Welcome to a very special edition of FNV. Hopefully I’m not jumping the shark by doing a “very special episode” but this is special because it debuts the monoblogue YouTube channel.
Rather than a bunch of political stuff this week, I’m choosing to showcase a few of the female-fronted bands who appeared last night at the (Save the…) Breast Fest in Ocean City last night. Later this weekend I’ll review the entire event as a “Weekend of local rock” post, but here are four of the seven bands who appeared.
This post may be tweaked if I don’t like the video quality (to a smaller frame size), but it’s the first effort I made with a new camera my significant other was thoughtful enough to buy me for my birthday. They looked good in Quick Time so I decided to make the leap to a YouTube channel.
I’ll begin with the different sound of Chrome Donut.
They were actually the last band to play early this morning. Shortly before them we heard the high energy covers of Petting Hendrix, in this instance covering their half-namesake.
After advising us to “put our seat belts on for this one”, Witches Brew did their version of one of the more obscure Nirvana songs, ‘Breed’. Actually it’s one of my favorite Nirvana songs because it’s a fun uptempo tune so I lucked out picking a song to record. (I didn’t have the benefit of a set list in front of me!)
I only have four videos tonight, since two others I shot didn’t come out as well…still working on focus a bit with this camera. Luckily I could save the best for last – my friends in Semiblind doing an original composition called ‘Right As Rain’. My only complaint is that maybe I was just a bit too close to the speaker for this one so the sound quality could be a touch better, but it’s still a damn fine song!
That’s all for now. Hopefully you enjoyed it and I look forward to creating even more video content to liven things up on the World Wide Web. Don’t forget to look for Weekend of local rock volume 26 coming soon.
