Friday night videos – episode 71

After a hiatus of just over five months, I’m bringing back the series this week. Don’t anticipate I’ll do this every week, but I think it’s likely I can do this every one to three months, anyway.

All of these videos were recorded over the last two months in two venues: the first two were among the live entertainment at November’s Punkin Chunkin up in rural Delaware, while the others came from the recent 12 Bands of Christmas show I attended earlier this month.

I’ll begin with Semiblind doing a Led Zeppelin classic.

What surprised me was the wind noise not being the problem I feared, because it was a-blowin’ out there – as it always seems to that time of year.

The next band up was Vivid Season, and they did their rendition of this Fuel hit.

Unfortunately, I didn’t stick around there to see some of the other bands which were featured, nor did I get a good video of every band at the 12 Bands of Christmas.

But these young guys were impressive, as The Hooplas blended in a little funk and hip-hop on this number.

Now this is one you don’t hear a cover band doing every day. Aside from the slight false start, I enjoyed a little Pantera as done by Slackjaw. Walk on home, boy.

Another song which rarely finds its way onto playlists but should more often is The Cult’s ‘Love Removal Machine.’ Livin’ the Dream has it on theirs.

Fast forward about a decade and a half, add a couple dancers, and you get this video of Dust n’ Bones doing some Nickelback.

Just so you know, this IS Abby’s Cage, because they tell you so.

I compare this version with another band (which shall remain nameless) that did this song until the vocalist lost his beer trying to sing it. No such mishap on this one.

No beer was spilled with this, either. But Susan, the lead singer of Witches Brew, was less animated than usual on this one.

Having just watched this, I really need to complain about the lighting. It would have been a better video with one more spot on the front of the stage – so I can see the singer.

The other video which gave me difficulty was this one. First of all, We Might Collide is a six-piece band. Second, there were a lot of people up front. And third, I thought the sound wasn’t all that great. But this at least gives you a flavor.

So now you all know a little bit of what I’ve been up to lately. But I also need to hunt down more good videos and further promote the local musical talent. Maybe my friend Ridgely needs to put my channel on his Facebook rotation. (That’s called a hint.)

In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed this edition of FNV. My YouTube channel now has 75 videos on it (although not all are music) so I’m getting quite the collection here. Maybe I’ll dig through my archives and see what other nuggets I have over the next few months.