I got to see them live last year, and I have to say, i've seen about 8 bands live, ranging from ska to swing to punk, and by far they were my favorite live show i've ever seen. Gotta love the brass.
This is great! Love the band, love the song and the dancers are just off the friggin' hook good!! This was a match made in Heaven for everyone! Kids of my generation didn't grow up with swing, but we got it in our daily lives through cartoons like the Jetsons and the Flintstones among others. Listen to the theme music for those two shows, big band swing all the way, and damn good music! Who knew were were getting a music education too? BBVD has my vote too!
BBVD is great in person...I saw them at a free show at an outdoor mall in Marin County a couple years ago...it was fabulous! There were not as many players, but the sound was great...It is necessary to see them at some point in your concert-going efforts.
I'll be honest....hubby and I don't watch the show. But I saw this and clicked on it. BBVD is one our faves. Dancers were great, but the band is the best thing about this video.
@jennbode01 I look at today's kids who weren't there in the beginning and hear their "Ewwwww, BBVD is grooooossss. God, that's so old!" like they know something. The truth is those kids wouldn't BE here today - a huge percentage of today's newer dancers wouldn't - if it hadn't been for the first waves of Neo-Swing musicians and dancers to bring in the next wave. Yeah, it's not the kind of music we dance to now, but it was good for it's time, and it made some magic happen. Have a little respect.
Zerocraft, it's obvious you are under the age of 30yr/ld. What makes this band who they are is the power of their intention. Their purpose is to preserve the genius and work of a national treasure. To me they take a reciepe for success and make it their own.
fellas it dont matter whether u like BBVD more or less than other bands...point is that this is true music....not rap or hip hop today....celebrate and appreciate swing.
to ZErocraft> I can't hear like I use to, age is a matter I'm 59 /yrs. You can't compare apples to oranges, what you get is fruit. Big bad voodoo daddy wil never be cab and his orchestra. Imitation is the sincerest form of flatterly. BBVD is paying respect to the great One. Keep it simple youngster.
@jennbode01 You know, I've always thought that's a pretty snobbish position to have as a vintage swing dancer. I've been swing dancing for over 15 years, just before the Neo-Swing craze hit the U.S. hard. That phase brought in a lot of dancers who had never seen a dance floor befor, & a lot of talented, passionate people who ended up staying long enough to start researching the most authentic vintage dances & music and brought it to the community.
the Zerocraft, obvioualy you are under the age of 30 yr/ld. You miss the power of their intentention to preserve the work/genius of a national treasure. BBVD is like a chef who takes a treasured recipe and ads this or that and makes it their own.
@gumboy8 It's not about liking or disliking BBVD - I actually like them just fine - but this is not "Swing" as a music genre. It's not even Jump Blues, altho imo it's closer to that genre. It doesn't have the earmarks that marks it as "Swing" in the traditional sense. Most of all, it's too smooth, it doesn't have the same "conflict" in its "voice" that Swing has. It's very hard to mimic that "voice", even a lot of "old school" Big Bands these days are too smooth to do it correctly.
@jennbode01 Who doesn't have that respect that has even an iota of education about the dance and/or ? Hell, the respect is downright trendalicious right now. Ah, now my cynicism is showing, excuse me... What isn't trendalicious is paying attention to our recent past & how we have built upon it.
