My Dog Just Wants to...Party All the Time!

I can't get that song out of my head! My friend Merlin and I caught the latest Detroit reunion show at the 400 Bar on Wednesday night and I'm STILL humming tunes from it two days later. I can't look at my dachshund Huck without singing "My dog just wants to...party all the time!" to him and I also got to hear the band play another of my favorites, "Mowin' the Lawn." ("Mowin' the lawn, mowin' the lawn, mowin' the lawn, mowin' the lawn, baggin' the grass, you bet your ass, mowin' the lawn, mowin' the lawn..." It will be with me every time I get the mower out next summer.) Of course, Detroit also did their famous Rush medley (with the surprise Loverboy bit at the end) and "Hard Rockin' Mama" which features various hair metal verses strung together medley-style in the middle. And there were the requisite pyrotechnics, too. I got my $10 worth and then some given that the band played for at least two hours and my old friends The Sandwiches played an hour-long reunion set before Detroit went on. I haven't enjoyed a show so much in ages! In case you aren't familiar with these bands, here are their MySpace sites which (thankfully) feature several of their songs for you to listen to (Detroit's "He's Smart" and The Sandwiches' "Panic Girls" [Rock on, Louise!] are classics):

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=111228283

http://www.howwastheshow.com/reviews-2004//detroit-01-24-04.html

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=120825386

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE let them do it again SOON...


P.S. Actually, now that I think about it, I did really enjoy the Tally Hall show that Dan & I went to in Ann Arbor, MI, in September. It reminded me a bit of these two bands. Like Detroit and The Sandwiches, they have "costumes" (they all wear white shirts, black pants and color-coded ties), their songs are very catchy with clever lyrics and they put on a STELLAR live show (lots of witty banter between songs - always a plus). The night that we saw them, they planted someone in the audience to yell "Free Bird" for an encore suggestion then faked not knowing the song. By halfway through the song, they were totally rocking it, they had two women dressed as birds dancing on stage, there was confetti flying out into the audience and part of the U of Michigan marching band was making its way through the crowd to the stage playing along with the band! Spectacular! Here are some links for them, too (they have some great video clips on YouTube):

http://www.tallyhall.com/

http://www.myspace.com/tallyhall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi-CuZbpEhc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHZThVUl8ww

I hope they HEADLINE a show in Minneapolis SOON - seeing them open for Teddy Geiger at the Fine Line in October was sort of disappointing after their Ann Arbor show...