Wally Burr

So I was ...

I came in later, and it was just me, and Wally, and the sound engineer, and some, uh, fr- uh, folks from, um, from the studio.

So I, it ...

You know, and I didn't have that many lines really.

[laughs]

Um, but yeah, it's-

There ain't no session like a Wally Burr session, baby.

Oh, please.

Just take the hyperlink through the TF Wiki, uh, on the Ed Frugé, Fruge page.

One other note about 81, we talked about Wally Burr a lot.

Mm-hmm.

And, um-

[laughs] Yeah.

Uh, you had Sea Spray in a PSA, and Thundercracker in War Dawn.

So he, uh, if you want to hear Wally Burr's actual voice, you could, uh, check those episodes out.

Yeah.

He would come into the office every morning, bleary-eyed from being up all night, pouring over the storyboards and he was very specific about what he wanted there's loads of artists on this this production that really try really hard to do a good job and it's great to hear and yeah but they all have imagine an entire amazing voice cast giving their opinion on this guy it's brilliant to hear

Wally Burr on the movie, of course, he was a director, and he was a dynamite director.

He was one of the first directors I've ever worked with.

Wally Burr, who really was the man on the other side of the glass with the storyboard in front of him, who knew the overall picture.

He was a firm taskmaster, but he knew what he wanted.

He was probably the most conscientious, most prepared, or one of the most conscientious and prepared directors I ever worked with.

great absolutely love it you know that's absolutely beautiful you know do you remember your very first voice session the audition yeah yeah

wally burr yeah with wally burr for the littles

everybody and

andy hayward was there yeah wally was well it was the man he was like the gay keeper dude And he was a harsh director too.

a kid.

She had this, and they were so, you know, Andy Hayward and Marsha Goodman were very good at speaking my language.

They were very good at explaining things to me and as was Wally Burr.

But those two, I remember succinctly being very, I never had to, I knew exactly what they meant when they said it.

Watch this.

Wally Burr, he would, of course, slate each take.

He'd say, this is line 34, take one.

And Mr.

Like, there

is, like, Wally Burr, who was, like, the voice director for Black Transformers, and this included.

He just didn't quite know what to do, like, you know, with Orson Welles.

Like, I've worked with some names, but this is Orson Welles.

Like you can't hear Frank Welker or John Stevenson or how rail or Michael Bell, who voices two of the three insecticons.

My point being like, even with like this, this weird weak, vocal texture and tone i i don't know if this is just wally burr in a booth or if he just grabbed whoever was available i don't know who is saying these lines but for my ear for 40 years it's never been these guys Likewise, this might be Bud Davis as Durge as he's ushering these damaged Decepticons out.

Unfortunately, I don't have the strongest ear for voices and I feel like I miss stuff all the time.

But I do remember this caused a great deal of controversy.

Now, I have seen multiple versions of this movie with captions and subtitles, and I've listened to it in headphones, all of these things over the years, and I don't hear it.

There is some kind of word that precedes don't because first it's like, you know, get make room for others, which incidentally, I didn't know that that was the line either until I heard a podcast go through the scripts that since been corroborated by my watching this with subtitles and closed captioning on it.

But even then, for as clean and as exacting as Wally Burr's voice directing is here, this sequence has some really messy stuff in it.

You're not sure who's speaking, and in some instances, you're not even sure what they're saying.