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\nI was there at 9:30pm to catch the blues man Julian Mokthar<\/b> in action. Unfortunately he had pulled out, but replacing him was Tok Ghani<\/b> of Blues Gang<\/b>.
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\nI don’t know about you, but there was something about the way he looked and played that was just so awesomely cool. Plus he was using a guitar slide, something I’ve only seen live on Butterfingers at Rock The World 4<\/a> and in my own inaccurate fingers.
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\nAznan Ali<\/b> was playing along and singing. His voice was WHOA bluesy. It reminded me so much of Jack White<\/b> of The White Stripes<\/b> – I call him a Kurt Cobain who played the blues. Even he sang with different vocal tones, it still reminded me of Jack. Watching the duo play was inspiring. While I only recognized their cover of Cream – Strange Brew<\/b>, every song was familiarly a twelve-bar-blues. Still, the gig was very inspiring, and I couldn’t wait to get home to screech some unison bends on the guitar.<\/p>\n
Friday<\/b><\/p>\n
I proved to Shaz<\/a>‘s expectation that it was a small world.<\/p>\n Saturday<\/b><\/p>\n I first went to Woh Fatt to hunt (there’s that word again) for a Dean Markley acoustic guitar pickup (as seen on Azmyl Yunor<\/a>‘s guitar) for my friend. Negotiations failed, so I headed to Do Re Mi<\/b> to get myself a cheap transducer as seen on a busker’s 12-string<\/a>:<\/p>\n I’d still have to peel off the protective covering for the double-sided tape, but because of my fear of commitment, I put regular tape on top of it for my ukelele<\/a>:<\/p>\n Oh and in between Do Re Mi and going back to Woh Fatt to buy the Dean Markley (and test<\/i> it for my friend) I went to Coffee Bean, Telawi area, Bangsar. Met Thescarfer<\/a> and Fazri<\/a> there and forgot my books. Elena<\/a> was inside too. Horny man<\/a> with sunglasses so black you’d think he’s blind came later. Later still came a walking talking DNS server<\/a>, a not-so-sleepy-dude<\/a> and a dude with photogenic hair<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sunday<\/b><\/p>\n “And on the seventh day, he rested.<\/i>”<\/p>\n Monday<\/b><\/p>\n Happy birthday, you old fart<\/a>! Now you’re technically as old as I am (until December 19th<\/a> that is.) See, I can be as shameless about self-promoting my birthday. Haha. You even got me promoting it. I just hope you get a free lunch at college, so be a good girl and don’t skip class.<\/p>\n On a side note, if I ever get a piercing, I’d want a small tuning fork. That way when I hear the sweet 440 hertz sound, my ear will vibrate. I could then claim I had perfect pitch. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thursday The hunt for Titus Blues Avenue was on. Supposedly the last blues joint in town, this seclusive place was found on the road opposite Kemayan ATC college. Surprisingly, I could not smell the ambient cigarette smoke. It was even well ventilated! I was there at 9:30pm to catch the blues man Julian Mokthar in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pictures","category-travelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","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=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11674,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/11674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/transducer.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
\nEasy mounting! Haha. Now, if only everything was easy mounting in life.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ukelelepickup.jpg\")
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\nThe Dean Markley Promag Grand<\/b><\/a> was better – you can’t see it, but it says “The Original ‘Instant Mount’<\/i>“. Hot damn! Now, if only everything was instant mounting in life.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/deanmarkley3.jpg\")
\nThere it lay, instantly mounted, with my non-committal transducer. The sound? Excellent, but not as noiseless as claimed. Or perhaps my SoundBlaster Live! 5.1<\/b> couldn’t handle such high-quality. I liked it because it didn’t pick up everything unlike my old cheap mikes. The transducers were another matter – they were so hissy (probably because I didn’t commit to peeling the tape!)<\/p>\n