One of Canada’s favourite beer swilling, mullet wearing headbangers, the Deaner, Dean Murdoch or Paul Spence in real life, can’t wait to “Give R” in Lethbridge Oct. 24 and show just how much his band rocks.
The Deaner, one half of The Deaner and Terry, stars of cult favourite movie FUBAR and FUBAR 2, will be bringing his band Nightseeker to the Stone along with the band Monster Truck. If you aren’t familiar with FUBAR, they are a mix of Bob and Doug MacKenzie and Wayne and Garth from Wayne’s World.
“ You guys have a big bridge there, right? Well we’re going giver ’er and break it in two,” enthused the Deaner, who is looking forward to FUBAR at the Stone, Oct. 24, where he will not only be giving a live DVD commentary of the movie, but introducing his band Night Seeker as well as Monster Truck.
“They used a lot of my band’s songs in the movie, so we’ll be playing them and a bunch of others too,” he said describing his band ’s sound as rock and roll along the lines of AC DC and Iron Maiden.
“It’s like a lot of the music we get excited about. We’re a rock band,” he said.
The FUBAR movies, one and two basically chronicle the Deaner and Terry’s alcohol fuelled escapades and the resulting mayhem.
“In the last movie, we burned Terry’s house down. If you haven’t seen the movie— spoiler— it happens in the first 10 minutes,” The Deaner said.
“You know how it is, you’re partying and the house burns down,” he said, like it happens all the time.
The concept of the movies is just following the duo around.
“They’d call us up and ask us what we were doing that night. And we’d say nothing. Then they’d say things like ‘you should go bowling.’ We’d say ‘ we don‘t have the money to go bowling,’ and they’d say ‘what if we pay for it and buy you the beer?’ So we’d go bowling,” he said.
He didn’t know if there would be a third FUBAR movie as the sequel was released 10 years after the original.
“There will probably be a lot of spaceships and lasers in the next one. The third one should be a little more special and take it to the next level,” he continued adding burning a house down is a tough act to follow, not that they intended it to happen.
“When the house burned, we thought it would be a good time to evacuate,” he said, adding they evacuated to Fort MacMurray after that.
He is surprised by how popular the FUBAR movies are.
“It’s been pretty sweet,” he said.
“We give ’er. That’s what we do. But a lot of people have grown up, have got married and have kids and they don’t give ’er anymore, so they like to watch other people give ’er,” he said.
Watching the duo ‘give ’er has meant they have a lot of unusual fans.
“Some guy came up and told me he was the real Deaner. He was totally convinced that he was the real Deaner and that I was the impostor,” he continued.
Tickets for the FUBAR tour featuring the Deaner and Nightseeker, Oct. 24 at the Stone cost $20. Doors open at 8 p.m, with the show beginning at 9 p.m..
A version of this story appears in the Oct. 19, 2011 edition of the Lethbridge Sun Times.
