{"id":608,"date":"2006-04-12T05:12:47","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T05:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2014-02-21T20:50:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T20:50:14","slug":"happy-birthday-jamasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday… Jamasia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamasia<\/b> had its one year old celebration on the 25th of March, 2006. I think it was a wee bit older than that, though, because I first saw Frequency Cannon<\/b> there, and I’d seen Frequency Cannon as early as 2004.<\/p>\n

And in case you’re wondering why only Jamasia gets wished happy birthday, it is because there was free flow of alcohol for 1.5 hours!<\/p>\n


\nI used slow shutter with flash\/night scene for these pictures; we had free flow, and Alda<\/a>, playing for Cosmic Funk Express<\/a>, opened the show, so he could not enjoy such generosity. But here, I sorta feed him Carlsberg.<\/p>\n


\nZack Kim<\/a> deftly avoids the lights…<\/p>\n


\nBut ends up inebriated anyway. Somehow I feel these picture effects work best to describe the music Cosmic Funk Express plays.<\/p>\n


\nStonebay<\/b>. Don’t be jealous and turn green Mr. Bassist, I finally take a picture of someone other than the singer with his eye-catching guitar and rainbow-colored beanie.<\/p>\n


\nThrone Away<\/b>, with One Buck Short<\/b>‘s drummer. Apparently, only Rudy the drummer can sing the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious part in Midnight In Madrid<\/i>.<\/p>\n


\nBeat The System<\/b>, playing nu-metal and some old-school. Perhaps I should’ve spun the camera upwards to make fiery streaks instead.<\/p>\n


\nNatalie<\/b> of Dragon Red<\/a>. They did a few covers, like sneaking in a verse of Estranged – Chocolate Syrup<\/i>, and Amil<\/b> playing the intro riff to Deja Voodoo Spells – I Am What I Am<\/i>.<\/p>\n


\nAdam<\/b> and his little pocketable partner in crime, Mozzie<\/b>. They do A Perfect Circle – Judith<\/i> well.<\/p>\n


\nHe also has aspirations to be the gloved one.<\/p>\n


\nSlyde<\/b>, for a rabid<\/i> fan.<\/p>\n


\nEdge Of Fire<\/b> was again short of members, so their falsetto-loving vocalist played guitar too. It was a treat to see him sing Guns & Roses – Welcome To The Jungle<\/i>, at a key too high that we could see his eyes popping out.<\/p>\n


\nShirtless as usual, Ainol<\/b> entertains with a drum solo. Deja Voodoo Spells<\/b> pulled a clever one on the crowd – Rithan started with a Hendrix-ish intro, but played Nirvana<\/b>‘s Breed<\/i> and Lithium<\/i> (and Green Day – Basket Case<\/i>) note-by-note. This might be to celebrate his nomination for best vocal performance in the AIM, perhaps?<\/p>\n


\nThe crowd asked for Jimi Hendrix<\/b>, and he obliged with Fire<\/i>. When asked for more, he brought out a guest guitarist and drummer, who ripped out Stevie Ray Vaughn<\/b>‘s version of Little Wing<\/i>!<\/p>\n


\nAdam joins to sing Strangely<\/i>. Also, Mie<\/b> becomes the official bassist of the band.<\/p>\n


\nVespertine<\/b> found it very tough to follow Deja Voodoo Spells. The bassist looked like he was mourning (or was he the one being mourned for, being that stiff?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamasia had its one year old celebration on the 25th of March, 2006. I think it was a wee bit older than that, though, because I first saw Frequency Cannon there, and I’d seen Frequency Cannon as early as 2004. And in case you’re wondering why only Jamasia gets wished happy birthday, it is because […]<\/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-608","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\/608","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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4310,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/4310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}