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As much as heвЂ™s risking being laughed out of the room like Bruce Willis singing the blues or Leonard Nimoy singing about hobbits, as much as heвЂ™s choosing a degree of ignominy by clocking in on the bar-band circuit, as much as what heвЂ™s doing is about getting back to the basics of making art for fun while banishing all premeditated thoughts of career and image, as much as itвЂ™s about Keanu seeking the Zen reset of potentially eating shit onstage at the end of the day heвЂ™s still playing the rock-and-roll video game on вЂњeasyвЂќ mode. He starts this band and assumes a role in it where heвЂ™s not the focus, but the band becomes viable as a live act because people want to see Keanu Reeves play in a band. ItвЂ™s Keanu denying-or at least taking a break from-how famous heвЂ™s become, but heвЂ™s denying it in a way that wouldnвЂ™t be possible to do if not for his celebrity.

Of course, Dogstar is Hamlet all over again. But I say, better to regret something that you have done than regret something you havenвЂ™t done.вЂќ вЂњWeвЂ™ve played about ten times now and though weвЂ™re getting better, we play better in a garage. вЂњWeвЂ™re terrible,вЂќ he says cheerfully in 1993. He wants to play some music with some friends, so he starts a mediocre band whose mediocrity he ameliorates by never once insisting that people pretend theyвЂ™re great. At no point does he seem motivated by a desire to hyphenate his job title. He is not a restless вЂњcreativeвЂќ seeking a bigger canvas on which to paint. He never seems eager to have this work interpreted as an extension of some larger artistic practice. Off to the side, head down, Joe Rhythm Section keeping time. HeвЂ™s not the lead singer, for one thing-heвЂ™s just the bass player. Whatever the other guys are thinking, for Keanu this is just a hang, at least at first, and even once it becomes more than that, he approaches the whole situation in an admirably unвЂ“Thirty Seconds to MarsвЂ“esque fashion. Especially in Los Angeles, where you kind of have to take up a hobby-itвЂ™s why people play street hockey, which is another thing Keanu starts doing around this time.

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So begins the story of Dogstar, a professional rock band that forms and eventually tours the world and puts out two major-label albums, all because itвЂ™s really hard to make new guy friends in your thirties, even if youвЂ™re Keanu Reeves. At this point in his life Keanu has finally abandoned his hotel-hobo lifestyle and rented an actual house in Los Angeles he and Mailhouse start jamming there with Gregg Miller, a singer and guitarist whoвЂ™s also a part-time actor. Keanu has been known to fool around on the bass. But after hockey brings them together, the thing Mailhouse and his fellow actor Keanu Reeves bond over isnвЂ™t acting. Chances are youвЂ™ve seen Mailhouse on TV, whether you know it or not-he goes on to play a philandering hospital administrator on Melrose Place and a detestable network executive on Aaron SorkinвЂ™s Sports Night and the gay man Elaine tries to convert to heterosexuality on Seinfeld, and by the mid-2000s heвЂ™s earned TVвЂ™s most distinguished working-actor merit badge by guest-starring on three different shows in the CSI universe.

When he meets Keanu heвЂ™s in the middle of a two-year run on Days of Our Lives as a police officer named Brian Scofield, a performance that will win him the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Comic Relief Role in 1992. The guy in the jersey is an actor named Robert Mailhouse. He sees a guy in a Detroit Red Wings jersey and starts talking to him about hockey. The way it happens is simultaneously totally normal and totally Hollywood.

And yet: in 1991, when heвЂ™s somewhere between Point Break and Dracula and old enough to know better, Keanu starts a band.

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