#128 - Ben Kasparek Interview (DBZ, Editing, Bruce Faulconer, 9/11, Pikkon Theme Cell Saga etc.)

Ben Kasparek was the music editor on the English Dub of Dragonball Z for the Android, Cell and Buu Sagas of DBZ and worked closely with the composers of the show Mike Smith, Scott Morgan and Julius Dobos   #dbz #dragonballz #brucefaulconer   TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:42 - How Ben Got Into DBZ/Getting Job At Faulconer Productions 04:08 - Ben Originally Wanted A Job At Funimation But Couldn’t Find The Office 04:49 - Watching Mike Work/What Episode Ben Started First When Editing 06:30 - Editing An Episode Took One Week/Editing Process 08:07 - DBZ Music Library/Mistake With Vegetas Theme 10:13 - Ben Favoured Hyperbolic Time Chamber Theme In Editing 11:25 - Limiting Of Pikkons Theme 12:56 - Ben Inspired Scott To Write The Arpeggiated Part Of Pikkons Theme 14:56 - The Genius Of Mike Smith,Scott Morgan & Julius Dobos 15:59 - Japanese DBZ Music/Gohan Vs Cell Kamehameha Episodes Had No Changes In Editing 18:19 - 16 Rips Off Cells Tail/Gohan & Icarus/Perfect Cell Runs 19:25 - Such A Massive Library Existed By Buu Saga So Cell Saga Music Was Hardly Used 20:32 - Having A Bigger Catalog Made It Easy To Edit 22:33 - How The Best Of DBZ Vol 1 Soundtrack Came About 25:12 - Ben Would Give The Musicians Requests And They Nailed It Every Time 26:32 - Ben Was Late To Work On The Day Of 9/11 28:21 - Gohan Goes To School Episode Had To Be Edited In 24 Hours 29:32 - Hardcore DBZ Fan In Ben’s Class/New Generation Of DBZ Fans 31:04 - Groove Of Work 32:05 - Bruce Faulconer’s Involvement In DBZ 34:24 - Cakemix Studio/Internets Effect On Bruce’s Studio 35:34 - Ben Not Knowing Gohan SSJ Is Goku’s SSJ Backwards 36:24 - Tying Gohan’s Music To Piccolo During The End Of Cell Saga 37:32 - Character Moments 38:30 - Going From Fighting Music To Silly Music Being Jarring/ 41:45 - Ambient Pieces Being Easy To Edit/Transitions 43:45 - The Final Atonement Episode 46:15 - Emotional Scenes 48:15 - Mike, Scott And Julius’s Different Styles Of Composing 51:10 - SSJ3 Theme 52:46 - Julius’s Work On Editing On Outside DBZ 55:00 - Bittersweet Feeling Of DBZ Ending