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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You were wonderful at McCabe's tonight! I was tickled to get a chance to introduce my friend to all y'all, and I think you have another fan! Thanks for tackling "Title of the Song"! Love that tune!
speaking of "archival photos" - have any photos from the Gresham, OR Jazz Festival in the early 90s? If not, I think I have them somewhere...
That was my first Bobs live show after wearing out my cassette tapes of "The Bobs" and "Songs for Tomorrow Morning." Richard Bob signed my good friend's T-shirt across the...er... front.
If I remember correctly, it was also the same summer I saw Ray Charles live in concert, for the only time in my lifetime. 91 or 92.
Hey Kollegas, Wie geht..s denn so? Schöne grüße aus Hannover. Wir hoffen dir geht..s und wünschen dir einen schönen Restsommer mit unserer neuen cd "Das geht ja gar nicht". Außerdem vielen Dank für deinen Support und hoffentlich bis bald auf einem unserer Konzerte.
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