I put up these two videos a little more than a month ago. Not many have seen these, I feel like they were totally slept on. But anyway, Smart Growth rocks, and he doesn’t disappointed in these videos. He plays “Our Own Place” and “Money in the Banks.”

I admit it: I enjoy a good cover band from time to time. There are a couple of other Led Zeppelin cover acts, but none with a name that forces a smile across your face quite like Lez Zeppelin. As the name implies, Lez Zeppelin is an all-girl band, though I’m unsure as far as the lezziness of the members.

The sound quality of this recording is excellent, partly because I’m not running crappy mics, but also because the venue, which holds about 1800, had an audience of no more than 75 people. The show was very nice, though I was a bit surprised that they didn’t cover the one Led Zeppelin song that everyone and their brother knows: Stairway to Heaven. Still, this show is not clamoring for hits and every now and then it finds its way into my playlist.

Check out the setlist for this show.

Check out my blog for a list of my recordings, reviews and upcoming shows to be taped.

The audio files for this show have been removed.

Here’s a very entertaining and brand new video to kick things off. This is an abridged production of Seung-Hui Cho’s mindfuck of a play, Richard McBeef, produced and directed by local jack of all trades Duncan Moore. I filmed this last Friday (August 31), at the 14 Karat Cabaret in downtown Baltimore. Mike Allison, Duncan Moore, and Alex Parlato star as “Richard McBeef”, “John”, and “Sue”, respectively. Jack and Max from Needle Gun did the music.

For most of you on the internet, this inspiring work of fiction needs no introduction…so I’m not going to write one.

Hey oorbody,

I’m Grox (or N.O. Smith or Nick or Nicky or etc.), and I film shows in the Baltimore area. My main goal in doing this to provide not only exposure for myself over the internet, but also for the bands that I film. I try and let everyone I film know as quick as possible when I put videos of them out into the electronic ether. Over the past year and a half, I’ve filmed too many shows to count, and spent too much money on tapes. As a result, I have a large amount of my shows on YouTube. Usually, when I film a show, I’ll put it up within the next day or two. You can view my YouTube channel here (along with a complete list of the bands that I’ve filmed over the past couple years). Here’s my MySpace page, too.

I’ll post a brand new video later today to get the a/v club started nicely. Njoi!

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