It's time for our last monthly feature post of March 2023, namelty this month's YouTube Channel Profile! This monthly feature series looks at YouTube channels whose content is at least half devoted to local metal, hard rock, and/or punk artists and/or concerts, in order to spotlight their uploads and encourage readers to check them out and maybe subscribe for more! This month's channel isn't the most plentiful out there but its content spreads a diverse and entertaining range for local rock fans, so here's what you should know about it!
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Evil Gobi (http://youtube.com/mrevilgobi) 
Owner: Former Oh!No Collective representative Alex Moore
Channel Timeline: Launched on July 1st, 2011; Videos uploaded from November 2016 through August 2020
Channel Summary: A personal use channel without overt Oh!No ties, Alex's channel is mostly devoted to local concerts & albums, with three videos of the former type (including a clip of touring rapper Garbageface at The Canadian in 2017) and two of the latter. His last two uploads are of EPs by defunct Toronto "drunk 'n roll" quartet Ultraviolence, who played here a few times at Coch's Corner at the turn of the 2010s
Why You Should Watch: Local music fans should at least give Alex's channel a look, both from the out-of-print local albums on offer and the concert videos, and the lack of a genre focus ensures that there's a little something for many tastes, even if the local bands featured aren't around these days! While not local beyond being bought at shows here, the Ultraviolence EPs are a fun reminder of their wild stage show from their run too.
Stiffler's Mom - The Demo:
Alex's first (and most popular) upload is a YouTube copy of inactive local hard/party rock trio Stiffler's Mom's EP "The Demo", which was released in 2004 and hadn't surfaced online before Alex posted it to YouTube twelve years later. Featuring Bone Yard singer/drummer Greg Simpson and future Buzzsaw Jaw bandmates Michael Davies & Jon Ferguson on guitar & bass, the four song demo features a cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" and three originals ("Yesterday", "Pearl's Necklace", and the Sin Stereo carryover "Enjoy The Show"). While somewhat inconsistent (especially on the cover), Stiffler's Mom delivered a fun batch of songs here, and it'd have been interesting to hear more of an original presence later on!
Gianni Gagoots Live 2: Two of Alex's three concert videos feature Gianni Gagoots, the mid-2010s funk/hard rock band known for their jokey Italian stage names and improvised jam instrumentals during their too-brief local run. The videos come from their LopLops Lounge headlining concert on April 15th, 2017, and feature ex-Redefined bandmates Matt Sibilo & Josh St. Amour alongside Rising Tide alums Liam Seymour & Frank McCormick, percussionist "Bergio the IceBurg" (they never gave his real name on their pages), and an unidentified guest congo player. Between these two videos (click here for the shorter of them), you get some unlabelled but fun and carefree jams, and it's a shame that the Gagoots didn't have a longer run, let alone that their Facebook page and most videos have been taken down!
Redefined (Sault Ste Marie) - Risk and Uncertainty: In August of 2020, Alex posted a copy of defunct local hard rock quartet Redefined's ca. 2002 studio album "Risk & Uncertainty" to his channel, bringing that album to a mass online audience much like with Stiffler's Mom's demo! The independently released CD featured future Gianni Gagoots bandmates Matt Sibilo & Josh St. Amour alongside Parabol singer John Barber and My Son The Hurricane drummer Danno O'Shea. All 10 songs (including "Foggy Style" cut "M.T. Bundies") are linked by clicking here, though the song names were retrieved from the Oocities archive of their old Geocities page due to the album's liner notes not giving the titles. Redefined's Tool-influenced modern hard rock goes over well on this album, even 20+ years later, so fans from back in the day and of John's later groups shouldn't bypass this CD!
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I hope you guys liked this month's YouTube Channel Profile! This series will return on or around April 26th for a big one, as I have randomly drawn St. Ignace, Michigan metalcore band Heavy Lies The Crown's YouTube channel, featuring over three dozen uploads from their run to date! Watch for this profile next month, and for more news and updates on the site in the coming days! Thanks everyone!
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