[Vai Freak] Glacius

Mood: Tired
Listening To: D'Cuzzy - Ai Phia









Now I see how travelling around from one place to another can be tiring.

It has been pretty hectic for the band even before we left Penang for KL.

Anyways, I just got back from dropping Ying Kit and Paul back with the Moe-bile.

Manual madness yaw x))))))))))))))))))))))



FRIDAY
Well, it was the last day of Thaipussam, and there was a major traffic jam that surrounded my area.  It was insane, and Moe couldn't get into my place just to pick me and Ying Kit up.  So, both of us, as guitarists, we took our electric guitars, 2 acoustic guitars (12 string and the normal 6 string), 2 luggages, 2 backpacks with our effect pedals, and walked from my place to the Fine Tune, where Moe said he would meet us, but we didn't see anybody in sight.

Of course, it was 12.25am and.. well, our bus was at 12.30am.  Roy was already waiting like a nervous dude, and well, we missed the bus.  Roy managed to get the last bus for the night under a different bus company, and we left at 1am instead.

Imagine.  4 guitars, 5 luggage bags, 1 laptop, and 5 big ass people in the Moe-bile.  And the Moe-bile is a Kancil.  Wonderful.

Anyways, we arrived at the whore centre Starlight Hotel off Petaling Street in the wee hours.  5.45am.  We settled down, chatted a little bit, I checked my stuff, and finished up at 6.30am.  I was checking on the guitar's bridge.  Was floating once again although it was standard tuning.  And during that night, I found out that my tremolo bar rosak-ed.  Which caused me to be tremolo-less during the performance just now.

As I was about to call it a day, Roy SMS'ed me, saying that he needs to re-check on the songs since he can't sleep.  He came over to the room and we had a small session until 7.30am.  Best of all, sound check was at 10am at Taman Budaya for the acoustic set we screwed up on.  Oopsie daisy.



SATURDAY
Roy woke me up at 9.15am, and seriously, I wanted to get back to sleep.  Had my shower, got prepared, and we left off for Taman Budaya to perform the sound check for the major event which was going to take place at night.  Don't ask what happened.  The sound check was delayed to 1pm.  Hmmm.

Since I had that little tremolo bar problem, I decided to get a replacement, and the only place I know that I thought I could get it, was at Bentley's.  So I travelled down to Bukit Bintang, also getting lost because of some dumbfuck in Pudu who told me that the LRT station behind the bus station is a Monorail.  You don't know how fucking pissed I was when I found out it was a Star Line and wasn't a Monorail.  -_-

Got to Bukit Bintang at 3.15pm, met up with the drummer, Joshua Tan, and found out that Bentley's didn't sell any extras.  Wonderful.  Tremolo-less for one night.  Went off to Parkroyal to pick Joshua's things up, and split to take a cab to Starlight Hotel, where we met up with Ying Kit once again, to get prepared for the sound check at the Central Market stage.

As stated a lot of times, we were supposed to be on at 10.30pm, where Estranged switched slots with us.  But as we got on stage, we got informed to start off whenever we were done with sound check, and that was 6pm.  Talk about frustration.  I had to tell those who were going to come to come EXTREMELY early, which I know, caused a lot of inconvenience.  Two of them would be Daniel and Paul.  So so sorry, but thanks for showing up for the support!

But a few minutes later, The Shahrin's Band made it, and took our slot.  So, we were pushed to 6.30pm.  Never mind.  Then Kouple came along, and asked Paku to switch slots with us (their set was at 10.30pm), and Kouple would play after their set because of their individual band member's plans for the day.  So in the end, we were switched back to 10.30pm

Seriously, at that time, travelling around Penang, and to KL, lack of sleep, carrying a heavyass guitar case which nearly killed my fingers, I was pissed beyond all reasons.  But thank goodness that every band on stage, their performances were so good, until my anger just floated away with the music.

Good bands.. good bands..

So, we walked to Taman Budaya, where I met up with Schizzow, and managed to get him and the rest VIP passes to the whole acoustic set.  The set sucked.  I don't know what happened, but the sound engineer screwed things up for us.  I couldn't hear Ying Kit during his parts.  And due to that, Moe went off beat, and so did I.  Being a dead tired musician, I didn't really give a shit.

After us, came Fasy.  Managed to catch a tiny winse of whatever he played.  Damn good stuff.  Soulful.. Every band that I managed to watch with these pure eyes, were really good.  Although some played simple stuff, coordination was really good.

So, we went back to Central Market, and caught the 2nd last band on stage, which scared the crowds away with their Whitelight/Swearwood sort of music.  Not bad.  Coordination and the tightness was there, but somewhat draggy.

After them, came Panic Overdrive.  And for the 3rd time playing with the band, we weren't so kayu during the performance.  At least we moved around a lot more than we used to.  But I have to admit, it wasn't our best performance.  All of us were tired, we forgot our parts, I lost concentration during the gig, and all I could do was just to screw things up AND have fun.

Some parts, we went off tempo, out of tune and played the wrong parts, but hell yeah, we had fun.











I suppose pictures would be up once we get all the good shots from our official band photographer, Shidi.  Nikon D70S.  Mmm-mmm x)..










Now I have a Moe-bile under my control.  Wahahahaha.  Manual madnessss X) X) X) X) X).










That's it.  GOODNIGHT.