# Blue Man Group: My first taste

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-man-group-my-first-taste/502354>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 8, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-man-group-my-first-taste/502354 "2009-07-08T18:31:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-man-group-my-first-taste/502354/21 "2009-07-10T20:32:23Z")

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> [@Sean\_Factotum](#):
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> **Rik** if you poke around the internet a little more, you’ll find BMG doing The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” with Tracy Bonham singing and playing violin, from the NBC show “America’s Got talent” first season final episode. You should check it out

Is it [this one?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Y26JNd3g4)

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-man-group-my-first-taste/502354/22 "2009-07-10T21:07:34Z")

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I for one didn’t know that it was O’Riley despite owning that Who album for awhile, long enough to change the name of a character in a song cycle I was writing specifically so I could make a pun about Unix Regular Expressions, the O’Reilly series of computer books, And T.S. Eliots The Waste Land.

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**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-man-group-my-first-taste/502354/23 "2009-07-10T23:20:50Z")

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My company went to the Blue Man show in London for a Christmas office party. To be honest, I was bored out of my mind after about 45 minutes of esoteric drum play and the other vague and directionless stuff that they get up to. And there was a hell of a lot of drumming. The bit where rolls of paper cover the whole audience is good, though.

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**Author:** ![InkBlot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5e925/32.png) [@InkBlot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InkBlot)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-man-group-my-first-taste/502354/24 "2009-07-14T03:31:16Z")

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> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> Thanks. I _knew_ **inkblot** ’s assertion couldn’t be right. Unless I’d moved to a parallel universe, anyway.
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> Oh, and I like BMG too, seen em in Chicago twice now.

Well, _my_ brain certainly isn’t off the hook. Although I’m glad to see I didn’t make this up wholly out of the aether. Boy, I messed that anecdote up, big time.

My humblest apologies.

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**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-man-group-my-first-taste/502354/25 "2009-07-14T18:03:09Z")

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> [@Kolga](#):
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> Is it [this one?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Y26JNd3g4)

Not the specific clip I was talking about, but it’s the right song with the right vocalist. And at least we’re not calling it “Teenage Wasteland”.

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