Discrimination in music.

I was well pissed earlier.

Here's the story:
I was out earlier to buy my godson-to-be a christening gift. Since I already figured out weeks before on what I am going to get him, I had an extra half hour to roam around the city centre.

I popped-in in this nerby music shop to check what's new. I saw a few new basses that wasn't on display the last time I was there.

I asked the one of the dudes if I can try the bass that caught my eye; a black 4-stringed Schecter with a maple fingerboard. (I don't even know the model name) Anyways, yah, I asked the dude, he got me some cheap ass guitar cable and pointed me to the amp I can use and that was it.

I know right? But that's not the worst, when I was finally playing the baby, he came back and asked me if I could turn the amp down because it's too loud. WTF?? I guitarist was shredding on full stack Marshall 10 metres away from me and God knows on what volume. I can't even hear myself think when he starts shredding. And I'm playing on a 250W amp with the volume turned up only to 5? I mean, SERIOUSLY???

The moment he turned he's back on me I turned the amp to almost full volume and played one bar of slapping and then left the shop.

Honestly, I was really crossed at that guy. Maybe he's one of those guitarists we call "Guitards".

Anywho, ranting aside, it has been a year or so and 3 YouTube channels since I started recording and uploading covers on internet. It strucked me that I haven't covered even one OPM song yet. Well, I decided to that 2 days ago. And here it is...



It's kind of fail though, I was just bored the time I recorded that and I was off the rythm around the interlude part.

And for Neon my friend, I have something for you.

(This is not the shop I was just talking about by the way, this is my fave shop ever)
I just thought of sharing this since you also play bass. This was taken when I bought my StingRay Yuki(Yes, I named my bass /shy). It's the StingRay by the way. And she's on that photo! *Points at the corner, near the head of the long-haired bloke and right side of that golden/yellow Stingray* XD

Anyways, that's all from me this time. Sorry for the rant blog post.

-mikan

Jess Lewis = Prodigy

16 year old Jess Lewis is just simply awesome. To be able to jam with Alex Hutchings himself. I am literally lost for words. As someone commented on YouTube "she is amazing but it does kind of crush your soul a little.....to be playing the vast majority of your life and have her come along and ever so sweetly and politely crush you.."

Enough talk. Just watch the videos and be amazed.




With Alex Hutchings


Such talent...

-mikan

My favourite female vocalist of all time. Wooohuuuu!!

I've been a fan of them for more than 1 year now. But I never get tired of listening to all of their songs over and over again.

Since it was the heart's day last monday, I've seen a friend of mine; also a massive fan of the group, posted a song from this certain group on Facebook. The first thing came into my mind is the song I'm about to share.

This song is.... hmmmmm... How can I describe it?

Ahhhhhhh.....

Sad yet beautiful.

Note that this is a japanese artist.
Yakusoku wo Shiyou (Promise me) - Supercell


Here's the lyrics translated into english:

Promise Me

If I should ever lose my way please come and find me
The two of us, in this great wide world
Almost like lost children, aren't we?

To confirm our feelings we embraced tightly
And kissed so many times, all the way till dawn.
I still don't know what words to say
But I just want to be with you, that's how I felt

Even when the end comes along
Please don't cry, lift your chin and laugh
I don't want to see you sad
Isn't that right? After all, I love you

So our touching lips won't be interrupted
Hold me tighter, even if I fell I'll break
I still dont know what words to say
But I just want to be with you, that's what I wished

Times when I'm lonely by myself
At those times, I won't be angry at you
So please, it would be best to quickly forget about me, and move on with your life

Let's promise that.

-Credits to whoever translated that.

Sad yet beautiful right??? Right??? xD

And what can you say about the voice? So lovely right? Right??? xD It was love at first hear for me. If ever there's such thing. LMAO
But seriously, I love her voice so much. <3

-mikan

Rediscovering some artists.

Sorry for being not able to post lately. My monitor broke down. -.- And I waited weeks for it be repaired but ending up not able to grab hold of some parts for it. Ended up buying a new monitor instead.

Here's some photos:

My CPU + amplifier.


My old monitor and messy desk.

And now my new monitor.


Enough of the PC stuff.


Well, while I've been out of action, I've been listening alot to my iPod every night and I re-discovered some of my fave artists.

Have you ever heard of a music genre called Math Rock?
I'll give you an example.


Here's me covering one of their tracks.


I rediscovered Yuna Ito too. <3




And Ikimono Gakari.

Pardon for the anime images. I can't find any decent copy on YouTube.




That's all for now! Hope you enjoy some quality music. :D

-mikan