5 Dollar Bribe Concert Video Showcase!!

How does another single-band post sound, especially another one relating to a recent concert? As you may recall, new high school-aged local hard rock quartet 5 Dollar Bribe made their public concert debut on Saturday, April 4th in the matinee timeslot at Beck's Bar that is usually reserved for acoustic acts, and if you missed that gig, never fear, as a lot of videos were shared to their Facebook page. Too many for one post, even! Before we get to the videos that were shared from attendees or other pages, the band proper uploaded two of their own videos the following day, namely covers of Silverchair's "No Association" and, as embedded below, the System of a Down version of Black Sabbath's "Snowblind". Kudos alone for covering a Silverchair song, especially one besides "Tomorrow"! Guitarist Jayce Albury sings on both of these covers, and doesn't play guitar at all on "Snowblind".

I don't think that cover is a particularly good choice for Jayce's vocal range, but these are well performed musically, and the camera work is good to capture the guys in action, even if both videos are only around a minute long each. It's unfair to assess their stage presences for show #1, especially at their ages, but hopefully they do loosen up more in time to match their clear talents. Give 5.D.B.'s first official Facebook videos a watch above & below!

Next up, the first videos that the band shared from external sources come from attendee Stephanie Goudreault's personal Facebook page. In a batch post also including a photo of the guys on stage, she included videos of Five Dollar Bribe covering Alice In Chains' "No Excuses" and, as embedded below, Ozzy Osbourne's "No More Tears". I went with that to embed because the "No Excuses" cover is vertically shot, focuses primarily on drummer Chase Chapman, and runs for only 39 seconds. Jayce (not on guitar again) struggles to hit Ozzy's high notes, but these covers are solid from what we hear with strong guitar work from Tyler Greely, so check them out above & below!

Chase's dad James Chapman filmed and uploaded the next videos to his personal Facebook page before the band shared them, and while his videos are (sadly) all vertical, he did upload eleven of them, including a handful of full songs! James filmed 5 Dollar Bribe covering System Of A Down's "Lost In Hollywood", the ending of The Queens Of The Stone Age's "In The Fade", 90 seconds of The Stone Temple Pilots' "Interstate Love Song" (with bassist Randy Lundigran on lead vocals), Staind's "Raining Again", Primus' "Too Many Puppies"(!), Bon Jovi's "I'll Be There For You", the second half of "No More Tears" (with Tyler leaving the stage to play the solo on the floor), 82 seconds of 3 Doors Down's "Loser", 31 seconds of Title Fight's "Numb, But I Still Feel It", 83 seconds of Blink-182's "Stay Together For The Kids", and as embedded below, Pink Floyd's "Money".

Jayce plays guitar on all songs here except "Lost In Hollywood", while Randy handles the Daron Malakian vocals on that song, plus the Mark Hoppus verses on the Blink-182 cover. Even with the non-ideal aspect ratio and sometimes partial videos, there's a lot to see here, and you can not knock the band's range at all. When's the last time you heard a local band cover Primus, and if you were to name the ten most likely Q.O.T.S.A. or Staind songs for a local band to cover, would what 5.D.B. picked be among them? For me, I can't say they would! Not every song here is necessarily my thing for genre preferences, but the performances are sound, especially for their debut, so give these a look above & below as well!

Fittingly, let's wrap things up with videos from James' wife/Chase's mom Jodi Chapman, who uploaded largely the same videos to her personal Facebook page as James did (no idea if one/both were the actual filmer), but her batch of videos does include unique content, including a handful of photos and two unique videos that were 100% not in James' batch post. These (also vertical) videos include a longer look at Five Dollar Bribe's "Snowblind" cover, and as embedded below, Temple Of The Dog's "Hunger Strike". Randy does struggle to hit Chris Cornell's vocal range on the latter, but it's another promising look at what could be a key cog for the future of the local scene, so check these out above & below!

There's four more videos from two more filmers that we will get to in an upcoming post, so stay tuned for that soon, but if the above videos are any sign, the kids are alright! That's all for now, but look for much more on the SMS soon! Thanks everyone!