Videos

Rock and Roll Friendship Stream

If all goes according to plan, I will be going live tonight at 6:30 PM E.S.T as a solo artist once again!

Unfortunately the weather is looking like storms all weekend, which can mess with the internet.  If I am unable to go live tonight then I will reschedule the show.

This show’s theme is another one suggested by Superdekes:  Friendship!  Good friends, and all the great tunes that connect them.  Music, and pals!  The reason for this week’s topic is simple.

Today begins the 19th annual Sausagefest.  I’ve made the incredibly difficult decision to stay isolated this year.  While I am 100% confident that none of my friends will get sick, I am practising a stricter social distancing policy.  2020 is a seriously screwed up year, and this year I’m valuing family more than ever.  If I want to spend time under the same roof as my parents at the cottage, and have them be comfortable with that, then I need to respect them by adhering to the same distancing as they are.  If I want to be enjoying my “happy place” with them, then I need to respect that.

Because I cannot be with my friends today, I’ll be talking about them.  My “Nostalgia Stream“, about my childhood best friend Bob, was one of the most popular shows I’ve done.  He had a huge impact on me musically, but so did others.  This time we’ll be talking about some of the other colourful characters in my crazy life, all centred around the love of rock and roll.

As before, when I’m done yammering on I’ll open it up for others to join in!

Facebook:  Michael Ladano or Facebook:  MikeLeBrain.  YouTube:  Mike LeBrain.

!!Attention!!

I have been told by someone younger and more knowledgeable about such things that shows like mine need a name.  Apparently that’ll help with exposure.  The following names have all been suggested.  Please leave a comment with your favourite or a suggestion of your own.

 

  • LeBrain and Friends’ Rock and Roll Landfill
  • LeBrain Wave
  • LeBrain’s Chat Rock
  • LeBrain Meltdown
  • The LeBrain Drain
  • 2000 Words or More With Mike Ladano
  • The Lebrain Eats A Worm And A Stick YouTube Hour*
  • Geezer Mike’s Rock Talkin’, Ball Walkin’, Super Shit Sandwich Show
  • Musical Thinking With LeBrain
  • Too Much Fuckin’ Perspective’ with LeBrain
  • Mike’s World With a Side of Meat and a Dash of Deke
  • The LeBrain Train – A Rockin’ Friday Adventure
  • LeBrain Center
  • LeBrain Scan
  • LeBrain Candy
  • Scattered LeBrain
  • Wrack Your LeBrain
  • Shit for LeBrains
  • LeBrain Farts

 

 

* Guess who suggested that one.

VIDEO: Geek VLOG 2.0 Time Well Wasted Episode 2.0

Recently I had the absolute pleasure of being interviewed by Mr. Sebastien Munier for his brand new Geek VLOG series. (Long time followers may remember Seb from my short-lived Tyler & LeBrain series of podcasts.)  His excellent new YouTube show features 10 questions for geeky friends.  Thank you Seb for having me on, it was an honour and I hope everyone subscribes to your new show.  I know I will continue watching.

Please enjoy the interview below.

Epic 3+ Hour Live Stream! Concerts, Guests, Unboxing and Stories

That. Was. Epic.

Three (or four, or five, or six?) guests. Six lists. One unboxing. A marathon live stream like none before. Bear witness to the greatest Nigel Tufnel Top Ten list ever as we rhyme off our favourite concerts.

For the unboxing, go to 0:05:30 of the stream.

For the start of the lists, skip to 0:32:10.

Thank you Mom and T-Bone for your lists!  Thanks to Meat, Mr. Books, and Superdekes for co-hosting.  Special thanks to Rob Daniels for joining us at the end!  And as always thanks to YOU for watching!

 

A Real Live Friday Live Stream

This week’s topic comes to you from the originator of the Nigel Tufnel Top Ten series of lists, Uncle Meat himself.

Top 11 Favourite Concerts of All Time!

We may have listed “best concerts” before, but this will be special.  Meat, Mr. Books and Superdekes will be joining me Friday night at 7:00 PM E.S.T. with as many facts as we can recall about our favourite concert experiences.  There will also be one “surprise” list that will blow you away.

Now fuelled by Streamyard, the shows keep getting better and better!  There have been so many great list ideas that we have not got to yet.  We have new guests lined up.  Critical to this growth has been Kevin/Buried On Mars who hooked me up with Streamyard, vastly improving the quality of the show.  I’m very fortunate to have Uncle Meat by my side with his Nigel Tufnel Top Ten concept.  I think if Meat didn’t come up with that idea, these live streams might have ended a long time ago!  And of course Superdekes, who has gone above and beyond the call of duty on multiple occasions.  He doesn’t have to do this, but he loves doing it!

Join us 7:00 PM E.S.T. for the big show!  Facebook:  Michael Ladano or Facebook:  MikeLeBrain.  YouTube:  Mike LeBrain.

