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2 Guitar Heroes Wannabe

2009-01-05T13:12:00.001+08:00

.......while waiting our turn at Lowyat Bandjam Competition.

Back Fresh BOTB

2009-01-05T12:32:00.005+08:00

Well, another botb. No more gigs for 50Bucks after this. Mike went Penang for work; MrFungi and Vic went KL for work; Vince having form5; Sean, no news yet.

*MrFungi and Vic are forming a new band at KL. Wish them luck yea.*

We played +44's When Your Heart Stop Beating, and The Strokes' Reptilia. Well, didn't win any prizes. Still got a long way to go.......

50Bucks on stage.

Youtube Link:
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=tZUGQLs68Jg
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVGq7c914s

Gig @ Dataran Pahlawan

2009-01-05T12:14:00.005+08:00

It was supposed to be a music promotion kinda event, iirc. Supposed to have 4 gigs, each time in each weekend, but kena complaint by OldTownCafe, said we were too noisy. lol. Dam, jealous the crowd gathered here instead of yumcha in your cafe ka. So, we only had 1 time of performing at Dataran Pahlawan.

It was our worst gig, period.
We were like rockstar lah. Didn't bring cables, effect pedals, show up 5mins before our turn. By the time we reached, the stage didn't even have a drumset yet. After all the mess of borrowing this and that, we still lacked of a drum stool. Nvm it. MrFungi used a leisure chair instead.

Lesson learnt. We're not rockstar.

After all the mess, mood also down lah right? Dam nervous lah that time, like everything's not well prepared, everything's not right. :D

Anyway, we performed 6songs.

Song List:

1. 張懸 - 寶貝
2. Black Potion - Relief
3. Xiao Wei
3. David Tao - 黑色柳丁
4. Sum 41 - Pieces
5. The Strokes - Reptilia
6. Bon Jovi - It's My Life

Alrite, pics up!

The band. iirc we used the band name 50bucks. =P

The vox: Mike and Edith.

The drummer: MrFungi

The guitarist: Vince

The bassist: Victor

The guitar wanker: Sean

LYN WCG BandJam Competition 2008

2009-01-05T11:48:00.004+08:00

All of these events are like, long time ago. But I just have the time to blog it now. lol.

Well, it's a botb. We played BonJovi's It's My Life, and of course we didn't win any prizes lah, considering we only jammed once or twice before going up onstage. :D

The band.

I also forget what bandname already. We changed so many times. hehe.

Wtf is MrFungi smilling at?

30/12/2008 's Pedal Board

2008-12-30T01:12:00.004+08:00

Guitar - JimDunlop GCB95 - BossCS3 - MI Audio Crunchbox - Bootleg DrMidrich - EHX Small Clone - Boss PS2 - Guyatone NoiseDefender - Amp.

- Letting to my boss cs3 to upgrade to mxr dynacomp soon. kekeke.
- Modding my wah soon.

Nice?

08 Micros CSCC

2008-12-29T05:32:00.001+08:00

Finally finished, the 08 Micros CSCC. Although our song didn't manage to get any prizes, we had fun on stage! It's the 1st time Sticky Mucus get on stage as a band. hohoho.

So, let the pic do the talking, shall we? :D

Me, Crash, Victor.

Drummer, Guitarist, Bassist.

With background light turn-off. :D

LAST BUT NOT LEAST, STICKY MUCUS !!!

11pm - 5am

2008-12-29T05:29:00.001+08:00

After jamming from 11pm-12am, we yumcha, lepak, McD, only go home. =)

This is my band, Crashour. :)

Guitar Collection

2007-08-16T02:51:00.000+08:00

From Left
Top : Squier Strat, SX LesPaul, Epi LesPaul, IbanezRG, SX Bass
Bottom : Omiya Accoustic, XXX Classical, YYY Jumbo

Flash~

2007-07-22T05:40:00.000+08:00

Custom Drum

2007-06-28T03:23:00.000+08:00

Due to lack of practise and don't wanna get nagged by the drum teacher Ice, Fungi last practiced with a custom practise drum set. So now we ~~proudly~~ shamelessly present you Fungi's 1st custom drum set.

