Thursday, May 31, 2007

Beyond - 1986 台北 Live 誰是勇敢

One of my all time favorite Beyond songs! Enjoy!

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Tested on miking the guitar cabinet

Last night went back to bandroom late with Billy. We tested on the mic recording on the Peavey 6505+. We tried different mic placement and finally we got one we liked. We used two SM57, one being close and the other one from far. Both of them are off the center of the speaker. As followed the suggestion by Chi, we put boxes on two sides of the cab. I think that helps to focus the sound being capture from the mics.

Friday we will try to finish drums tracking on the final song, then we can start recording bass and guitars. I can't wait no longer!

Sunday, May 20, 2007

FUCK YOU 馬力

天安門母親:坦克輾學生有根據 查證2000多人死 要求馬力親自道歉

「六四」後與丁子霖一起蒐集死難者名單的「天安門母親」運動代表人物張先玲,其子王楠當年遇難時只有19歲。身在北京的她昨日接受本報電話訪問時,對馬力的言論表示憤慨,直斥馬力「為六四屠城辯護」、「污衊死難者」。她說,死者家屬至今已查證2000多人死於六四,部分人是被坦克壓死,有根有據,她要求馬力立即親自解釋和道歉。

對於馬力質疑坦克輾過學生的說法,張先玲說:「我們蒐集的名單裏就有好幾個被坦克壓死的,其中有一個活着的安徽人叫方正,雙腿被坦克壓斷,目前人在合肥,他(馬力)怎麼能說沒有呢?在(北京)五棵松,很多目擊者都告訴我,有人死在馬路上,像紙一樣,當時是用鐵鏟把屍體剷起來的,難道這不是慘無人道嗎?」

「須實事求是 不能為組織出賣良心」

70歲的張先玲語氣嚴厲說:「民建聯左也好,右也好,這個我們不管,我個人不參與政治,但你必須要實事求是,你不能為了你的組織,而把良心出賣!」她說,民建聯要道歉可以,但必須馬力本人道歉,「我們說話都是有根有據的,我們說死了2000人左右,絕不是信口雌黃,名錄裏記載得很清楚,馬力根據是什麼?」

張先玲說,香港有教師在學校和學生討論六四,「這是好事」,即使細節不大相同,但至少把這個歷史事實講給下一代知,才能避免重蹈覆轍。她說,今年是「六四」18周年,一批六四死難者母親會像往年一樣,相聚悼念孩子,她希望有關部門不要干擾。

王丹倡馬力親試驗坦克壓肉餅

身在美國的八九民運人士王丹回覆本報電郵查詢時批評,馬力說法是喪盡天良,「對於這種人,不期待他會道歉」。他重申,有關市民被坦克輾成肉餅,當年有相為證,並有很多相關書籍引用,他說:「如果馬力不信,他自己可以躺到坦克車下面,如果沒有變成肉餅,我向他道歉!」

王丹說,當年中共主要在長安街上殺人,因此廣場內的學生能撤出,但這不代表別的地方沒有死人。他又不滿馬力以豬作比喻來說明當日的死難者,並指馬力若有宗教信仰,難道不怕下地獄嗎?

Intestine

Seems like I update my blog weekly now! I guess I just don't have much time to update as much as before. Though it's still good to write and to share some of my thoughts and stuffs happen to me.

Finished another song's drum tracks few days ago, so one more song to do then we can start to track other instruments. Beside, we can return all the mics for the drums and not to concern the mic placement. In the same time we can start writing new songs.

This week has been quite good except that 2 days ago I got intestine inflammation. It was probably the bad preserved dry mango from bandroom. However, Pak To also had it but he'e fine. Anyway, Saturday morning around 4am I got awaken from the pain. I couldn't go back to sleep and I was in pain continuously. So I had to go see the doctor when they open. The doc gave me an injection and some medication. So my whole Saturday afternoon I was home sleeping and resting. What a waste! Now I feel better but I still can't eat much except some congee and white bread.

Monday, May 14, 2007

Paul Let's Fight Show

The show last night was great. I guess round 2 (on the 12th) was better than round 1. Great to help my friends during the show. It's my pleasure to be able to help out in any way when it comes to music. Got to meet Paul and talked a bit. It's good to know that his pressure is now off since the ticket sales were pretty good. I hope that by doing this, we can together make the music scene more diverse and healthy. I hope this show will become an annual festival like the Ozzfest, Family Value Tour and etc. So let's fight!!!

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Busy Busy

Just got home and finished the shower. It's 3am now and my hair is wet so I will wait a bit then go to sleep. These days I am so busy from work as I need to go to all citysuper stores to have photo shooting. Just to imagine that I need to get up so early in the morning and then shoot photos for like 4, 5 hours straight. So now we completed two stores and still have 5 more locations to go. It's a good project because I can learn alot from the photographer also I know more about the company now!

After work today I went to bandroom for recording. While waiting for Pak To for the drums session. I accidentally locked myself outside the room. Gosh, I was just wearing a tee and boxer. My phone, pants and money were all inside the room. So I went down to call Pak To to ask him to rescue me.

So the click for song 1 is done now. It's quite a complicated song with lots of tempo/time signature changes. I think this is a fun song to play. Hopefully we can nail down the drums tracks this week. We are so behind!

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Finished Drums for Song 2

Yesterday finally finished the drums tracks for song 2. Took quite a long time to finish since we want to get the best as we can. So now we are going to record song 1 and hopefully we can get this song done quicker.

Raptors are down 1-3 to the Nets. I still have hope for the team because I believe that they can still win the next game when they play at home. But now Raps gotta take one game at a time. Anyway, I think this team is going to be a championship team because we have all the right people. Go Raptors Go!!!