Alright thread stealers, listen up
This is the first and the last time I will openly address this issue because the point of this thread is not for musicians to state and prance around with their opinions on how to change the world to their tastes. If the world was your oyster, which it is not, then perhaps it might fit.
This concert isn't organized for the sake of trying to out-do another musician, nor is it organized for a musician to show how fast his fingers can go before the audience cums from a delightful aural orgasm of 300 notes per minute.
It is a concert organized by over 100 volunteer youths from 50 secondary, tertiary institutinos and junior colleges across the island to raise awareness to a local music scene that does NOT exist outside our self righteous self musicianship propaganda that we see here today in our forum. It is a local concert which involves over 30 teachers from these schools helping to do their part to raise awareness to local music. Teachers who actually ENCOURAGE the students to become students of rock, ENCOURAGE them to go for local shows, and ENCOURAGE them to become a part of our country's culture.
It is a youth concert where there are organized medic teams, security teams, stage crew, etc. All doing so because they are passionate about doing something for the scene other than hailing one particular musician.as a token God of musicianship. It isn't about that.
We are extremely happy to be performing with these bands. 3Dash1 and West Grand Boulevard have worked really hard for their craft and are ultra f*cking talented, and MOST of all, committed. (Flights of Fancy is my ringtone now Dharma
), Typewriter has extensive experience in playing and Patrick Cng is the founder of Music For Good, great band, Peepshow as an incredible young band who do so much behind the scenes as well that have helped many other bands. Velvet Rose and Lucid Vapour come from schools with immense music culture and appreciation, and genuine support for their peeps in encouraging them to follow their dreams. And Hyperteria comes from Whitley Secondary, a school that embraces the idea of local music and wishes to do its part in encouraging its students to believe in their pursuits, however impossible they may seem. The other participating schools such as St Anthony's Canossian, the various CHIJS, Greenview Sec, St Hildas Sec, East View Secondary, Tampines Junior College, Innova JC, Temasek Polytechnic, Crescent Girls, Chong Boon Sec, Ngee Ann Poly, and many many more have contributed just as much.
Now you mean to tell me, these things are less relevant to somebody who practices 20 hours a day in a room and pressing for personal glorification? That having all these youths congregate into one local band concert is something to bitch about? This is not a band competition, nor is it a popularity contest. There are no individual prizes for "Biggest Showoff" or "Biggest - lack of opportunity for local musician - whiner", though I promise you that if there is one, you will be nominated and you will show us all just how rock you are with your "manly bitch slapping".
On the contrary, the efforts and amount raised will go into helping schools organize more music related CCAs for the students, to hopefully inspire them to puruse further the road of the musicianship, where hopefully one day we can claim to have a music scene and culture as rich as the neighbours surrounding us; such as Indonesia, Philippines, & Thailand. But till then, baby steps is all we can take, but at least we are taking them.
If you're not happy, you can try slapping me. Or maybe, just maybe, you might choose to be actually pro active instead of whining and complaining.
We stand firmly behind the bands performing and our choices. And it was our honour to perform at Smaah'd with you guys to 2500 packed peeps. And now we will share the stage to the 4000 together.
A rock concert isn't just about how hard you can thrust your d*ck at the audience, or how close you can come to cumming from a guitar solo, or breaking the drum skins.. It's about celebrating the joy of the freedom of music, and celebrating it with a crowd that just f*cking wants to have fun.
There are two types of people in this scene: The naysayers, and the do-ers. The bitch slappers, or the kind that dared to put themselves out on a limb like 3dash1, WGB, Typewriter, Peepshow, Velvet Rose, Hyperteria and Lucid Vapour; people who were unafraid of judgment and just gave the rock n roll dream a shot.
Now most importantly, which one are you?
I think we all know.
Go back to your Microsoft Word document and go download more porn or practice your typing speed.
Nil Sine Labore.
Levan
RONIN
