Oingo Boingo Live At The Ritz 1985, NOT 1987 (Reupload) [Best Quality] 

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NICE I want to marry the lead singer 👨‍🎤 🎤 🎶

@@sombody4009 , 💋

@@bebeysmael1. He's married to Bridget Fonda.

I will steal your memories

Jealous af. Especially because I live in another country in different time(

I mean just look at him go to town on that Glochenspiel.

John Avila - he is amazing.

@@speshojk1 I bought a Xylophone, and all of a sudden I'm seeing "Glochenspiel" in numerous places. Nice.

he's my favorite member!

He’s a damn nice guy too. Good friend of my family

And Danny throwing in every vocal quirk in Weird Science. Dude was amazing, and the band was tight as f**k.

What you are watching my friend, are 8 members of the original members of the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo out of LA led by Danny's brother Richard. Richard leaves, Danny is now lead singer and songwriter and he and the 7 members with him on stage become what is known as a ska-new wave Rock N' Roll BAND, Oingo Boingo! Band is the key word here. These are REAL Artist not performers! Danny writes, produces, and performs HIS songs!!! It doesn't take nineteen writers and 6 producers. like what we have today! This is REAL music at it's best!

@@dennisjashenskijr1546 Indeed. Not many people alive today understand what Oingo Boingo actually was: a rock band made from the zombified corpse of a theatre troop. All of these people are exceptionally skilled in multiple ways. They could move, they could play, they could sing; they had flare, they had style, they had synchronicity. This was like bringing an army to an anthill: rock music had no idea what hit it.

Back when stars were truly talented and not manufactured celebrities.

I've seen them 4 times EPIC everytime

Envious of this, but I was born in 1985.

Yup, by 1985 they were on their 4th album, so yeah, they had hours of music - no doubt

@@paulMETLHED envious of this but i was born in 2005 ,, lol

So incredibly real of you. Gratitude is one of my favorites

YOU GUYS ARE JUST LIKE ME

help i cant stop thinking about this comment and its been days

I feel so seen by this comment 😂

Idk but the drum mix was way off tbh, obviously a result of it being a concert performance, but it makes it sound strange

I think it's not so amazing. Boingo tunes are cinematic And Danny Elfman was the band leader When He scored Tim Burton Batman It was a natural ✌️

The xylophone mastery gives it away…

Amazing. One of the few recorded live performances I prefer over the studio version. Outstanding

Met him at a radio station prior to a show, he was the nicest guy! They all were!

He’s a beast! Incredible bass lines, background vocals, performance

Yeah the bassist is awesome!

Fantastic!!

Bro is SO in the cut with every part he’s playing. He’s also managing to sing all of his parts at the same time. People don’t realize how difficult that can be with bass parts like what he played.

Everybody wang chung tonight…

WOW! I what an amazing experience!!

Unmatched talent. He has his hand in everything.

I'm a very late to the party Oingo Boingo fan who had a difficult time believing Wang Chung was good back in the 80's too. I like the soundtrack to the movie To Live and Die in LA but never gave Wang Chung much of a serious listen. So, I ask, is Wang Chung good live like Oingo Boingo?

@@user-mu9cw8xe4r nope, not so much 😉

Genius

I mean he made the simpsons theme song, Batman theme song, and just performed at Coachella. Dude only escalated to god level..

I just saw him last night. Bless this man!

bruh there was a lot of good bands in the 80s today they are gods

@@FOREVERGREEN_MUSIC oingo boingo was like danny charging up his battery before progressing to musical godhood

It is the best for solo dance parties. (Probably with other people but I wouldn't know from experience haha).

@@aubrey756 reminds me of my friends comment at the beginning of the pandemic: "Social distancing? I've been doing that all my life."

seriously

I put it on twice a week at work for a year now.

I realize it

Pretty sure people realize it, hence why they have fans

I think people in the know realize it, but the general music fans, not so much. When bands get this good they make complex music sound easy. Yes, the underlying complexity has its attraction, but most don't realize that's part of what' pulling them in. In the end it's easy level and smile giving melodies they latch onto.

@@craigjohnson4302 why does it matter? Arbitrary opinion is what sells best, who cares if people do or don’t understand the complexity. If you enjoy the music you enjoy it, doesn’t matter how well you do or don’t understand it. Most people that listen to music don’t know anything about it. Just like how most people who watch movies, look at paintings, architecture, etc. don’t know anything about it. The beauty of anything that is intrinsically art related is that you don’t have to understand it to enjoy it. So if you understand the complexity of it… cool. It’s not bad that people don’t

@@sooeycune895 Thank you! You just made my point while contradicting your original reply. My original comment was mostly giving accolades to Oingo Boingo's musical mastery! Geez...

i believe i read in an interview with john that he said he naturally has a lot of energy, and that combined with lots of adrenaline is why he always seems so pumped up in their shows

I watched an interview w/Danny, from what he was saying that he hated doing all the crazy stuff he did all the novies and going on the Gong Show. But all that got him where he is today. Always loved their music amazing musicianship. Thanks Oingo Boingo and making my teen years a pleasure to be alive..

@@torineg.847 What interview was it?

And Sluggo never smiles

@@torineg.847 Can well imagine. It's obviously a persona of a generally shyish person.

secret guilty pleasure, I make the screen as big as I can, turn it up full blast and watch his start this song, amazing and then Danny takes off.........amazing, so happy we still have this to come back to. memories are made of this.....thank you.

I love Danny Elfman too.

