May 09, 2003 - The Blue Man Group will contribute their song "The Current", which features vocals by Gavin Rossdale, to Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

The track, set to appear in the movie's closing credits and marketing campaign, is also on Blue Man group's new album The Complex, which was released on Lava Records on April 22, 2003.

In addition to Rossdale, the performance art group's first full-fledged rock album also features guest vocalists Dave Matthews, Tracy Bonham, VenusHum, Esthero and Josh Haden, among others. According to T3 executive music producer Joel Sill, he and the film's director Jonathan Mostow were, "searching for the ideal music for the closing credits. When we met with the Blue Man Group founders, they talked about the song "The Current." After they played it for us, there was no discussion. Jonathan made the decision to include the track in the film on the spot."

With T3 on board, Blue Man Group founders Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton and Chris Wink set out to find a singer who could handle the song's dynamic vocal range. "We did not know Gavin personally but some of the people working on T3 did, and they were able to get the song to him," explains Chris Wink. "He got back to us saying that he could hit the notes and that he was really into the song, so the next thing we knew is we were on a plane to London. Once we were there, not only did Gavin sing it great, he also brought in his guitarist Chris Trainer, who did some excellent work on the track as well."

In addition to the song's inclusion in the movie, Blue Man Group and Rossdale recently shot a video together for "The Current" that incorporates images and scenes from T3. Directed by Jeff Mann (who also happens to be the Production Designer on T3), the video was filmed at an abandoned power plant in Redondo Beach, California to capture the film's mechanical theme. "We worked hard to incorporate imagery from the movie into the video in a creative and satisfying way," notes BMG’s co-founder Goldman. "Too often you just see clips from a movie in a video and it doesn't really make any sense, so the Blue Man is going to act as a kind of video DJ, 'scratching' together video loops in a way that actually creates the underlying rhythm of the song. As far as we know, no one has tried this approach, so we feel like we have a good shot at having something pretty unique."

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