Rock out with your clock out

Posted on by Steve Shanafelt

Since it’s very nearly the weekend, I thought I’d just drop a few quick online videos of local acts for you to check out while you’re waiting for the work day to end. What follows is a somewhat random—and by no means comprehensive—selection of videos by groups associated with the Asheville music scene. But the links below are only part of the story, and the rest will need to be supplied by you. Paste the URLs to your favorite local music videos in the comments field below, along some basic information about the video. Just make sure the video, the band or the show has at least some connection to Asheville, and that it’s from a Web site that anyone can easily access (such as YouTube or Google Video).

Fan videos are nothing new to YouTube, but it’s still cool to catch a classic live moment by a local group. Check out this fitting GFE cover of “Everybody Get High,” filmed on at the now-defunct Asheville Music Zone, circa 2001.

In the mood for a little “screamo punk” to keep your day ironically rocking? How about this most entertaining video for “It Only Tool a Whisper” by Asheville’s Secret Lives of the Freemasons.

Or, if you’re looking for an excuse to bang your head, ‘80s thrasher style, check out the chord-throttling madness of local rockers Sanctity. The group spent much of last year touring with Megadeth, and it’s really about time they got their own professionally filmed and gloomy-feeling music video. The song is called “Zeppo,” and in the event that you’d like to hear more, their album Road To Bloodshed.

Looking for something a little more bittersweet? How about a DiCaprio-and-Danes-filled fan video for the Jeff Zentner track “Promise Me That You Will Never Die.”

Or, if guy/girl romance isn’t your thing, you might want to check out this rather unusual fan video, which combines the song “Blue Leaf Clover” by the Firecracker Jazz Band with highlights from the gay love story Maurice.

And lastly, here’s an unexpected blast from the past—a double feature of nostalgia, so to speak. Fisher Meehan, formerly of the now-defunct group DrugMoney, playing at the also defunct AREA:45 theater. The song is “Beautiful,” and if you’d like to hear more, you can buy a used copy of MTN CTY JNK on Amazon.com starting at—and how depressing is this—one shiny penny (not including shipping).

— Steve Shanafelt

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2 thoughts on “Rock out with your clock out”

  1. Jason Bugg

    I never got the whole charm of Drug Money. They wrote boring, pedestrian, music, and made a boring pedestrian, overproduced album.

    But, I guess that Fisher threw the best parties and had the most friends, which explains his inexplicable popularity to this day.

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