short post: i was given an all tube randall during my gig today! not sure about the model but it had really uber overdrive and beautiful cleans.


more details later, abit busy now.

speaking of what made me pick up the guitar?

linkin park made me interested in guitar, and then i found metallica. since then, no turning back.

seconded. i would rather own a low end gibson than own a high end epi...

you mean the SD live wires? i read that the output is higher than EMGs, the perfect metal pup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2ROV5wEeRc

our first time hitting the big stage. if you watch carefully, i dropped my pick once, and stepped on my cable till tercabut once. pardon the drummer, he's only form 2 haha.

oh yeah, my sound was through a randall i mentioned earlier. and of course my SH10s.

This post has been edited by nerd: Jun 21 2006, 05:37 PM

blame the provider.

some function from my ex-school lol. yeah i agree about the weird lightings, i shut my eyes at times lol.

yeah thanks for the comments. will try and do it during later gigs. but the place we were performing was an auditorium, so there was a reasonably far distance between the stage and audience..

.. and the vocals mike was too loud.

summit auditorium. funny huh lol. i think this is the last school-related function before college life haha! yeah i'll be a poser. who do you pose as, ledzep?

i used to think the same thing too, but things changed lol.

oh yeah, the best part was, there was no soundcheck! the equipment provider was 2 hours late. ass****

and we only practiced for 4 hours prior to the gig. coz of time constraints haha.

This post has been edited by nerd: Jun 21 2006, 07:55 PM

i'm okay with bright lighting, but i wasn't really comfortable with the psychedelia. but i guess the feeling's gone when you really start playing hehe. i was headbanging and half closing sometimes lol. not closed totally all the time. i did look at the crowd haha.

yeah i looked your self promo video already lol. it was good!

yeah i know, it's not an excuse, just that if we had a soundcheck, the solo could be more audible.

This post has been edited by nerd: Jun 21 2006, 08:26 PM

holy. i didn't know you had a blog! and when i found it, it caused my firefox to hang lol. so i opened using IE. omg so poser!

yeah i guess so. it was a good experience, that day.

yeah we should! looking forward to that hehe. yeah i was the rhythm guitarist, how'd u know? the video quality was so bad lol. yeah i think his progress is okay, and it's only his 7th time playing with a real drumset. sad but true. coz he doesn't have one at home, and he only attended 2 drumclasses before his mum asked him stop because he didn't study LOL.

ah yes.. make sure you share the video with us! haven't tried the windmill, but maybe one day i'm gonna try play lying down.

ah, if i rajin i shall open IE and visit your blog more often now.

actually i bent down because my pick dropped!! i really got a shocker there lol. ah, luckily u think i was adjusting the amp. means the crowd was likely to think the same. yeah he paused.. but nevermind, it wasn't that obvious.

ah thanks, i think i make a better rhythm than lead guitarist. but i shall not give up practicing solos!~

ah, equipment? i was using a randall tube combo (not sure about the model though, and i think it's tube) through my yamaha + SH-10s. i like the trebly sound of the SH-10. oh, and i scooped the mids.

yeah i realised, and we actually contemplated on playing it again, but we were scared that the organizers would slaughter us hahahaha!

i wasn't wearing my glasses at that time, but my friend told me a few people stood up clapping, some sort of standing ovation i guess! hehe.

yeah it was abit off, my lead guitarist was feeling emo at that time because his clean sound during nothing else matters was distorted. turn out he plugged his GFX-5 into an overdriven amp LOL. actually during the solo, my lead guitarist and i was supposed to lean on each other's back (to make it more cun la) but he was too emo, he forgot LOL!

oh btw, we all are cousins.

This post has been edited by nerd: Jun 21 2006, 10:45 PM

zakk wylde wannabes.

tsk tsk tsk, ledzep and his anti-emgs.

eh blacktrix, once i get my SX explorer + EMGs, we should get together and ping the death out of ledzep. what say you?

eh guys, i need help tabbing this x_x

without any knowledge of scales whatsoever lol x_x

only found the first 3 notes haha!

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...644A2E77E4367F8

i think i'll open a new thread, easier.. thanks plankton! based on my findings with the help of my cousin, it's based on the same notes, just that an octave higher.

maybe coz you're not used to gauge 11?

lol no wonder.

HELP prom? i've a friend over there, doubt she's going though.

no ears can beat your own. try both and be the judge.

usually i would just wipe it down with tissue once in awhile.. and the aftermath is so gross. lol. that's how dirty our fingers are.

wow all this talk about timing makes me worry about mine. i think mine totally sucks compared to you guys.

it does i suppose.. instinct timing. it works for me.

if i play in my band, my timing is based on the drumbeats (i think all guitarists that play in bands should know this ) and also vocals to a certain extent.

that's how we guitarists get through small gigs where we aren't provided with stage amps (means we can't hear each other's playing).

all band guitarists, agree with me?

ah foot tapping! i almost always do that when playing powerchords in a band to keep a certain tempo to myself. but it's not forced, it comes naturally lol without me realising it.
yeah, we follow very closely to the drummer, if he screws up, we too will screw up because there is not fricking way we can go against the drummer (at least for me, if the drummer slows down, my playing immediately becomes lethargic and slow, that's why i always get mad with my drummer lol!) complex rhythm, i headabang abit only.

i saw it in a trivium video once. but they were playing all fine.