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Journal Of Drinking Alcoholic

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Let’s get it started.

Google bomb Journal Of Drinking Alcoholic.

Google bomb?

Yeah. Link to Journal Of Drinking Alcoholic with that exact title.

Why Google bomb Paul? Because it’s an interesting experiment, to see if we Malaysian bloggers (and not spammers) are ranked highly enough by Google to have any effect.

Okay, also maybe because he tagged me. 😀 Though I must say, I was waiting for someone to tag me, as this meme did seem quite fun.

The Golden Rules:

1) write an entry of between 100-200 words, with these words have to be included once, and only once:

– I
– me
– blowjob
– grapes
– random
– power
– loneliness
– water
– robot
– blue

2) Out of the 10 words, you can only change 2 words.
I didn’t change any.

3) Your essay must make some kind of sense. if it�s not cool, then it won�t get published…
I watched Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle last night, and Dude, Where’s My Car? sometime this year. Harold & Kumar is sadly rooted in sober realism, despite them being less exemplary, in the quest for weed; other dude movies always featured dudes going all out for their girlfriends, e.g. Dude, Where’s My Car, Wayne’s World, Bill & Ted. The problem with H&K was that these two weren’t dudes just bumming around; they actually had ambition, proper job(s), a nice car, and not-too-outrageous gags. Even a Ben Stiller movie has better gags! Dude movies are meant to throw all sense out the window. They had weed; that could’ve been a bigger prop. The other dude movies had no weed, yet they elicited more laughs.

And yet, in a different view, it could be exemplary how politically correct the movie was. What with the black guy and the police and racism jabs. Almost every scene had a moral lesson, if you weren’t too stoned to notice it.

4) Send to 5 people.
I’ll send it to my mom, my dad, my paternal grandma, paternal grandpa and paternal grandma. See I’m such a family-oriented boy, I hear chicks dig that. Oh, you meant that those people have to have blogs?

My strange essay (exactly 200 words!)

Underground musicians and their listeners are a persecuted lot. Imagine attending a gig when men in power, dressed in blue arrest you for some random offence. They say black metal will be illegal. Problem is, they don’t know what black metal is, and arrested these hardcore punk kids anyway. And then some people just eating at a mamak nearby. Throw in the char kuay teow seller too. It’s no wonder we’re being sour grapes about it. Want to escape a summons, pretty lady? Give the man a blowjob.

Expect to pay two digits for mineral water and a phone call. Yes, the phone call that should be your right.

Know your rights and lodge a complaint! Do not go alone, or loneliness will be yours for hours at end while waiting for the inspector to come attend to you. They need to be badgered to do things, so go in a group. Trust me. You don’t have to go to the correct police station to lodge a report; they’re supposed to take it anyway. I would rather that the standard issue cop be a morally hard-coded, law-enforcing robot of justice, but we�ve spoiled them. Take the summons, you car-driving cheapskates!

They Mashed Up Again

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YK, you will love this.

Black Smiths. Black Sabbath meets The Smiths.

Just like Beatallica (who plays Beatles songs in the Metallica sound, but sounding totally major-key), Black Smiths play The Smiths songs in the Black Sabbath sound, but sounding minor and Sabbath-like, thank goodness. Or at least I think they’re playing The Smiths, because I haven’t heard much of them, except The More You Ignore Me (though I recognize all the Black Sabbath riffs.) You get the Black Sabbath production sound and Ozzy’s grouchy singing. You can even download their entire album in MP3 format!

Prove Your Metal

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So you might have read the metalhead on the street claim that their music is positive in statements in the newspapers. What exactly do they mean?

Let me take a few examples:

Heavy Metal:
Black Sabbath – War Pigs
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor

Go do yourselves a favor and listen to it online, through online streaming sites or other methods. You will find it to sound very, very old and classic-rock like. Except that classic rock sings about love, and less worldly topics.

