It's now time for this month's YouTube Channel Profile, as we're again looking at a randomly selected YouTube channel whose content is at least half devoted to local metal, hard rock, and/or punk artists and/or concerts, in order to spotlight their content for current readers! This month's channel takes us back to YouTube's early years for quite a prominent local band at their absolute peak, so here's what you should know!
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soanso77's Channel (http://www.youtube.com/soanso77)
Channel Timeline: Launched on August 2nd, 2006; Videos uploaded from that day through October 1st, 2007
Channel Summary: While the channel isn't branded to the band, soanso77's uploads all revolve around inactive local punk quartet The Inner City Surfers from the height of their local fame in the mid-2000s, all preceding the release of their fourth CD (the self-titled "black album") in the fall of 2007. These include two live performance videos, a music video, a blooper video, and short clips of Dustin & Mikey singing a Meat Loaf song on the road and making loon calls outside.
Why You Should Watch: There's not a ton of content here, but it's spread across a lot of different types of videos that will definitely appeal to fans of The Surfers from a time when their momentum was higher than ever, and fans of their classic era will find a lot to like (and laugh at) here, despite the 15-16 year old video quality obviously lacking as time progresses! Note that an official Inner City Surfers channel existed at this same time period, albeit also containing just six videos, and neither was updated through the end of this run of the band in 2013, nor their 2019-2020 reunion.
The Inner City Surfers - The Fall Guy: Dave's first upload is, despite appearances, a rehearsal blooper from Foggy Notions (now Coch's Corner) in mid-2006 when they were trying to play "Booze N' Doobs" from 2002's "Laughing On The Outside" (with a black album re-recording ahead). Things are amusingly derailed when bassist Brad "Example" Lacell tried to take a jump off of a floor monitor and literally became "the fall guy", leading to some amusing reactions from his bandmates! This is expanded to 4 minutes with self deprecation at the show proper where Brad notes that he's now a stuntman, time shifted replays, and post-fall reactions from the band & onlookers, with subtitles & audio overdubs of the intended song as well. Funny diversion, though audio clarity is obviously a concern in 2022.
Inner City Surfers - Panama (cover) Live at Foggy's: The two full concert videos on this channel come from a Foggy Notions concert in September 2006 as filmed by the now-defunct Killing Television Productions. One features The Surfers (also including singer/guitarist Dustin Jones & drummer Mikey Hawdon) playing their heavier original "10 Commandments" from their 2000 self titled CD, but featured here is a rare cover of Van Halen's "Panama" (as their covers go, this is a huge change from "I've Been Everywhere"!) While the video quality 16 years later obviously suffers, Killing Television shot both of these videos with lots of disparate camera angles in Foggy's, and the audio is still respectable! While it was clearly hot based on their lack of shirts, everyone performs strongly, and "Panama" was a good pick to let Dave let loose with a killer guitar solo!
Inner City Surfers - "What A Life": soanso77's final upload was also his most popular by quite a lot, with over 14,000 people seeing the official music video for "What A Life" from their October 2007 self-titled album (and last studio album to date). Curiously uploaded in extreme widescreen (we're talking Ultra Panavision 70 here) and stretched to these dimensions, the video features the guys playing the verses to accompany the people being sung about in the song during their daily lives (yes, that is Studio 10 in the first chorus), alongside performance clips of The Surfers at the lakefront with some ladies in bikinis/beach wear, and eventually, rocking out at Foggy Notions once more. Well made video of this laid back and very casual original song that remains a Surfers favourite to this day!
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I hope you guys liked this month's YouTube Channel Profile! Next month in this series, we'll look at multiple channels after a run of single channel installments, as our first randomly selected channel only has two band videos from one concert, and ditto for my second try, so we have three different channels next time out. Coincidentally, all are of Sault Michigan bands in concert, believe it or not! Those are via YouTube users wirelessguy6969 (Abstract, a.k.a. Tantrym Tyme), LondonGentlemenn (The London Gentlemen, obviously), and Pacoheadley (Banned), so look for those on or around July 26th! That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news and notes on the site this week! Thanks everyone!
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