{"id":1281,"date":"2009-06-16T02:51:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T02:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2009-06-16T02:51:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T02:51:49","slug":"two-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1281","title":{"rendered":"Two Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb1.jpg\"><br \/>\n17th February 2009 &#8211; <b>Broken Scar<\/b>, at Groove Junction! But first, here&#8217;s brother <b>Darren<\/b> as <b>An Honest Mistake<\/b>. Really, literally, he is brother to Kevin Teh, frontman and Broken Scar represent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb2.jpg\"><br \/>\nFinally, I got to see the <b>Chad Blondel<\/b> (and Ben) who had been in my Facebook inviting me to gigs across the seas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb3.jpg\"><br \/>\nThen comes the rockstar! You know they&#8217;re rockstars when they have guitar picks adorning the mike stand.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb4.jpg\"><br \/>\nKevin makes his best Ozzy Osbourne impersonation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb5.jpg\"><br \/>\nAlex Ang always makes an Ozzy Osbourne impersonation. Kidding!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb6.jpg\"><br \/>\nAlda is resident bassman for the Malaysian lineup of Broken Scar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb7.jpg\"><br \/>\nRohnie Tan and Ywenna add some flavor to Broken Scar&#8217;s rocking mix.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb8.jpg\"><br \/>\nPaul did a bluesy intro to <b>Shooting Star<\/b>. Whatever happened to <b>Qings &amp; Kueens<\/b>, his other hard-rocking band, I wonder?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb10.jpg\"><br \/>\nKevin is, as always, doing the Yngwie guitar-swing-around-body thing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb9.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe crowd is amused.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb11.jpg\"><br \/>\nHot chick photographers!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb12.jpg\"><br \/>\nSorry Kevin, your guitar doesn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1280\">shoot spaceship-destroying lasers like Dave Mustaine&#8217;s does<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb13.jpg\"><br \/>\nYwenna shows us who the boss is.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb19.jpg\"><br \/>\nFast forward to two days later, at Cloth And Clef, for Feedback: Open Mike a particular Thursday 19th February 2009.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb16.jpg\"><br \/>\nThere was a rather empty crowd, but Greg Ramanado still rocked like he was in the company of millions.<\/p>\n<p>And that is exactly how he will later, rock in the company of millions.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta dig his inflections that day &#8211; I think he was groovin&#8217; Jamaican or country but not quite. Everything he sang had a twang in it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb17.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe cool Justin Wong.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb14.jpg\"><br \/>\nSo cool, the usual standing tiger smiles, and Sarah Fathallah sings along.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb18.jpg\"><br \/>\nOrganizer Reza Salleh then went up for a bar or two, with some covers, which he&#8217;d rarely perform (no more <b>Stan Bush &#8211; The Touch<\/b>?)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bssfb15.jpg\"><br \/>\nAnd of course, the bartender stood by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17th February 2009 &#8211; Broken Scar, at Groove Junction! But first, here&#8217;s brother Darren as An Honest Mistake. Really, literally, he is brother to Kevin Teh, frontman and Broken Scar represent. Finally, I got to see the Chad Blondel (and Ben) who had been in my Facebook inviting me to gigs across the seas. Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","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=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}