been so surrounded by it
and actually really love it themselves so but yeah they've all know I wouldn't
say any of them are Dragon Ball Z fans they've all watched a number of
different animes before that they get into and my son's a pretty big gamer so
he's he's on more on the gaming side we went to a big voiceover event in LA a
couple years ago where it was a bunch of voice-over talent and some bands were
singing and and it was pretty fun and my son got a chance to meet Troy Baker
which is sort of he's the God for my son a voiceover is is that it's Roy's though
so that was and you know I'm like hey what am I like chopped liver here walks
in the room you know that's how it is but no egos though no egos well that's
awesome I'm very happy for you joining us today and giving us a perspective of
what it was like to come back and be part of the Dragon Ball super that that
is something that nobody would have ever expected that that was something that
was think you know it's more like a almost like fan fiction we won't but it
happened and it's very exciting are very very happy with with your
performance and not the nostalgia from it so yeah that was a great idea from
Funimation - well yeah you better take fun of me thank Funimation and Chris as
there was those at Chris I mean magic Chris probably floated the idea up there
because I I wasn't aware of those episodes coming because they don't
follow the manga or the the subject or the original that comes out I don't so I
don't know what's coming like everybody else does right but Chris obviously saw
it coming and thought this is an interesting idea and after a couple of
quick text back and forth I thought it was this is a great idea so we jumped at
the chance to sort of find a way and we need we it was quick actually really
quick Chris called me middle of a week and asked me about doing it sort of it
was I think it was midweek like a Wednesday or Thursday that he talked to
me I'll have to enough to check my text and and about doing it I'm like oh cool
so yeah well I guess I can get a studio together up here what do you know is
this in a couple weeks or whatever he says not needs to be I gotta have this
produced and finished by next week I'm like what like it was it was fast
so I got off the phone right away and talked to a couple the studio as I knew
I found a studio that had an opening on the Monday morning right now talk to him
because though the students aren't open on the weekend and then we put this
together you know Wednesday Thursday Friday of the free previous week I got a
studio Monday morning booked it for four hours is done and then they were doing
post work on it like right away after I was finished he needed to be delivered
to Funimation within like a week or two so it happened pretty fast yeah the
speed of that wow that's incredible was yes here for you giving us an insight on
that yeah well my man Brian Drummond it was a pleasure conversing with you and I
am very excited to see you at Comic Con in May yeah it'll be a lot of fun and is
there anything else that you that you want to tell the fandom before we finish
here well I'm just saying I want to throw it there for sure a massive thank
you to all the fans that have been thrown out such really sweet comments
and and positive stuff like I can't believe
much there's always a bit of you know ocean dub Funimation dub you get people
that that you know over the years of you know battled about different things and
I've always been you know I loved what I did I love what Chris does I love that
ass so much in the new show I didn't know if what was going to come back was
gonna be you know the you know it's it's the internet you know its Twitter you
can get some hate and I was like what how much hate I'm gonna get and it's
been none it's been so positive that I was just thrilled to to have so much of
a positive response and I'm and I was glad that Chris and I were able to put
this together for all you guys and if you can get down to Dallas to comic-con
and and come see me come say hi or hit me up on Twitter or and I love to answer
questions and you know about the show as much as I can remember about the
episodes that we did and we can go from there but pleasure meeting you too
thanks for for catching up with me and let me have a chance to get out there
and chat with fans awesome guys I want to do a little recommendation for you
guys if you haven't already I'm gonna have in the description a link to not
only Bryan dramas Twitter account you can message him there tweet at him but
also I highly recommend that you guys watch the interview that my friend
geeked and wanted one day with him last year it is over 50 minutes of of just a
deep background on Dragon Ball Z it's over 9000 the history behind that a lot
of great information that we didn't cover in this video so I definitely
recommend that you guys watch that video and it just put your headphones on
listen to it as a podcast where you're driving it's gonna be a lot of fun yeah
guys I will see you guys later tomorrow thanks for watching
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