There are Barenaked Ladies concerts, and then there are Barenaked Ladies concerts in the Detroit area.

And then there are tour-ending concerts in the Detroit area.

The Toronto quartet has a long love affair with these parts as an acknowledged second home, a relationship that dates back to a 1994 showcase performance at the State Theatre (now the Fillmore Detroit) and includes 24 headline dates at the Pine Knob Music Theatre — where it recorded 2007 concert album and video “Talk to the Hand: Live in Michigan.” Thanks to that and routing logistics, Pine Knob has also been the site for the final concerts of BNL’s last few Last Summer on Earth tours, the latest coming Saturday, Aug. 2 with Sugar Ray and Fastball.

It was another combination of kindred and complementary spirits, but even more

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