Tym Morrison's Newest Live-Streamed Concerts & More Assorted Updates!!

A bit of a delay to get today's post (our 57th straight in as many days), but I wanted to tie in one of today's live-streamed concerts with one we haven't' touched on yet. Those make up the bulk of this post, but we do have some assorted news to round things out with, so here's what you should know!

Let's dive into Tym Morrison's last two live-streamed concerts on his YouTube channel today, as the local hard rock singer/guitarist brought his acoustic show back for it's 11th & 12th installments on Thursday and earlier this evening! Apologies for the delay on Thursday's episode, we had a lot of big topics to cover over the weekend. We'll start there, with his Thursday live-stream beginning about 10 minutes in to the 2+ hour video, but what does he cover there? In order, Tym tackles The Travelling Wilburys' "Handle With Care", Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble's "Pride & Joy", Cat Stevens' "Wild World", Nazareth's "Sunshine", Collective Soul's "Shine", an original jazz instrumental, John Fogerty's "The Old Man Down The Road", The Animals "House of The Rising Sun", The Beatles' "Golden Slumbers", Richard Marx's "Hold On To The Nights", Gary Wright's "Dream Weaver", Metallica's "Enter Sandman", Yes' "Owner Of A Lonely Heart", Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" ...

...Roxette's "It Must Have Been Love", Supertramp's "The Logical Song", Prince & The Revolution's "When Doves Cry", The Scorpions' "Still Loving You", The Romantics' "Talking In Your Sleep", Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun", Phil Collins' "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)", Styx's "Come Sail Away", a very familiar country instrumental, The Eagles' "Hotel California", and finally, Fleetwood Mac's "Never Going Back Again". Nice array of well performed covers once again, including some new cuts for his mid-pandemic live-stream series, so fans will want to give Thursday's concert a watch at the above links! Regarding his upcoming live-streamed concerts, this Facebook event page for his upcoming shows only lists them as taking place on Tuesday going forward. If that proves to be accurate or not, we'll let you know, but how about tonight's live-stream that just wrapped up?

That concert is embedded below, and it's structurally similar to Thursday's show as you might expect, but it begins 7 minutes in. Tym starts with covers of Chicago's "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" & Extreme's "More Than Words" before he leaves to set up his stage lighting. When Tym returns, he tacklesCarly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better", The Beatles' "Blackbird", two different instrumentals linked here & here, The Eagles' "Desperado", Little Texas' "What Might Have Been", Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'", White Lion's "When The Children Cry", Alan Jackson's "Chattahoochee", Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead Or Alive", "Hotel California" again, Guns N' Roses' "Patience", Poison's "Every Rose Has It's Thorn", Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama", Kansas' "Dust In The Wind", Eric Clapton's "Tears In Heaven", Tesla's "Love Song", The Who's "Pinball Wizard", The Stone Temple Pilots' "Plush", ...

...Days of the New's "Shelf In The Room", and his original "Say That You Care", before closing with  "Never Going Back Again"... again. While this was more of a reprise of prior covers from his live-streamed shows this year, the music remains on point, and as always, his usage of recorded backing tracks helps give these sets a fuller feel, as they do in proper concerts! That said, the 15 minute stretch of just instrumental songs may not be for everyone. Give Tym's newest live streams a watch, and look for more soon!



Finally for today, here are three assorted shorter news items from the last while, and as usual, these are in alphabetical order by artist name:

• I have taken the Pantychrist-headlined concert at LopLops Lounge on Sunday, June 1st off of our concert calendar due to the expected extension of Ontario's COVID-19 state of emergency & related non-essential business closures until June 2nd. Click here for more on the announcement. This show had not been publically called off by the headliners, local promoters, or venue at press time, but it looks like the premier has done that for them, alas. The new end date comes just before the Alienator concert at Soo Blaster on June 4th, which has not been publically addressed on social media in recent weeks.
• I have moved local HIM tribute band Poison Girl to our inactive band links due to a year's inactivity, having last been seen at The Rockstar Bar one year ago yesterday, with no Facebook page updates following. The Stegadeth side project played just two live sets, both at tribute band-themed concerts, and unlike frontwoman Tiffany Stocco's other local bands, they appear to have completely fallen by the wayside in the wake of her move out of town late last year. Hopefully she, Bill, Johnny, and Brian stay musically active as the year slowly crawls along!
• On May 1st, local classic/hard rock quartet Soundcheck announced on their Facebook page that singer/guitarists Terry Eaton & Cameron Oliver would do a live-streamed concert that night with fan requests encouraged. Despite the public plug, that live-stream was never shared or re-posted on the band's page, which is why we never talked about it here. If Soundcheck shares or re-uploads it publically, I will absolutely cover it on the SMS!

That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news and notes on the site this week! Thanks everyone!