hooi: wow so big occasion

me: ya

hooi: duno pantera got come not

me: who pantera?

hooi: tu…. south africa previous president lo…

Time: 9.30pm
Date: 26th June 2010 (saturday)
Venue: Celebrities Club, Soho KL, Solaris Mont Kiara
www.celebritiesclub.net

More info here

for details pls refer here

anyway, nothing much has happened to uglymen. our last gig was during chinese new year in alor setar and we have been kinda inactive for a while.

lewis is doing well with his business and i think it’s gonna pick up slowly and doing very well eventually. lewis is offering great tattooing service at a bargaining price.

michael has been facing some personal problems lately and i think he’s going through it now and will be stronger nevertheless. he has good determination and in no time, he’ll be up on his three legs doing wonders. you donno he got three legs meh? hehehe… one of the legs is special…

hooi and i have been working on some side business. we didn’t do well (lost some inve$tment$) but we vowed to strive through it. work has been busy and we rarely had band practise due to my constant traveling. i travel every alternate week and its taxing to my health and stole my time from my family. and i dislike traveling very much. my performance at work deteriorating… its sad. can say that its my fault and weakness in making people happy. let’s not talk about that, shall we?

so, what’s ahead of our band? michael has written some new songs and planning to record them. as for now… we gotta practise more frequent to get the band going. uglymen nowadays is very good at writing and speaking and promising… hehehe… we are not even sure when we will come out with 2nd album.

hmmm… in fact, we haven’t performed for months already…

actually, i’m working on something hoping that eventually i will have MORE time with my family and band. it will be painful right now but its my dream to make it through. this *thing* that i’m working on has made me EXTREMELY FOCUS which requires me to sacrifice a lot of things for this short term period, maybe 3 to 6 months. once i succeed in getting this done, i am a FREE person. the passion and determination to SUCCEED is the same as when our band was at our peak during 2004-2006(4 piece) and 2007-2009(3 piece). i’m very DETERMINED and WILL ENSURE that i achieve it. i just need everyone’s blessing.

it comes to a point in your life that you will evaluate the things that you do and why you do it. the band is our GREAT priority, even though we may not have the luxury and time to do it FULLTIME. i hope my band brothers lewis, ah hooi and michael achieve success in things that they do so that they can have more time with the band. we are closely knit, the kind of bond that is usually closer than family members. uglymen family members are cool but i’m saying it in general context.

its still far from over and the journey has just begun. the destination is still a long way to go. i probably have myself to blame for writing so much crap about my grandpa in facebook. no time to update about our band here… hehehe…

thanks to metal sow’s editing, we can watch the 10 second now, over and over again, at least for me, eh.. ok, i know its funny, but when your song is in a major award-winning movie, it just feel so nice leh… i watched the movie on DVD yesterday, really nice, i mean the movie, not only the song… the theme song is sung by Melissa, the Tempered Mental bassist.

Sorry I do not know how to embed the video here.. please click on top of the link..thanks
This is just my sharing about the guitars I have and how I feel about them when I play them…I feel like kinda wanna show off here…actually not, just want to share the sounds of these three guitars…A great sound, touching TONE are generate from the guitar player’s fingers, and not the guitar itself.

Sorry for the bad playing, tempo is out, everything is out out out… 3 guitars with 3 different setting, wood type and everything is different…ebony, maple and rosewood finger boards offer in these there guitars. Let me explain and go detail at below for each of them.

1) ESP KH2 Ouija(White), active pickups EMG 60 neck EMG 80 bridge, Ebony finger board, 24 frets, tremolo locking system, Neck Thru structure.

This is accordingly to Mr.Hammett(metallica’s lead guitarist)’s spec, so with it up graded to ebony finger board(different than ordinary KH2 model), the ebony finger board really can give you speed when you pick on it. The sound is very powerful and high gain, you could hear the feedback while I juz plugged it on to my amp, this need thanks to EMG active pickups, they are very powerful and high output pickups, which means this axl is make up for METAL, or thrash metal!!! Purely for metal!!

2)Fender Start Japan 72-st, this guitar I basically change all the parts, the only things that I didn’t change is the neck, body, machine head and pick guard only. I had changed the pickups to Kinman’s, bridge, fret wires, volume/tone knobs, and input jack.
It is not high range expensive Fender, the wood also a so so wood not ash or other expensive good wood, but after changing all the parts it can offer wide range of style sounding and can produce great sound!!! thanks to Kinman’s pickups, the bridge, and the extra jumbo fret wires. It has brighter tone because of its maple neck, normally maple neck can give you brighter tone. Like I said it offers me a wide range of style sounding, from Jazz to blues to hard rock to metal…All you need is to play with the setting in the amp to get the tone you want to get, this guitar really can offer you!

3) PRS McCarty, I do not know the exact model…What so special about this McCarty? It is the neck is made by Brazilian Rosewood, yes its whole neck is made by Brazilian Rosewood!! I love this baby so much because it can produce very thick, sweet, warm of wood “tone”!!! and again yes, it can be play in wide range of style sounding, blues, jazz, to metal… and the sustain is killer, thanks to PRS’s set neck and rosewood neck, very good the sustainability!!! I heard that this type of rosewood neck guitar PRS is not produce anymore due to Brazil stop export the rosewood, so I feel kinda lucky to own this baby! and the gold hardware furnish is really nice!!! My friend told me if the rosewood neck got dry out some more or get into season will richer the tone!!! I love this baby’s tone so very much!!!

Probably you guys won’t hear the different because of the poor recording, I do hope that my words will get you guys a pictures of these three different guitar sound like…each of them got different feel, sound signature. I love them all, I still have some guitars in my collection, if I can find some free time I will come back here and share iwth you all again(show off)! Rock oN!