Geoff Castellucci -- I see Fire (Bass Cover) -- Beautiful Arrangement! -- 307 Reacts -- Episode 732

Geoff recently dropped a short where he sings the first part of this live in his studio, just recorded with his iphone, no post processing at all. if you want to see his studio, he shows his recording studio and the audio treatment he has in the room and also some of the equipment he uses, in the interview he did with the charismatic voice.

Ed Sheeran understood the assignment when he wrote this song, for sure. Professor Tolkein was trying with these books, all 4 of them, to get people who never experienced what the men who went into the trenches of WW I went through. He was trying to tell people WHY the young men who came back were not the same men who left. He didn't do it by trying to explain, for the millionth time, what they all went through over there. Unless you'd been there, seen, smelled, felt what they had you were never going to understand it that way. No, he tried it through a new fairy tale, a new type of mythos people could identify with. The every day man, caught up in something so much bigger than he was, and carried along despite his protests to the contrary. The chorus in particular. " I see fire inside the mountain. " I see the fire inside the young men, anger toward "the enemy". " I see fire burning the trees. " I see fire ( metaphorically speaking) burning the men around me, withering them to nothing. " I see fire hollowing souls. " I see the shell of young men that are left after the horrors of the battlefield. " Blood in the breeze. " The sight, sound, smell, and taste of blood was pervasive. These books were all about what happens if you take a simple country boy, which he was when he left, and put him in the middle of a desperate situation where death is a very real possibility at every moment, and things that are almost worse than death wait around the corner even closer than that. People wondered why they were so changed. Why they weren't the same happy young men who left. They were angrier, darker, had courser humor, nights where they couldn't sleep, times when they woke up screaming for "no reason", and bouts of depression that nothing seemed to be able to cure. And no one who wasn't there could understand, which frustrated those same young men all over again, as well as the people who loved them. Ed Sheeran did more than he knew, I think, when he wrote this song.

i see your professionalism left the room when Geoff opened his mouth thank you for your perfect reaction gentleman

He's got to finish the Hobbit trilogy and sing The Last Goodbye. He gets me in the feels every single time. And now I don't know whether to prepare for a Geoffquake or his tenor. Geesh, he could leave some talent for the rest of us. LOL Did you find the Easter egg? Hint: it's leaning against the rocks.

“Well Fuckin Excuse ME!!” lol YUP that’s how we all feel!!

I really want a "That's What Bilbo Baggins Hates" done by Voiceplay.

Hi guys! This was performed by Ed over the end credits for 'The Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug', the 2nd 'part' of the Hobbit trilogy..! I think this version is amazing and fits the theme so well! 😊This was the return of the characters from 'Misty Mountains Cold', using basically the same costumes, and Rick Underwood worked his magic using the same beards and hairpieces as before, and Eli programmed all the lighting changes!

He got the Dwarfs back together again. He was happy to get the same guys from Far Over The Misty Mountains Cold, and they just happened to be available. The shadow upon the ground is Smaug flying burning the Lake Town. He has his own studio/office in his home.

That is indeed the upstairs room in his house where he arranges and records. He usually hosts his chats from there so we’ve asked questions. Like what the blue light is for. (He just put it there because it looks cool.). There’s not as much sound proofing as you would think. At times his young son can be heard playing downstairs. I hope you intend to react to In The Air Tonight. Layne did a masterful arrangement, and for a change they recorded the video outside, complete with heat, lack of electricity (can we say looong extension cords), a smelly dumpster, bugs and gathering an audience that wanted to participate. 🌥️. I love your tangents!

Just letting you know... Geoff Castellucci premiered his new video "Unshaken" today at noon est. He brought back the 4 ghost riders from "Ghost Riders In the Sky" when they were alive. It is beautiful and epic.

He has a wonderful interview with the Charismaticvoice where they talk about his recording process and he shows around the room he is recording.

The military drum wasn't mainly used during battle; it was mainly used when marching from place to place. It was made mostly-obsolete by the widespread adoption of the jeep.

Thank you. You’re the first reactors that knew who the characters were😂

That first note (on the mountain BE-low) is an A flat 0 (On the 88 key keyboard, that is the 5th black key from the left). A few seconds later (KEEP watching over...) he hits an F1. That's the 6th white key from the left end 1 and a half notes lower than the A flat 0. The lowest I've heard from him is B0. On the 88 key keyboard, that is the second white key from the far left. Yes. That low. I've also heard that there ARE some who CAN go a tiny bit lower, but I haven't heard them. Geoff holds the B0 for 15 full seconds in the Valhalla Calling number.

The drummers, etc on the battle field in old times were actually crucial to the battles. They relayed commends to the troops and made sure that they reloaded and fired together. Their presence allowed men to fight as a unit, even when they couldn't see each other through the haze of the battlefield.

Ed Sheeran's version is played over the credits of Desolation of Smaug, not during the film. Geoff has a room in his house which is a studio, with lots of sound dampening and yes he does get close to the mic for the lowest notes. Geoff said that he'd got the Misty Mountain dwarves to come back for this, and they were all available! to do the filming. :) Same costumes and makeup. It was nice to hear rheir individual voices in this. Misty Mountains is worth seeing too. Very bassy. You make a good point about those drummers. :)

He has a studio in his home in Orlando, he has to turn off the air conditioning to record. Not fun in the summer. It was so much fun watching you react to this. Your face says it all. Hope you will react to Voiceplay's In the Air Tonight!

This is the best tangent episode of ANYTHING I have ever watched!! You guys are so amazing. Everything from music theory to pop culture to Tolkien lore to law cases to battle tactics to studio design! you are Renaissance Reactors!

"burninating the countryside!" (Loved the Trogdor reference in the intro) 😂

I prefer this version. ❤ Hit differently.