Keanu Reeves reunited with his 90s grunge band Dogstar at the 2023 BottleRock Napa Valley festival.
The Matrix star played bass with the band for the first time in public in more than 20 years. His bandmate Robert Mailhouse gave Reeves some advice ahead of performing in front of a live crowd.
“He was just super positive. He was like, ‘Listen to the music. Just be present in the song, and it will go from there,'” he told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Dogstar was formed in 1991 when Reeves and Mailhouse met at a supermarket and started a friendship. Reeves serves as the band’s bassist and backup vocalist while Mailhouse is a drummer and percussionist.
Gregg Miller joined the band a year later as the lead guitarist and vocalist. He would leave the band in 1995. Bret Domrose joined the band in 1994 as a guitarist and vocalist and took over as lead vocalist when Miller left.
During their brief run, Dogstar expectedly garnered a lot of media attention due to Reeves' involvement, beginning with the release of their four-track EP Quattro Formaggi in 1996 after several years of playing gigs in the U.S. and overseas; a full-length album, "Our Little Visionary", was only released in Japan.
The band low-key reunited last summer more than two decades after their final show in October 2022.
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Reeves recently opened up about reuniting with Dogstar and how much he missed performing with them.
“I missed playing together, I missed writing together, I missed doing shows together. It’s something I’ve always missed,” Reeves told Billboard.
“We came to a spot where we weren’t playing anymore, and I missed it … Once we started to play, and it felt good, and really positive and creative, that’s when it was like, ‘Okay, let’s make this happen.'”
Reeves added the band is also working on a new album, noting, “I think all three of us just said, ‘Well, if we’re going to do this, let’s make a record.'”
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