New Video Postings From Mikey Hawdon & Tym Morrison!!

Day #72 of daily posts at the SMS during the pandemic gives us another video heavy excursion, including lots of live-streamed performance footage and some new daily acoustic content, so here's what you should know!

Local hard rock singer/guitarist Tym Morrison held his 15th and 16th live-streamed concerts on his YouTube channel on Thursday and yesterday, so let's finally give these sets a look before we have three backlogged tomorrow! Unlike last Tuesday's show, these run for the full 2 hour-ish duration with no sudden cut-offs. Starting with Thursday's live-stream, that one properly begins about 15 minutes into it's runtime. In order, Tym starts by covering Kansas' "Dust In The Wind", Eric Clapton's "Tears In Heaven", Chicago's "Hard To Say I'm Sorry", Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama", Guns N' Roses' "Patience", Richard Marx's "Hold On To The Nights", The Animals' "House of The Rising Sun", Living Colour's "Cult of Personality", and John Fogerty's "The Old Man Down The Road", before breaking out his Spanish guitar instrumental. The second half of Thursday's set includes covers of Cat Stevens' "Wild World", Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble's "Pride & Joy",...

...Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters", Jim Croce's "Time In A Bottle", Amy Holland's "Shooting For The Moon", Fleetwood Mac's "Never Going Back Again", Roxette's "It Must Have Been Love", Yes' "Owner of a Lonely Heart", The Goo Goo Dolls' "Name", The Eagles' "Lyin' Eyes", Extreme's "More Than Words", The Beatles' "Blackbird", The Eagles' "Desperado", and Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better". Solid set with some nice cuts from heavier bands, and while "Dust In The Wind" had just been played two days prior, he did acknowledge learning how to more faithfully play the bridge. As for yesterday's live-stream (which is embedded below), this set begins about 10 minutes in, including drum track setup, and Tym starts by covering Kim Mitchell's "All We Are" and Supertramp's "Breakfast In America", before performing an original instrumental song. Afterwards, Tym covers "It Must Have Been Love" again, Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive", ...

...Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You", The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" with altered lyrics, and both "Time In A Bottle" and "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" again, before showing off a little bit of the room where he records the live-streams. Good thing the window was open given the heat! After sorting out issues with one of his pedals, Tym picked things back up with covers of the Cutting Crew's "(I Just) Died In Your Arms", Cheap Trick's "The Flame", Radiohead's "Karma Police", 10cc's "I'm Not In Love", Ed Sheeran's "Perfect", Tom Petty's "Yer So Bad", A-ha's "Take On Me", Journey's "Lights", Phil Collins' "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)", Oasis' "Wonderwall", and The Romantics' "Talking In Your Sleep", before pedal issues recurred. Tym ended with Chris de Burgh's "Lady In Red", Amanda Marshall's "Trust Me (This Is Love)", Supertramp's "The Logical Song", Tears For Fears' "Mad World", and his own original ballad "Together In The End".

Entertaining set overall with a nice selection of classic rock covers, though last Thursday's live-stream had a heavier overall set and no major glitches or hang-ups. Also, seeing three songs repeated from Thursday was a little disappointing, but if you didn't like how early last Tuesday's set ended, Tym did do half of that curtailed set between the last two live-streams. Give both a watch above and below, and look for tomorrow's next live-stream!



We'll close today with veteran local punk musician Mikey Hawdon's five newest quarantunes, as posted onto his YouTube channel in as many days! All five videos feature guest musicians, frequently including Dean Glover on percussion, who has done the great post-production work seen as the series grew in quality and popularity. The newest videos of "Mikey & His Uke" include covers of Kiss' "Hard Luck Woman", Canned Heat's "Going Up The Country", The Rolling Stones' "Miss You", and "Blue Shadows On The Trail" from the movie Three Amigos. Embedded below is quarantune #72 from Monday, where Mikey covers The Dwarves' "Saturday Night" alongside that band's frontman Paul "Blag Dahlia" Cafaro and drummer Hunter "Down" Martinez! Now there's another big get, nice work! They perform alongside Maximum RNR guitarist Keith Carmen (who is no stranger to playing with Saultites) and Mikey's Inner City Surfers bandmate Dave Bahun on bass.

Predictably laid back rendition of this punk classic, though it's ironic that this wasn't uploaded on a Saturday! Everyone does well here, and be sure to give the rest of Mikey's new quarantunes a watch above and below! FYI, Mikey's CTV Northern Ontario appearance on Friday evening was just a re-broadcast of quarantune #58 from two weeks ago, where he covered Bonnie Tyler's "I'm Holding Out For A Hero" solo as a tribute to front line workers. Nice sentiment and exposure all around, kudos for all you're doing!



That's all for today, but stay tuned for a new news post on the site tomorrow! Thanks everyone!