Friday night videos – episode 67

At the end I debut the videos I shot at the Concert for a Random Soldier over Memorial Day weekend. In the meantime, let’s throw out some jams with covers first.

This is a mid-Shore band called Blitzed who’s playing up at Marina’s in Blades as I write. It’s their take on Pink Floyd’s ‘Young Lust.’

Outdoor parties tend to make for fun (if raw) videos, and that was the case with this one from Freshly Squeezed. I’m guessing they closed out their summer with this Sublime cover.

Lower Class Citizens checks in with this Live Lixx performance from last November. Haven’t heard a lot from them lately; hopefully it’s a sign of good things to come.

Interesting thing about that video – normally there’s much more natural light in that studio but recording that in late November meant that Live Lixx at Six was well after dark.

It was quite light when I recorded these following videos; in fact almost too much. First in chronological order is the Mari Hill Band, doing their version of ZZ Top’s ‘Sharp Dressed Man.’

I’m not sure how old Mari Hill is, but she has plenty of moves. It’s interesting to hear that song played as a four-piece outfit (five if you count Mari’s percussion.)

The next pair of songs are a live staple from Semiblind, who maybe skips just a beat before transitioning from Santana to Heart. Don’t mind the little bit of wind noise.

That makes for a long video, so I have time for only one more. From the same show, here’s The Saints of Chaos doing an original called ‘Temptation and Regret.’

Those boys were driving some wattage through the overburdened Post 28 pavilion’s electrical system. It was loud and it was good. Hopefully you thought the sounds were as well, even if the video was a little bleached out because of the light background.

Until next time, rock on!

Friday night videos – episode 66

Maybe you missed the 6:00 sneak peek? I forgot for a moment this has a 24-hour clock!

Anyway, you can subtitle this the ‘spring cleaning’ edition, just in time for the unofficial beginning of summer. I decided to clean out some of my archives of videos I’ve taken over the last few months (or years) and pick out some good stuff I hadn’t uploaded yet. (On some rainy day or two I may just upload a batch, since I may have a dozen or two good videos I’ve never used.) But part of this episode came from a backlog of not doing an episode of FNV the last couple weeks.

I’ll start with some video I took back in March at the Spring Luau. In order, these come from 7 Days Wasted, Jason Lee (solo, without Crookedfinger), and Lethal Dose.

Lethal Dose rocked so hard and was so loud the video didn’t sync quite right.

I have a special video from my vault, featuring my friends from Semiblind – but one in particular. Watching Jim Hogsett do ‘Seven Nation Army’ is an experience because he never plays it the same way twice. I caught this a few months back at The Lagoon here in Salisbury.

Now I’m going to go way back on you.

You’ve seen Witches Brew before here, but this video was shot at the 2010 Spring Luau, I do believe. They wanted to put us in a ‘Cold Sweat.’ Sound is a touch rough but passable.

Even farther back, we have two to close from the aptly-named (but no longer together) Order 6-D6. (It’s a shame because this episode was perfect for them.) From Pork in the Park 2009, this is their version of the Misfits’ ‘London Dungeon.’

Finally, they did a song which should rank among the longest song titles I’ve ever featured. It was one of the first videos I did, with a camera I no longer have. To be honest, I think it came out okay but I didn’t play it through. The lighting was a little funky to be sure.

If I get a chance this weekend I’ll be adding to my archives, since there’s a number of multi-band shows lined up (including the Concert for a Random Soldier currently featured in my sidebar.) So I don’t (and won’t) have a shortage of items, but if bands want to set me hip to their stuff they should drop me a line – ttownjotes (at) yahoo.com.