And I jammed with him. lol.

But I'm In A Band

2007-04-30T20:20:00.000+08:00

Finally the No Job, No Money, NoCar, But I'm In A Band T-shirt has arrived.

See? Nice isn't it?

A close up pic of it.

Then it has embroidery on the left sleeve. Guess what? It's our band name! lol.

Band name, and my name.

Band name, and Fungi's name. Crash? Whatever floats his boat loh.

Band name, and Kaho's name.

Too bad YingYung doesn't wanna waste money on this. :(

Anyway, harhar yea it's our 1st band T shirt.

Rigs Added

2007-04-16T17:49:00.000+08:00

I went to POS KL last saturday to collect a guitar I bought from Ishibashi WebShop, Japan.

They really suprised me with how they handle my parcel.

Nah I didn't buy a Fender, they just simply used a box for my guitar.

1st of all, they wrapped my guitar with the 3 layers of bubble plastic wrapper. After that, they put my guitar into a box, and then wrapped the box with 3 layers of the bubble plastic wrapper again.

I really thank them for doing so, 'cause stupid workers at POS Malaysia there doesn't handle things with care. I saw them 'throw' my parcel on the moving belt very roughly. Luckily it doesn't hurt my guitar.

See? This is my new guitar, RG570bk.

Please excuse my not-rock-or-metal-at-all blanket and my messy bed.

3 musketeers. A MIK Squire Strat, Ibanez RG570bk, SX Les Paul.

More and more. A SX bass guitar, Peavey Blazer 158 guitar amp, Red Shadow 150w bass amp.

Humbucker Added

2007-04-06T00:59:00.000+08:00

Done by my sifu, Ice. I love my humbucker's sound. \m/

Jam !!!!

2007-03-17T01:53:00.000+08:00

A total number of 6 people, consists of Me, Fungi, KaHo, YingYung, Victor and Wilson went to Ice Music Paradise for a jamming session today. And it's the 1st altogether jamming session!

Fungi be the drummer as usual. But he sang too! It's "The Reason" from Hoobastank. What funny is the key is so high and Fungi voice couldn't really fit in then everytime when he sing the chorus he got out of tune.

It's like:
I've found out a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is You
And the parts with red highlights are the part Fungi sang out of tune. lol.

Yah I be the vocalist for a while, 'cause nobody knows to sing those songs. I wanna be the guitarist actually. =( Then Fungi didn't take the pic when I was playing guitar. *duh*

The 3 musketeers.

KaHo as the drummer.

KaHo the vocalist to be. ^^

Overall it was fun, although it was a bit mess, but it was our 1st time afterall. I believe we could be better and better for the next time, and the next next time and the next next next time, and so on.

Jamming is so fun.

Jam O' 1st

2007-03-17T01:44:00.000+08:00

This picture nice?

1st jamming session gone bit lap lap lun, but it was fun. I play drum. Kaho 客串 for few songs.
Me tried sing 1 song oso , but @_@ of my voice. :P

PS: although i sing until key mc'fly' ,
but really fun..and funny haha. The Reason -hoobastank.

-Crash-

Disqualified

2007-03-14T21:17:00.000+08:00

I got disqualified for the song composition competition. Guess I'll have to ganbatte and write somemore nicer cooler bombastic-er chiller song.

Cannot go upstage already. Haihx.

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Ice promised to find me a cheap humbucker to fit in my strat. ^^

The LP

2007-03-14T01:45:00.000+08:00

"Neck Pick ups BHC"

Ya all know wat i was doing?

changing .....guitar -strings .... -_-

can u believe that? ><

-Crash-

1st Time Screwed Up My Guitar

2007-03-12T15:30:00.000+08:00

I was deciding to change my Squier's bridge single coil pickup to a humbucker, but then found out not worth it. Besides, Fungi keep on pouring cold water on me, saying things like: "no use, useless, makes no difference, waste money" so I cancelled my mind.

