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4 Young boys. all 16, studious workers,
anime fans, rockin' dudes.
-Officially functioned as a band on 19th February 2005.
-Blog started running on 23rd March 2005.
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Name: Janson Leong
Age : 15+
DOB : 21/9/89
Horoscope: Virgo
Role: Bass
Influences: Glay, X-Japan, L'arc~en~ciel, Luna Sea, Dir en grey, GnR
Favourites: J, Toshiya, Heath
Email: anevon@hotmail.com
Blog: none
Name: Ser Chung
Age : 16
DOB : 23/4/89
Horoscope: Taurus
Role: Guitar
Influences: Glay, X-Japan, Luna Sea
Favourites: Hisashi, hide, Sugizo
Email: ( :
Blog: ( :
Name: Pang Ziqi
Age : 16
DOB : 09/06/89
Horoscope: Gemini
Role: Vocals, Guitar
Influences: Nirvana, Green Day, Redhotchilipeppers, Queen, Weezer, Oasis, Glay, Luna Sea, Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Favourites: Kurt Cobain
Email: bestfatz@hotmail.com
Blog:
http://bestfatz.blogspot.com<---
Name: Bryan Teo
Age : 16
DOB : 22/04/89
Horoscope: Taurus
Role: Drums, Piano
Influences: X-Japan, Dream Theatre, Liquid Tension Experiments
Favourites: Mike Portnoy, Yoshiki
Email: mechrex2005@gmail.com
Blog:
http://rowrrowr.blogspot.com
Mine and my Brother's(:
Guitars: Fernandes/Burny hide Signature Model MG145S, Epiphone Les Paul Trans Edition, Fender ST-43 Strat, 3 acoustic guitars(china-made,3/4 sized,broken).
Effects: Proco Vintage Rat pedal, Visual Sound Liquid Chorus and Echo pedal, Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive pedal, Boss XT-2 Xtortion pedal
Amplifiers: Marshall MGCDR series15, Ibanez Toneblaster25
Strings: GHS guitar boomers, Ernie Ball Super Slinky, Ernie Ball Extra Slinky, Ernie Ball Hybrid Slinky, Gibson Brite Wires, Gibson 740's, DRS hand-mades, Fender Original Bullets, etc.
My Bro's Arsenal, my destruction
The Guns: The musket-Black Kapok-made in china accoustic(metal strings) guitar. (costs $15 but plays better than branded models.)
The Sniper-White Peavey International Series Raptor I Electric Guitar
The Heavy Chain Machine Gun-Black Aria Pro II FB Series Bass (4 strings)
The Ammo Box:Peavey Rage 158
The Technology:Fat Chorus Distortion Pedal
Guitars: TGM classical guitar c-10, TGM electric guitar legend series
Amp: Rocktron RAMPAGE guitar amp, SAMICK SG 40B Bass amp
Bass: ESP LTD Viper 104
Drum Set: Pearl Brand Drum set with 10", 12", 13", 14" and 15" toms with a 14" snare and bass tom with external 2nd base pedal add-on
Cymbols: Pearl High hats with Iron Cobra 3-leg Stand, Sabian Signature Max Series 7"/18cm Splash, Sabian Hand Hammered Series 14"/36cm Crash, Trojan 10" splash, AAX 16"/41cm Stage Crash, Sabian Pro Sonix Series 20"/51cm Ride, Pearl CX300 Series 18" Crash/Ride, Zildjian 16"/40cm China 'Trash'
Other Add-Ons: Zildjian Cow Bell, Pedal Wood Block, Clamp Tamborine
Sticks: Zildjian Select Hickory Big Band Jazz 7A, Vic Firth 5AH, Pro.Mark Hot Rods Jass Sticks, Pro.Mark Jass Fibre Wire Sticks, Ahead 5A Plastic Sticks, Hogalo Fine Quality Metal Drum sticks
Recording Devices: Creative Zen Micro(mp3), Casio Exilim(videos, music and photos), Nero Media(editing), etc
dun worry. we'll use better ones next time
Pretty soon!=D
| Info. on previous Sessions |
Actually, too much too exactly note down.
23rd July 2005
Beautiful Day - U2
Mr. Brightside - The Killers
Haruka Kanata - Asian Kung Fu Generation
You May Dream - Glay( Mega X2 improved ver.)
Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis
Storm - Luna Sea
24th July 2005
Beautiful Day - U2
Mr. Brightside - The Killers
Haruka Kanata - Asian Kung Fu Generation
Basket Case - Greenday
You May Dream - Glay
Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis
Tonight - Luna Sea
9th April 2005
Asian Kung Fu Generation - Haruka Kanata
Luna Sea - Tonight
Luna Sea - Storm
X-Japan - Rusty Nail ( Mega improved ver.)
