Judging by the way he belts out *"ONE! TWO!! THREE!!! FOUR!!!!"* at the absolute top of his voice, I'd say that he was waiting to do this his entire life.
My mom said the same. When I asked for concert tickets for Christmas "to a Weird Al" concert, she said, "No, he's weird." ....yes, mom. That's his name.
Um....I was actually in that group, I was in 11th grade at the time. You can see me playing clarinet in the middle back near the percussion. I remember not being able to play from about the second half on because I was laughing. Thanks, Al. Good times, man.
We performed Il dolce suono several years ago. As we were rehearsing, the conductor counted us off and started imitating Lucia by shouting things like “you son of b****!” These memories are golden.
do you mean the people who were playing the instruments? bc weird al *does* know how to conduct and believe it or not he was genuinely still conducting in the video 😂
As wild as he gets up there, he must have a fantastic sense of his flailing limbs and erratic movements to avoid knocking over the music stand or falling off the platform.
On one hand, I would love to be part of a show like this someday. On the other hand, I seriously doubt I'd be able to stop from at least smiling too much to effectively play my flute.
I like how everybody in the orchestra is doing their best not to pay attention to him. Every eye is down on the paper, concentrating as hard as they can.
The conductor does 99% of the work in practice. Everyone knows the rhythm in the various sections. When performing, the conductor is more of a reminder and inspiration.
Decades ago a famous old-school German comedian (Loriot) does a similar skid (actually he plays a janitor, walking into the orchestra and starts chasing a bug around, triggering the set). While rehearsing, he was under the impression, that the tact of the orchestra was slightly slow and he felt very bad about it to address it, since they were the (I think) Viennese Philharmonics, and when he did, the First Violine blew him off like: “Man, if you think that, you’ll have to conduct faster”
This is one of those moments in history which could have flickered brilliantly and then fizzled, but the lucky act of recording it made it legendary. If Al isn't immortal already (which is still hotly debated), feats of wonder like this continually immortalize his genius. And man, the stamina it takes for a performance like that...I'm in hysterical awe. :D
0:52 Good gracious, it seems like the candle extinguished by itself, however it seems like the clock is going too soon reach 6 in the morning. Oh dear, is that Frederick Fitzgerald Fazbearington located near the door?
Only you, Mr. Yankovic, can you conduct Bizet's "Overture to Carmen" with your leg behind your head and get away with it. As a preveor of the fine arts, well done.
He is a real gem in this world he always makes me smile. I saw him live and he passed by me. I winked at him and he did the eyebrow wiggle at me and just busted out laughing
Awesome that this video has no thumbs down. "Weird Al" really beat the system with his awesomeness. Al, keep on doing your great job because i and your fanbase loves it, and we love your leg behind your neck. :)
Best. Conductor. EVAR. How in the hell do those people keep a straight face?!? If I were there, I would be cracking up when he jumped on to the platform. :P
I came to this video from TwoSetViolin. They were doing a video on why being a conductor is such a hard job, and this was one of the videos they reacted to. They didn't even react because this video is meant to be a joke. I knew that by the way the conductor's dance moves were, this was definitely Weird Al. Fantastic job!! :)
Great musicians ... anyone that could play properly while watching Al doing that must be good - there was one guy that lost it when he did the foot behind the head though :) Thanks for another great laugh Al!
The fantastic mixture of raw musical talent and hilarity is so perfectly on brand for him. Of course Bernstein pioneered the one-leg-over-neck stance, but Mr. Yankovic perfected it.
