LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS (Soundcheck, Travis & Terry, And Curtis McKenzie), And The Generations Concert Preview!!

(Updated at 10:08 PM) In this final concert weekend of February 2026, we again have too many hard rock shows for one post, so Saturday's Project 906 and A.S.D.P./Apocalypse Afterparty shows will hit the site in our next news post. Here's what you should know to start off, including SHORT NOTICE LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS!

Former Haggith/Eclipse frontman Curtis McKenzie will play his second solo acoustic concert of the year TONIGHT at The Dive Gastro Pub! Apologies for the short notice, Curt only announced this "Think It Over Thursday" gig on his Facebook page on Monday, where he said that he "just got word that I will be performing", though at press time, The Dive has not corroborated this booking on social media. Curtis kicked off his 2026 solo calendar at the same venue last month, and hopefully his return to "The Naughty Corner" provides another solid evening of hard and alternative rock covers, so don't miss out TONIGHT if this is what the doctor ordered! As usual for concerts at the former Low & Slow, this is a 19+ show with no announced cover charge, and Curt mentioned a 10:00 PM start time despite generally listing 9:00 or 9:30 PM there in the past. See above for more details, and for a preview, here's Curtis live!

Next up, local classic/hard rock cover quartet Soundcheck will return to The Esquire Club for concerts TOMORROW SATURDAY NIGHT! Again, apologies for the short notice, these shows were only announced via their sister band Separate Wayz' Facebook page earlier today. The reason why that band announced Soundcheck gigs is because, when this post was originally written, TOMORROW & SATURDAY NIGHT belonged to Separate Wayz (via shows also announced on late notice earlier this week), but singer Nicole Thibodeau is under the weather. Good thing that the two bands have a 75% identical lineup, so swap her out for Travis Sharpe, and boom, Soundcheck are here to save the day! As such, these will be Soundcheck's first shows at The Esquire Club since 2024, their first there with Travis since 2019, and their third concert weekend of any kind with new drummer Johnny Amendola. Hopefully he, Travis, Terry, and Jim rock the house!

As would have been the case with Separate Wayz this weekend, TOMORROW & SATURDAY'S shows are 19+ events at 9:30 PM with no cover charge. Visit the above links for more details, here's Soundcheck live, and hopefully Nicole gets better soon! It's never fun being sick!

Also newly announced for this weekend is a show sandwiched in between Soundcheck's Esquire Club gigs, as singer/guitarists Terry Eaton and Travis Sharpe will play an acoustic matinee concert together at Misty's Fifties on SATURDAY! Apologies again for the short notice, this show was only announced via the venue's Facebook page on Monday, and Sound Track Soundcheck have not confirmed the booking either, though it is only half of the band. Yes, Trav(is) & Terry are replacing Tym Morrison, who was originally slated to play at Misty's on SATURDAY before he broke his pinky finger (he is scheduled to return to live concerts late next month). While the idea of Soundcheck's original/current guitarists playing an unplugged show is relatively new for our coverage, you may recall seeing Terry back up his old bandmate Cameron Oliver in acoustic country concerts last year.

With Travis back, it's safe to assume that this acoustic gig with Terry will be similar in tone to Soundcheck's hard and classic rock-leaning full band shows, and it'll be a second straight busy SATURDAY for them, after Soundcheck played two concerts in one day last week, so keep this one in mind if you want some unplugged mid-day rock! As usual for Misty's Fifties on Second Line West, this is a 4:00 PM gig with a 19+ age limit and no cover, before the guys head down the road to join Soundcheck that night. Visit the above links for more details, and we'll you know if public videos of Terry & Travis surface!

We'll close this preview post with a show that did have advance notice before Monday, as local classic/hard rock cover quartet Generations are scheduled to return to The Full Throttle Saloon for one night only on SATURDAY NIGHT! Just to clarify, the band erroneously announced this show as taking place tomorrow night when first mentioned on their Facebook group on January 11th (source here), but the former Primavera Hall typically doesn't book bands on Fridays, and the venue has since corrected the date in recent promotion. Two weeks removed from their Valentine's Day show at the Full Throttle Saloon, this should be another prime opportunity for fans to see Generations rock out in Steelton, so keep this Saturday nighter in mind for your weekend plans! As usual for Full Throttle gigs, this is a 19+ event with no announced cover charge and a 9:30 PM start time. See above for more details, and here's some brand new videos of Generations live!

Uploaded to new guitarist Joe Miller's personal Facebook page and shared to the band's Facebook group (yes, I can embed these ones), these come from their Water Tower Pub show last week, and include covers of The Tragically Hip's "Blow At High Dough" (with bassist Pierre Anthony on vocals), and as embedded below, Loverboy's "Working For The Weekend" with Valerie Powley singing. While neither is the full song, both are horizontal (thank goodness!) and capture the band in good form from two different camera angles, so if you like their brand of old school rock covers, these should be up your alley! Check them both out above & below!