Maybe he's right. Perhaps I should just aim for a FENDER standard HSS strat instead.

Anyway, before I cancelled my mind, I screwed up my guitar and took some pics.

All stupid rusty screws. Should have change all earlier.

This is the internal part of my guitar. Lousy electronics I think. No idea.

Then FUCK IT I can't get my guitar back to how it was suppose to be. The screws all not balance and the pickguard looks weird. Argh.

NVM it.

1st Composed Song

2007-03-11T22:14:00.000+08:00

The CLS (Chinese Language Society) in my college MMU has organized an activity, call Song Composition Competition.

I participated. I heard that any song that got into the finalist, the song writters can perform their own song at the stage. This is a good oportunity for Fungi and I to gain experience on stage. I wrote a song.

It was a chinese song. lol. I hardly listen to chinese songs and now I was composing a chinese song. What the hell. Rules stated that 70% of the lyrics has to be chinese. What to do. They're the organizers mah. Have to follow the rulez.

Now I'm waiting for the results. Hopefully can go through the 1st round and enter the finalist. Actually my song is rather common and ordinary, so if I fail, it won't be suprising.

Anyway, I must thank God for giving me ideas to accomplish my very 1st song.

God Bless Me. Amen.

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This song is written for Shin, and it's bout how's the situation and condition now between Shin and I, and things I always wanted to tell Shin.

The song's name is : 别放弃

Here's the lyrics.

好久没和你看星星
记得吗？我说过要给你摘星
何时起牵手不再有意义
已忘记在一起的意义

时间久了热情悄悄逝去
所有伤痛却不能忘记
不要放弃不想失去你
不想放弃你是我唯一

守着每一个承诺你的眼泪会让我痛心

别放手不哭泣不想放弃所有的回忆
过去的风风雨雨会把我们磨练得更坚强
手牵手向前走一起制造更多的回忆
过去的风风雨雨会把我们磨练得更坚强

Band Name Set (Moved)

2007-03-11T13:54:00.003+08:00

You know a guitar freak like me and a drum+guitar freak like my bro formed a band, literally.

We aren't really a band yet 'cause we couldn't really properly play a song. But we were so crazy about band stuff and thought of a lot a lot of stupid band name. Like our previous temporary band name was Rotten Banana. It means we're rotten( terrible lifestyle, sleep at 6am and wake up 5min before lecture or tutorials ) banana ( hardly listen to chinese songs, though we're chinese ) .

Then my bro wanted to use I See Dead People as band name 'cause he thinks it's funny. I See Dead People is a dialog from Scary Movie 1, Shorty. At 1st I not really like it but I gradually became to like it, then suddenly saw a malay guy wearing a T with I SEE DEAD PEOPLE on it. So DOWN! Have to think of another one.

Then just now in the church listening to the boring preaching, our assholes are itching so we started to think of funny funny name, suddenly Fungi said how bout red potion? and I was like HEY! why not we use Black Potion? and Fungi agreed too!

And the band name's set.

Black Potion

New Guitar, New Amp (Moved)

2007-03-11T13:54:00.001+08:00

My bro Fungi and I have bought a new guitar and a new amp from Woh Fatt, today.

When I was in the bus, I was damn frustrated. The bus was soooooo slow, and the engine sounded 'put put put put', as if it is like the 'putput car'. Orz. Normally it takes average 2 hours to reach KL, but this stupid bus took 2hours 40mins to reach there.

In the 'putput car'.

Well, let's have a look at the guitar.

It's a set neck Les Paul custom copy, SX branded. The original Gibson Les Paul cost RM11k!!! No way I'm gonna buy it. So I bought this for Fungi. I've seen quite a lot of reviews, and SX has the most bang-for-buck.

