{"id":3281,"date":"2014-02-03T15:36:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T15:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2014-02-03T15:45:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T15:45:33","slug":"open-mic-the-venue-9-hosted-by-az-samad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=3281","title":{"rendered":"Open Mic @ The Venue #9 – Hosted by Az Samad"},"content":{"rendered":"

17th June 2013: Open Mic @ The Venue #9 – Hosted by Az Samad<\/a>! This would sadly be the last instalment of this open mic series. The Venue would then close, to be replaced, a few months later.<\/p>\n


\nJamiel Said<\/b> who did a cover of Search – Fantasia Bulan Madu<\/i> and Goo Goo Dolls – Iris<\/i>!<\/p>\n


\nMike Dawes<\/b>! Yes, that’s a GoPro on this fingerstyle guitarist\/Youtube sensation\/guitar teacher’s guitar headstock.<\/p>\n


\nAz Samad joins him for a jam.<\/p>\n


\nBig & Small<\/b>!<\/p>\n


\nThey did a cover of James Brown – It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World<\/i>.<\/p>\n


\nRaja Farouque Trio<\/b>. <\/p>\n


\nHere’s Raja Farouque on a LTD superstrat! I’d normally see him as the double-bass-playing member of Fazz, but this time I saw him in a Steve Vai-ish light. All he needed was a handlebar for his guitar!<\/p>\n


\nPeter of Markiza & Peter Brown<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nMarkiza. This couple has been singing socially conscious songs for a long time.<\/p>\n


\nAz Samad, emcee and organizer.<\/p>\n


\nTalitha Tan<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nFascinatingly, for the running joke that she goes up with a different borrowed guitar each time, this is her actual guitar, rarely appearing on stage…<\/p>\n


\n…reason being that it doesn’t have a pickup. That does seem peculiar for a Taylor, a guitar maker associated with a great acoustic guitar sound, to leave amplification to an external microphone.<\/p>\n


\nFeatured act Paladin<\/b> did a cover of The Doors – Riders In The Sun<\/i>.<\/p>\n


\nLead celloist Florian Antler. For some reason the lighting turned out very iOS7-like.<\/p>\n


\nThis, too! Was Jony Ive behind the lighting?<\/p>\n


\nSerious-looking people outside.<\/p>\n


\nDamia<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nAice<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nAccompanied by guitar teacher Matthew McKelson.<\/p>\n


\nSure, you know your chords like the back of your hand, but can you play guitar on the back of your head? This is Rayner Ray<\/b> (thanks Az for the heads up!)<\/p>\n


\nAaron Aw<\/b>, with a very muhibbah song.<\/p>\n


\nAyuni Wahab<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nBoy Castro on guitar.<\/p>\n


\nAriff AB<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nHameer Zawawi<\/b> does an awesome cover of Tempered Mental – Automata<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

17th June 2013: Open Mic @ The Venue #9 – Hosted by Az Samad! This would sadly be the last instalment of this open mic series. The Venue would then close, to be replaced, a few months later. Jamiel Said who did a cover of Search – Fantasia Bulan Madu and Goo Goo Dolls – […]<\/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-3281","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\/3281","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=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}