TENACIOUS D ROCKED THE HOUSE!!!!!!
(warning lots of you-tube links in this post)
The show was amazing! It was at the Masonic Temple in Detroit. We had Balcony seats center stage. (We bought tickets the day they went on sale. My gf bought tickets the day before the show and got main floor 14th row....but I'm not bitter)
Opening act was a guy named Neil Hamburger. If you've seen their movie "The Pick of Destiny" you'll know him. He's the greasy looking stand-up comedian on open mic night.
I think his whole shtick is to just be obnoxiously bad. At the end of the show when Jack Black gave big ups to Neil Hamburger some people booed and he said "you know you loved booing him!" His jokes were really bad and the only time he got a laugh was when he would pop off back at a heckler in the audience calling them cocksucker and such. Thankfully he was only on for about 30 minutes. I don't think I could have taken much more of him.
While waiting for the D to begin, Kevin and I discussed their entrance. I thought they'd come out big with "Pick of Destiny" and just immediately rock the house....Kevin said he thought they'd come out just the 2 of them in front of the curtain and progress towards rock and end with "P.O.D" ... he was the closer one. The curtain raised and it looked like Kyle's apt. And then you see them slowly making their way out from under some blankets on the couch where they were "sleeping" ... it was great!!!
They opened with "Kielbasa"
(this is from another show...but you get the idea...everyone sang along like that all night...it was fucking amazing!)
I don't remember the whole song list. They did pretty much every song on their first CD and almost every song on their new soundtrack CD (except "pick of Destiny" oddly enough) The whole concert was more like a stage show. It began in the apt. They even brought Lee in.
They jammed a little in the apt. and then Jables told Kage they needed to step up to the next level and go electric and when he plugged in the guitar they got electrocuted and died and went down to hell. They had a big screen they brought down to show them wandering thru hell where they meet the anti-christ jamming on a guitar. They form a band with "anti" along with drummer Colonel Sanders (who is in hell because he killed over a billion chickens) and bassist Charlie Chaplin (who's in hell because he's gay)
Eventually anti tells Jables and Kage his dad (you know....SATAN) wants to join them. So he does and they end up having a rock off (basically acting out that scene in P.O.D. minus the special effects)
So they beat the devil and come back to earth and jam some more. I can't remember what they ended the set with, but they came back for 1 encore consisting of 3 songs!
of course they couldn't leave without playing "Tribute"! We thought it was going to be the last song, but it was 2nd to last.
Their last song was a medly of songs from The Who's "Tommy". It fucking ROCKED!!!!! (the visual quality on this clip is really shaky, but the audio makes up for it)
And that was it! a night with the D!!! It fucking rocked my socks off!!! I would go see them everytime they're in town!!
Afterwards we met some friends up at Corktown tavern. Went upstairs to listen to the DJ. It totally reminded me of college. Hell, they were even playing songs from back then. "Groove is in the Heart" and "I Touch Myself" amongst others. We didn't stay long ... altho I wouldn't mind going back there.
And last night we went to see "The Pick of Destiny" at the drive in (double feature with Borat...and that movie is a..whole other blog ) It toally rocked!!! And the songs and the stage show made so much more sense after seeing it! Besides, how can you go wrong when you start the movie with a song in which both Meatloaf AND Ronnie James Dio sing!!!
So I'm madly in love with Tenaacious D. I'm sure I'll be listening to their CDs every chance I get and boring everyone around me with how awesome they were.
