Our amazing drummer Cal Beaudoin has entered into a drumming competition and this is his submission video. He has already made it into the Semifinals and has been voted by the judges to be one of the Top 10 in Western Canada. The drum solo is pretty bad ass if I do say so myself. Be sure to check it out!

Cal Beaudoin – Senior West Division 2010 – Direct Video Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eldr3UcFK0o

Shane Lamotte
shane@livingillusion.com
http://www.livingillusion.com

PS Send some love to our good friend Brent Gerlitz as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1keQSApB_8g

Special thanks to Spoony for using our hard rock cover of his theme song, Break Me by the Irresponsible’s, on his most recent show/episode/review on The Spoony Experiment. It was super fun to record the song adding all the new changes and melody line tweaks. Spoony also did a wicked job as well editing the intro video to fit the badassness of the song. Definitely heavier and darker than the usual theme, but still awesome none the less. Let’s just hope he uses it again, maybe on a Halloween episode

Direct link to The Spoony Experiment Theme Cover video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kpiXZnezDI

You can check out the episode with the song here:
http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/08/01/mazes-monsters/

You can download a copy of the intro theme here:
http://livingillusion.com/LivingIllusionSpoony.mp3

Hope you guys enjoy!

Credits:
Engineering/Producing: Kevin Hoskin
Bass Guitar/Programming: Dave Stoten
Vocals: Jason Lamotte
Guitars: Shane Lamotte
The rewriting of the song was done by all of the above.

Original version of the song is called Break Me by The Irresponsibles.

Shane Lamotte
shane@livingillusion.com
http://www.livingillusion.com

PS Check out a video with Spoony wearing the Living Illusion T-Shirt below
http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/08/06/deadliest-warrior-the-game-follow-up/

Want a FREE copy of the new Living Illusion: Suffering CD? Well then go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fst7qv8NME4 and listen to what MrTyBoze has to say and he’ll hook you up! Special thanks for Ty for making the video and supporting the band.

We all really appreciate the people who get behind independent music, especially when it’s ours Be sure to subscribe to Ty’s Channel which can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/user/MrTYBOZE because well, he’s pretty freaking awesome.

Shane Lamotte
shane@livingillusion.com
http://www.livingillusion.com

Okay so here’s a music video for the track Let’s Start Over from our new album “Suffering”. It is again comprised of footage from the Living Illusion CD Release Party at the Starlite Room in Edmonton Alberta. Edited and filmed by Dan Holden of Phase Productions. Surprisingly people have said they actually like this video a little better than the video for Suffering, but I think that is up for debate. Hope you enjoy the song and like the video.

Here’s the direct link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YUYJiH4Rdc

I’d write more about the video but this is my third post in one day and I be burning out. Hahaha.

Shane Lamotte
shane@livingillusion.com
http://www.livingillusion.com

Alright, well after many months of waiting for the album to be finished we have finally gotten our video editor/camera man extraordinaire to make a video for our title track Suffering, from our new album of the same name, using the footage from our CD Release Party show at the Starlite Room in Edmonton (That’s totally a run on sentence but I am in too much of a hurry to fix it). The video looks awesome, I could not have made it look any where this good on my own.

Hope you guys enjoy the video and like the new song!

Here’s the direct link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCvbvlordmM

Shane Lamotte
shane@livingillusion.com
http://www.livingillusion.com

Check out our new promo video for the band. It was produced, filmed, and edited by Dan Holden of Phase Productions and My Sister Ocean. He did an amazing job and we’re super happy with how it turned out. Stayed tuned for some more video footage coming soon once we officially release the new album online in less than a months time.

Check out the Living Illusion EPK Promo Video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcnB2xjRPkc

Shane Lamotte
shane@livingillusion.com
http://www.livingillusion.com

To be more precise this would be the title or prologue theme to Blaster Master. This game was an awesome one from the Nintendo Entertainment System. I wasn’t actually introduced to it until last year by Classy Man over at The Game Heroes, I know it’s crazy… both that I’ve never played it, and that I still play NES games. This is a little different than the other covers, this time around there was a lot of electronic instrumentation to keep the eerie and haunting feel from the original version of the song. There is some guitar and drums but it is mostly just sounds, effects, synths, and various other good stuff.

Here’s the direct link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vn-6fvtcTY

Shane Lamotte
shane@livingillusion.com
http://www.livingillusion.com

With the holiday season starting to come to an end I figured its best to post this sooner rather than later. That being said, here’s our rendition of the song Carol of the Bells aka Ukrainian Bell.  This song always reminds me of the movie Home Alone. I used pictures from Fail Blog and Epic Fail to make the video for the song and it turned out quite hilarious. Guitar, bass and drums are used for the instrumentation as per usual.

With out further ado, here’s our Carol of the Bells Rock Cover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRpme5mZ0Zg

More Rock Covers to come when I get back from Mexico.

Shane Lamotte

http://www.livingillusion.com

Check out the Metroid Theme – Hard Rock Version here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T3V9ffBciY

Shane Lamotte
shane@livingillusion.com
http://www.livingillusion.com/

A special note needs to be written about this song because it was used by the Nostalgia Critic in one of the videos on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com. It was used in the TGWTG Team Brawl video which can be viewed here. Special thanks to Doug Walker (aka That Guy with the Glasses) for putting this in the video. If you wait til the end credits of the video you can see the band name! When I saw the video I literally freaked. I have been following TGWTG since his YouTube days and was so amazed to see that he used our cover in one of his videos.

Alright well that’s enough talk about the song, you can check it out below.

X-Men Original Theme – Hard Rock Version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MipmvhX9X2I

That’s all folks!

Shane Lamotte
shane@livingillusion.com
http://www.livingillusion.com