I’m in hepi mode.
For the first time, we fall short of time with more to be played during jam. It’s sensible. Feel good feeling. Yes, it is the same askar with his shitty attitude, (i always condemned him, but the truth is only me can stand him, and vice versa, which explain why only that bastard and me made it all the way to the final days). Having mr.twang afiq really been helpful, covering the hole part i’m not sure of. mr. influx pdus also superb (bear in my mind i dont know to judge drummers).
It’s the second time we’re jamming together. This semester as i looked back, was on my master plan-according to plan. There’s some deviation here and there… I want to recap and wrap them all here. Can i? Sure. This is MY blog.
1)The semester started with my new me, having direction from direct taught of epol.. a bassist from my place back in teluk intan. ironically, i met him thru online forum. luckily he’s generous (in term of musicwise). Materially, i become more appreciative of my ears and the arrangement of left hand fingers. And my first sem of the new semester started with XPDC’s aku masih di sini. I am not the biggest fan of XPDC, except that the fact that i salute them for being huge. (RAKSASA). Somehow, he tweaked me into liking the song. Everything i hate in the past was there, slow, not riffs but ‘bassline’, and malay song? How different i came to be…
ii)we hit it off to OUR studio. (Is it ours?) no. but let’s put it like that. haha. nice place, nice amps, acceptable drums. definitely helps. SKARFACE STUDIO call DZQ for more info. =)
iii)first event of the sem is musicfest 5. and as i mention in previous post, was not so good story. but still, i got something to be learned. i’m now realized that u cant force someone into someone he’s not…if u manage to pull them according to ur plan. u need two most important things
a)u and ahmad dhani are frens, thus u has the bit of his genius.
b)he’s into music more than u, deeper, crazier and dont mind expelled from the college to follow/lead to not-so-sure path with jackass like u.
For instance, we should never ask king to play that dread n fugitive mind song. Remember ilham. Not everything can be solved by saying “belasah je”. It’s true in most occasion, but on certain ppl it doesnt work that way.
iv)we played for our batch’s dinner. fortunately, as syed ask me to join him. i’m glad. so i ask bro nizam and remember askar? yes him, to join us. eventually, it is a good show. i merely had any problems. i can control my nervous. not so nerveous anymore. but still, i taught the jam session is better. it always work like that for us. i think. meant in sound settings area, i have to know more..btw, i sit. to be fair-because the song list was not so progressive.
v)With jemek,jbone,and others around. i think i’m musically evolved as never before.i started to play dewa.and finally end up having this good feeling.there’s some obstacle, like the hard part of gathering all ppl. (imagine when u got no cents left, with no crdts?)it’s shit…
vi)I finally finished the rough arrangement of my own song. it’s somehow distance away from wut i imagined it to be. but, at least i’m making some progress here. btw, we perform the song in musicfest 5. to sum up the story.
Conclusion;
apart from my missing tetsu’s book. i’m now generally happy. miss my book.
