Question about Peter Laird
 

So my dads boss is lin a famous bluegrass band and my dad gets to tour with him all the time. While on tour this month my dad had lunch with his boss, the band, and a few of their friends and one of the friends turned out to be Peter Laird. My dad has seen him with them a few times before but never really got to talk to him. My dad described him spot on from the voice, glasses and that he was shorter than most of them, but my dad called him Bob. Keep in mind my dad knows nothing about TMNT except that I love them so I dont know if that was a mistake on his part from forgetting the name and trying to remember, or if maybe one of the guys there introduced him as Bob.

I was just wondering if PL has ever gone by that name on any projects or if maybe it was an inside joke so that no one would know who he was. All i know is that my dad didnt directly talk with him and that when he left his boss told him "he was one of the creators of Ninja Turtles" and one of the friends traded autographed copy of their cd for an autographed turtles poster.

sorry for such a long story before the actual question :tanime:

I don't know the answer to your question, but having lunch with PL sounds really cool.

yeah my dad was really excited to tell me, and hes gonna see about his boss introducing them nex time :)

OMG Peter just mentioned this post on his blog, and he said it wasn't him.
http://peterlairdstmntblog.blogspot....12/08/bob.html

great now my family looks like a bunch of dicks lol i guess the guy my dad was talking about must not know what the hell he was talking about

Famous for being lied to... I'd be pissed if I were you.

I am pissed. Now im really embarassed because PL even said it wasnt him, so i know its not like it was any mistake. He did this before when I was really into the band Owl City, he said the tour bus driver was going to hook us up with meeting him....that was 5 years ago. I dont know if i should ask him why he lied or not, considering our relationship just started to get closer and better after my parents divorce.

Could be that your dad was being goofed on. I could just imagine something like this happening:
DAD'S BOSS: Hey, Bob. I'll bet you $20 bucks I can trick someone into thinking you're that Ninja Turtles guy.
BOB: You're on.
DAD'S BOSS: Hey, CaseyJonesFan's dad! Come here for a minute...

Man don't be upset, think of it as cool that Peter Laird is out there and aware of all of his fan's to the point where he will take the time out of his day to acknowledge it.

As for your Dad, cut him some slack, he's trying to take an interest in the things that you like and care about. Yes he could be doing it in a better way, but at least he's trying.

The best part of all of this is that when that day comes when you finally do meet Peter Laird... You can call him Bob and hopefully have a nice laugh over it.

lol thats true it could have been like that, his boss his a jokester from what my parents have said.

Thats true but I still dont get why he lied about it.
haha hopefully he will laugh, otherwise id feel terrible if i called him bob lol. I just dont want people or Peter thinking Im a lier and making it up to get recognized ya know?

Say it like Tony Jay. :P

haha thanks :P what do you mean about April drawing? sorry just confused

in the mirage comics it was revealed that april was a living drawing.

Because no one likes a sensible backstory, apparently.

Yes because a drawing brought to life by a magic pencil is so sensible. :roll:

She was still raised as a normal human since a baby though. She wasn't "given birth" to though.

Facepalm tiem now?

That's what I meant, dude. The story is ridiculous, even by TMNT standards of strangeness. I was saying they gave her that origin, because apparently, no one at Mirage wanted her to have a sensible backstory.

Sorry Genesis, but I have to agree I thought you were saying April as Magic Pencil Baby #3 was sensible as backstory.

Thank you for the clarification!

huh?! when was this revealed? i've never heard of such a thing.


i think your dad just got duped by his bandmates.

It's not really that bad of a development and the story is told well, but try telling that to the change-fearing freaks..erm, I mean "fans".

It was a Volume 4 issue. Personally, I don't see what's so bad about it.

I think it had to do with the stupidity of the whole thing, Gobo.

If nothing else, I learned an important lesson: do "Google Alert."

Laird is being rather a good sport about the matter, and does this mean a new Turtle-related meme with "Bob" is born? I sincerely hope so.

LOL
http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/...rd-eastman.jpg

At the signing at Shellback Artworks this past weekend I took the time to call him Bob. He was in the middle of signing my book when I did it and he just stopped and looked at me then smiled and made a joke. Some of the other guys had a good laugh too. Definitely worth saying once.

Well we know how to get Peter Laird's attention now! Just create a new topic with his name in the title and boom.... Google Alert! :D

I'm guessing you don't remember the joke he made.

Did he make a joke? I didn't read the whole blog entry. :P

Yes, well... I didn't expect you to remember, Green Machine.

Honestly between Peter and Dooney racing to see who could finish a Fugitoid Head Sketch first, the constant jibes at Jim Lawson about him drawing full turtle sketches and not just heads, Mike Dooney drawing a head sketch, signing it Lawson and offering it for the price of $1,000,000 before dropping it to the far more reasonable $673 while assuring those assembled that the value would be intact despite the almost 150,000% drop in price, and the constant power outages. There was too much going on for me to remember it exactly because it was how I started the day

lol wish i coulda been there

Resurrecting this horrible old thread just to say that eight years later I finally got proper closure on the "Peter Laird going by Bob" question I asked and figured I would share. After years of this terribly stupid question being asked, a couple good jokes being made amongst fans, feeling embarassed, and even Peter commenting on his blog about it, I finally got my answer.

To those who weren't around, basically in 2012 my dad had told me he had lunch with the creator of TMNT and that his name was Bob. He described his as short and bald which made me assume out of Kevin and Peter he had to be talking about Peter. Long story short, it wasn't Peter and I was left feeling like an ass and completely embarassed.

Fast forward to a few hours ago, I swung by my dad's place for a very brief visit and as soon as I got out of my car he was very excited and had to tell me all about how he had recently received a Facebook friend request from his friend Bobby who helped create TMNT. My first insinct was 'oh boy, this will be interesting'. He pulled up Facebook and showed me the video that 'Bobby' had recently posted. The video I was shown was a short clip of Bobby Herbeck talking about the 30th Anniversary cou ntdown for the 1990 TMNT movie.

So after all these years of questioning what the heck my dad was talking about, I got closure that my dad didn't have lunch with Peter Laird, he had lunch his friend Bobby Herbeck. And while he didn't help create TMNT, he is responsible for the story and script for the original movie.

Well, this is a cool plot twist.

That's incredible, & very cool!

Good ending to the story and actually pretty cool! I think I missed this thread in 2012. Must feel good to solve an 8-year-old question.

I really miss checking out Peter Laird's blog and reading Volume 4.

As do I. But, as they say, all good things ...