The Darkness - Growing on me ( Improved ver.)
Glay - You May Dream ( Improved ver.)
12th March 2005
Glay - You May Dream
The Darkness - Growing on Me ( Improved ver. )
X Japan - Rusty Nail ( Improved ver. )
19th February 2005
X Japan - Rusty Nail
The Darkness - Growing on Me
| Past Performances and Members |
-Teachers' Day 2004 (31 July 2004)
Vocals: Haikal(chill guy)
Guitar: Ser Chung
Bass: Janson
Drums: Ziqi
Song: Blur - Song2
-Graduation Day 2004 (1 October 2004)
Vocals, Guitar: Ziqi
Back-up Vocals, Guitar: Ser Chung
Back-up Vocals, Bass: Jeremy
Drums: Shi Ping
Song: The Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You
-CTSS 25th Anniverasry Carnival 2005(30 July 2005)
Vocals, Guitar: Ziqi
Guitar: Ser Chung
Bass: Janson
Drums: Bryan
Song: The Killers - Mr. Brightside, Glay - You May Dream, Asian Kung Fu Generation - Haruka Kanata, Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
-Graduation Day 2005(25 November 2005)
Vocals, Guitar: Ziqi
Guitar: Ser Chung
Bass: Janson
Drums: Bryan
Song: The Calling - Wherever you will go
-Arts Day 2006 (8 July 2006)
Vocals, Guitar: Ziqi
Guitar: Ser Chung
Bass: Janson
Drums: Bryan
Song: The Smashing Pumpkins - I Am One
Adam
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ahh.....our band is into its third year of existence....
anyway, shall talk about last night's concert at NUS....Love in new wave, or was it live in new wave concert.........electrico referred to the 80s music as new wave....was it?...didn't know it was called that...new wave, nouvelle vague referred to the revolution in film during the 50s and 60s in France..........
the concert gave me more than what i expected, and it was worth the 27 dollars and every cent spent....although we could have just bought the 18 dollar tickets and just sit at the 30 dollar seats....well....my seat was f16, which was the seat directly central and perpendicular to the stage front...on the second level....probably was the best view from the back...but it would have been better if were in front at the, don't know what...mosh? pit?....it didn't mattered which songs they played...it was all great....colourful, slightly radio friendly music, but it does not stop in giving me the high.....the lightings, special effects, visualizations made it all very special...strange kind of serenity....their style of music was usually loud and catchy, but to me it always gave that sort of tingy comfort...........
the crowd and audience was dead........and for performers to jump around on stage in an attempt to make it look like a rock concert...but it didn't seem like that at all...i guess it was probably a mainstream audience and no one would dance around or simply shake to the beat.....it should be easy to jump during the riffs and intros of the songs...but no one did.....i guess the audience wasn't in the same frequency...no resonance caused by the music....or its probably just the audience......i hope it isn't so in clubs and bars where live bands play...................i know how is it like playing to an audience some -- rock...while everyone just sat there...its almost impossible to get the general public to move, even myself...when no one is doing so......it was so during some performances that we had...especially during both graduation day ones....and last yrs teacher's day which i didn't play with our band.........everyone sat there bored...aiyah..but can't blame them either....it just wasn't entertaining....for the times that were good however....even in school at least we saw some bit of energy and cheer from the audience...it was during our first performance...the canteen one.. and maybe arts day too..........where at least ppl enjoyed and were cheering at least....no mosh or what....it felt like an unplugged concert audience..but at least it was something to live for,...just to play at those times.......
sorry, i just had to digress...........................now back to electrico....
at the start of the show....they simply allowed everyone to enter the front to stand by the stage.....but we were on the second floor and did not have tickets to allow us to the first floor...there no stairs from the inside to get to the bottom...and didn't try to ask the ushers...oh well...we couldn't get a closer look..sigh....but there wasn't any energy in front to begin with...so no point..they were all just standing there.........
but the music last night was unforgettable...for me, it was my first rock concert.........ah....for it to be a local band.....local band this, local band that....there was never an existence of local music or the a lively indie scene to me before..i didn't know there were so many great bands around...i read news papers about concave scream and all the school of rock competition blah blah.....then there was lime sonic bang 2 yrs ago and baybeats last year which i went for.....these were like small teases, and i still don't think local music was great besides electrico...until the last december holidays which had just ended....we went to see some live sets at esplanade during weekends.........and there was great music all the time.........there was the 2 person playing cover songs of from many uk artiste and bands.......then there was camra this year....which really rocks...nice mysterious ambience and power guitar effects.....
when i reach 18 this year june, what i really would die to enter would not be the clubs to drink and party,of course i would check it out.... but to watch live bands play in bars....and maybe even djs tossing tunes and scratching records...haven't seen it with my own eyes before.....friends underaged are already going into clubs...but theres no rush rite?........