Power/speed metal:
Stratovarius – Eagleheart
Heart of an eagle
He flies through the rainbow
Into a new world and finds the sun
Spreading his wings
Above all the sorrows
The glory of Eagleheart

This is also the cheesiest sounding of all metal – high-pitched vocal singalongs, no screaming, no growling, and lots of very classical elvish-sounding guitar solos. Girls will dig Nightwish, which is like Evanescence but more operatic.

Thrash Metal:
Metallica – One
Fed through the tube that sticks in me
Just like a wartime novelty
Tied to machines that make me be
Cut this life off from me

This is also an easy-to-find song and video; it won a Grammy for Best Metal Performance.

Yes, it does touch on the sensitive subject of suicide, and *gasp* euthanasia, and war again. However, watch the video, and you will see why – the protagonist, as a young boy, is told “for democracy, any man would give his only begotten son”. He is sent off to war and is hit by a grenade and is left a shell of himself, paralyzed from the neck down. Stuck in the ward, he cannot sleep, traumatized by the events. He then uses Morse Code to signal to the doctors that he does not want to live anymore. Whether or not the doctors did anything we don’t know, but it cuts to a funeral hymn.

Death Metal:
Death – Mentally Blind
You see your vision and no one else’s
Your every word filled with sarcasm
Crucify people with invisible knowledge
Verbal destruction with each compulsion
We will see where you go
The future for you is nowhere
Every minute a cliche of your kind
Too much to say from a person with no respect
Your accusations you will regret
From the mentally blind come ideas that are poison
Take away the power, a shallow person you will find

Death metal is pounding, and heavier than thrash, but one of the identifying factors is heavily growled vocals. Those are not voices of Satan! It is merely the style. Go read around. Go educate yourself. I’m already helping out here. I don’t have the following songs, but these can be Googled nevertheless:

Death – Living Monstrosity:
Living monstrosity
A freak for life they’ll always be
Never knowing love or hate
Only pain the drug creates

(Oh look, an anti-drug song!)

Death – Without Judgement:
Guilty until proven innocent
We condemn your soul and fate
Never mind the possibilities
Too busy for logic or to calculate

Anddd Death – Spiritual Healing:
Blinded by the twisted ways you live
Kill for religion, will the Lord forgive?
Idiocy has stricken your mind
A real-life hell you will find

If anything, Death‘s lyrics are merely championing that you should not blindly accept the false teachings of others. In other words, don’t be stupid.

I will not deny that black metal is morbid, rhymes in occult, and talks about crushing skulls, or that Pantera has violent lyrics, or that Death has a song called Mutilation. However, read beyond the sound, and you will find some very intelligent lyrics.

I’d like to give as much detail as possible, but I don’t have any black metal songs. The hardest I have is just by the band Death, and I don’t listen to them a lot.

Now let’s look at rappers, who champion free sex, drugs and alcohol.

Nelly – Ride Wit Me:
If you wanna go and get high wit me
Smoke an L in the back with the Benz

Let me spell L out for you. LSD. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. A drug that creates illusions and vivid daydreams.

50 Cent – In Da Club:
You can find me in the club, bottle full of Bud
Mama, I got that X, if you into takin’ drugs
I’m into having sex, I ain’t into making love
So come give me a hug if you into getting rubbed

X is also E which is also Esctasy. A Bud is a Budweiser, a brand of beer. These hip hop songs are being played on the radio and being sung along by girls and boys, underaged alike!

I have been to many underground gigs on the more urban rock side, and have never seen somebody smoking a joint publicly. I have never seen anybody having sex in a rock gig either. Look for these things in nightclubs, people.

The more heavy the music played, the less girls you’d find.

Why are there so few venues to have rock gigs as opposed to hiphop/R&B gigs? Venues complain that the rockers don’t drink; this is especially so with the Malay crowds. Hiphop and R&B is more profitable. Don’t assume that there’s debauchery there, either – there will be more in a dangdut club.

A Long December

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Alright, here comes the final barrage of rock-related pictures, from December. I also break the 1 megabyte limit on this one. (Okay, so Counting Crows annoys me.)

3rd December 2005, Homegrown Finale concert, Sunway Amphitheatre


Rahul of One Buck Short with his pretty new guitar.


