Toystock VIII Videos (Part 2!!)

As promised on Monday, here's the second half of our Toystock fallout, courtesy of the remaining known public video footage from the eighth annual Christmas Cheer fundraiser concert at The Grand Gardens North last month! We'll continue in descending order today, starting by acknowledging belatedly that power rock quartet Re:Born actually uploaded three videos from their set that night onto their Facebook page. We featured them playing the original "Running Away" on Monday, which was part of their Facebook playlist of Toystock bands, but the other two were not put with it. Those videos are of Re:Born covering Black Sabbath's "Children of the Sea" and of two songs in this lengthy video, namely their original "Die Another Day" and a cover of Iron Maiden's "Die With Your Boots On." Apologies for missing those on Monday, but they deliver more solid classic metal from this talented four-some! Remember, these are stationary clips, the filmer of these videos was performing on stage at this point.

Moving to the preceding bands at Toystock VIII, Re:Born filmed veteran classic/hard rock quintet Fluid 5ive covering Cheap Trick's "Surrender", albeit without any camera zooming. Adding to our recent note about lineup differences from this New A set, it looks like keyboardist/guitarist Rob Irving was back with the 5ive at Toystock, with no sign of guitarist Tom Millette, so was Tom just filling in for Rob that night? It looks that way, but Fluid 5ive haven't updated their Facebook page in a few months. The cover's well done and lively, and it's nice to see some more footage, so check it out below!



Re:Born also got this video of classic/hard rockers Soundcheck tackling Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O Mine", a very surprising cover for a band with only one guitarist! The guys have not found a full-time replacement for Travis Sharpe yet, and largely played as a trio here. Terry Eaton's vocal range sometimes struggles to hit Axl's high notes, but he gives it his all, and his guitar solo is solid! And yes, Glen did donate that very drum kit (and two others) to attending children, as he is wont to do each year, which is a wonderful gesture! Check out Soundcheck's Toystock video below!
 


The other videos Re:Born shot at Toystock include this clip of local country singer Brendan Hodgson and his solo band playing his original song "Kiss Me Slow", and young local pop rock quartet L!me covering Jet's "Are You Gonna Be My Girl". Both are strong and well filmed performances for country and garage rock fans, so give each a look above! Now, Re:Born were not at the Grand Gardens yet to film the first four acts, but we are not out of luck, as SaultOnline's Mike Caruso caught everyone but the last three bands for this extended 20 minute video for his YouTube channel last month. In order, we have local singer/guitarist Cameron Oliver covering Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)", country duo The Jeff & Jeff Show covering Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline", The Case's Music Band of instructors covering The Beatles' "Back In The USSR" (as also filmed by SaultOnline's Megan Pounder), ...

...new local singer/guitarist Kaitlyn Parr (The Carter Family's "When I'm Gone", a.k.a. "Cups"), another take of L!me doing "Are You Gonna Be My Girl", Brendan Hodgson & crew covering Brad Paisley's "Ticks", and lastly, Soundcheck covering Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" with the aforementioned Cameron Oliver on guest vocals. Well filmed as usual, everyone sounds good in their genres! I'm not fully on board with Cameron's hesitant verses on "Good Riddance", but he fits in well with Soundcheck to end the video. Give it a look below, and see much more from Toystock above!



That's all for now, but stay tuned for more news and updates on the site in the coming days! Thanks everyone!