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February 2nd, 2008

Lucky me got a free Switchfoot concert ticket. A Media Pass actually to be specific. So i get to walk around acting like some reporter-wannabe. It was kind of cool.

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Latest guitar teacher

October 27th, 2007

Meet Dave Weiner, my guitar tutor for the past few months. Dave has been touring with Steve Vai for the past 8 years upon Steve’s request and has been making wonderful music since.

After realizing that I couldn’t really commit myself to attend lessons, I realize I needed to do something before my hobby goes down the drain. I turned to Dave’s Riff of the Week using ITunes to download these weekly Podcasts. They have been of great help in refreshing on the basics and kerning beats and notes on the fretboard. I don’t really follow every lessons thought directly but they do keep my mind fresh about how things should be approached in music.

Upon getting an old nice and sweet sounding Yamaha F-20 guitar amp last week, for only RM180, I’m recharged after not having an amplifier for the past 4 years.

Last week, Riff of the Week saw it’s 100th episode on-air.

P.s: Other that Riff of the Week, I also subscribe to Typeradio and have discontinued some other subscriptions due to limited space on my Mac.

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Guitar World Magazine October Issue

July 25th, 2007

This is probably the coolest issue for this year other than the David Gilmour issue. You can check the preview of the October issue DVD here.

So cool.

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My Top 10 Hard Rock Lead Vocalist list

July 6th, 2007

1 Freddie Mercury (Queen) — I definitely have to put him first for his level of musicianship, showmanship, charisma, energy, etc. The music of Queen spans widely from baroque classical up to probably one of the heaviest sounds in the history of rock. Band members of Queen including Brain May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor all have written no. 1 hits and have deep respect for Freddie. He wrote my all time favorite song, Bohemian Rhapsody. Freddie Mercury, like what John Deacon told the press when Robbie Williams was scheduled to record a special version of the classic hit We Are The Champion, “Freddie can never be replaced.”

2 Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) — Why? Because he is in the world’s best band. Creating an entire generation of head bangers and devoted followers. The voice and tone of Plant definitely cannot be denied.

3 Syd Barret, Roger Waters & David Gilmour (Pink Flyod) — Eventough Pink Floyd doesn’t have much to do with the history of hard rock, they sure do influence bands around town. The madness of Syd, the experiments of Roger Waters and the melodious David adds up to one of the best bands up to today. Comfortably Numb remains a top listed song in my list. I have a photographic image of the guitar solo in my mind.

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4 Ian Gillian (Deep Purple) — When you listen closely to Child in Time, you will know why I love his screaming so much.

5 Brain Johnson (AC/DC) — If you can have the dynamics to run up and down the stage during a live stadium concert in front of 20′000 people and still have a stiff upper lip, you must be Johnson. He is not singing on stage, he is actually shouting as if someone’s choking him hard.

6 Ozzy Osbourne (Solo,Black Sabbath) — No need any explanation. I don’t promote darkness but good music.

7 James Hetfield (Metallica) — I’m a fan of Hetfield. How does he play those amazing riffs and brutal chords?! He has probably the most technically in-tune right arm. Fast, bold and precise. Oh, brutal too.

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8 Bono (U2) — Being the biggest band in the world, you have to give credit to Bono’s superb vocals and song writing. Not only that, but his interest in humanity and his honesty in the lyrics he writes. U2 is one band I really want to watch live. Everntough you can’t really classify the band as purely hard rock but they introduced another side of rock and prepared the path for many to dig into other other rock genres. Besides from that, a very strong stage presence and also catchy melodious tunes.

9 David Lee Roth (Van Halen, solo) — He worked with two of the worlds greatest guitarists, Eddie Van Halen and Steve Vai. There are rumors spreading around that there will be a Van Halen tour this coming September. Lets just wait and see what happens, but, being loud and hairy, you have the advantage of being bad while stand at the spotlight. I don’t really want to see him live but it will be acceptable to listen to some of his albums, Eat em’ and smile, skyscraper, and the early Van Halen albums from 1975 to 1985.

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10 Glen Hughes( Deep Purple, Solo) — He’s got the screaming evil laugh when he sings. Bad. Bad enough for me.

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Sometimes it’s quite emberessing to mention a list of your favourites. When Stairway to Heaven was played across the radio more than a hundred times a day in the early 1970’s, back then, some even didn’t wanted to be known as a Led Zeppelin fan.

I wanted to list down my favourite hard rock lead vocalists. I mistakenly, due to unproper file organizations edited in wrong info for a live website that resulted in two hours plus of reworking on a certain project. Believe me, its really frustrating to know that you could have save some time doing something else.:(

Neutralization of things, or, situations like these, best recommendation would be to listen to some hard rock. I compiled this list for those who are listening to too much of Nu Metal, Pop Rock, Emo Rock and Girl Rock (personified term for Avril). Hard is the way to go.

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Shakti at PWTC

June 12th, 2007

Yup, John Mclaughlin will be in town performing along with his Indian Classical Band, Shakti, tomorrow night at 8pm, Putra World Trade Centre, PWTC. I thought that he will be bringing the 4th Dimension into town, looks like he did likewise.

The details are available on the IndiaBeat3 website. This one will be interesting.

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Incoming: John Mclaughlin

May 15th, 2007

John Mclaughlin is coming to town! My favourite guitarist is coming to town! He will be playing live at the Putra World Trade Centre, Malaysia on June 13th together with the 4th Dimension featuring Hadrien Feraud (bass), Gary Husband (keyboards) and Mark Mondesir (drums). PWTC’s website has not stated any confirmation on the concert yet.

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