[Opal] Now that our drummer’s new baby has safely landed on Planet Earth and our lead guitarist has officially signed his bachelor life away, it is time for our band to come out of this 5-month hiatus and do something. Just anything.
[Sapphire] Do I have imaginary friends? Of course I do. Everybody do. I have one who must begin each sentence with his name. Way before Facebook’s time. That’s why I don’t find Facebook’s “status updates” function that odd. For those who are new to Facebook, a journal written in Facebook status update style would look something like [ruby] below.
[Peridot] As exciting as [opal] can be, I have started a side project with our drummer to transform one new song of mine from our band’s signature rock style to something that sounds somewhat trance, somewhat electronica. Hopefully, I can package the journey from songwriting, to demo, to a trance version, to finally a rock version in several episodes of Podcast-like materials. Don’t get too excited yet. I have yet too many side projects that don’t quite take off. But still, we shall continue to dream, right?
[Aquamarine] Prince turned into a love symbol in 1993. Ayumi Hamasaki has a symbol that pronounced as “A”. I too want a symbol. If you look closer at the image above, there are two “dots” on the right side of “W”. Well, there are no t’s to cross but I do have 2 i’s to dot.
[Ruby] Now comes the Facebook style updates:
seriously needs to return to his weight lifting ritual and is not happy that his brand new curl bar set is now a white elephant! He nearly collapsed on the street while carrying his (heavy) guitar and Cynthia’s (equally heavy) bass across 3 blocks of street!- was as disappointed as Cynthia when he realized that the knobs of the bass got oxidized and couldn’t be played due to the fact that she hardly plays her bass! The replacement bass guitar provided by the studio is just not good. Boo!
- likes Stone Jamz – the music studio at the other end of Boat Quay.
- loves the new toy that nearly got taxed by the Malaysia Custom. His band can now have the sessions decently and conveniently recorded (4 channels!) for after-session review.
- is slightly demoralized by the recording. His vocal track is horrendous! And the band needs a lot more practice.
- is excited (again, so easily?!) as our next jamming session is set on the week of May 12! Time to give Stone Jamz a call.
- ‘s clock says 4.45 am right now and he feels really hungry. Could someone send him a Big Breakfast – the real one and not the virtual one from Facebook please?
2 replies on “5 Gemstones – Journal Of Our Studio Jamming Session In Facebook Style (Sort Of)”
Okay now you’ve made me feel stupid, but I have to ask. What’s the deal with the gemstones?
Darkspore – Good question. I actually have no clue! I guess I have all these disjointed ideas and at 4am in the morning, somehow the thought of gemstones got into my mind. And I usually get a bit whackily out-of-the-box when I talk about my own music.