 

Casual Thursday Stream: A chat with 2loud2oldmusic!

Just went live with John from 2loud2oldmusic.com!  Check out our KISS-heavy chat below.  John comes in at the 05:05 mark.

 

Epic All-Canadian Live Stream featuring Mr. Books

History was made Friday night!

Please welcome Mr. Books himself, Aaron from the KMA.  The subject this week:  Top 11 Canadian albums of all time.  An absolutely epic discussion unfolded with so many different genres being touched upon.  As remarkable as the lists were (five in total), it’s also quite astounding when we talked about all the albums we left out!

Lists submitted by:

  • Derek from Thunder Bay
  • Mr. Books
  • LeBrain
  • Darr
  • Dr. Kathryn Ladano

With Deke coming in from Lake Superior, Aaron from Georgian Bay, and myself on the shore of Lake Huron, we had three massive bodies of water covered.  What should we call ourselves?  The Great Lakes Consortium?

For a look at the shape of streams to come, check out the end of the video.  We brought in Uncle Meat, Rob Daniels from Visions in Sound, and Kevin/Buried On Mars.  While six at a time is a lot, it sure was fun to see everybody together for the first time!

I can’t help but take a little bit of pride in all this.  My very first live stream was March 20, the week lockdown began. Eager to make connections with others in isolation, I hit that “live” button on my Facebook app just to see what would happen. It ended up being a lot of fun and it so happened that others liked it too. A few weeks later, we figured out how to get Uncle Meat to co-host and he came up with the now infamous “Nigel Tufnel Top Ten” format.

But there were limitations, because we had to use a Facebook phone app if I wanted to have a co-host.  This reduced the scope of awesome people available to share the screen with me.  Finally Kevin directed me to Streamyard which solved numerous problems.  After months of trying to figure out how to stream to Facebook (where my audience is) without having to use Facebook, Streamyard worked.  For the first time after many months of trying, Aaron has finally co-hosted a show.  A milestone!  So yeah, I’m proud of myself and proud of the awesome friends who have co-hosted along the way.  We made something here that is catching on with people.  I owe Meat a huge debt for being the first co-host and coming up with the Nigel Tufnel Top Ten concept.

Look at the first stream below, and look where we are now.  We’ve come a long way.

O Canada! Friday Live Streamin’ returns with “Maple” flavoured lists!

The list format returns!  It’s another “Nigel Tufnel Top Ten”, and this time it’s a doozy.  How do you narrow down the top albums from an entire country, and arrange them on a list?  I dunno, but there are some of us that are going to try.  Wish us luck.

How you get in on the mayhem?  It’s easy.  Just go to Facebook: MikeLeBrain on Friday August 14 at 7:00 pm E.S.T.  There you can participate in the fun with your commentary, as we count down…

THE TOP 11 CANADIAN ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

No greatest hits; all genres permitted.  A monster of a task indeed.  Four lists have been submitted.  Co–hosts have been booked.  If all goes according to plan (which it should due to an hour-long test stream last week) we will have two of the most knowledgeable Canadian music fans on board for what promises to be an epic discussion.

Join me tonight at 7:00 pm E.S.T., eh?

Casual Saturday Bonus Test Guest Stream starring Mr. Books and Sarca Sim!

Gratitude to Kevin / Buried On Mars for helping me get started with Streamyard.  Thanks to the insightful Mr. Mars, and thanks to the perseverance of Mr. Books, today we accomplished a few goals:

  1. Successfully test streamed with the one and only Aaron of the KMA on board, full video and audio, for the first time ever.
  2. Added a third participant.  The test volunteer today was the awesome Sarca from Caught Me Gaming!
  3. Cleared up some other issues when streaming with a co-host, such as mirrored images and working from a PC.

This test stream went on for an hour as our impromptu chat developed.  We talked music, guitars, the Community, Covid, school, Paul Rudd, and Skip the Dishes.  This little unofficial bonus episode is now available for you to watch below.  But the significance is huge to me.  Now I can have up to five additional co-hosts on future shows.  The game has changed.  The sky is the limit!

 

VOTE:

Does Aaron look like Paul Rudd?

The Music of 1980: In Depth Stream and Analysis

Thanks to Rob Daniels for this episode’s title!  This week, I took a trip back to 1980 to discuss some 40 year old albums, in a little more depth than usual.  We each chose three to reminisce on.  There are dozens of critical albums we could have picked from that year, so we each chose three that we important to us on a personal level.

The stories flow like beer, and the laughter can be heard from one side of Ontario to the other.  Join us as Mike mocks the Leafs and talks music.

Points of interest:

To start with some unboxings, go to 0:02:55 of the stream

The 1980 retrospective starts at 0:09:45 in the stream.

Attention:  Geoff Stephen!!  0:14:00.

For the Back In Black shenanigans skip to 1:28:20.

There’s some audio lag on the latter part of the video; sorry about that.  I hope you enjoy this chat as much as we did!