![]() ![]() I do not think he’s being ironic.Ī quintessentially po-faced American actor - baseball, the Old West, the Hatfields and McCoys - Costner unsurprisingly makes quintessentially po-faced American Boomer rock, blue-collared, and broad-shouldered. “I know I’m dropping names right now,” Coster chuckles. ![]() “That’s why we hung out together, because we had nobody else to hang out with.” “When I met John, we were all struggling,” Costner says. Two of the musicians in Modern West are Costner’s longtime friends and former Roving Boy buddies, guitarist John Coinman and bassist Blair Forward. He was in a group, Roving Boy, that had a minor hit in Japan in the ’80s, before films like The Untouchables and Bull Durham made him a sought-after leading man. Like Bridges, Costner was a budding singer-songwriter before his acting career took off. In his favor, Costner is no bored millionaire dabbler, no Johnny-come-lately. I’m more, ‘Well, let’s just get out there and play.'” “But the curiosity factor is there because I have genuinely not tried to publicize the band. “I think there’s still that level of curiosity,” Costner acquiesces. Which brings us to the curious case of Kevin Costner. But for every Steve Martin there’s a Kevin Bacon, whose Bacon Brothers band often tops Worst Actor Bands lists, and Russell Crowe’s The Ordinary Fear of God (née 30 Odd Foot of Grunts), which was once generously described as having “found neither critical nor popular success.” It’s music that draws oddball curiosity more than earnest enthusiasm. The Americana realm has seen more hits than misses, what with Steve Martin’s Grammy-winning collaboration with Steep Canyon Rangers, Jeff Bridges’ well-received folk discs, and Zooey Deschanel’s Kewpie-doll quirky She and Him. Indeed, the annals of actors-turned-musicians are filled with a murderers’ row of laughably bad bands: Jada Pinkett Smith’s woeful rap-rock band Wicked Wisdom Jared Leto’s slapdick post-grunge band 30 Seconds to Mars Bruce Willis’ embarrassing forays into white-bread blues rock. Actors have tried their hands at pop music seemingly since time immemorial, but the true double threat is hard to pull off - Sinatra could do it, but Elvis couldn’t. His band, Modern West, was going on tour.Ĭostner’s not the first actor to trot out a musical project after hitting it big in Hollywood. A few Mondays ago, Kevin Costner was in Los Angeles at the premiere of his new football film Draft Day.
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