{"id":12071,"date":"2023-09-28T14:01:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T14:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=12071"},"modified":"2023-09-28T15:11:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T15:11:08","slug":"rock-the-world-20th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=12071","title":{"rendered":"Rock The World 20th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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3rd December 2022: Rock The World 20th Anniversary<\/a> at Bukit Jalil National Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The grass was too precious and must be protected from our violent moshers, so we took up a little semicircle, which beats sitting far away from Billie Eilish. She is metal even if her music doesn’t tell you she is, and that’s why I went and paid RM500 only to get a seat far, far away<\/a>. At least here there was no problem\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026unless you count this, one of two creaky bridges to allow crowds to enter the standing area. I have to wonder what the normal way to the standing area was supposed to be!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elysha Arnold of Fly FM interviewing the crowd!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First band I managed to catch: KLAN<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But first, cool shirts in the crowd!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not to be defeated is a band in full swag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Margasatwa<\/strong> sounds as they look\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026psychedelic indie rock!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the tried-and-tested two stage setup, the crowd could walk over to the other stage after one performance finished to see Rock The World regulars Restraint<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By then the moshpit had filled up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crowdsurfers from the coast of rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some with a little help from their friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spotted architecture legend Ng Sek San!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fook on keyboards and bass for this next band\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Impatient Sisters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ryan (not a sister).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As always, I’d bring my Sony Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 135mm F1.8 ZA with Sony LA-EA4 autofocus adapter on my Sony A7S for shooting stages from the camera pit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sometimes it gets tight if I turn around to the crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fred Perry also sponsored the bands on stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Calm before the storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A surprise indeed when they turned hardcore!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shahril Redzwan of Kami Akta brought on the screams. Note also the metal logo in the background!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jimmy, another Rock The World veteran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prasasti<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Down on the padang, a picture of a picture of a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Up was The Padangs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was probably a decade or so I could walk into a guitar shop and recognize all the Ibanez guitars. In September 2023, I couldn’t recognize (especially the surprising influx of headless guitars), but I was in a rush so I didn’t look at all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Republic of Brickfields<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aru!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pop Shuvit<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gotta love animated backdrops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LO<\/strong> and behold, Jason Lo has returned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pacai on bass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve been to every Rock The World except the first one on 25th March 2000. The last event was the 17th instalment, Rock The World 17<\/a> in 2017, making this technically Rock The World 18 or Rock The World 22nd Anniversary?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jason is joined by his daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tres Empre<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then it was time for something smoother\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Midnight Fusic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I took a stroll outside the seated area where there were deejays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I got back in to see Plague of Happiness<\/strong> finishing their set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My favorite drone-rock Seven Collar T-Shirt<\/strong> was on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What’s that in the crowd, you say?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, ROTTW magazine with them on the cover!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ian Koren, helping on with\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One Buck Short<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rahul, boss of The Bee now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Izal, boss of the bass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imran, returning to drums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MonoloQue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No Good<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gerhana Ska Cinta<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It always makes me happy to get a shot like this, where there are things in front that are out of focus, contributing to the bokeh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Or, a shot like this, with accent lighting from the side, but not overpowering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brandon Gomez who I knew from Dragon Red, and now\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Massacre Conspiracy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dig the Megadeth shirt!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Times<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also love it when I can get two colors on the opposite ends of the color wheel dominating a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A.C.A.B.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Efek Rumah Kaca<\/strong> from Indonesia, the first non-Malaysian band in Rock The World that I can remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then came thrash metal legends Cromok<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These guys have concrete riffage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My taste in metal veers towards heavy metal, groove metal and thrash metal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wasn’t around music scenes when those genres were in their heyday so I would savor anybody still playing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sam on teutonic thrash vocals and bass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Occasionally, I’d take out the Sony Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 24mm F2.0 ZA SSM for wide shots like these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inside, the show had finished, but not outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve also bumped up my pictures to be 1440 pixels on their longest side, up from the old format of 1024 pixels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3rd December 2022: Rock The World 20th Anniversary at Bukit Jalil National Stadium. The grass was too precious and must be protected from our violent moshers, so we took up a little semicircle, which beats sitting far away from Billie Eilish. She is metal even if her music doesn’t tell you she is, and that’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12125,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071\/revisions\/12125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}