Every classic movie has its string of lines or scenes that you tend to recite over and over with friends.  This past summer, we got many more quotes to recite with all the lines from The Hangover.  These lines and scenes make the movie, and we seem to adapt them into our everyday vernacular and use them in real life situations.  No better example of this type of movie to life situation is the movie Old School.

As a senior in high school, this movie help define mine and many other kids teens years, something to remember and recite for years to come.  It seems so long ago that Will Ferrel was actually funny in a movie.  Although there are tons of memorable lines and scenes, Frank’s wedding always seems to take the cake in my mind.

Besides the best man’s speech, the lines “I love you dad,” and “it takes a saint to give away an angel,” the scene that makes for one of the better moments in later when they are dancing and this goofy guy with a goatee is singing a new version of the classic Total Eclipse of the Heart where he adds a humorous spin to it with some random cursing.  This caught everyone by surprise when watching the movie for the first time, and this scene instantly became a classic and was sung whenever appropriate, and even when not.

Well it turns out they are a real band, and I saw them live in concert.

The Dan Band as they are known are basically a comedy karaoke act traveling the country singing woman’s songs in a funny manner with awkward choreography.  they have appeared in Starsky and Hutch and The Hangover as well and believe it or not, the venue was sold out.

Playing a set list of an hour with songs like Salt and Pepper’s “Shoop” and Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know” the trio rocked it out the best as some dorky guys singing girls songs could.  Although the choreography was funny and there were a couple of good stories mixed in with jokes at some audience members expenses, I found the concert to be tiring and the gimmick to get stale quickly.  You could basically watch a  youtube video of him doing a few songs and get away with just as much amusement as seeing them live.  For the most part it was $25 to see “that guy from Old School” sing his infamous rendition of Total Eclipse of the Heart.

As a concert lover, and huge fan of the movie Old School, I guess I expected more.  But it was still great to see them live and you have to respect them for living off their minor success and playing it up to a “T.”  Viva la Dan Band.

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