teethless guitar and stage bassing

THIS is my brother's electric. quite cool eh? took this picture while waiting for him to finish his guitar class. but look closer. it's teethless. what? teethless? apa lu cakap ni?? well...

today my brother n his friend seng chye were going to perform 3 songs at endah parade (dats carrefour sri petaling) including the song collide by howie day. actually another guy, kelvin, was supposed to play lead guitar, but last minute had to attend a wedding somewhere in melaka (not his, btw) and so my brother suddenly had to play lead. so he needed me to play rhythm so he can practise his solo.

so we came all da way to subang house where all d guitars and amps are all at now (since i've shifted here...) and i strum strum strum his acoustic while he went and fiddle fiddle here and there with his solo... and den. his G-string putus. nonono, he wears briefs but i meant d G-string on his wife. nonono, not lip jeen my sis in law, d OTHER wife. his guitar!

so... we had to re-string his guitar. while he went for class i helped him take out all his old strings and that left........

a teethless guitar! haha... looks so vunerable and so weak without its strings.

anyways. we then went to endah parade and met up with seng chye and anthony-brain-is-lost who was there to sound check for them. they were in a 'hurry' so they ate at mac's while i had chicken rice at nam heong. den i joined dem at mac's and then....

seng chye goes, "hey ming wai! why don't you play bass with us?"

err....

so anyway, a few practice runs backstage then it was us.

bro n seng chye played a song called 'proud mary' where bro was on guitar and seng chye on bass. then the second song, collide. i went up and played bass and seng chye on acoustic and bro on lead. same settings for the 3rd song, interstate love song. coolness sia. playing bass for d first time in d middle of a mall. i onli played piano before in a mall, back when i was in primary school, as a performance representing my music centre, in d middle of mutiara jalan ipoh. so...

woohoo!! here are da photos... i got brain is lost to take dem for us. particularly for me lah. my camera wat.

seng chye on acoustic, bro on lead, some guy on drums, and me on bass!

so yeah... i looked kinda emo/angry on stage coz i was concentrating hard on not screwing up... altho i did screw up d ending for interstate love song a bit... didnt noe it was d ending. lolz! but d sound system wasnt good enuf larh. bass sounded twangy and bro's distortion came out like fingernails on a chalkboard. not his fault, his playing was superb. just dat d sound systems couldn't take it. something somewhere exploded when he rocked it la i guess. haha...

so yeah, dats my little day out with bro. for d record, i drove from ampang to subang to sunway to sri petaling and back to subang and den to sunway. how's dat for driving? confident enuf to sit in my car anot? haha...

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