That's all for now, but stay tuned for our A.S.D.P. and Project 906 previews (and more) next! Thanks everyone!

Saultites In Out Of Town Bands Profile: Buster Cherry

It's time for our latest Saultites In Out Of Town Bands Profile, and this month, we focus on a band that may be lesser known, but are worth giving a look to! Remember, this series is devoted to bands that, though not locally based, feature at least one local member, so you guys can find out about them and how you can check them out! Let's begin this month's profile, and if you have any edits, corrections, or additions, please tell me! (Updated: November 26th, 2014)
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Buster Cherry (St. Thomas, Ontario)

Lineup: (Saultites in RED; ex-members in italics. The instruments that the members played may be incorrect. If you can correct anything or add a missing element, let me know at robertfigures@outlook.com)

Steve Bendis (vocals?)
Terry Eaton (guitar) 
Cory Valentine (bass?)
Vinnie Milosevich (drums)

Official Reverbnation page: http://www.reverbnation.com/bustercherry69

Local Info: Two Saultites found their way into Buster Cherry, those being guitarist Terry Eaton and drummer Vinnie Milosevich, who should be familiar for their work in some older area metal bands! Terry and Vinnie were longtime bandmates of prolific local bassist Dan Beaupre (currently of Griphook) in a few of his old metal bands, like Hollow, Carbon Black, and Metal Militia, though these bands predate internet pages and profiles. At some point (I assume the early 2000s), Terry and Vinnie moved to Southern Ontario, where they commenced work on Buster Cherry, though Terry moved back to the Soo in 2011, where he's played primarily in bands like Asylum Country, Mourning Wood, and Two Buck Beers since, while Vinnie has played recently with bands like Knee Deep & Curse The Witch.

Band Bio: I honestly can't tell you much about Buster Cherry by themselves. They don't appear to have been active for too long judging by the amount of activity on their Reverbnation page, but the page does include material from one of Terry & Cory Valentine's older bands named Blynd Image that predated Buster Cherry. No photos of the band exist either, but the guitar on their page's sole image is Terry Eaton's, as proven at this link. Buster Cherry were based out of St. Thomas, Ontario, which is roughly a half hour south of London. I don't know much about the background of Steve Bendis or Cory Valentine either, but a "Steven Bendis" still works in London as a homebrew music producer. Their page features four songs, including an unfinished track named "Believe", "Digging Yourself A Hole", and two Blynd Image-era tracks, "I'll Be Waiting" & "It's Not Love". The Blynd Image songs are more reserved and seem to take cues from 1980s mainstream hair metal, while the newer Buster Cherry songs are more straightforward hard rock, more similar to Terry and Vinnie's past local work.

Of the four songs Buster Cherry posted, I definitely don't enjoy the Blynd Image songs as much, though the singing's a lot better, with the singer making great use of his range! I just find them too soft and reserved, like they were intentionally trying to write a radio single both times, especially with "I'll Be Waiting". "Believe" has loads of promise, and it reminds me of a few hard rock bands I've seen locally, but there's no finished version. "Digging Yourself A Hole" is slower but still heavy, with nice riffing and excellent bass work! The songs don't take a lot of risks, and they need more guitar solos, but Buster Cherry did have promise! I'd love to hear a full version of "Believe" especially. My biggest complaint for the material as it's presented is the lack of a second guitarist, which would fill their sound out more, but Buster Cherry are still a good hard rock band that deserve some posthumous attention! I hope these guys are still doing some stuff musically in some form!

Again, Buster Cherry only have one internet page, and the 4 songs mentioned above are there to stream, so click here to check them out! As such, there are no videos of the band in action, so I uploaded the only full "Buster Cherry" song to The Sault Metal Scene's YouTube channel for you guys to check out! So here's Buster Cherry's song "Digging Yourself A Hole"!


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I hope you guys liked this month's Saultites In Out Of Town Bands Profile! I know they didn't have the most information to fill out the post, but I did what I could, similar to when I profiled Hellhitch. So, what band is profiled next month in this series? Well, I've decided to take a long overdue look at one of the bands featuring Ash Richtig, a prolific drummer originally from Sault Ontario who now plays in the Windsor area! So next month, we're profiling his "junk rock" quartet The Heatseeking Moisture Missiles! Look out for this profile between April 9th and 15th!

That's all for now, but stay tuned for more local metal news and notes very soon, including weekend concert previews! Thanks everyone!