Nah, Danny didn't want to be "gotten". He's the reason they stopped.

Damn, I bet! They look fantastic performing here. I'm jealous you got to see them.

unfortunately he did change. he is still amazing and he just became more miraculously more of a genius but Oingo Boingo still lives in my💕❣💚❤ @@Zeta9966

Killer lineup!! 🤘🏽

Damn…

Maravilhoso 🗣️🗣️🗣️

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I'm missing the earlier songs here in this one, the Only a Lad EP, Ain't This the Life. This stuff was more commercial. But I love the energy of this show.

He's hot! 🔥

What about coachella 2022? Ya know where he took off his shirt???

i wish i could have been there

saw them a bunch of times 84-87....one of the tightest, best live acts ever.

Saw them in Pasadena as kid. First concert I ever went to, and hands down the best.

you're very welcome!

exactly haha

did they though?

@@akawojo Look for recordings of The John Williams Trio -- he had a jazz group.

Lol!

Or that he was so short.

Have you met him??

Agree. Complete genius.

Saw them live at Universal Amphitheater and Irvine Meadows. Probably the best live performers there is. Their live music is really close to their recorded music, that's how good they were. Their Halloween concerts were just an awesome experience! I so wish Danny would agree to do a reunion tour but that's not going to happen unfortunately.

Saw them at UCSB in 1980 in the Thunderdome. I was impressed how tight the group was, despite so many members. (They opened for The Police)

Hit the Halloween shows three years in a row. Awesome time n Party!

I saw something on TV about bridget fonda last night and found this, I couldn't sleep all night, this concert kept running through my head! It's A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. I was only 10 so they were a bit before my time, but I wish I had been at this concert

The freaking best!!!

I do. Saw them twice in L.A. California Around the same year maybe 1984 or 83

I do now. Didn't before watching this! I lived in ignorance.

I was 14 in San Diego CA when Only a Lad came out in 1981. Oingo Boingo was huge.

I was like a year old when they did this but now that I discovered them I am in love.

My brother attended all of those Halloween shows. They were the best performances of any band he saw before or since.

same here mike.

Dang. How epic that would've been.

I only discovered Oingo Boingo recently after finding out Kurt Cobain liked them too and if they were good enough for him they're definitley good enough for me!

I figured it out, that drum sound is enhanced by a sound effect created by the keyboard player.

It looks like he might be hitting the bass drum mallet on a microphone instead of a bass drum, too.

His drums have triggers in them and the kick pedal is hitting an electric trigger that's all hooked up to samples.

It sounds like they may have used the sound off the mixing board, instead of just the camera mics or something equally-basic which is usually responsible for the weaker sounds you've heard elsewhere.

Truth

Saw them at UCSB in 1980 in the Thunderdome. I was impressed how tight the group was, despite so many members. (They opened for The Police (with Sting))

Lucky.

I'm jealous!

100%... and seeing/ hearing Danny emote while singing, "please leave my heart," at the end brought me to tears. I've never felt that way while listening to the song countless times, but actually seeing him belt out those lyrics really transported me to whatever pain he was reliving.

@@JoeLikesRocks I agree. It is SO intense seeing him sing that line versus hearing it. That lyric just isn't as poignant on the record, it hits different.

I saw something on TV about bridget fonda last night and found this, I couldn't sleep all night, this concert kept running through my head! It's A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. I was only 10 so they were a bit before my time, but I wish I had been at this concert

Just saw it as you pointed! Hilarious!😂

He is a genius!

Hard agree. Danny is my number one vocal idol and I practice with his Boingo stuff all the time.

His and David G | Depeche Mode. Danny… genius

@@rudeboyspodcastme too. I’ve covered lots of Boingo/Elfman songs and my own original vocals are definitely inspired by this great artist!

Me too. His voice is so great. So iconic.

I'm a 16 year old. Mom raised me on boingo too. Thought the boingo elders would like to know its still being passed down. Incredible band, incredible performance, incredible music all the way.✊

Gonna be 26 in q few months, but discovered them on my own as young teen. They're still hands down one of my favs. Danny Elfman himself such an inspiration to me

I saw something on TV about bridget fonda last night and found this, I couldn't sleep all night, this concert kept running through my head! It's A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. I was only 10 so they were a bit before my time, but I wish I had been at this concert

I'm a 2 year old. Thought the new gen of oingo's would like to know the infants, well - same!

you're welcome!

Me too !!!

MAN!!! Danny Elfman is Scary but the music is really good!!!! Ive been An Oingo fan for many years. I play their songs contiuaslly all day on Halloween!!😮😢🎉

Dislike.

John Avila? ..I believe he is vastly underappreciated

Mad xylophone skills

He's a fuckin savage bassist.

Well said, Brother!

No problem :)

wait hes dead

​@@computerfighter2000 he's alive

yeah I know now this comment is from a while ago but thanks anyways 💀

@@computerfighter2000 sorry, didn't see the date

it’s okay!

HALLOWEEN SHOWS AT THE AMPITHEATER

@@wallisliss good times. The Irvine Meadows ( Verizon Amp ) was torn down a few years ago and homes were built. So sad... also they are tearing down the Laguna Hills mall for residential use...

I saw them so many times I can’t count. The ones you mentioned. The Palladium was the best, no seats, dance show. Even at the San Bernardino fairgrounds, Orange Show. Universal including the farewell show. Multiple Halloween shows in the same year. Have all my tickets somewhere.

yeah this is one of those bands that sound better live than on recordings for sure. I put RUSH on that list as well