South Park – Chef Aid

November 3rd, 1998 § comments 0

I had the unbelievable pleasure of working on the first South Park album, Chef Aid. Produced by Rick Rubin, I played drums in the DVDA band along with Matt Stone on bass, Trey Parker on Keyboards and vocals, Bruce Howell on guitar, and Isaac Hayes as “Chef”. The most memorable part of the session (for me) was when Rick Rubin told me to play more cymbal crashes in the middle of the crazy drum fills on Come Sail Away. Brilliant!

Here are a couple samples.

Cartman singing “Come Sail Away”

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Chef & Meatloaf singing “Tonight Is Right For Love”

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Chef singing “No Substitute”

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I miss my lung, Bob

August 4th, 1998 § comments 0

Digging through some old files and found this anti-smoking billboard I worked on in 1998 at Asher & Partners. We covered the entire state of California with these boards, and they won just about every advertising award on the planet. The various “Bob” billboards were reproduced in nearly every language on the planet. Just try doing a google search of “I miss my lung, Bob” to see what I mean.

“Bob, I’ve got emphysema” is used in the book Making the News: A Guide for Activists and Nonprofits to define a newly coined term “KILLBOARD – A billboard that parodies an existing advertisement in order to mock or subvert the ad’s message.”

Here’s a whole bunch of anti-smoking ads that I worked on from that time period. Do you remember the impact of these billboards?

Nels Dielman – Official Website

November 15th, 1997 § comments 0

Official website of art director and drummer, Nels Dielman (aka “nelsdrums”). Please click here for more information. http://nelsdrums.com

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