...damn...hope our band could play gigs and shows after we come out of NS, and live up to our dreams...hopefully.....
anyway, we bought some merchandise and got autographs from the band members themselves...and got a picture taken...the picture didn't turn out rite...oh well.............
DUDES, it's time.... for a change. ******* shall own... think, it's time.
-chung
have to review about yesterday's performance for keepsakethought about it for roughly yesterday and today....well, we lost because we didn't do well.....but but but...we didn't do well, doesn't mean we are not well......with TONS of technical errors combined with a song that isn't really what a mainstream audience would have a ear for(in this case the judges who had the power to choose).....we expected not to win, but still let it got to us a little at the talentime................well, we may not have won either even if we were perfect maybe because there was the presence of a jukebox that churns pop 'hits'.....but i guess....we were sucessful in our own way, and i guess we accepted it ?quite well.....because we were satisfied with our improvements......while the other bands concentrated on the other aspects(they're good)......we concentrated more on showcasing the 'attitude'! .....and from our point of view we have suceeded.....our showmanship too......and nothing we did on the stage was choreographed....the only preparation we had to do was to tell ourselves that we must unleash on stage.....so all of that was spontaneous..........i am very happy too that its a performance worthy of showcase, and something you would see in a rock concert....woo hoo!....that may be an overstatement, but i'm still glad we're on our way there...three possibilities yesterday, either we were off form, judges didn't like us..... or the technical faults really got to us.....also proud that bryan could play a left pedal with his right leg, twisting his whole body into an awkward position and continue playing the song even when the bass pedal broke..haha......it may seem like nothing....but but but....if it is nothing, so is playing guitar with your teeth or playing it behind your head..........wahahaha...all this just proves that this is only the beggining... this greatest let down may have been our greatest show yet.....even when we didn't play well.....a good band may make mistakes sometimes...?-ziqi 2200
quite sian now..so wanna blog a little here...chung bought some killer equipment...now the band's potential is increased exponentially.....but well,i feel we've always only been having tons of potential, but not actually crossing that line to converting this.....chiong, or let it come to us naturally?anyway, we were thrown a setback again......this saturday's performance....we are only allowed to play one song, instead of our originally intended two....i think since its a competition, its only right to be fair...but we felt those 2 songs, complimented each other...and for me in particular, i felt necessary for it to be a set...but i guess, we'll have to work within our limits..accept that i can't always get what i want...secondly, we'll be playing in the concourse...why?..i probably think that its there because more ppl would take notice thats why?...i don't know if this is a good thing or bad....but me and chung at the least wanted something like lt4 or the hall at the very very least....it'll be like playing at the sch canteen i guess....but just one song this time...whatever......its settling better for me now.....oh yah,.....another prob is trying to get a msg to bry......suddenly he always not online...have to tell him a few things first....ah thats it-ziqi 310am......i just woke up after sleeping for 6 hours from 8pm...lol
06/06/2006, the day i bought my bass! finally, after a nong nong time i decided to break the bank and buy a bass... its been 16 months since i started playing bass for this band... finally i have something to be proud of, to call my oWN GOD DAM IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its really a long march... but its becoz of this long march that i realised many many things...too many to be written. did quite alot of 'research' before actually going down to shops to take a look. didnt wan to get scam again, i bought a f4rking lousy guitar for $90 when it cost like less than $30. went to at least 6 shops, thrice in 5 days before finally deciding to get this baby home. super happy.. the sound is gd.. the amp is big.. i nv thought i could get an amp.. this size at this price.. nv planned to get an amp actually. so no more borrowing of bass, borrowing of amps, fear that i may spoil someone else's comrade.. its totally song bo.
well, i wanna thanks my mother and father for.. provoking me, not supporting me and calling me a backup... becoz they indirectly made me play more. they are gd pple... my mother gave me $100 last min... super happy.. 100 may not be alot for alotof u.. but to me its not juz 100, its acknowledgment, support and love. i actually paid the deposit for the bass before telling my mother about it... was dam scared yet happy... u know, u dun wanna know that feeling... will really die. ok next i wanna thank my sister.. for loaning me some money. althou i fought with her, slap her till her eyes swollen, but we still came out of the same hole.. family.. is always the best. no family = no love = no point being happy. yup.. muacks.
