{"id":802,"date":"2007-01-30T03:34:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T03:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=802"},"modified":"2015-08-09T08:57:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T08:57:01","slug":"sh-and-az","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Sh-and-Az"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shelley Leong<\/a> and Az Samad<\/a> were back in town for two intimate gigs.<\/p>\n

10th January 2007, No Black Tie<\/b><\/p>\n


\nAz<\/b>: Aku main dulu. Harap tak pancit.<\/i><\/p>\n

He played some new shit. Some old shit. Some refashioned shit. All good shit. Az is Malaysia’s violent acoustic fingerstyle guitarist with a penchant for alternate tunings, gentle guitar dynamics, and medleys of Beatles songs (all on one guitar, like Daytripper with both vocal lines and basslines!)<\/p>\n

Oh, and I think it was his first public performance of Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit<\/i>.<\/p>\n


\nShelley meanwhile, upped her performance photogenicness. \ud83d\ude00 All that raw emotion oozing from her face, I felt like crying too. (This was before the Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan lens<\/a>, shot using smashpOp<\/a>‘s Sony 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 at 120mm, F6.3, 1\/15s, ISO1600.)<\/p>\n


\nWah, pedal!<\/p>\n


\nOpen mike, and it’s awesome fingerstyle guitarist Dave Yoong<\/a>! He had a few tricks up his sleeves, too.<\/p>\n


\nRozhan joins Az to jam some jazz standards. I didn’t know if it was a jazz thing for both of them to take audible breaths at the same time, and sometimes take turns taking breaths, but not related to who was playing or taking turns.<\/p>\n


\nEmoticus maximus.<\/p>\n


\nNow, with Alda<\/a> on bass and Zalila Lee<\/b> on percussions!<\/p>\n


\nZalila aspires to be a hip candid shooter while playing the percussions with the other hand. Ah, the days when I slinged my Canon Powershot A520 on its belt pouch snapping everything as proof of something.<\/p>\n


\nReza Salleh<\/a>, soul\/rock crooner and Moonshine and Feedback gig organizer, gets an epiphany.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to 17th January 2007<\/b>, same place, right after I got the beercan lens.<\/p>\n


\nCrispness at the 210mm F4 1\/60s end!<\/p>\n


\nSame, but at 1\/8th of a second.<\/p>\n


\nIt’s like they teach looking emo in Berkley. Hmmm, maybe they do.<\/p>\n


\nGuess that chord! (This is a 600×898 crop shrunk in half to 300×449 to show the power of the beercan. Beer goggles<\/s> beercan makes it look good!)<\/p>\n


\nI’ve been meaning to catch Az do this. (No, he’s not shielding himself from the bright spotlights.)<\/p>\n


\nKnock on wood.<\/p>\n


\nI’ve never seen anyone so happy to be tuning his guitar.<\/p>\n


\nTwo plugs – one for the guitar pickup, the other to pick up the sound of knocking on the guitar!<\/p>\n


\nZach Tay<\/a> plays alternative rock and shreds the blues madly.<\/p>\n


\nFinally, some flare! 50mm, F1.4, 1\/3s (the main factors being overexposure, wide-open aperture and having a bright light somewhat out of the frame.)<\/p>\n


\nThis was not combined from two pictures.<\/p>\n


\nAz tunes. Everyone is happy.<\/p>\n


\nMore extreme closeup goodness at 210mm F4. For once Az plays the blues without going all jazzy and haram<\/i> on us. Yay!<\/p>\n


\nA most massive Chumbawamba-esque jam fest. From left: Two guitarists (Az and Shelley), two bassists (Loon and Alda), two percussionists (Stephanie and Zalila).<\/p>\n


\nOh, and Zarul the blowing the blues!<\/p>\n


\nYep, we’ve all seen him with Isaac Entry. Interesting change of pace, this.<\/p>\n


\nAnother surprise came in what Shelley called her happy blues song – Az sings the blues!<\/p>\n


\nArgh I forgot her name, and her friend’s name too. She had a beautiful, slightly fragile-yet-chin-up voice. I think I’ve been exposed to too much of that unidentified Laundry Bar blogger<\/a>, hence my decreasing captioning abilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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