Rewind to October 1st 2005, Berjaya Times Square, for hitz.tv’s second anniversary.
Jason Lo says, “call me“.
Left to right: Deja Voodoo Spells, Edge Of Fire, Admonition‘s hothothot vocalist.
There were also a bunch of veteran-looking musicians doing a cover of Search – Isabella. Or maybe they were Search. I don’t know.
October 14th, I headed to Jamasia to rock out with Reta. (No, no pills are required to headbang, just a good appreciation for rock.)
Qings & Kueens with some good old rock and roll. (I cheated and used black and white because I couldn’t fix the color.)
Edge Of Fire having a reunion with the original singer and writer of their hit power ballad, Whole Again.
Be Jaya has the Joe Satriani of Malaysia.
Left: His son says hi to his bassist’s leg; right: every shredder has to do some left-handed tapping.
Naked Breed, the only band I knew was playing before coming. Haha.
Jack seems stunned by the sudden white lighting. Jamasia lights often alternate too fast, frustrating flash-less photographers.
Forward to October 26th, HELP prom band auditions. How cool is that? Instead of paying bands to come play for the prom, they come and compete for free entry to the prom.
So you wanna be a hot dancer? (They alternated between bands and dance performances earlier.)
Insulyna, grunge band.
Do not be fooled by menacing-looking BC Rich guitars. Have the laugh of your life when the vocalist comes on stage and sings off-key, Ah Beng style.
This band was better. I chose this picture for stim-girl, who I dragged, promising hot bass players she could fancy. We also camwhored during boring bands, but the pictures won’t be uploaded as I can’t link to her. 😛
A band from Indonesia proceeds to steal our thunder.
The ultimate recycled band.
Function-Z, a church band that keeps getting better.
Some dude who did a medley of James Blunt, John Mayer and heavier things.
It seemed like these people just got on stage unannounced. Ah well, such organization is expected in HELP events. At least the chick was cute.
Finally, the reason I was here – to finally see Syefri play bass (and Seng Yip play drums) for Dreaming To Sleep, an emo band. Well the emoness is most identifiable in George‘s voice, which is spot on emo like he was imported from the States and dyed his hair black.
There you go, all you demanding people, the gig pictures for October 2005. I’m going to spend the rest of the day I took leave for, to sleep.
I sent you the video; they’re double humbuckers. Sounds very Joe Satriani undoubtedly.
Thanks for posting it 🙂
But there’s sape-tar! I wish I got enough cash to buy ’em (GIM one too expensive!) at Kuching that day T_T
How does the sape-tar sounded like? What p/u on em?
lama betul we met ages ago =P
go dreamingtosleep!
Hey, it’s me.. I’m that some dude who played that medley. I went through smashpop.net to ur blog and found a picture of myself! I believe Jason had already spoken to you about this? Just wondering what you were doing at HELP..
Haha, I was there to support Dreaming To Sleep. And yes, you were good. An unidentified member of the audience was like "wah, I liked the guy who did John Mayer."
Really? That’s good to hear. Seriously. I’m pretty insecure about my nervousness. 😛 Seems you’re out and about in the music scene? That’s pretty cool; add me on MSN justinwongkh@hotmail.com I’d like to hear from you. Oh and thanks for that comment at my blog, appreciate it.