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How To Be A Megastar Live

How To Be A Megastar Live

March 28, 2008
4.1 out of 5 stars 66 customer reviews
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Above (Live Album Version)
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Drumbone (Live Album Version)
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Time To Start (Live Album Version)
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Up To The Roof (Live Album Version)
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Altering Appearances (Live Album Version)
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Persona (Live Album Version)
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Your Attention (Live Album Version)
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Piano Smasher (Live Album Version)
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Shirts And Hats (Live Album Version)
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Sing Along (Live Album Version)
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One Of These Days (Live Album Version)
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Rock Concert Movement #237 (Live Album Version)
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Shadows Part 2 (Live Album Version)
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The Complex (Live Album Version)
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Light Suits (Live Album Version)
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I Feel Love (Live Album Version)
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Rock And Go (Live Album Version)
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Baba O'Riley (Live Album Version)
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What Is Rock (Live Album Version)
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4.0 out of 5 starsEnjoyable Expansion of "The Complex"
By Scott C. Smith on April 13, 2008
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
The Blue Man Group return to their rock concert experience in their latest DVD, captured during their "How to Be a Megastar 2.0" tour. If you already own "The Complex" much of this material will be familiar as it nearly the same format as the group's previous rock concert tour. That's not necessarily a bad thing. As in "The Complex," "How to Be a Megastar" opens with "Above," which if you've seen/heard from "The Complex" you know is simply an amazing song. The concert presentation is exciting, with a screen obscuring the stage and only shadows of the Blue Men projected on the screen as, one by one, each takes to their PVC instruments to begin the melody, with a swirling of images of the band and the Blue Men as the song launches into guitar, drums, keyboards, bass, and percussion in an explosive cresendo. Awesome. The remainder of "How to Be a Megastar" essentially follows the same progression as "The Complex" with some new material and new rock conert movements. The premise of the tour is the Blue Men have purchased an "updated" rock concert experience manual from an infomercial and are incoporating the new material into the show. The band is amazing, as it was before in "The Complex." I miss the guest vocals of Tracy Bonham and Annette Strean of Venus Hum. Annette was gorgeous and belted out an exciting cover of "I Feel Love" in her unique style in "The Complex" and is replaced on the current tour with a new vocalist. She's fine, but it's hard to follow in the footsteps of Annette and Tracy.

Bonus material includes a music video for "I Feel Love"; a piece of comedy called "Mono Makes a Plea -- Save the TVs" campaign (bemoaning the switch to digital signals which will effect us all...) and finally, and perhaps most importantly, a documentary called "Inside the Tube.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsWhat The Complex couldn't be
By Jeff Putz on April 7, 2008
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When Blue Man Group created a touring rock concert with The Complex, they recorded and released a DVD. It was, at best, a tease to get you to see the stage shows, since the tour ended about the same time. The DVD was horribly flawed. It wasn't mastered correctly as anamorphic widescreen, but rather it was letterboxed. The audio mix was questionable. There were visible compression artifacts. The exposure during dark parts of the show was poor, and they tried to compensate with bad video effects. The editing was terrible too, with visuals not matching audio, and countless shots of a lame crowd. This new DVD corrects all of that.

When the How To Be A Megastar tour launched three years later, the show had been heavily tweaked. Through five legs of the tour, changes were made at least three times, and various performers came and went. The last iteration of the tour is what's represented on this DVD (and CD), and it's easily the tightest version of it.

Almost the entire show is represented, with a lively crowd and a great performance by the excellent band. The arena experience is captured with a lot of great wide shots, including a camera in the "crappy seats," to give you an idea of how "big" the show feels. The scope is much bigger than the fixed theatrical shows, though many of the same comedic bits are shared.

The video clips for the "Megastar" manual are included here, played by Fred Armisen of Saturday Night Live fame, as well as the Floppie the Banjo Clown clips.

Peter Moore is the male vocalist for the show. He sang on several of the recorded tracks for The Complex, and on the original tour. The guy is all-pro and has a bit of a rockstar quality. He left the tour shortly after this show to pursue a solo record.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsLacks flow and creativity
By Engineco16 on April 5, 2008
Format: DVD
Having been looking forward to this release for sometime now I finally bought this yesterday and sat down and watched it last night and was a bit disappointed. But first the good, the filming, picture and audio are fantastic and the performance is good.

Here's the downside though. If you have The Complex Rock Tour Live DVD then you basically have this performance with a few new songs added in. Personally the The Complex Rock Tour Live DVD is much better is several ways compared to this DVD. On The Complex Rock Tour Live DVD the singers are better and more energetic, there's better interaction with the Blue Men, and the Blue Men on the The Complex Rock Tour Live DVD are much better. So having been spoiled on the The Complex Rock Tour Live DVD seeing basically the same songs again left a lot to be desired. Not sure why they didn't try something fresher and not rehashing the older songs? I kept waiting for something to bring me to my feet but it never happened.

So if you don't have the older DVD you'll enjoy this one thoroughly, but if you do have the older you may not want to waste your time on it unless you want the documentary which is very good!
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2.0 out of 5 starsNot a true Blue Man Performance
By Marcus on April 15, 2012
Format: DVD
I just saw the Blue Man Group in Vegas last week and was blown away! This DVD just blows - perhaps that's a bit harsh.

I bought the DVD knowing it would be somewhat different as shows vary from city to city, year to year. However, I had no idea that they would abandon what makes Blue Men so great. It's as if the producers of the DVD didn't have faith that the Blue Men could carry a DVD performance.

I was stunned when I saw the band at center stage and heard vocals. Instead of a true Blue Man performance we got a rock concert by some seemingly anonymous group with the Blue Man bits sprinkled throughout. There was no singing at the Blue Man show in Vegas. Only a computer generated narrator to supplement the performance art.

Short of it: this is not a true Blue Man Group performance. However, I hope they produce one someday so I can share it with friends.
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