Mahogany body and neck, and rosewood fretboard. The shop gave us a strap, some picks, a bag, a cable for free. But actually everyone knows it's actually charged in. ;)

We bought an amp too! Peavey Blazer 158. ^^ Still learning how to tune and adjust the sound. What pre gain post gain vintage modern, no idea. -.-

Total Damage = RM1430

( Fungi learns drum and guitar, too! OMG I have a talented brother. ^^ )

Band Room 100% (Moved)

2007-03-11T13:52:00.001+08:00

Yea yea finally it's done!

See? Whatsoever-brand amplifier, speaker and CD player with China-made drum and more-than-10-years-old guitar in a crampy but cozy bandroom. ( Fungi and I always not at home, so Bum, my youngest bro decorated it with all those secondary-schoolboy poster. lol )

Fungi shiok practising his drum. ( Actually he was posing for me to shoot. ) ^^

Jam Jam Jam!

Who's Guitar? (Moved)

2007-03-11T13:24:00.000+08:00

My blog, my guitar of course!

A friend of my bro bought a new Ibanez and excitedly introduced it on his blog. Then a sudden thought, " ya hor! I haven't intro my guitar yet! "

Fender Squier, dunno mat mat chat stratocaster model. ( I hate the words on the top left )

It has an elegant pearl white body, with a couple of rusty screws on it. Yah, an old guitar, bought 11 years ago.

I want a new guitar!!!!

1st Jamming Session (Moved)

2007-03-11T13:23:00.003+08:00

When everyone is in christmas mode, I'm busy for my finalz and assignments. That makes me the only one who doesn't have the christmas mode ( I think so ) . Orz
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I wanted to jam with Sam and Toh from long time ago, but the time just doesn't fit. Today, we finaly met up.

Toh testing my cheap Fender.

Sam with his Ibanez.

Jamming session started!! Hell yeah! \m/

I was being a noob among them. Can't play even a simple song. Their are really cool, played a lots of songz very well. Enter Sandman, Chop Suey, Yellow, lots more!

I gotta practise more.

Ice Music Paradise Annual Concert 2006 (Moved)

2007-03-11T13:23:00.001+08:00

Ice Music Paradise is where I learn guitar and my bro Fungi learn drum, own by a man, called Abang Ice, which means Big Brother Ice. Every year he will organize a concert for his music student to perform, and this performance has it's purpose.

Can you see what I've circled? It's the dress code , strictly formal ! Rock, metal and band music somehow gave people bad impression like drugs, stink and torn clothing, punk, bad words, yell like hell, and so on.

Snapshot from SUM41 mtv icon Metallica medley

Snapshot from System of a down mtv.

I personally don't know why they think so. To me it just doesn't make sense. Rock/band can be either way, punk and gentleman way. I like them both though. But this concert is to change people's view.

Hence, we were there.
Fungi, Kahhoe, Wilson.
MrToh.
Too bad the camera man always won't be in the picture. Duh~

A 6years old kid, playing keyboard. He's Ice's nephew.

The performers. They're really cool. They ROCK!

I hate that stupid hand.

Overall this was a very successful concert. Performers happy, Ice happy, and audiences all happy.

Band Room Under Construction (Moved)

2007-03-11T13:21:00.001+08:00

Don't know since when my bro and I gone crazy with band stuff, so after purchasing his own set of drum ( see Drummer Wannabe ) , he made his mind to get a band room. Band room is definitely a MUST! Otherwise our neighbours will complain and blablabla at us. Drum is indeed, really, really noisy, if you don't ROCK. \m/

We chose the store room to modify, 'cause no one's using. Hence, construction started. Purchase soft boards, saw into pieces, rearrange stuff inside the store room, clean it, nail the soft baords on the wall and so on. But it's still under construction, haven't complete yet. -.- Nevertheless, the drummer wannabe has started his practise in the so called Band Room.

You see? He's shiok sendiri-ing with his beat, rythm, dream, something else.

The wall. Orz this is gonna take time to complete it. So troublesome. (>.<) We've learnt something from the starting until now. What is it?

BAND STUFFS SUCK MONEY OUT OF US, A LOT!