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Former Beastie Boys member Mike D brought his new group, 5D, to Detroit’s Masonic Jack White Theatre on Saturday night, Oct. 17 (Photo by Joe Orlando)<\/p>\nA month away from 61, Mike D is no longer a boy.<\/p>\n
But he proved that he\u2019s still a beast(ie), musically, on Saturday night, Oct. 17, at Detroit\u2019s Masonic Jack White Theatre.<\/p>\n
It was the rapper-singer-songwriter-producer\u2019s first concert in the metro area since the Beastie Boys\u2019 two-night stand during September 2007 at the Fillmore Detroit. The group, of course, ceased after the 2012 death of Adam \u201cMCA\u201d Yauch, and D (nee Diamond) has laid low since, doing some remixing and producing bands such as Portugal. The Man and Soft Play. but he emerged this year with his first solo album, \u201cThank You,\u201d working with sons Davis and Skyler Diamond (both part of the band Very Nice Person) and forming a band, dubbed 5D, to take it on the road.<\/p>\n
That set, not surprisingly, was the core of Saturday\u2019s hour-long show, with 10 of its 13 tracks in the 16-song setlist. But D serviced the Beastie Boys faithful as well, opening the show with a partial \u201cHello Brooklyn\u201d and including truncated but ebullient renditions of \u201cLooking Down the Barrell of a Gun,\u201d \u201c3-Minute Rule\u201d and \u201cBody Movin’\u201d before closing the night with an extended \u201cSo What\u2019cha Want\u201d \u2014 all of which had the Masonic crowd spitting the Beasties\u2019 rhymes back at the stage.<\/p>\n
D5 also took on the British punk band Delta 5\u2019s \u201cMind Your Own Business,\u201d but with a heavy, 4\u00d74 EDM arrangement more in keeping with D\u2019s current musical method.<\/p>\n
The six-member band\u2019s performance of the new material took the songs\u2019 electronic underpinnings even further, steering them with a combination of live instrumentation and sonic alchemy from the gear manned by the Diamond brothers and Eddie Ruscha (whose own son, Milo, played bass and occasional keyboards). Jeremy Gustin handled embellished the shifting, tricky tempos and beats with as assortment of polyrhythms, while Will Graefe added an additional array of textures on both electric and acoustic guitar. The overall result was a m\u00e9lange that was certainly afield from what the Beasties did but certainly in keeping with that group\u2019s inventive aesthetic.<\/p>\n
And the energetic, sunglassed and T-shirted D\u2019s adenoidal vocalizing insured that no one cold mistake where this music was rooted.<\/p>\n
Former Beastie Boys member Mike D brought his new group, 5D, to Detroit’s Masonic Jack White Theatre on Saturday night, Oct. 17 (Photo by Joe Orlando)<\/p>\n
The \u201cThank You\u201d choices shot wide on Saturday, taking D and company in directions such \u201cSwitch Up\u2019s\u201d trip-hop, \u201cIt\u2019s Time\u2019s\u201d jungle drive and the more melodic, song-like \u201cI Don\u2019t Care\u201d and album title track. \u201cMake It Stop\u201d segued neatly into the banging \u201cThat\u2019s Right,\u201d while the troupe segued both parts of the \u201cThank You\u2019s\u201d \u201cSecrets\u201d into a single entity, the dance-floor second half ending with an instrumental bit of Brian Eno\u2019s \u201cHere Come the Warm Jets.\u201d<\/p>\n
D did not reference the long gap since he last came to town, but he was effusive about being in Detroit, even offering one apology during the show; \u201cWe kinda f***ed up; We were gonna do a Stooges cover\u2026an Underground Resistance cover. We had a lot of good plans, (because) a lot of amazing music came from this city.\u201d Those would have been nice, but unnecessary; what D and 5D delivered was a welcome and overdue return and certainly made those at the Masonic feel grateful \u2014 and hoping we\u2019ll see him back in these parts before too long.<\/p>\n
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