our next guests have sold millions of
albums worldwide after first coming on
the scene nearly 30 years ago so in the
early to mid 90s they had top hits like
it feels good whatever you want and if I
had no loot and you can see them perform
live in concert tonight at sound board
at Motor City Casino Hotel welcome Tony
Tony Tony has done it again to live in
the bison and Frank what's up good to
see you so you know it's nice and early
for us thank you baby 8 we've been
coming here that's our first time coming
in wasn't so it is you said almost it is
30 years I mean it's we're celebrating
that 30 years of being focused oh my god
how do you differentiate Detroit from
performing for our say a crowd in
Atlanta or Minneapolis or Memphis or
somewhere or Chicago well you know and I
you know this is not just lip service
but Detroit come on and that's for me
you know growing up you know the music
from Detroit that's like the score yeah
yeah the guitar licks and everything the
production that just came out of here
the writing and yeah so it's really
different you know we have to step our
game up that's why we wore suits this
morning don't play your outfits ready to
go so what is it like to still be
playing all these hits and still be
well-received if people go crazy what's
that like it's a blessing because you
know we have newfound followers which I
really respect and love
I like the fact that that the industry
has stayed you know they like songs you
know the songs we always wrote songs not
me
you know I mean two is good here and go
songs are forever and we're still
performing these songs and every time we
perform them it's like the first time
it's great energy on stage
dieter Frank are the new to join the
whole the team of Tony's and it's been
out it's been wonderful worldwide for us
the name come from crazy way we used to
dress and act it was just for that and
it's family business you know uh so we
started out as somebody access to
perform at a wedding we didn't have a
name making fun it was like Tony Tony
Tony we laughed look at you guys singing
these hits and being part of such an
incredible oh my god to hear people
singing word-for-word you know the crowd
as far as your eye can see people hands
in the air dancing and being able to
sing the leads these long like oh my god
I'm sneaking and stealing like I'm
cheating you know what I mean it's
awesome and it's a blessing you know to
perform with the Tony's all gay
everybody does it feel like too good to
be true like what I feel like I do I
feel like that you know more so than my
brother's here but it's like I really
feel it you know I'm saying cuz coming
from that era in time of the New Jack
Swing with that funk it just it's
overwhelming sometimes it's just being
able just living in the moment so every
time we come to do the you know our
performances it just be the energy and
the crowd we pulled it out of out of the
crowd
you know I mean we have Apple fires on
stage so sometimes you know other
musicians like to join us on stage so
that's great
no we speak whole another language on
that stage yeah I was gonna go it's all
just felt you know but we also have
always been like focused on what's the
next you know like in even in 95-96 our
last album you know we signed the group
Destiny's Child moved in to open some
like that and you know the group was 13
and 14 back then and so it's always been
since then you know since the last out
mother tony has been groups and artists
like Alicia Keys that we had the
opportunity to work with in strange
enough we want to grab me for diary you
know working on that project but it's
like always to me it's always about
giving passing this information on to
the next generation in upholding this
legacy you know you come to Detroit
there's a cold
let's see everybody I want to show one
more time oh come on at the soundboard
tonight it's about to be we're gonna
take you back way back way back how far
back to the beginning we not fish to get
up there and play around we're gonna
really give y'all a show like that's
what we do we we got that energy and ice
that's what makes us stand out I think
that the fact that the instruments that
we play on vintage instruments you don't
wanna be three on our stage let's see a
wordless or finger rolls we definitely
don't see a classic Fender