Hank Azaria created more than 100 voices for The Simpsons, including Moe the Bartender, Chief Wiggum and (formerly) Apu. So why is the single most talented voice actor of his generation, at 60 years old, suddenly the lead singer of a Springsteen tribute band? Because — in recovery from the fear that helped originate his superpower, the failure that forced him to embrace "character acting," the cancellation that became a case study, and the threat of A.I. — he was overtaken by Bruce Juice. And today, inside PTFO's studio, he takes the stage. • Catch Hank Azaria and the EZ Street Band on Tour https://www.ezstreetnyc.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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What's your regimen for, you're coming off of band practice, so I appreciate you. Just been singing like Bruce for four hours, you know. Almost as long as Bruce sings. You don't do like some fancy herbal tea, honey?
I have some spray that's like ginger-based that helps. I have like a gargle that supposedly clears out your throat, which I occasionally bust out.
vocal warm-ups i've had to take singing seriously which i never had before i'll be 61 in april i turned 60 last april which was too big a birthday to ignore try as i might and it felt depressing to do nothing but i couldn't decide what to do i'm not really a party guy anymore as i'm coming up on 19 years sober So, I don't know how I came to this, but I was like, you know what might be fun?
Most of my friends are Springsteen fans. What if I throw a huge party, which is very uncharacteristic of me, tell my friends that I've got a Springsteen tribute band coming, but don't tell them that I'm going to be the front man for it. So I called it like a reverse surprise party, which it was.
I pulled it off like no one knew, except my wife and like four other people, that I was cooking this up. And a band, one of whom is here today. And for months worked this impression up and created a band. My son's jazz piano teacher ended up, he was in a Genesis cover band. I said, if I want to do like a Springsteen version of that, could you throw that together? And he said, sure.
By the night of my party, I had over-practiced to the point where I had to do a cortisone. I take cortisone the day of, and I was so nervous that I actually threw up from nerves. I've never thrown up from nerves in my life as a performer, but I did that day of my party.
I had a friend who was a big baseball player Back in high school And then it went so well, we'll be, got a bunch of gigs in May.
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