Republic Of Brickfields do their thing, with a happy crowd. I was standing behind, and on a stairway. To get the rest of the shots, I used a digital zoom of 2.2x (2272/1024) at 1024×768, for a total zoom of 4x optical times 2.2x digital = 8.9x. (I could go 14x if I was at 640×480, but I didn’t need to.) I was in Manual exposure mode, no flash, ISO 50 (it was possible, because there were spotlights), on F5.6 (that was the brightest aperture I could get at full 4x optical zoom) and varied my shutter speed between 1/40 to 1/60 seconds. It was quite necessary, as in Auto or Program mode, it would want to expose at 1 second, which would be too slow, and you’d just get a nice smudgy multicolored blur of rock stars. Digital cameras, even digital SLRs, are not smart enough to figure that the rock stars are already being bombarded with lights, and the cameras want to expose long enough to show the background. So if you think you’re gonna buy a digital SLR and get fantastic shots immediately on Auto, you’d be wrong.

Anyway, for those of you without shutter speed settings, you can just set your EV to -2 to get a similiar effect. Even cheap digicams have this feature, go read the manual, yo. Still too blurry? Crank the ISO up to 400.

It majorly annoys me when people want to get an SLR because they think it will solve their problems. Yes it’s all that, but they don’t even know their own digital camera well enough. Go learn about shutter and aperture and ISO and EV. Google it. If you’re lazy, the least you could do is pick up tips from my blog. I can do this with a RM900 camera, and a little Photoshop.


Trippy.


Oops, I forgot to turn off trippy mode for the intense Syahrul of Love Me Butch.


RAWR that’s more like it. Proper emo from the man himself. Few bands can sing emo without being off tune, and Syahrul pulls it off effortlessly.


ANGER RAGE POWER.


He’s so damn photogenic he is eating up your bandwidth now.


Yeah. Screw you black-nailed, black-eyelined, underwear-showing emo kids. This is the real thing.


Ham of Seven Collar T-Shirt has a funny posture, but it’s cool.


Duan gets a sneeze…


…and passes it on to Adam of Dragon Red, who is instead singing Superpreacher for Deja Voodoo Spells.


Yep, Rithan is not breaking a sweat, shredding away.


DJ Uno of Pop Shuvit on the decks, yo.

In case you’re wondering, yes, they did vote to smash the guitar. It was, of course, a cheap Pyramid Stratocaster clone.

4th December 2005, Dragon Red album launch, Midvalley Convention Center

This time around, I was sitting nearer, so I used 1600×1200, with a digital zoom of 1.42x, making a 5.6x total zoom, F5.6, ISO 50, no flash, and shutter speeds from 1/15 to 1/60 seconds.


Melina of Tempered Mental. They had bright, colorful spotlights for this one, and I was thankful for that.


This was where the stage was set up.


I think she looks good in red.


Hanafi playing for Estranged. He is also the temporary guitarist for Tempered Mental.


KLG Squad, rappers, yo.


Ean, the host. Damn, I love the spotlights, it makes every picture look much more dramatic.


The Bantus Capoeira Malaysia group. I don’t know what the connection was with Dragon Red, but heck.


AAA! Do not flash me! (Capoeira is way cooler taken without flash, at slower shutter speeds.)


Like so.


Fear the Brazilian guy with dreads, for he flies!


Yep, he’s coming for you.


Beware the malodorous foot.


Oh wait, he was wearing shoes.


“Hey that ain’t fair! Are you tripping me?”


Girls can join the fun too!


YYYEEEAAAHHH. You can tell that he’s enjoying every bit of it.


“Uh, I think we’re One Buck Short…”


Maybe they could grab some spare change from this breakdancer.


Or this guy, who will flip over three friends for you.


I suspect the little dude has some change. Yeah it’s Adam’s stage buddy.


Tech, guest rapper on Kehendak Naluri, raps like he got the munchies.


Goodbye, ev’rybody, I’ve got to go.

