Sunday, March 19, 2006

a tale of 3 guitars


yamaha C-40 classical

some of you might have already read from a previous post ther reason why i picked up the guitar in the first place. well the year was 1997, i was 15, raging hormones and needed to jio char bo (ok not that my hormones aren't raging now, but that's another story for another post). so anyway, i saved up some money and got my best buddy and a whole bunch of my sec sch khakis to plaza singapura (before they revamped it) and bought this guitar. next my best buddy indie boy started to teach me a lil about chords and all, and slowly i just learnt how to play. well, i guess just knowing how to play the guitar aint going to let you jio alot of char bo


fender mexican telecaster

so then the next logical thing to do was to join a band. and how else to look uber cool in a band than to own an electric guitar yourself? yeah so the year was 1998, after o levels, a couple of us decided to form a band called the ac derelicts. and yeah indie boy and me went to get an electric guitar each. he got the gibson epiphone les paul while i got the mexican telecaster.. i always liked how the telecaster look compared to the strat. but we didn't get to use our guitars for the performances, so it was more of a pride thing for me at that time i guess.

hmmm that performance went pretty well except my 15 seconds of fame was stolen by my fella band mate thomas. well you see, i was playing a sort of lil solo (well it was a sucky one lar, but still at that time can 'solo' then looks damn uber cool what). while i was playing it, thomas suddenly just took the mic and rolled all over the floor.. andd hence all focus was on him.. sigh. anyway 3 of em went on to do much much greater things in the form of leeson (they really rock by the way, lurve their new tunes!! aye mark get gt to cut the LP lar!) and i was left still without char bo and worse of all my guitar got bruised. well you see i let the guitar hang on my 10 dollar guitar strap, and while i was adjusting my amp the strap gave way and my guitar just plonked to the floor. lets just say the guitar has never been the same again ever since (its just rotting now, i think in need to fix it.. for the 3rd time!)


yamaha apx3 semi accoustic

so with such a lousy run, you would wonder why would i go and buy a new guitar right?? ok lar its not a new guitar actually, its a 2nd guitar which i got for quite cheap. apparently this guy's fren gave it to him and he doesn't really play it, so its like as good as brand new lar. anyway, i gave up on the playing guitar to jio char bo (think maybe cos i only know how to play 3 songs, then they 'chey!'?? haha). hence the guitar is now the instrument of my emotions. what better way to express yourself than through every note, every chords that just describes the right feeling?? music soothes even the savage beast.. (yes i am the beast, but im not a beastie boy). oh wells, anyway this is a bo liao post lar, i just wanted to show off my new (ok 2nd hand) guitar.. but just wanted to add abit of entertainment value to it.. muahahaha

by the way, my mom summed up my life the other day for me. basically she says i just like to play guitar and drink alcohol.. so there you have it, im not that complicated after all...