You know the tune? Goes like this: “And the beat goes on. Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain.” Just drums? How … pedestrian. Generating beats can be so varied—say, with pots, pans, buckets, ladders, trash cans, hubcaps, auto parts, power tools and the human body (oh, and drums, too). Think of Recycled Percussion as a rhythmic revolution. Before you’re in the door, you get cookware, buckets and drumsticks so you can join the aural overload led by these junk rock innovators, who first performed their cacophony of cadences in 1994.
Don’t think you can be entertained by a beat born of a buzz saw on a metal slab? Or by the guys keeping time to the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” on some welding-soldering thingamabob shooting off sparks? Think again. And a dueling drum-off when the guys flip flying drumsticks between them? Sublime synchronicity. Given the troupe’s anything-goes array, at what other show can you label the music as “junk” and intend it as genuine flattery?
Saxe Theater in Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort, 5:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat., $59.99-$69.99 VIP plus tax and fee, dinner packages available. 866.932.1818
