Saw the BMG play in NYC, London, Las Vagas and Mexico City. Had a ball each time. 

 phlattop wrote:

It's still going in NYC!  I was in the balcony and right at the end of the show they went out into the audience, one of them climbed up into the balcony, stood on my armrests and pointed overhead.  Toilet paper.  Everyone who had rolls of toilet paper overhead started unrolling them.  The auditorium became filled with toilet paper.  So much fun!

Bill -- play Freebird!

I've seen Blue Man Group twice. One with my wife, and once with my children. They loved it. It truly is an outstanding show for the whole family.

more cowbell! 

 photolew wrote:


sadly... yea.

 forthbrdge wrote:

They started in NYC around 1990. Still performing nightly there, I think.  A great and witty show.

A  decent franchise (I guess) but not a band.

Wow.

 jp33442 wrote: ... but he does it in a shorter time!

 CCSandman wrote:


I'm hearin more Dukes of Hazard but then my seeing hearing aid dog is deaf

Sounds like the Knight Rider theme, no?

 Alastair wrote:

I guess you had to be there...

 BBoyes wrote:

My fiancé and I saw them around the same time, right after they started shows at the Briar Street Theater in Chicago, probably about 25 years ago. I noticed BMG still plays at the same theater, so they must be doing something right. 

needs more drums

 In a word. Bangin'

 Alastair wrote: Sounds like a lot of your posts

Starts well.  Goes nowhere

This group is best experienced live. Saw them in Chicago years ago; we walked there in the beginnings of a snow storm and walked home in over a foot of snow. Our whole family enjoyed the show.  It's cool performance art such as live drumming while fluorescent paint pours on the drums. Yeah they make a big mess. Great fun. Airports were closed the next day. So it's a standout memory.

Love it show when I saw them in Vegas and music is fun.
Great Tuesday afternoon at work

 photolew wrote:
it's a dreary day, decided to cook. repetitive prep so this is working for me.

a really great and fun show if you get a chance. Saw it 3 times back in the 90s and the 2nd and 3rd times were almost as good as the first (which had the element of surprise in the pre-internet age).

does this ever end.

Well, more discussion.

Ah yes. $105 for an evening of poop jokes.

 lizardking wrote:
 

Just so, lizardking!

 aaronm wrote:
 

.....  and they're blue.

 Jelani wrote:
 
I had this one rated at 6 and based on it following the Delgres tune "Lanme La" I'm bumping this to a 7...it fit the mix and I like it more as a result.  Long Live RP and BillG's segue skills!

Maybe it works on stage, but as a strictly aural experience, I"m not digging it.

 eastcoast wrote:
 
If I had to hazard a guess, it'd be because they're a group, and they've released musical albums.

 cattail321 wrote:
 
Overuse of emoji's and poor punctuation. Your post is illegible. I'm going to vomit. 

We need to hear some of the  'The Complex" album. Far superior to this album.

The Blue Man Group, touted as Theater for People Who Don't Like Theater. I agree.Here they are doing music...........ostensibly for People Who Don't Like Music. What's next?

 eastcoast wrote: 
Because they released an audio recording.

 FlatCat wrote: 

No I saw the same show 4 weeks ago, but where you “couldn't get into it“ it I loved it!

I recently watched a YouTube video of Fred Armison from SNL/Portlandia fame saying that he used to be the drummer for this group. I wonder if that's him drumming on this track?

are they really musicians? I always thought they were like the partridge family

Take me for a night of operation mindcrime in New-York. Irresistibly 9.

............once is enough!!!!!!!!.......me thinks~hi....yeah,I saw/or heard the blueMangroup....great show ,,,oughta see it next time ur in Vegas.....yeah...still have that headache.........................,,,,...next year it'll be Ron Bushy playing The drum solo from In-a-gadda-da-vida.24/7  ....wow.....god  , I love that song................ok   catch ya later dude!!!!

 Pyro wrote:




Yes, I did see the show. Several years ago in Chicago. Sorry, but I couldn't get into it. Barf-like pap coming out of tubes in their chests, the fake bit of sticking a camera down the throat of a member of the audience. Covering the audience with toilet paper at the end of the show. And the wide-eyed look of arch wonderment at all these silly tricks got old about 15 minutes in. The drums covered with paint and lit from below were cool, as was the xylophone thingee made of pipes, but not much else. Maybe they have gotten more sophisticated of late. 

 Vegas Stage Act !

slates13 wrote: great for jogging though!

