We covered the first half of known public videos from
The Hair Scare Live last Sunday, so why not wrap things up from that sold-out concert one week later? Most of today's videos will come via videos posted on or shared to
The Hair Scare's Facebook group in the days following the event, but we will have a couple from YouTube to share in an upcoming post. Today's footage starts with Troy & Annette Chandler (of the
Troy's Trail charity walk), who are ardent Hair Scare fans and combined to share 8 videos from the sold-out Dreammakers Theatre concert at the Sault Michigan Kewadin Casino on February 22nd onto the group. In descending order, let's start with Troy's video of headliner
Tom Keifer and his solo band covering his old group Cinderella's classic song
"Shake Me". Despite a vertical camera angle that's often half crowd heads, Tom and crew sound solid and energetic, so hair metal fans will want to check this one out!
Unfortunately, these videos can
not be embedded on external websites due to their privacy settings, but don't blame the Chandlers, as the Hair Scare group video they didn't shoot is also blocked from external embedding, so it looks like this is a group setting. Very disappointing, but I'll link everything so you guys can watch them there! Next up, Troy filmed three videos of Maryland hair metal icons
Kix playing three songs, including
"Don't Close Your Eyes",
"Blow My Fuse" (with lots of crowd involvement), and
"Cold Blood". These videos were filmed in landscape mode, which improves the quality, but "Blow My Fuse" was unfortunately uploaded sideways. Aside from that, these capture Kix's retro glam metal stylings very well, both heavy and light sounds alike, so give these a look too! The Chandlers' only video of Los Angeles rockers
Faster Pussycat
was via Annette, who shared a clip of them playing their ballad
"House of Pain".
Another vertical upload, you do see more of the stage
this time, but based on
Chris Paci's videos of their set, I think their upbeat metal songs suit them better. Judge for yourself at the above links! Attendee Mike Nicholson also filmed Faster Pussycat playing
"House of Fire" in his own video on the Hair Scare group, which runs for only 40 seconds or so, and has a much sharper angle of the stage, not helped by the vertical angle and slightly rougher recording. The music sounds good while it lasts, and it's nice to have an alternate perspective! Back to Annette's uploads, she prefaced the concert clips with three pre-concert videos, specifically from The Hair Scare's live pre-show episode on
Rock 101, which aired at 4:00 PM that day so as to not conflict with the concert.
One clip is just of them sitting outside the theatre while host/MC Scott Cook is mingling with fans during a song, but the other two feature Scott interviewing members of the two opening bands.
The first 30-ish second-long video includes Faster Pussycat frontman Taime Downe and guitarist Sam Koltun talking about Sam joining the group last year, while
the longer second clip sees them discuss their touring in Wisconsin (nearer to Rock 101's sister stations in the Western U.P.) and their trip to the Soo, but 80 seconds so in, Taime and Sam swap out for Kix frontman Steve Whiteman and bassist Mark Schenker, who talk about their own trip here, how they have maintained their sound, and their favourite newer bands, among other topics. It's not every day when you see public video footage of a Rock 101 broadcast, let alone not in their regular studio, but it's very neat to see Scott interviewing performers that night, and you can tell he's a huge fan of the music, which will be readily apparent to Hair Scare listeners on Saturday nights, of course. Kudos to Annette and Troy for all of the solid video footage during and before this concert, and check out theirs (and Mike's) videos at the above links!
We do have a couple more YouTube videos to touch on this week, which I can absolutely embed here (as far as I know), so look for those in the coming days, and for other news and notes on the site soon! Thanks everyone!
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