17th December 2005, Rock The World 6, Merdeka Stadium


I took a picture of the crowd, and the only guy who looked at me was the one you were supposed to spot. Where’s Syefri? (He has a full account of all the bands, go read his blog and buy his T-shirt. There are also more pictures at Jenifur‘s blog.)

Now this, this was far from the stage (we didn’t get media passes this time), so I cranked digital zoom to 3.55x at 640×480 for a total of 14x zoom. ISO 50, F5.6, and shutter speeds from 1/250 to 1/400 seconds.


As Yi Jian, Syefri, stim-girl and I stepped into Merdeka Stadium, we were greeted with a familiar rock anthem. Well, familiar to me, anyway. Faith No More – Be Aggressive! They then played Evidence, Easy and Digging The Grave. I was overjoyed! Finally, someone out there acknowledged this band who somewhat pioneered nu-metal and rap-metal, by playing them to the biggest (and only) rock concert (with more than 4 acts) in Malaysia! I should’ve went up to that guy and told him he had a nice shirt. 😀


Mr. Harooon was the usual emcee.


Alda of Cosmic Funk Express funks out the bass.


However, Zack takes the cake with two guitars, played simultaneously! Sadly, their set started with technical difficulty at the worse possible point – the roaring guitar solo introduction. The guitar could only be heard in the second half of the song. 🙁


“Hey man, you gotta show me how you do that shiiit.”


Frequency Cannon‘s bassist is loving the big stage.


Like, yo, yo yo!


“Damn, it’s hot today.”


“Thank God for the mist.”


Rithan rips out solos again, for Deja Voodoo Spells.


This time however, I spot their secret weapon – two people on keyboards! (That explains why they sound more properly produced, even on stage.)


Radhi of OAG, oo-oo-oo-OO.


People were getting tired, so…


“Let’s smash this guitar!” And so, he did. Again, this guitar is a cheap Pyramid. Do not be fooled!


Who says rock concerts can’t be cool(ed)?


We eventually retired with the crowd, for the harder bands in the night, and to float in space with Furniture, and sing along to Seven Collar T-Shirt. (This was taken at 7:30pm with a 15 second exposure.)

I didn’t bother with taking pictures because it was too dark and we were sitting too far away. It was time to just do what you should do at a rock concert – rock out.

Was it worth it? Most definitely. RM20 for 17 bands of all genres (pop to ska to metalcore, even a visiting by thrash-metal-in-major-key The Pilgrims, The Killers-like The Times and Kaiser Chiefs-like (reborn) A.C.A.B.) with an actual moshpit! (Unlike those moshpits in regular gigs with only 4 people!)

Death Metal

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Master of the slave
Was the name he gave
You’re magnetic and full of potential
But you’ve spun dizzily into your grave

Soon, all our memories became heavy metal.

A dozen a dime
A dozen years time
It doesn’t seem right
It doesn’t see the light

Soon, all our memories became heavy metal.

It wasn’t enough that I tried to get you back
You played dead and I needed a hack
So I searched around for the cure but you were still black
And now everything is blank, what a wreck!

Soon, all our memories became heavy metal.

Hmmm. I can’t write poems like I did back in college.


Look ma, no jumpers! (Yes, these pictures are so very much related.)


So old-school, the jumpers are on the underside of the hard disk!

Anyway, in summary, I plugged this 127MB Quantum ProDrive ELS into my left-side computer and couldn’t get it to detect. I plugged in the other three hard disks, (a Quantum Corona 4.3GB, Quantum Fireball 5.1GB, Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40GB) with it detecting one of them only once. Moved jumpers about, and from then on, the display did not show, and the speaker did not beep. Moved RAM position. I dug up my Radeon DVI adapter to try the other display to no avail. I even dug up my 3dfx Voodoo3 PCI!

I haven’t been this frustrated, and yet I am feeling strangely fine.

After Rocktoberfest

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November 2005 was a month full of gigs, so I’ll cram as many pictures as possible in under 600 KB, baby.

11th November: The Low Enders, or the bassists’ gig, part two (part one was the guitar shredders’.)