i feel that i am 17 already..since i am 17, there r somethings i should pay myself... my mother gave birth to me... she should give me money for things i need and not want.. music.. is wad i wanted.. so sorri, no subsidies. partially coz my parents arent very rich and partially coz.. i juz dun like it... my parents always wanted me to be mozart.. but i chose to be bassman... they even offered to buy me a piano to replace bass.. haha funny adults.
anyway, there is one person.. i wanna thank the most! and that is wy. she was with me for all 3 days, following me, giving advises and offering to pay the deposit for me... THANK U, arigato gozaimasu. its like u following your mother to the market to see lumps of meat. well well... juz dam happy to have a fren like her. too many things she did i wanna thank her... so many tat i dun feel like recalling.. so juz thank u!
ok.. thank finish, touching speech done. lastly i wanna *commemorade* spelling error? all the basses i used before..
1) Aria somehting, cant remember the model, the bass i used for grad day 05 and for most of my practice. it belongs to ziqi's bro's fren. so i have to thank 3 person.. ty.
2) Samick Fairlane.. the best bass i have used so far i would say.. borrowed this bass from tun kuang, percussionist of halfestride shortly after returning ziqi his bass. ty.
3) Cort bla bla bla, dunno the model again. borrowed from nicholas, bassist of... sincera. used it for arts day 06 audition.. gd bass...
4) my bass, ESP LTD viper 104.. cheapest of the viper series but coolest coz i am using it. gonna be my comrade for quite sometime... its actually a sub for my dream bass.. but i still love it. wanna see it, come see us perform at art's day battle of the band.. mini one though LOL ty!!!
k i dunno y cannot upload the pics.. nvm la.. fate.. i go slp le... hope u enjoy the post :)
life can't do without music...i was feeling so dreary......i was becoming distraught......there was absolutely nothing i can keep myself occupied with.....well.....i'm not in touch with life right now....its like my mind has only one task which is to keep breathing...but recently after realising that billy started play guitar at 15....and that also bearing resemblance to kurt....so i wanna be liek them....i got down to playing guitar a lot recently....but tried to stopped using tabs....and trying to hear the sounds out myself...well, so it goes...i was damn bored...i played on the guitar along with every song that was playing on my computer.....then came runaway by electrico......i don't know....i figured out the whole song, and felt very satisfied...ah...haven't had so much satisfaction playing with myself(with the guitar).....lololol....figured out the riffs, the solos, 95% of the chords...some of the picking....and played to the whole song.....its my first song.....i know..i started very late....damn.........ppl do this when they pick up the guitar...aiya.....tried learning X too.....(from the tab, no choice..)......if there is anything i want to do for the next few days, it would be to keep myself occupied......simulate a 'nuclear powerplant' in my head.... Yes, Music is morphine, stops me from whining about boredom and drowning myself in self-pity....experiment with it for a few times already for the past few days(or since last week).....makes me high....ziqi 2309
pagers are out, we're in. dunno y we made it through with such great competition... is it cos we improved? or is it tt everyone sucked together.. only revealed on july 8th. bored.
chung
things are back on track and looking pretty fine... hmm hmm hmm... well, been long since i posted here since nth was happening. but now, things are different. last jamming was like couple of weeks ago. went very well after that long break but hell, not much news... but like i said,things are different. more challenges now. and we might lose face LOL. somehow this brings to me an o lvl and a lvl analogy. u see, in o lvl nowadays, u need not compete with those top sch like HCI, RI, RGS, and RV.(ALL THE [a]R[se]'s) so, for CTSS, its like 'HEY MAN!' things will at least be pretty fine, no super stiff competition. but come to a lvls, here's the catch. since those R's have gone on ip programmes and skip o lvl, they' gonna trash ur asses in the end even if u did fine when u were 16. so now, things are pretty much like this. BUT, it's gonna be more exciting and SNEAKY this time. BB
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chungs
| Simple plan, stars don't fall, pug jelly, saw loser....what have you.....KILLED ROCK AND ROLL....i hate you |
have had enough with 'punk' rock....first they dominate the radio, pop, britney spears, back street boys was bad enough...now 'punk' rock have to pollute our air waves with your insignificant whining..you behave like a poser on MTV, because you are one ....you even have to wear eye liner....when you're playing some shit music just to show you're goth..'PUNK' SHIT....you whine about nothing and everything.....you contribute to rock especially to punk rock of being sissy and petty.....you are destroying the next generation with your overly simplistic power chords...the future is left with zero inspiration...the extinction of rock gods in the near future...Being 'PUNK' is not PUNK....i'm referring to 'punk'...well 'simple plan'.....i respect sex pistols, the ramones.....etc.....and there are a few modern punk bands like the vines, the hives, and the strokes....and even post grunge era, green day.....(maybe quite sell out recently..)..which are true.....but simple plan...should just die...oh yeah, good charlotte too, go die...please don't whine anymore..i cannot stand it much longer......A LITTLE WHINING FOR A GREATER GOOD.....thats what i am doing...i'm whining....plastic plastic plastic plastic, fake fake, artificial, Total Californicationwah..'punk' rock...you are giving us so much problems.....- ziqi 2330, sacrifice my sleep to do this...oh man....THANK GOD FOR EXISTENCE OF ALTERNATIVES....
