Wall Of Sound Review: Johnny No Name - April 2 - Minneapolis

Back - Index - Submissions - - What is RSS? Date: Apr 04, 2000 Source: Wall Of Sound Submitted By: Jen April 3, 2000   MINNEAPOLIS — A.J. McLean of the Backstreet Boys has it backwards. He's gone from singing originals with one of the world's biggest bands to performing covers in a corner bar. Not to worry. McLean's current eight-concert club tour has a decent goal: raising money for VH1's Save the Music Foundation — and, of course, pleasing (and teasing) his young female fans. McLean is performing as Johnny No-Name, A.J.'s British twin who likes to rawk. Wearing a fedora, shades, and a suit, he roared into Stone Temple Pilots' "Down" Sunday at the Quest, screamed through Tonic's "If You Could Only See," and strummed guitar on George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone" (played, A.J. said, as a tribute to his nickname, Bone). And he had all 1,500 young ladies singing along to Brian McKnight's dreamy "Back at One." In conversation between songs, Johnny spoke with a British accent. He said that backstage A.J. had asked him to sing a song the goateed one had written for a BSB album that didn't make the disc but ended up as a B-side. "If You Knew What I Knew" emerged as generic pop with not much emotion to it. Backed by members of the Backstreet Boys' touring band (save for the new, fire-breathing drummer), Johnny offered two other BSB non-hits, "Hey, Mr. DJ" and the aggressively romantic "Lay Down Beside Me." "I don't know about you," the singer said at the latter song's end, "but I'm horny." Like the Backstreet Boys, Johnny knows how to tug at young heartstrings. Johnny closed the 80-minute set with a bar-band classic, Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music," which was funkier than anything in the Backstreet catalog. For the encore, he returned minus the hat, suit, and accent. "Johnny went bye-bye, A.J. says hi-hi," announced the singer, wearing jeans and tattoos on his shirtless body and sporting a new blond 'do. Joined by opening act Nobody's Angel, A.J. rocked the house with the Commodores' "Brick House," which was truly a Backstreet Boy acting as a cover boy. There are four more shows on the Johnny No-Name tour, which wraps up April 9 at New York's Irving Plaza. Expect four very special guest stars to join Johnny on stage for the final performance. — Jon Bream Comment on this item. 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