LOCAL CONCERT ALERT (Tym Morrison) & His Newest Live-Stream!!

Single topic post on this Friday night, all devoted to a SHORT NOTICE LOCAL CONCERT ALERT and attached new concert video, and primarily due to the latter note, there's a lot to take in here, so let's get things rolling!

Local hard rock singer/guitarist Tym Morrison will play his sixth acoustic solo concert at The Motley Market on Gore Street TOMORROW! Apologies for the short notice, Tym only announced the show via it's Facebook event page yesterday. This will be the third straight Saturday gig for Tym at this new downtown performance space and vendor market, but if he has a weekly arrangement there like his still-on-hiatus Gliss dates, he hasn't firmly said so on his public band pages. Still, despite the late notice, it's great to see a hard rock musician playing live in any fashion as the pandemic winds along, and hopefully there's a solid (yet social distance-minded) crowd TOMORROW! No word on if he will have the camera rolling for a live-stream again, but he hasn't missed at this venue yet! Unlike his past Motley Market standalone gigs, this will have a later-ish start time of 6:00 PM, and while there are no announced cover charges or age limits, use common sense if you come out for this concert.

See above for more details, and for a preview, let's finally discuss Tym's live-stream of his last Motley Market show this past Saturday, as viewable on his YouTube channel. I held off on talking about it in case he had a short notice show there again this weekend, and lo and behold! If you like Tym's solo concerts, you are in luck, as Saturday's live-stream ran for 3 hours & 17 minutes, easily his longest to date, and with no S.O.Y.A. presentation in the middle like on the previous Monday's 3+ hour video, that does means more music for fans! The set proper begins about 3:40 into the video with covers of Jim Croce's "Time In A Bottle", Ludwig van Beethoven's "Piano Sonata No. 14", The Beatles' "Here Comes The Sun", Van Morrison's "Have I Told You Lately", and Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive", before bringing back his jazz instrumental. Covers resume with the Cutting Crew's "(I Just) Died In Your Arms", Phil Collins' "One More Night", Oasis' "Wonderwall", ...

...The Romantics' "Talking In Your Sleep", Amanda Marshall's "Dark Horse", Chris de Burgh's "Lady In Red", and Prince & The Revolution's "When Doves Cry", after which Tym takes a 20 minute break that is oddly split by an instrumental version of Red Rider's  "Human Race". When he returns for good, Tym picked things back up by doing that song again (now in full), Roxette's "Listen To Your Heart", Toto's "Hold The Line", Berlin's "Take My Breath Away", Amy Holland's "Shooting For The Moon", Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You", The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed", Amanda Marshall's "Trust Me (This Is Love)", David Wilcox's "Riverboat Fantasy", and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Fishin' In The Dark", before closing set #2 with an instrumental composition. This break runs for 12 minutes, and he kicks off his third and final set of his 42nd live-streamed concert by playing his regular Spanish guitar instrumental.

Next, Tym covered Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters", Firehouse's "Love Of A Lifetime", and Journey's "Open Arms", before playing a softer instrumental track. The concert and live-stream wrap up with covers of Kiss' "Rock & Roll All Nite", The Bangles' "Eternal Flame", Aerosmith's "Dream On", Fleetwood Mac's "Never Going Back Again", and finally, another rendition of "Human Race", though Tym did acknowledge before the third take that he was still trying to figure it out. 36 songs in 3+ hours, this was quite a marathon to watch and assess! Tym's performances are as solid and reliable as ever, despite his still minimal banter with assembled fans (watch for The Comic Book & Magic Man), and it's neat seeing the Motley Market slowly add to it's interior layout! However, we just heard "Fishin' In The Dark", "Eternal Flame", "Dream On", and the jazz & Spanish instrumentals in the previous Monday's live-stream.

Also, the dreaded video lag does rear it's ugly head during the second & third sets, which will be all too familiar for regular viewers of Tym's at-home shows, and if there was a way to remedy it, Tym wasn't manning the camera the same here.  Fun concert overall, with standby and somewhat newer songs alike to check out, so give it a watch below, and don't miss Tym at the Motley Market TOMORROW NIGHT, new live-stream or not! Thanks everyone!