Clockwise from top-left: Daphne and Alda look merry; Alda doesn’t know how to turn off the video camera’s demo mode; Adam of Dragon Red enters a air-guitar competition and does a parody of Amil, his bandmate, complete with his expressions; he also shredded and threw in the Dimebag Darrell spider walk.


Clockwise from top-left: Serious business with AJ of Pop Shuvit, playing alone with his loop effect, major coolness as he builds a drum beat, adds basslines, then solos over it; Nakim and his secret weapon (the band); his bandmate, also on bass; Alda, representing Cosmic Funk Express. A joke: How do we get Cosmic Funk Express’ basslines to overpower Zack‘s guitar shredding? Hand Zack the bass.


After all that, the three bassists (and Jimmy of Tempered Mental) come together, to play… Come Together. The audience sings along, but they never got to the chorus. AJ and Nakim stole the limelight, with AJ doing jazzy lines as well as the melody, while Alda tried cutting in with his bass overdrive but failed.


12th November: Tracy‘s This Is Acoustics! Part II gig was at the same place as Part I, with about the same people, and about the same songs. Sorry! They did sound familiar despite only hearing them once. Well, at least they were memorable!


Clockwise from top-left: Christie King; Tony Leo the soulful church boy; Max Lim the guy who wrote a song about a broken guitar; Tracy Wong the piano player who turned Alicia Keys in half a year; Ian Chow the guy with the booming voice who doesn’t need a mike, Suk Yin.


17th November: Tempered Mental (featuring Zack on guitar) played at Backyard Pub, Sri Hartamas. I don’t quite fancy my camera’s night mode, but it does give cool effects when used appropriately, like these ghosts. 😀


Left: Before them was a macho tattooed man… on a Yamaha EZ-AG! Yup, the stringless beginner’s guitar, which lights up to show you where to fret. Middle: Zack on Cosmic Funk Express plays so fast he traverses time. Right: Zack shows us how to tap.


20th November, La Bodega KL: Top: Rhapsody, a jazzy R&B band, uh… jazzes the place. Powerful vocals with a strangely familiar but not overused tonal quality. Middle: Lucy In The Loo, on stage. Bottom: The Sofa Sessions; you gotta love the bassist’s lines. Plus they played a cover of Red Hot Chili Peppers – Soul To Squeeze, which in my opinion was the ultimate RHCP bassline song. Ariff nailed the solo (minus guitar slide) and the vocals.


Left: Billy Corgan meets Kurt Cobain, in this dude’s Nirvana cover. Right: Kevin strums to a happy acoustic-loving audience.


23rd November: KLue Upfront at Zouk promised free flow for VIPs. No free flow. No VIP area either. Noone stopped me from going upstairs, where I took a picture of Architecture In Helsinki, described by many as an avant garde rock band with 8 members and countless instruments.


The closest I could liken it to anything I knew was probably an emo-voiced Mr. Bungle. They had catchy, dancy hooks, but they changed it too often for us to enjoy it. So boohoo, to you progressive wannabes. Only when they turned the tables over to Twilight Action Girl did I feel the party started.

A privileged few would have ever seen me dance, but this one dude took the cake.

“Dude, are you on pills? You gotta stop that shit man.”
“Dude, I’m clean. I don’t smoke or pop pills… heck, I’ve never smoked weed!”
“WHAAA? DUDE! You are missing out on some good sheeet man!”

No, I do not look like a druggie when I dance. I look like a druggie all the time, dammit. 🙁 His friend calls me the crazy dancing dude.


25th November: The Stickman’s Blitz ends the artistic series, which had the guitar shredders and bass players before. Here, John Thomas is called up from the audience for a drum solo.


Drinking games! Jimmy: “I’ll just have my beer while waiting for you guys to start, okay?”


Left to right: Alex Ang of Velvet Tones; Ainol of Deja Voodoo Spells; Jimmy of Tempered Mental. All three bands played before this, but Ainol couldn’t help but burst into drum solo when Deja Voodoo Spells played Jimi Hendrix – Fire. A bit too early.


