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My love for rock music began when I was in secondary school. A good friend of mine introduced to me the joy of alternative music just about the time dad bought me a guitar. Back then, Nirvana was all the rage, and from there my interest branched towards the mellower side of grunge of Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots, and the whiny Brits in shape of Radiohead and Oasis. The Smashing Pumpkins lulled me over the emotional angsty teenage period. Then Weezer ruled my cassette player. Being a spectacled geeky boy myself, Rivers Cuomo became my idol for being a geek rock star.
Rage Against The Machine roared me through into rapcore/nu metal towards the end of secondary school, along with my cargo pants and berets to complete my subversive militia look (lol I wish I had pics). Jonathan Davis and Korn screamed into me ear canals on hour-long bus trips from Cheras to KDU. We had a decent college band too. But then things started to change a little.
For quite some time, Jamiroquai managed to slip in and out between the rockstars in my backpack. My appreciation for dance music was limited to that, but when friends started to go to the legendary BackroomKL, I tagged along, and got hooked. Hard. Basement Jaxx was the order for the year, while Darude's 'Sandstorm' blasted on everyone's radio. John Digweed fast became my favourite DJ.
While being in Brisbane, mp3 became really popular, and i dabbled with Japanese music. I fell in love with Tomoko Kawase, the singer of The Brilliant Green, and had their hits on my 64mb Nokia 5510. So did Judy & Mary, Utada Hikaru & The Yellow Monkeys. I guess this is why I'll always prefer the Ouendan series over Elite Beat Agents. The Japanese ruled for 2 years, and after I came back to KL, the circle of rock started all over again.
Fariz played alot of music at work. While working with him, I learned to really, REALLY like Incubus (whose music on radio was only limited to Drive, at that time). This sparked into another journey of rock discovery. Slipknot, Queens of the Stone Age, Franz Ferdinand, and many others came to my collection via the Burnout videogame series whose music thumped on while i careened in and out of virtual traffic.
You know how some parents use their children to fulfill their own unachievable dreams? My unfulfilled dream was to be in a popular rock band, so I guess that I have the same selfish wishes upon my kids. When we have kids, I'll get them to learn some sort of instrument, but a daughter of mine will specifically learn to play the drums, because I don't think there's enough of female drummers out there. Guitarists? Liz Phair. Bassists, even easier. There's Kim Gordon, D'arcy Wretzky, Melissa Auf Der Maur, but name me one, ONE accomplished female drummer.
Go ahead.
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That's what I thought.
Anyway, this post sorta kinda sent me back into time, considering that Kurt Cobain (allegedly) shot himself in 1994 which was almost 15 years ago, and 15 years ago I was a snotty little 14 year old.
I'm am SO old.
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