Tuesday, June 26, 2018

YouTube Channel Profile Series: Brook Moreau, Mike Deresti, And Maltheus

Here's this month's YouTube Channel Profiles to check out on this Tuesday afternoon! Today, we're spotlighting 3 randomly selected channels, as the first one we chose only had 3 very similar videos, so we had to fill things out, and the second channel only had one video period, so three it is. This month covers solo, live, and studio material from a handful of notable performers, so here's what you should know on this month's chosen YouTube channels and their content within!
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Brook Moreau (http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oG6AxI8g4ueU4yCdxdZ6A

Owner: Ex-For All That Is Lost guitarist Brook Moreau

Channel Timeline: Launched on January 5th, 2012; Videos posted from March 15th-18th, 2015

Channel Summary: Two years after the breakup of his Central Algoma death metal band F.A.T.I.L., Brook uploaded three solo performance videos on YouTube, including a cover of August Burns Red's "Composure" and two Killswitch Engage covers, "Take This Oath" and "Self Revolution", his most popular video. Oddly enough, Brook doesn't appear to have his guitar plugged in for the covers (hence why you can hear him hitting the guitar strings), but he is clearly playing the songs in question and seems to know them very well! Though Brook hasn't visibly used his channel in over three years, check out For All That Is Lost videos for higher quality views of Brook in action, he was a highly underrated player!


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Mike Deresti (http://www.youtube.com/deresti64

Owner: YouTube user and area resident Mike Deresti

Channel Timeline: Launched on April 28th, 2011; Only video posted on July 16th, 2017

Channel Summary: Mike's only upload is a video of Windsor hard/world rock trio The Tea Party's free headlining concert at The Roberta Bondar Pavilion last July during the provincial government-sponsored ONTour concert series. Posting this shortly after the show wrapped up, Mike's video is of The Tea Party playing their classic ballad "Heaven Coming Down" (plus a mid-song rendition of U2's "With Or Without You"), though it starts with frontman Jeff Martin talking about filming the music video for this song. One of the better public videos from this concert, you get a nice look at the stage and video wall from Mike's vantage point, and The Tea Party sound as good as ever on their biggest hit! Though Mike hasn't visibly used this channel since, other YouTube accounts have more videos from this show.


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Maltheas (http://www.youtube.com/maltheas

Owner: YouTube user Maltheas, who I don't believe is locally based

Channel Timeline: Launched on June 17th, 2010; Videos posted on June 19th & 20th of that year

Channel Summary: Maltheas' channel is solely made up of two videos of songs he likes with accompanying lyrics in both English and Spanish, including Jonathan Coulton's "The Future Soon", and the more locally relevant "Brand New Low" by Treble Charger. I don't speak Spanish, so I can't comment on how good the translation is, but commenters on the more popular Jonathan Coulton cover seem appreciative of the effort! Of course, the Treble Charger song in question was a fan favourite from their 2000 CD "Wide Awake Bored", but there are many channels with this and far more content from the local indie/punk veterans, so the channel may only be of a vested interest for Spanish-fluent fans.


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I hope you guys liked this month's YouTube Channel Profiles! Next month in this series, our randomly selected channel will be that of Pillory guitarist/Id Iota bassist Robert Sartini, who has over two dozen videos from Pillory and his solo endeavours, so look for that on or around July 26th, and stay tuned for more news and notes soon! Thanks everyone!

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