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Late during Mammoth’s concert Wednesday night, Nov. 19, at the Fillmore Detroit, Wolfgang Van Halen took audible, and visible pride, in telling the crowd that “everything you hear tonight is generated by an actual (expletive) person, not some AI bull…”

And rest assured that was more than sufficient.

The entire evening — including support performances from Myles Kennedy and Los Angeles’ Return To Dust — affirmed the continuing potency of brawny hard rock of the old school aesthetic. It was guys with guitars, basses and drums (although Van Halen played keyboards on two of his songs) bringing the big whomp, with just a modicum of visual pizzazz. The show was in the sound, in other words, and all concerned sounded just fine from start to finish.

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