Reminds me of the Miami Vice theme for some reason.....

FlatCat wrote: Have you ever seen them live? If so, you must've seen a different tour than I did. They were funny, sarcastic, tongue in cheek, and dry witted. There were no barf jokes (although they do "include" the audience using toilet paper). If you haven't seen them live, don't judge their show. Certainly you have a right to rate this any way you like. It's no grammy winner.

Pyro wrote: OMG! Its Papa Smurf! Ed. Similar minds etc...

Pyro wrote: It's Papa Smurf!

Nice groove. I like it.

As long as I don't picture the dudes in blue and just listen to the music.... it is quite likeable.

Krow_Pie wrote: Well, it IS Radio Paradise. Sometimes, you just don't know what's coming next, do you? Take the bad with the good; good usually wins out.

I never get tired of listening to this! Makes me want to move and groove.

It seems to get a bit redundant. At first, like the first 2 minutes, I thought it was pretty cool. Intense back beat. Then it just goes on and on like the Energizer Bunny!

"Young man, can you tell me how to get to the Briar Street Theate?" "I'm sorry,I don't know. I'm not from here . . . " "Well for Christ's sake!" "I'm sorry lady, I'm not from here!" "Well?!"

So ponderous. The drumming is heavy-handed and joyless. And their show is juvenile. Barf jokes and toilet paper. Other than that, it's great. I give it a 2.

A REAL blue man (on Oprah today).

Tracks like this make me realize just how crappy my computer's speakers are.

diazo wrote: YES! I can't think of the Blue Man Group without thinking of Blue David Cross!

i think these guys liked the theme song to knight rider a little too much as kids.

Saw an article (last year...?) that one of the BMGs had gone co-ed with at least one female player. Penn (of Penn & Teller) may have been the first one to suggest years ago to the original group that they could franchise (which Penn & Teller obviously can't). I have the album, enjoy the occasional tune when it rotates in, like this one, but get kinda bored listening to the whole thing in one go.

Looks like Dec. 18 was the last time you played this piece of music. It's OK by me. Some people had an idea. It helped pay the rent. It blossomed into something greater then themselves. They capitalized on it. American Dream, right?

Saw the show and loved it. Absolutely original, nothing like it at all. Strongly recommend it to everyone here.

Jester wrote: That's 'cause your ears are full of blue paint!

Is this really being played? Or is this a cruel joke?

three- hun-dred six-ty- five de-grees.... BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE!!!!

Love these guys, Seen their Boston Show Twice!!

and why are they concidered a musical group?

Listening without knowing who it was, i thought it was ok. BUT KNOWING ITS THESE KISS WANNABES, i give it a 4.

I have yet to hear anything distasteful to my ear from the Blue Man Group!

Shesdifferent wrote: Yes!

Aidlard wrote: if it was in vegas.. I will take the kudos for a part of the light/sound :-)

Took my daughter to see these guys live, they put on one hell of a show! Great light show, great percussion, great stage show!

radioparadisehead wrote: B4 i took a corporate America sell out job I did sound and lighting with group 4 on tour.. I guarantee you all of these guys have more musical talent in their pinky finger than ANY of us could even come close to...

smdeeg wrote: Agreed.

They should stick to selling computer chips.

V -> IV ... repeat endlessly and jam on it. Cool to jam on, but to listen to, nah...

boring stuff without the show.

dmax wrote: Wow. What a patently thoughtless statement. Bag on the Blue Man concept if you want, but give me a break on the pseudo-intellectual tripe. They're actors doing a show. Some of the shows are on tour. Shocking. Unless of course the whole idea of Theater seems lifeless and soulless to you in which case you have my sympathy. As for the music … on its own meh. Nothing great. Very appropriate for the show though.

Wow. All that on a garbage can. Impressive.

Fun to watch, but to listen to without seeing? I dunno... I'll have to come back to this.

Man do I hate these pretentious Smurf Mimes!!! No more please!!!

Wow, had to look to see who this was...of course who else? High energy!

electronicshaman wrote: +1 More Brant than Alfredo

dmax wrote: I couldn't agree more! I never understood their appeal?

that drumming reminds me of Kyuss

dmax wrote: You grow old...you grow old. You shall wear your trousers rolled.

bokey wrote: I really shouldn't be laughing at this, but I can't help it! Anyway, I like this groove.

dmax wrote: Your evocative image made me chuckle... but still, I think it's valuable to remember that it is individual humans who create the stuff we may revile as too pop, commercial, etc. Meditating on that helps me feel less like a consumer tool of some faceless and threatening central source...

