Understanding life's lessons...

Saturday, March 05, 2005

Strawberry Jam??!?!?
Formation of my band...

Hey! Who the hell thought of Strawberry Jam as my band's name? It originates from Edwin and Steven when they saw the Ai Otsuka(Japanese singer of love jam album) on my wallpaper and decided to come up with this corny name... May i appeal to my friends who are reading this to come up with new suggestions?> Else i think all the gay societies will be looking for us to perform for them liao hahaha...

Back to the topic...

Now, it has always been my dream of being in a band, a place where i could make music with a few of my trusted friends, have no stupid office politics or what so ever and just build the common understanding, make beautiful music together and leave the audience hungering for more... And that reminds me, i should come up with my list of dreams soon...

Well, i guess this is still quite a long way off because we are only having our first practice today... We are just like a seed waiting to extend its roots to the soil and grow... and i'm glad that today, I'm the farmer planting and watering this seed... The sense of achievement and the immense possibility of us attaining great heights motivates me to propel everyone forward...

But still, we are progressing well, with the recruitment of 3 guitar enthusiasts and masters, Jarryl, Darren and Jason Liu, keyboard player Jason Chan... I thought i could be the bass guitar player, but i guess the 3 masters are more than enough... haha... *sheepish* Guess i can only take over as the lead vocalist liao... Muahahaha!!! Not that useless huh?

Other than this first choice combination, we also had Steven and Edwin as the support side, the backup bass guitar and drummer. And also we had a pretty girl joining us for the session as the photographer, Tiandi, my best female China friend haha... She also wanna see what a band is like close-up hahaha... Maybe she can become our secretary or admin officer? hahaha... then can attract all the business for performance sia?... Hmmm... Is Tiandi reading this? hope she is fine with this... Muahahaha!!!

Lets see, the songs we practised were "The reason-hoobastank", "Zhen de ai ni-beyond"," Fen xiang-Sky Wu", "Ji mo de ji jie-Tao Ze","I'll be there for you-bon jovi","When you say nothing at all-Ronan Keating","Love me-Collin Ray","ming tian de mign tian de ming tian-power station","na jiu zhe yang ba-power station","Accidentally in love-counting crows"and "more than words". Tried a variety of genres, and seriously, ballads and pop songs dun seem to be a problem at all, guess we need to work on the rock songs which are more intensive than any other genres... Perhaps try on songs like "Vindicated-dashboards confessionals" or "Behind blue eyes-limp biskit"? haha... my special someone shd be quite happy to hear them one day right?...

And sad to say, i think we still need a drummer even though the masters are able to double up as one... So friends, can i appeal to you all for your help to find one good drummer for me? Just one will do hahaha... thanks dudes!

Without further ado, here are the pics!!!

Steven and Edwin looking dao on the first practice...