Dennis Quaid is probably better known for his roles in movies like Any Given Sunday and The Day After Tomorrow than for his work as a musician, but the actor has been singing and playing guitar for his band The Sharks for over a decade now. The group is a straight-up rock and blues outfit (ex-members Steppenwolf) that brings originals to the table as well as covering legends like Van Morrison and Jerry Lee Lewis (because when you play someone in a movie, you get all their powers). And since Quaid & The Sharks are coming to Niagara Fallsview Casino (Fri-Sat 9/2 & 9/3, $35), we decided to list some of our favorite (for whatever reason) celebrity bands.

10) Kevin Costner & Modern West – There's really no shortage of aging actors playing middle-of-the-road country/rock (see Billy Bob Thornton, Russell Crowe, Gary Sinise), but since Modern West is going to be at the Fallsview Casino, too (Thu 9/8, $65), we figured we figured it was pertinent enough to list.

9) Wicked Wisdom – This band is appalling, not just because we have Jada Pinkett Smith fronting a super-aggro nu-metal band, but because she's so terrible at it. One very big question: why?

8) Dead Man's Bones – Ryan Gosling's death folk band Dead Man's Bones are a lot better than they should be. When you sound like Leonard Cohen or Tom Waits singing at a New Orleans funeral in a catchy way, you deserve something better than an audience made up of women screaming louder your music. Sorry, dude.

7) Thunderbox – I like to think that all of Thunderbox's success comes from guitarist/frontman Steven Seagal ruthlessly breaking the noses and elbows and necks of all his naysayers. That said, Thunderbox is the single greatest band of all time.

6) 30 Seconds to Mars – When it was released a couple years ago, I treated “The Kill” like porn: whenever it would play on cable late at night, I'd make sure none of my roommates were home, dim the lights, and experience waves of conflicted emotions as I'd shamefully tune in. It was a guilty pleasure, but Jared Leto's once-trendy post-hardcore band really wrote a catchy hook on this one... and now I'm going to hell.

5) The Bacon Brothers – Kevin Bacon is an indubitable force in the film world. If you've played the Seven Degrees game (and are the Rain Man of remembering actors), you know that he can be connected to just about anyone in Hollywood through a handful of projects. This doesn't carry over to his music though; along with brother Michael, he's been putting out silky pop-country for almost 20 years to less than marginal recognition.

4) Rilo Kiley – This band should count as two entries, since both guitarist Blake Sennett and vocalist Jenny Lewis served time as child actors. Sennett played Pinsky in the Nickelodeon show “Salute Your Shorts” and Joey The Rat in “Boy Meets World.” Lewis was in The Wizard and Pleasantville, and can be Seven Degreed in the music world as well, having played with Postal Service and The Watson Twins.

3) Eddie Murphy/Rick James – The one-off, god-awful hit “Party All The Time” evokes two major responses: 80s Nostalgia, and Cocaine Frenzy.

2) She & Him – Ever since Zooey Deschanel belted out “Baby It's Cold Outside” in the bathroom scene of Elf, everyone knew she had some nasty pipes. So when she formed She & Him with indie songwriter M. Ward, we were all treated to a rare instance of a celebrity band “specifically not sucking.”

1) Kel Mitchell/Less Than Jake – Though “I'm A Dude” was the only song they released together, the pairing of Mitchell with Less Than Jake was nothing short of magic. As the centerpiece for the Good Burger soundtrack, it taught us the value of friendship, the innocent joys of summer in youth, and most importantly, that He was a Dude, She was a Dude, and that, in the end, we were ALL Dudes.