Fu Man Choup

squidish wrote: There's more than one? Wow. That's surprising. But not as shocking as when I was a kid and found out there was more than one Bozo the Clown. That really messed me up for a while.

Wouldn't want to listen to this all the time, but every now and then here is just fine.

perhaps for the same reason that we can (relatively) anonymously post our opinions in song forums, not caring who reads them or how it may affect them when they do. dmax wrote:

Ugh.

Chinju wrote: Strictly speaking, you can't know if the loop will terminate.

If you've never seen these guys perfom, then you really can't judge it. They do a very entertaining show that is variety, comedy, music and clever sets, instruments, and lighting. Very creative, some fantastic musicians backing them up, and a great time to be had. That said, this is probably boring to someone who has never seen them. They're coming here in February, so I'll get a second chance to see them!

Why, why, why, do I like this so, SO much? Find it amazinging catchy.

Chinju wrote:

vandal wrote: Put Turing Machine in rotation, and there's always the unfortunate chance you could end up in an infinite loop...

funny how this tune turns up in modest rotation but RP refuses to play any Turing Machine. . . cowards

these are some drums!

squidish wrote: Is this DQ?

The beginning almost sounds like the Smiths. Then it degrades into this. The times they are a changin.

squidish wrote: Apparently in Toronto you can beat it...(click here)

pope183 wrote: Christ, another one! Is some anti-BMG cult opening it's doors to the public suddenly? Get a clue and go see the show. You clearly haven't any idea what you're talking about.

pope183 wrote: "Ripped off"?? Which show did you go to see? The three I saw were fairly original. You could take any artist and find similarities with another. I don't think 'ripped off' is the appropriate term tho.

I wonder if it's hot and sweaty under those blue latex headcovers.

Okay, so does this mean that some obscure Brazillian artist which you are so exquisitely cultured as to be familiar with now holds an exclusive license on the use of PVC instruments? Get off your high horse and enjoy the music.

Does anyone know how many Blue Man Groups there are? I know of Boston,NYC, Las Vegas...are there others? You can't beat a theatrical experience that makes you laugh, think, and jump around waving paper streamers!

pope183 wrote: Gonna assume you're joking here, since the picture and description apply not to BMG, but rather a certain crazy comedian...

Seen at KB Toys last week: a BMG-branded kid's synthesizer. The fake PVC pipes have little photodiodes in them, so that when you hand covers it as you hit it, the appropriate tube sound is made. It also has some sort of iPod dock, but I think it's just so you can play along with a song on your iPod.

-= Prop Music =- Blue Man Group is most noted for wielding the trademark Sledge-O-Matic. they shower audiences with the pulverized remains of apples, orange, lettuce, cottage cheese, pound cakes, Big Macs and of course,terribly generic music. No show can end without the Watermelon Finale. Show-goers turn up already wearing plastic raincoats, goggles, sunglasses, umbrellas and windshield wipers and refer to the front of the theater as Death Row.

rocket_drummer wrote: the folks that BMG ripped off ? perhaps ? Uakti (WAHK-chee) is a Brazilian instrumental musical group, whose members are Marco AntÎnio Guimarães, Artur Andrés Ribeiro, Paulo Sérgio Santos, and Décio Ramos. Uakti is known for using original musical instruments, built by the group itself. In the period between 1981 and 1987 they established themselves in Brazil. The group's leader, Marco AntÎnio Guimarães, studied music at the Universidade Federal da Bahia in Salvador. There he met and took classes with Walter Smetak, who passed on to him his passion for constructing musical instruments. In the years following his training, Marco AntÎnio played cello with the São Paulo and Minas Gerais symphony orchestras. During the same period he constructed, in the basement of his house, various instruments out of PVC, wood, and metal. In order to have musicians to play these instruments, in 1978 Guimarães had the idea of bringing together some of his colleagues from the Orquestra SinfÎnica de Belo Horizonte, to meet at the Foundation for Artistic Education of Belo Horizonte. Various musicians took part; among them were the percussionists Paulo Sérgio Santos and Décio de Souza Ramos, the flutist Artur Andrés Ribeiro, and the cellist Cláudio Luz do Val. These musicians learned how to play the instruments, and the group Uakti was formed. Marco AntÎnio Guimarães became the principal composer and arranger, although all the participants frequently contributed their own compositions. The group's first recording was of their participation in the soundtrack of the 1979 film Cabaré Minei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uakti_%28band%29 (click here)