saw ziqi BT today. BT aka botak. he didnt look very funny, like wad the other pple told me... juz that he look abit bare abd different. apparently, he cut his hair for hockey, this shows how committed he is to hockey. lets wish him all the best for his trainings and competitions. so since he can cut botak for his CCA, then he shall not have any excuses for not doing it for the band.. k la we r not that evil to make him cut botak.. juz that he will have to play till he cut his fingers after his competition.
well, my classmate's band won 3rd in a band thingy... and they got $500 cash prize and $150 recording voucher.. OMG.. not to worri, since he can win 3rd, this shows that we r the 1st pple... i mean pple that get 1st LOL.
oh and er i am planning to borrow a bass from my classmate's band bassist. the bassist is goig for ns... so i hope he agree to lend me his bass... if not i will have to steal. i emailed davisguitar asking them whether they imp0rt bass from japan or not.. coz i am planning to get one of my favourite bassist's signature model bass(3rd edition though). hopefully they give me a positive reply.
| end this before its too late |
if we look at this as a problem, it will be a problem..don't worry, this band will always stay together..june jam ok? put this out of our minds for now, and concentrate on other aspects of life..this is like zhiyang house episode 2... i hope you agree with me, we can just jam tmr if we want,but no point starting another project if we cannot give in our 100%, when we are still very busy, in the end become more busy.... in june, then we got enough time to put in our 100% for the band, then we jam like once a week, but one day before that, we meet to do intensive study...then we can justify the frequent jammings ok? develop the same system as the school, grades cannot make it will kena suspend...the least we can do now is be active in this blog so that we still know we are all alive...including bry,...to know that the band is alive, that the possibility of future jammings is right behind the horizon, though we can yet to see it, it will keep us moving towards it...ziqi 1853i was listening to music............. as usual. bassless, lifeless, bandless. the silent in this blog is making me super duper uneasy. soul love follow by storm follow by rusty nail, song after song. after every song, i feel like playing.. i imagine us playing... imagine us moving but afterall, its juz imagination. ive been hearing alot from my classmate about his band... super jealous of them. 5 jamming a week before competition(finals), one 5h jamming a week at least.when was the last time we jam? erm..... feb? when was the last time we really put in 100% effort and jam? erm........ before grad day? when was the last time we enjoy jamming.....erm... 1 year ago during our 1st jamming?i feel that the band is breaking apart, drifting to diff continents. whos at fault? whos to be blame? i dun think anyone is wrong. we all have diff commitments, cca, skoolwork, life, band, stead etc. the amount of time we put in them also differ from each other. but 1 thing we r similar is the band is not 1st in our list. band.. not music.. band. this band is really one and only lor... we dun come together becoz we r frenz, we dun come together coz we listen to the same kinda music. bla bla bla bla becoz we have the same hobby. zzzzzz becoz we wanna join super band. we come together for the same reason, to let others know wad true.. or should i say nice rock is about.. not 66666666-88888888-44444444. but 234235-2352-35-4235423. but relying on this common goal is not enough... we will juz be like beyond.. or maybe beyond beyond. we have to start all this all over again.. greeting each other.. toking.. playing.. gaying zzzing wadeva la juz gett he momentum(mv) back.we r all dam busy now... busy catching up with everything.. i juz hope we can start jamming asap lor... like may or late april after we settle into our jc and poly life... i nv regret banding together i regret not moving during jamming and learning songs one day before jamming.. somethings r not appreciated until its lost... this is one thing i really hope i wont start appreciating after its lost.dunno is this the rite way to voice my view.. but who cares la.. juz wanna save this band.
