Jukebox , songbook.
broadcast jukebox jewelry yet for all the attention they could not secure a followup hit a problem accelerated by an
in the jukebox musical form, a lot of things are made for young people.
What is a jukebox ?
There's obviously been jukebox musicals before.
And it's a jukebox musical.
And I remember the jukebox in the pub, and "Anarchy In the UK" came on.
We can learn lessons from the jukebox .
And that is rare in jukebox musicals, which is what you call like a musical that uses a catalog of music that already existed.
And she's toured with Postmodern Jukebox extensively.
So the whole idea behind Postmodern Jukebox is taking things that you wouldn't imagine in one style and turning them into something else, imagining how some of the biggest hits--
I'd never really met any Postmodern Jukebox fans in real life that I didn't already know.
But this is not a jukebox .
Even beyond it being not a jukebox musical, I think it doesn't feel like a musical, because the text is really what forwards the story along.
Tell me about Jonesy's Jukebox .
Well there was two Jonesy's Jukebox .
side fine and mellow that Garner to jukebox play Strange Fruit was not the kind of song that lifted your
And I did what's considered the first jukebox musical, which is "Ain't Misbehavin" on Broadway.
There was a lot of jazz all over Chicago on the jukeboxes and the blues clubs-- you know, Jack McDuff and guys liked that.
So what just happened here actually factors into my whole story of how Postmodern Jukebox came to be.
So that was actually when I pitched the idea of Postmodern Jukebox .
And the first job I got out of school was "Rock of Ages," this 80s jukebox , trashy, bubble gum, rock musical.
Since their inception a decade ago, Jukebox the Ghost have been finding new and creative ways to make exciting and innovative piano rock music,
And they're like, this should be a Jukebox tune.
But you know, he had a jukebox .
like, mm, a jukebox musical-- I don't know.
The first one is we go back to this nice chap from the mafia and look at this invention called a jukebox .
The lesson I want to teach here is that, when the mafia controlled the jukebox in the late '50s and early '60s, they demanded that songs last no more
Because it extracted the maximum amount of value out of the jukebox .
And when I was growing up, his record was on the jukebox in the local pub, which was weird.
Would you like to do another song or continue with the story of the birth of Postmodern Jukebox ?
So with the Nickelback Motown tribute done, tell us about how Postmodern Jukebox came to be,
Well it was-- first by taking stock of, what is Postmodern Jukebox ?
My answer, what I tell people, is I think Jukebox the Ghost is a-- we're not a studio band in a typical sense.
And it's the same thing-- You think about a prostitute, musical jukebox ,
And I don't know if you guys remember, but he used to bang the jukebox and it would turn on.
Well I think a lot of times in the songbook musicals-- that would technically be what this would be sort of-- Jukebox .
What happened between him and the Jukebox , and will he ever find love again?
It's called Jonesy's Jukebox .
But the biggest challenge for me with this, because it is jukebox musical and this is the nature of jukebox musicals, is that the songs are not written for a character.
And this one day, I went over there, and I saw this on the jukebox , Charlie Parker and His Reboppers--
But yeah, in Puerto Rico, we still listen to a lot of Jukebox .
So, in the movie, the characters try to pick out the worst song out of a jukebox , which I loved,
And maybe you could just tell us a little bit how you approach things as a singer, whether with Postmodern Jukebox or with your own stuff when you're interpreting
So everyone, please welcome to the stage Ben Thornewill, Tommy Siegel, and Jesse Kristin of Jukebox the Ghost.
And what parts of it would you say are sort of like the core, consistent music that is Jukebox the Ghost?
And so I guess, starting from that point of this inspiration from Queen, what does the process look like for a standard Jukebox the Ghost song?
And just everyday I'd sit down and try to add another part without considering what happened before and never really thought it'd be a Jukebox tune.
Because being one of the only Iranian-American comedians, I think some Iranians, they treat me like a jukebox , meaning like, they make requests on what I should talk about.
And they have a little set there at the studios of a diner, a '50s diner with a little jukebox thing.