Matthew Bob Stull
Richard Bob Greene
Amy Bob Engelhardt
Dan Bob Schumacher
Influences
The Beatles, Talking Heads, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, Monty Python, Manhattan Transfer, The Who, Duke Ellington, They Might Be Giants, Cream, J.S. Bach.
Vocal pyrotechnics, adventurous musicality, amazing arrangements, unusual covers, and strangely compelling original songs combine to form the unique stew (Bouilla-bobs?) that is the Bobs.
The band started 25 years ago in Berkeley, California and has gone on to release 13 albums, appear on the Emmy awards, tour with a dance company (which led to a PBS special and a video that was named to the Smithsonian Institution's permanent collection), write and perform cycles of songs about the weather, laundry, and pet turtles, serve as National Public Radio's musical commentators, and tour all over the U.S. and Europe.
Although the Bobs have always included cover songs in their concerts, their unique and warped originals (whose subjects include cats taking over the world, Cincinnati as an unlikely romantic weekend destination, the habit of naming body parts, spontaneous human combustion, and what it really means to adopt a highway -- not to mention a song made up entirely of bumper stickers or a Bach cello composition recast as a debate between Bach and his second wife about the financial difficulties of feeding 20 small children) have long been audience favorites.
The Bobs have also recently debuted Rhapsody in Bob, a unique take on Gershwin's classic "Rhapsody in Blue" with guest pianist Bob Malone and the Bobs singing the orchestral part. This song is the centerpiece of their new album (also called Rhapsody in Bob) and their fine-arts show that has been touring the U.S. since premiering at Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts in 2005.
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hello all you Bobs! i was just at your Santa Cruz show a mere hour and a halfish ago, and i am so glad that i made a point to see you! all of your harmonies rang so well and all of your antics made the music as alive as ever [even though you shouldn't let Amy and Dan stand too long next to each other.... bantering fools;)]. i was REALLY hoping to hear "Psycho Killer," but "Boy Around the Corner" and your closer "Through the Wall" well made up for it;) so stoked that i was finally able to make a show after being so fascinated that one time sooooo many years ago ~ long live The Bobs [me: "i am so glad that you kept it together and are still performing after all these years. " Matthew Bob: "after all those years, what else am i supposed to do?"]!!!!
My dad introduced me to your band back when I was in my teens. Never really listened to you until a few nights ago when my dad got in his 'Sign my snarling movie' dvd. I'm so addicted now, lol. You guys need to come to Colorado!
Thanks for the add! I saw you perform in Carbondale at the Shryock Auditorium, and it was great! I'm the little fat kid in the wheelchair that you met in the lobby after the show!
Please let us know when you're coming back through the area. I eould love to see you guys again.
Wow you are all great friends! that's good music. keep in touch and i hope you will come over to Italy where i sing now. kiss Edith your Dutch friend from Amsterdam
Hey I found you guys on Youtube singing Helter Skelter and I was so impressed I had find you on myspace. I bet your band practices are awesome! :) Love you guys. :)
Hey, I didn't get to the show in Binghamton (White Eagle Cafe) - I was busy with my wife's hysterectomy and subsequent attempt to hemorrhage out the next day. She's doing well now but the whole thing took away all thoughts of concerts and help promoting the show.
Figures, the one time I *know* you are in my neck of the woods, life smacks me in the head with a cold fish.
Hey guys! Oh man I LOVE the title track Get Your Monkey Off My Dog! One of my new fav Bobs tracks. I also heard the sampler, great mix of styles and fantastic arrangements as usual. Can't wait to hear the rest. Way to go Bobs! Hey Amy Bob!
Thanks for a great show in Berkeley last night - my first Bobs show in ~10 years! And thanks for signing CDs for my nieces and nephews...here's to the next generation of Bobs fans!
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