Tym Morrison's Newest Live-Streamed Concerts, Plus More Assorted News!!

After a quiet stretch, we're back on this Tuesday night with a post mostly devoted to recent live-streamed content from a prominent acoustic solo musician, but we do have some assorted updates to round things out with. Here's what you should know!

Local hard rock singer/guitarist Tym Morrison held his 36th & 37th live-streamed concerts on his YouTube channel on Thursday and earlier today, so what should you know regarding these at home shows? Starting with episode #36 from Thursday, this took the place of his cancelled Motley Market concert that same evening, and was back at his usual home setting. Tym didn't elaborate on why the Motley Market shows were scuttled, but it doesn't sound like it was his call. Starting later than normal due to vehicle maintenance, Tym's set begins about 3 minutes, and features covers of Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud", Eric Carmen's "Hungry Eyes", Amanda Marshall's "Dark Horse", Roxette's "Listen To Your Heart", Foreigner's "That Was Yesterday", Berlin's "Take My Breath Away", Toto's "Hold The Line", Frozen Ghost's "Dream Come True", Supertramp's "Breakfast In America", Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise", ...

...Roxette's "It Must Have Been Love", Amy Holland's "Shooting For The Moon",Yes' "Owner Of A Lonely Heart", Jim Croce's "Time In A Bottle", Ludwig von Beethoven's "Piano Sonata No. 14", White Lion's "When The Children Cry", Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'", The Beatles' "Here Comes The Sun", Little Texas' "What Might Have Been", Extreme's "More Than Words", The Beatles' "Blackbird", and The Eagles' "Desperado", before oddly closing with his Spanish guitar instrumental. Another solid set filled with familiar and more recent additions to his extensive setlist, and fans of Tym's vocal and guitar talents will be right at home as usual! That said, there were some video lag issues in the second hour, and we just heard eight of these songs in the previous Thursday's live-stream at the Motley Market (remember, he did not play an at-home show that Tuesday.) However, he did play one this Tuesday, which just wrapped up and is embedded below, so what can you see here? After more of a delay than on Thursday, tonight's show began about 9 minutes with covers of "Blackbird" again, ...

...Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better", and three more repeat songs from Thursday ("What Might Have Been", "Free Fallin'", and "When The Children Cry"), before addressing some private gigs he played over the previous weekend. Next, Tym tackles Garth Brooks' "The Dance", seguing right into a lengthy original instrumental, which he demonstrates some tentative lyrics for afterwards. The covers resume with Kansas' "Dust In The Wind", Mason Williams' "Classical Gas", and Eric Clapton's "Tears In Heaven", before he played his own original instrumental "Into The Light Of Darkness". Afterwards, Tym covered Chicago's "Hard To Say I'm Sorry", Blue Oyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", Loverboy's "Working For The Weekend", The Stone Temple Pilots' "Plush" & "Interstate Love Song", before closing with another original instrumental. Despite the familiar start with four out of five repeat covers, this episode got it's own flavour over time!

With lots of instrumental sections and guitar demonstrations for viewers, this episode was informative and entertaining, and without major lag in the visual department, so Tym's fans should be happy with the final product here and on Thursday! Give both live-streams a watch above & below, and stay tuned this Thursday for his likely next at-home concert!



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

• I have moved Sault Michigan hard rock solo musician Alex Traynor to our inactive band links due to a year's inactivity. As you may know, Alex has been busy focusing on his band Tarnished since last summer, and has not publically discussed new solo work on his Facebook page since playing an acoustic gig in Mount Pleasant in June of last year. Tarnished share a lot thematically with Alex's solo original material, and hopefully they find continued local success!
• Also, I have moved Sault Ontario country/punk quintet The Billy Bastards to our inactive band links, as it has been a year since their last Facebook page update as of Saturday. While The Billys haven't played a public concert set (stags & does don't count) since 2015, they had been working on new original material for a tentative fourth CD as of 2018, and released their "Bathe In Whiskey" album on Apple Music last spring. Personal Facebook postings have hinted at Billys plans in the past year, but hopefully the guys return to public activity at some point down the line!
• SooToday's Darren Taylor covered the impending re-opening of Reggie's Place on Queen Street East via this article on Saturday! New owner Randy Lapossie (in his first business venture of this kind) was interviewed for the article, where he talked about his memories of Reggie's, why he bought the tavern, and what is and isn't changing there. The article didn't elaborate on the initial closure last fall, but the fire and break-ins were acknowledged among it's "troubled story of late". Reggie's Place re-opens on September 1st, and country rock cover quartet Bone Yard will be the first band to play there over the September 11th-12th weekend.

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