The Vindys
4/7/2022 | 5m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Youngstown's The Vindys blend together alt-rock, musicianship and infectious energy.
Youngstown's The Vindys have become one of the region’s most sought-after bands, with their unique blend of alt-rock, solid musicianship and infectious energy. Here they perform the song "Are You Ready" from their album "Bugs”, recorded live at Pittsburgh’s Hard Rock Café. "Are You Ready" may sound very familiar to fans of the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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The Vindys
4/7/2022 | 5m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Youngstown's The Vindys have become one of the region’s most sought-after bands, with their unique blend of alt-rock, solid musicianship and infectious energy. Here they perform the song "Are You Ready" from their album "Bugs”, recorded live at Pittsburgh’s Hard Rock Café. "Are You Ready" may sound very familiar to fans of the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- This next song we were fortunate enough to have placement with AT&T Sports Net for Pittsburgh Pirates.
(crowd cheering) And now the Pittsburgh Penguins are also playing it.
Are we ready, Pittsburgh?
(crowd cheering) (upbeat rock music) ♪ Oh lights up hands in the air ♪ ♪ Let them watch cause we don't care ♪ ♪ Yeah I bet they want some more let's go ♪ ♪ Oh don't you know who runs this town ♪ ♪ Walkin' up we shut it down ♪ ♪ Now welcome to the show ♪ ♪ Let's go ♪ ♪ Oh are you ready ♪ ♪ Are you ready ♪ ♪ Come on now oh let's go ♪ ♪ Oh are you ready ♪ ♪ Are you ready ♪ ♪ Come on now oh let's go ♪ ♪ Oh are you ready for the heat ♪ ♪ Yeah you just take a seat ♪ ♪ You ain't lookin' at no joke let's go ♪ ♪ Oh 99 on the radar ♪ ♪ You know you're lookin' at a star ♪ ♪ Got em beggin' us for more ♪ ♪ Oh let's go ♪ ♪ Oh are you ready ♪ ♪ Are you ready ♪ ♪ Come on now oh let's go ♪ ♪ Oh are you ready ♪ ♪ Are you ready ♪ ♪ Come on now oh let's go ♪ ♪ Oh let's go ♪ ♪ Knew we could so we did ♪ ♪ Beat the odds and now we're big ♪ ♪ Put it all on the line ♪ ♪ Put it all on the line ♪ ♪ Now they know it's our time ♪ ♪ Oh are you ready ♪ ♪ Are you ready ♪ ♪ Come on now oh let's go ♪ ♪ Oh are you ready ♪ ♪ Are you ready ♪ ♪ Come on now oh let's go ♪ ♪ Oh are you ready ♪ ♪ Are you ready ♪ ♪ Come on now oh let's go ♪ ♪ Oh are you ready ♪ ♪ Are you ready ♪ ♪ Come on now oh let's go ♪ ♪ Oh let's go ♪ (crowd cheering) Thank you.
Ready?
♪ I got the feeling ♪ I like your shirt.
♪ Deep in my bones ♪ ♪ You know the feelin' ♪ Our group got started in Youngstown, Ohio in a time that felt like a lull in the music community.
And since then it's been building up so much more and we've been happy to be a part of that in our community.
♪ Your just my type ♪ Our very name comes from our local newspaper, The Vindicator.
♪ I want your heart ♪ ♪ I want your heart ♪ - We listen to the album.
It's a good representation of the band, but seeing the band live we get a lot of good feedback about, you know, it's an exciting show.
- We have a very diverse set, and, you know, musically we kind of touch on a lot of different areas, so there's a little something for everybody.
(rock music continues) ♪ There ain't no idea behind this mess ♪ - And I think we've done a really good job of getting.
- Taking over the world.
- Yeah.
Getting a footprint of Pittsburgh, and Cleveland, and Columbus, and now Nashville, and New York.
This year's gonna see us going in a lot of different places that we're really excited to announce here shortly.
Oh, we had a great plan in February of 2020, and so now we're doing it now two years later, so we have a lot to catch up on.
- Yeah.
I think we take it for granted when you know thing things like, it's never happened before, COVID happened, and you get up on stage in again for the first time, and you're like, oh, I know why I do this.
And the thrill of it.
And even just to load in to a place where like, oh man, we gotta load in all this here.
At the end of the day when you get on stage in front of people and see people happy, that's what you're there for.
♪ Oh ♪ (upbeat rock music) ♪ But I gotta good feelin' ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ (crowd cheering) Thank you.
(upbeat funky music) ♪ They're in my head getting louder louder each day ♪ ♪ Day ♪ ♪ Waiting for the time when they come to infest my brain ♪ - And Donny Iris loves us.
- Yeah.
- So, like.
- Yeah.
- We're, ya know?
(man chuckling) So we're endorsed.
- Yeah, we're good.
We're good, yeah.
- [Jackie] If he likes us, we're good.
- [Band mate] Yeah.
- [Jackie] We're in.
♪ Helps for a time but late at night ♪ ♪ They find a way ♪
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