They jumped about in their seats and danced, swapping drum thrones on the way. Jimmy rapped. Ainol did a tribal beat ala Safri Duo, reggae and lion dance, among other things – it was clear he was the uber-entertainer.


26th November: I don’t even know the name of this gig, but Khai was in it, and he heard that girls dig faceless guys, so he went on stage blind for Y2K.


Clockwise from top-left: Warve gets a rapper; Dragon Red featuring Roshan of K-Town Clan (before that, they did a cover of One Buck Short, with Adam making a parody of Mooky, hilarious!); Throne Away, superb emo band with new Jagger-swagger vocalist and tapping-solo, chord-playing bass player; Milla, some kind of emo metal.

What, you’ve got broadband and expect December pictures as well?

October Best

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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.

Stock Clearance

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It’s the time of the week month year when I upload all the pictures I promised people I’d upload to my blog.


We start with the 16th of September, with Amber Chia signing autographs for the charity screening of The Longest Yard.


I then hopped over to Berjaya Times Square, for a supposed World Peace… concert?
Clockwise from top-left: Tragiccomedy; Army Of Three featuring Kevin of Broken Scar screaming instead of his usual acoustic guitar crooning (incidentally both guys in the picture are brothers); The Rebel Scum rip out the rap over a Transformers Theme beat; and finally cute dancers!


Poseidon’s album launch was on the 18th of September. I don’t even remember which bands were which.
Clockwise from top-left: Irene; a photogenic screamer; Pallid Sky (good hard rock with solos a-plenty); blood on the dance rock floor.


Frequency Cannon. Left: Captain Kua Chee barking, “Who swapped my socks?” Top: I loved the setup of a bright light installed for a camera crew, with Siva in front of a black wall, totally undistracted rock posing. Except for when Kua Chee pops in nosily asking about his socks. Bottom: Yu-Ri belts a melting solo.


Clockwise from top-left: Vespertine; progressive rockers Polaris; the new lead guitarist for Warve; and Stonebay’s guitarist’s pretty guitar. Yeah, so I used flash on all of these pictures.


Clockwise from top-left: Infiltrated; a guitarist scared shitless, intending to climb on his stage monitor and make a quick exit; Inverted Coma; Moodbox.


Of course, the highlight was Poseidon, a proper metal band with all the flash.


If you were running low on batteries, this would the the guy to record videos of. Fully flashy, fully scaling up and down the fretboard, with all sorts of funky effects.


I then rushed over to Luna Bar for Musiccanteen’s Awards, foregoing the last few bands for free beer. Up at skyscraper level, (33 floors to be exact) a lone Petronas Tower could be seen proposing to the KL Tower. Okay, so they were Photoshopped together.


They constructed a mini podium/walkway on the pool and filled it with blank CD-Rs!


Free beer equates to massive free jam. Edge Of Fire and Dragon Red feature in this one.


Amil of Dragon Red is seen on bass again! (For the first time, Alda was also publicly seen playing electric guitar!) At one point there were three people on the drums!


Kevin came back from Australia and played at Hartamas Square again on the 22nd of September. The joy of Hartamas Square gigs is that you never know who will play! From left to right, then top to bottom:
Admonition with a hothothot new vocalist; Tragiccomedy again, this time with a pretty Line 6 Variax guitar, probably wondering if the crowd is looking at him or the screen behind; Kevin; Jasemaine; Quizzicals; Seven; Edge Of Fire impromptu; a car with no bumper!


It was a return to Desa Sri Hartamas, this time, Jamasia, for the Xcited Screamers album launch. From left to right, then top to bottom:
Fathulistiwa; Zack of Cosmic Funk Express playing for Broken Scar; Epiphone SG, Emily Strange edition, of Kevin of Broken Scar; a black Epiphone SG hangs; Auburn, with cool rock progressions/riffs; Xcited Screamers.

Okay, I’m beat. October and November pictures will come another day week month. Yes, being September shots, these would all be with my old Canon Powershot A400 and not the A520.