The other big Monday night show, Oct. 24 was the Deaner’s band Nightseeker who were playing to a 
rollicking crowd of metalheads at the Stone, Oct. 24.
Deaner, Aka Dean Murdoch, aka actor Paul Spence of the FUBAR movies fame, definitely lives the party and was definitely “given ’er,’” to borrow his catch phrase.
I arrived midway through Nightseeker’s hot set in the middle of a surreal moment with the Deaner in all his flying black hair and bare chested glory, wearing a black bra, danced on stage with two beautiful women, while singing Poison’s wretched ’80s hair metal hit power ballad “Every Rose Has A Thorn.” It seemed like the perfect Deaner moment.
And I was about to dismiss the band as a joke. But that was before. Once he was done dancing to horrible power ballads, the Deaner donned a black B.C. Rich bass for a variety of solid, energetic ’80s metal style originals and heavy metal classics.
It showed the show was more than just a “movie star” playing rock star. His band, featuring a couple members of Red Mass, was burnished steel solid and the Deaner displayed one hell of a voice, after an incendiary set of high voltage ’80s style rock featuring plenty of big riffs and even some sizzling dual lead guitars.
But what impressed me was when Night Seeker wound down their set with a pair of covers — Iron Maiden’s “Run To the Hills,” followed by Judas Priest’s “Living after Midnight,” which wound down the show just after midnight on a very high note.
The Deaner hit those high notes just about perfectly while playing the bass lines.
He was ready to end the fun filled show there, noting his band didn’t know any more songs. But the rambunctious audience wouldn’t let him leave.
“It’s your fault if you want to party past midnight on a Monday,” the Deaner told the screaming crowd and took a swing at Kiss’ “Detroit Rock City, confessing he didn’t know how to play it.
Fortunately an audience member did, so they brought him on stage to play it, resulting in a pretty capable cover of a song the band didn’t really know.
So the Deaner is good for his word and ’gave ’er’ all he had.
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