| Concert Review of Kid Rock at DTE Energy Music Theatre on Thu Aug 26, 2004 |
| Event Date |
| Thu Aug 26, 2004 |
| Source |
| The Oakland Press |
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| Detroit's own Kid Rock kicks off three-night stand in style Web-posted Aug 27, 2004 By GARY GRAFF Of The Daily Oakland Press INDEPENDENCE TWP. - A party at a Kid Rock concert is about as certain as finding morning frost on the ground in August - this summer at least. But things were decidedly hot at the DTE Energy Music Theatre on Thursday night - and not just from the prodigious pyrotechnics - when Rock and his Twisted Brown Trucker band opened a three-night, sold-out homecoming stand. The two-hour-plus show was a typical Rock blowout, part rock show, part hootenanny and all delivered with a raucous, bachelor party vibe right down to the scantily clad hired dancers flanking the stage on several songs. And there were plenty of hits thrown in, too, from fist-wavers such as "American Bad Ass," "Cowboy" and "Bawitdaba" to tender ballads like "Picture" and "Only God Knows Why." But it's a mistake to assume anything, or at least much, happens at a Rock show by accident. With years of practice - and seven months on this particular tour - behind them, Rock and Twisted Brown Trucker have honed their stage presentation into a contemporary update of vintage rock ensembles such as Delaney & Bonnie and Friends and Leon Russell's Shelter People. Rock may be the commanding focus, but he's as much ringmaster as he is frontman, overseeing a performance in which everyone onstage is an active and vital ingredient in both the musical arrangements and the visual balance. In other words, what looks loose is actually carefully planned and tightly executed - and assuredly across the board in terms of styles and flow. On Thursday, of course, there was plenty of seasoned schtick, including a lengthy medley of fan favorites (ending with the underrated "I Am the Bullgod'') and Rock hopping between a variety of instruments during "3 Sheets to the Wind," finishing with a series of James Brown-style fake endings. But songs such as the opening boogie "Son of Detroit," the bluesy slammer "Jackson, Miss." and the funk-metal "Devil Without a Cause" packed plenty of musical punch, fortified with solos by lead guitarist Kenny Olson and keyboardist Jimmie Bones.. |
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