Tigershire’s Vancouver Convention Report – Day Two

Salute to Supernatural Vancouver 2010 – Day 2

OK, another lesson learned.  If you are only going to get 4 hours of sleep (well, not quite but close) then there is a definite advantage to staying in the same hotel as the event.  Fredric Lehne’s panel started at 9:25am.  I missed the first 2 minutes.  Sigh.

When I sat down Fredric was asking who had attended Jason Manns’ concert the previous night.  He told us that Los Dos Diablos was his idea.  He called Richard Speight and suggested it to him, to see if he would be interested because, he wasn’t going to tote his guitar on the plane unless he needed to (and I totally get that, why bring extra baggage if you don’t have to) and thus the musical interlude was planned.

So what happens?  To Fredric’s dismay, a few minutes into their song the G string of his guitar breaks.  It was enough to totally throw him off track.  He said, while he was desperately trying to figure out in his head, how to migrate from G to the next note – he missed a complete verse of the song.  I don’t think any of us in the audience were any wiser, but he said he was so embarrassed.  (It’s OK Fred, we thought you were great).

What that did, however, was allow him to talk about how his “G-String” broke on stage.  One poor soul got up to ask a question but also felt compelled to explain that g-string was also what folks called a certain type of underwear.  I guess they just couldn’t tell that we all knew that already and was the reason why we were laughing so hard.  Hee hee, no harm done.

Next up was Rob Benedict.  I don’t know if it is just the way Rob is, or if he was putting a bit of “Chuck” into his Q&A, but he has the same sort of vibe.  Which surprised me a bit, really, because being in a band, you would think he is used to performing in front of a crowd.  Although, in his defence, I’m sure a crowd to listen to music is NOTHING like the Supernatural Fandom.  GRIN.  He talked about the episode “The Real Ghostbusters” and how they ran all those lines at the end and that, I believe he said, they were all written by Eric Kripke.  None were ad libbed by him (but I could be remembering wrong, so don’t quote me).  

He also said (and I believe he mentioned this at another con, or in an interview) that he was more nervous doing the fake convention for the episode than he was coming to the real conventions.  

Of course, he was asked about the whole Chuck/God thing.  He said it was kind of funny because he didn’t really get it from the script, but when he got to Vancouver to shoot the episode, the crew were all like, “so, your God huh.” which kind of took him by surprise.  However, he really likes how Kripke left it ambiguous.

(To read the rest, including details from the panels of Matt Cohen, Clif Klosterman, Samantha Smith, Misha Collins, Demore Barnes and Russ Hamilton, go to Tigershire’s blog:  

http://tigershire.blogspot.com/2010/09/salute-to-supernatural-vancouver-2010_13.html)