New Videos From Mikey & His Uke, Project 906, And Tym Morrison!!

In this 87th straight daily post at the SMS, we've diving into a bunch of new video uploads, and we'll start with veteran local punk musician Mikey Hawdon's continuing daily series of "quarantunes", as he has posted three movie vocal/ukelele cover videos onto his YouTube channel since Tuesday! Two are of 1980s pop rock covers featuring guest musicians, including The Greg Kihn Band's "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)" and Robert Palmer's "Addicted To Love". Embedded below is yesterday's video of Mikey covering Fugazi's "Waiting Room", and it just so happens to feature 3/4ths of 1990s local punk icons Room 206! In particular, the guests are singer Mike Yorke, guitarist Dave Bahun, and bassist Brad "Example" Lacell, while Mikey himself is on percussion (no uke here) in lieu of the absent Al Watson. Of course, this video doubles as a reunion of 3/4ths of The Inner City Surfers too, only with Mike in Dustin's place.

If you are at all familiar with vintage local punk and metal concert videos on YouTube, you may recall seeing Room 206's version of "Waiting Room" at Club Princess way back in February 1995 on Mikey's old YouTube channel,  so it's fitting that they tackled this song here! It's a solid rendition, but the vocal levels seem a little off, as Mikey's face mask-obscured backing vocals come out louder in the video than Mike's lead singing. Check it out below, and see much more from this series above and tomorrow!



Next up, local hard rock solo musician Tym Morrison live-streamed his 20th & 21st at-home concerts on his YouTube channel on Tuesday and tonight, so what should you know regarding these shows? Starting with Tuesday's live-stream (which does not have a "Starting Soon" card at the beginning), Tym began that set by covering Chris de Burgh's "Lady In Red", but he acknowledged after the song that the techical difficulties that ravaged the previous Tuesday's stream were still ongoing, as the new equipment he ordered for his connection was not here yet. He next covered Oasis' "Wonderwall", but the choppy slideshow-esque visuals got worse during the song, and after attempting some brief fixes, Tym cut the live-stream after just 10 minutes. Now, he covered both of the above songs last Thursday (they were his second & third songs that night), so if you want to see them in better visual quality, definitely give them a look there. That all said, how did tonight's live-stream go?

Length-wise, it runs for just past 2 hours ("Starting Soon" card included), and that is a good sign, as Tym introduces the stream by outlining the upgrades to his internet now that he finally got the equipment installed. The stream quality is better, but it does freeze and lock up even still early on, albeit not enough to end the show early, and it looks fine later on. In order, Tym tackles Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead Or Alive", White Lion's "When The Children Cry", Extreme's "More Than Words", Little Texas' "What Might Have Been", Richard Marx's "Hold On To The Nights", The Animals' "House Of The Rising Sun", Collective Soul's "Shine", an instrumental composition, Nazareth's "Sunshine", Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze", Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here", Alice In Chains' "Down In A Hole", The Travelling Wilburys' "Handle Me With Care", a lengthy instrumental section, Steve Earle's "Copperhead Road", Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters", Billy Joel's "Piano Man", ...

...The Tragically Hip's "Blow At High Dough", Billy Joel's "You May Be Right", The Romantics' "What I Like About You", The Stone Temple Pilots' "Plush", and lastly, Chicago's "Hard To Say I'm Sorry". Despite the early glitches, tonight's live-stream was strong musically, and I liked the relatively heavier setlist compared to his other recent 2 hour shows! I did get the sense that Tym was getting tired by the end though, as he wasn't introducing as many songs in the second half. Check out both of this week's live-streams above and below, and hopefully Tuesday's runs smoothly!

Finally for today, here's that new original song from Sault Michigan hard rock quartet Project 906 that I briefly alluded to in Tuesday's post after it was quietly pulled from their Facebook page before we could feature it on the site. Once the guys re-shared it from guitarist Joe Jenkins' personal Facebook page, I got rid of that item, and now we can properly talk about it! Fans who have seen Project 906 live may recall hearing original material on occasion (such as "The Comeback"), but this is an audio recording of the guys playing the song seemingly off the floor. As such, don't expect studio album quality here, especially in regard to the instrument levels, but this mid-tempo song has promise and sort of has a Haggith-vibe at times, if that's fair. That said the vertical video orientation isn't ideal, especially with the amount of horizontal photos used in the slideshow. Check out 906's new original song below, and hopefully we hear more from their camp soon!



That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news and notes on the site soon! Thanks everyone!