[Vai Freak] Glacius

Mood: Blur
Listening To: Nothing









The Performance:

Soundcheck was not bad but scary.  Of course, they had inexperienced soundmen once again during the first soundcheck which made things horrible for some of us.  Ear piercing settings for the bass, guitars, and vocals.  Uneven sound level for instruments, and the list goes on.  Thank goodness that the better soundmen came by right before the whole thing started.

What scared me was that whenever they did the sound check for the drums, and when they kicked the bass drum, I heard extra jingles.  I looked up, and I saw air condition ventilation ducts and a shit load of flurocent lights.  Yeah, the sound kind of.. moved the things up there which gave me the idea of it all being shattered halfway through the performance, hitting innocent audiences, but that wouldn't happen now, would it?

The performance was not that bad.  Except that I performed with an empty stomach and a thirsty mouth.  Seriously, a bad experience for myself.  And when I was performing halfway, I couldn't really feel my 1st/e string.  My fear was that it could've snapped which will cause the other strings to go out of tune as well.  But I have faced a new problem last night.  My string was being pushed off the fret board, and it was trapped behind my first fret.

I never new that'll happen to me.. Talk about Steve Vai hitting his strings so hard until his 1st string gets stuck behind his neck pickup.  Lol

Panic Overdrive.  Ahhh.. The usual lah.  Got heavy metal song, head bang.  Got solo, went solo.  When there were no vocals but only instruments, did some never-done-before Steve Vai top and bottom necks based on 4 beats-in-a-bar sorta thing (And yay!  The crowd cheered!! XD XD XD XD XD).  Then came.. Well, most probably, a signature by many great guitarists - the 2-hands-on-the-neck legato trick:

But not this one, of course:

But then again, for the night, watching school children playing Elvis Presley sorta music was really good.  I don't know how, and where, but bloody hell.  Watching a 13 year old kid playing super clean country blues riffs made me super jealous!  Also, I respected the whole band.  Seriously, I never watched anything better.

There were various music genres for the night.  I enjoyed them all.  And it was crazy.  The drummer for Panic Overdrive, Joshua Tan, was the drummer for the Flaming Pandas (Underwhere).  The guitarist and bassist of the Flaming Pandas were in Evan's (ex-drummer for Dysnomia) new project.  It was like, all of us were sharing members.  And since Evan, Ying Kit, Roy and I were there, we decided to pull of a personal joke by going on stage together to play what we used to play back in 2005 in Dysnomia.  Lol

Ahhh.  The whole concert thing didn't go bad.  It went pretty well, except I think that it wasn't properly promoted because I didn't really see many people?  Plus the hall was sooooo small O_O.

After that, I headed off to watch Spiderman 3.










Spiderman 3

Once again, Marvel or the movie director has done it again.  But then again, the viewers of movies like these won't ever know the true storyline for the comic-converted-into-the-movie sort of thing.  Besides the storyline, I have only three say.

1) The part where the two policemen were trying to look for Sandman in the streets after he got used to his new powers, the camera was really bad.  Inexperienced First Person Shooter gamers or those who never played FPS games, could've got dizzy.  The whole scene reminded me of a bad game of Half-Life.  Even Quake 3 wasn't as bad as that.

I don't know what they're trying to pull off.

2) Venom's a dumbass.  I mean, seriously.  I remember in the comics where the symbiote got to Eddie Brock, he had an IQ of..well, nothing.  I never heard Venom speak so much.  Of course, he wasn't as dumb as The Hulk, but.. Whatever.

Oh.  And they missed out on this in the movie:



What?  Oh.  I'll give you 4 other pictures so you can spot the similarity..










There you go.  They missed out on Venom's signature!  The tongue and the shitload of droolings.  Boo hoo :(

3) I don't like the Black Spiderman.  Too much bling blings.  At least make the suit look like a signature or a sign of the symbiote.  Venom was supposed to look like the Black Spiderman and vice versa, only because of the symbiote.  I prefer the Black Spiderman this way.  I find it super sexayh <3


That's it from me, I suppose.  Now, I'll just wait for Spiderman 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 for Venom's offsprings to appear in the movie.. Carnage <3



Then comes Scream, Hybrid, and that purple symbiote with the long frog legs dude..

Half way through, we saw Stan Lee!!!!  Now that was worth the wait!  The legend of Marvel <3.. Now, which Marvel movie was it again that we never got to see Stan Lee?  Hmmm..

Overall, Spiderman 3 is not bad.  But for serious Spidey hardcore fans, I wouldn't dare say.  The first Spiderman already pissed off half of the world.  Same went for the second Spiderman, on a lesser scale.  Spiderman 3?  Don't know lah.

Besides, I'm picky these few days.  Lol









*sneezes*