Ballas Hough Band, the band from Dancing with the Stars, brings MILFs to Record Bar

People from the TV show Dancing with the Stars danced at Sprint Center last night. I don’t know anything about Dancing with the Stars other than it’s a reality TV program that challenges C-list celebrities to strut their stuff. But my grandma was excited to hear that I was — on a lark — seeing the band featuring some dudes from the show. She likes Dancing with the Stars better than “Idol.” 

This Stars band is called Ballas Hough Band, so named for singin’ axe men Mark Ballas and Derek Hough. I met their manager before the show. He was a nice dude who got concerned when Patrick Swayze’s face flashed on the tabloid TV program showing across the room (“Wasn’t he sick?”). This manager explained that Ballas and Hough are aspiring rock stars who just happen to be world-class dancers. Their killer moves on the dance floor are like day jobs, I guess — day jobs that have put them on tour and performing three times a day (morning acoustic gigs for radio stations, dancing in the evening with the Stars tour and late night club shows with the band) for the next month.

A local band called Kerrington Cooper went on first. The singer begged unsuccessfully for folks to come to the front. He sang earnestly about girls doing the “kiss and run.” The whole band was so young and adorable and seemed like they’d maybe listened to too much Panic! at the Disco. And when the drummer told me afterwards that they all played in church together, I was confirmed in my suspicion of what the lyric “beautiful girl that I see once a week” referred to.

If the male members of the Ballas Hough Band are into blonds and cougars, they shouldn’t have had a problem getting laid last night. As the clock approached 11, a steady stream of MILFs and overdressed young blonds filtered into the bar. I’m pretty sure they were all coming from the Sprint Center — and the suburbs before that.

Ballas Hough Band is like a pop smoothie. If you put Enrique Iglesias, Gloria Estefan, Justin Timberlake, Michael Jackson, Prince, Maroon 5 and Montell Jordan (I swear I heard some variation of “This is How We Do It”), you might get something approximating this band. That’s not all bad. It was definitely danceable. And I was reminded of the first time I saw Maroon 5, way back before anyone knew who they were. Three years later, my mom became a huge fan. I expect the same will happen with the Ballas Hough Band. That’s cool.

Here are some photos I took last night. One of them includes Maurice Green, the really fast runner who was on Dancing with the Stars. Or so I’m told.