everybody wants to be a rock star
i read with interest the huge sign up for the straits times rock band concert. apparently there are 200 over bands that signed up (or was that 800?? forgot liao i think 200 more realistic lar hor).
i appluad the idea to set up this rock band thingy, i guess in some sense it challenges the youths to channel their energy into more positive means (i think somewhat copy awakening's idea leh). but its juz hilarious to see the profiles of the band (the life section tries to feature a band now and then...) and the names of the band is quite apalling, i don't even wanna talk about how some of them dress.
so one word that came to mind when i saw the pictures: wannabes. i guess im making a really big and wrong generalization, but how many of them are actually doing it for would i cliche'ly put it the love of music. yeah im going to be blasted for not supporting local music again (but then not many of them write their own songs, so its more of supporting covers done by local musician)
looking back, i can safely say i picked up the guitar becoz i wanted to as the ah bengs puts it jio charbo (u can see im not very sucessful). whereas some of my pals went on to achieve greater things, like leeson who spun off from a small grp of us who just wanted to have fun after our o-levels in 1998. so that was something i eventually realised... i wonder how the bands will continue after they get 'kicked out' of the competition. how many will actually carry on the passion and eventually get to greater heights. or will they all die off because they realised like me, playing guitar doesnt get you the chickadees.
but kudos who fuel their passion and ambitions with determination and hard work. to continue practising and jamming, to pen songs that will be able to reach out to the masses, first in singapore, and then to maybe the region... then maybe we'll see a new dawn of local music...
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napkin man
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1:13 am
