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Thursday, June 08, 2006
Elvis, Bonetable & The Devil
Right, time for a musical update. Today I will cover the Downfall of Elvis, the Birth of Bonetable, and the Ascension of the Devil.
First up - Elvis' Downfall. A couple of weeks ago the drummer from the band I'm playing in mentioned that he'd been approached to help form an Elvis covers band. He suggested I play guitar in the band, and after he talked to me about it I thought it would be fun. As I understood it the band would focus on Elvis' early material. Then the drummer pulled out due to time constraints. However, the Manager found a new drummer and we had our first rehearsal last week. Elvis turned out to be a 60-year-old Chinese guy - a real Elvis enthusiast. In addition there was me on guitar, two other guitarists, a bass player, and Tunj on drums. Unfortunately - we weren't too good. Elvis couldn't hit the high notes, I and the other guitarist didn't really know the songs, and the bass player doesn't seem to be able to play anything at all. Worse - we seemed to be heading for Fat Elvis territory very quickly indeed.
This was all slightly disappointing as apparently the Manager intended for us to try and play some shows in China, which would have been pretty cool. However, there's no way I'm going to devote time to a band that I'm not happy about being in. So, goodbye Elvis.
Second - Bonetable! That's right - our band is officially called Bonetable now, and after a successful performance last week (our bass player Maggie has put up a video), we will be playing our first paid gig at The Wanch on Saturday June 17th. Apparently we're playing for 4 hours, so come along and you'll get to learn all of our songs really well. Show starts about 9pm.
Third - The Devil. As you may be aware this week Tuesday was the 6th of June, 2006. Or as other people would have it - 6/6/6. Which of course is the (popular) Number of the Beast. And to celebrate the occasion some enterprising souls organised a heavy metal concert at The Wanch. I went down to check it out and discovered that METAL is alive and well in Hong Kong. There were so many people there they couldn't all fit inside the venue. After the first two bands had finished I managed to get inside, where I was treated to some wonderfully loud music. It was actually pretty good, and I'm sure the next time a significant METAL date comes around the organisers will find a slightly larger venue.
tags: music | elvis | metal | hongkong
First up - Elvis' Downfall. A couple of weeks ago the drummer from the band I'm playing in mentioned that he'd been approached to help form an Elvis covers band. He suggested I play guitar in the band, and after he talked to me about it I thought it would be fun. As I understood it the band would focus on Elvis' early material. Then the drummer pulled out due to time constraints. However, the Manager found a new drummer and we had our first rehearsal last week. Elvis turned out to be a 60-year-old Chinese guy - a real Elvis enthusiast. In addition there was me on guitar, two other guitarists, a bass player, and Tunj on drums. Unfortunately - we weren't too good. Elvis couldn't hit the high notes, I and the other guitarist didn't really know the songs, and the bass player doesn't seem to be able to play anything at all. Worse - we seemed to be heading for Fat Elvis territory very quickly indeed.
This was all slightly disappointing as apparently the Manager intended for us to try and play some shows in China, which would have been pretty cool. However, there's no way I'm going to devote time to a band that I'm not happy about being in. So, goodbye Elvis.
Second - Bonetable! That's right - our band is officially called Bonetable now, and after a successful performance last week (our bass player Maggie has put up a video), we will be playing our first paid gig at The Wanch on Saturday June 17th. Apparently we're playing for 4 hours, so come along and you'll get to learn all of our songs really well. Show starts about 9pm.
Third - The Devil. As you may be aware this week Tuesday was the 6th of June, 2006. Or as other people would have it - 6/6/6. Which of course is the (popular) Number of the Beast. And to celebrate the occasion some enterprising souls organised a heavy metal concert at The Wanch. I went down to check it out and discovered that METAL is alive and well in Hong Kong. There were so many people there they couldn't all fit inside the venue. After the first two bands had finished I managed to get inside, where I was treated to some wonderfully loud music. It was actually pretty good, and I'm sure the next time a significant METAL date comes around the organisers will find a slightly larger venue.
tags: music | elvis | metal | hongkong
Comments:
that's sad news, we was really hoping you'd stick that elvis gig out. Will it be your one regret once you reach the age of 92 and start counting regrets?
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