星期日晚去Hidden Agenda睇完以色列art rock band Eatliz,回味無窮。應該話口桀口桀口桀口桀。因為有點相似,見到Eatliz女歌手Lee Triffon就令我諗起佢,學完聲學唱歌劇之後拎枝七線結他玩metal的挪威女唱作人The Commander-In-Chief:
歌、彈、唱皆麻麻(cover《Paranoid》已算好,自己歌呢真係...),但人地音樂唔得都起碼睇得同型得起,同不論你受唔受都會全心全意扮演自已建立角色(這就是歐洲金屬精神:無論點7點on9、即使去到一個自己都知甚至頂唔順地步,仍會100%投入,所以有時就算唔笑唔得,都不得不佩服佢地份堅持同專業態度)(另,按官方指引,The Commander-In-Chief全寫係包括最後上標字型的TM,此乃另一笑點)。不得不再一次講句,(請填任何一個香港以外歐亞地名)真美好。
前兩日由以色列囡囡...呀唔係係以色列art rock講到歐洲metal,就繼續睇睇點樣歐洲metal尤其北歐比其他任何地區更...metal。Axel Rudi Pell係德國殿堂級結他英雄,上年去法蘭克福睇Nile一排,另一邊就係佢開show仲要一早賣晒飛,而同期同樣全tour爆滿係Accept,能與德國metal教父級人馬平頭可見其江湖地位。不過冇諗過睇落咁正經,答問題會答得咁黐線。當然因為個訪問&訪問佢個網「metal界《蘋果》」Metal Sucks本身已經on99。
而家好少可有心機睇樂隊訪問,大多只留意歐洲band特別係老鬼,因為得佢地仲有'80 rock star feel,代表人物當然是瑞典結他神Yngwie Malmsteem,佢任何時間答任何問題都可以笑到你反肚,就同琴日講到同樣來自北歐之The Commander-In-Chief TM(記得加TM,可惜格式所限上標唔到)一樣非常忠於自己角色:
「話我結他之神囂張寸爆丫嘛老土丫嘛,我就寸到盡老土到暈俾你地睇!」
係估唔到連Axel Rudi Pell都會咁唔正經,佢堆問題似開YJM平時答開的on9野。鍾意睇歐洲metal友訪問正因佢地敬業樂業充份代入角色同metal cliche,反而美國band通常好正經,仍有玩野份子如Gwar,但相比下正常得多亦好少可on9得黎咁...on9。
繼續抽歐美metal水。張圖流傳已久iMOM,不過100%經典200%準確666%好笑。事實確是如此,歐系金屬同美系金屬,正好比metal友兩大類tr00 & troll。
好笑過無記膠劇的特首選舉來了。今屆選舉已成公關災難典範,幕前候選人任何一句回應、幕後智囊團任何一個決策,換著係私人公司內發生,一早成組人俾人炒晒,假如間公司未被連累到執笠的話。睇睇人地點樣拍廣告好過啦,是時候回顧此經典death metal競選廣告。唔難明白點解位波蘭政客落選收場。
香港邊個特首候選人肯跟隊拍個metal廣告講抱負講政綱,無論你左派定右派共產黨定地產黨,投票俾你之餘上埋街幫你拉票又點話。
(「蒜狗掃啦,你有份投票咩?」)
雖然近幾日香港灰過黑色(2012真係世界末日,都好過共產黨正式接管香港),metal界反而多新聞&趣聞。此乃其一。
正正一個星期前講到挪威metal新晉七線結他速彈派女唱作人The Commander-In-Chief 上標TM(名堂真長),今日出左佢出道以來首個正式訪問。與其直接睇Youtube訪問條片,反而會推介先睇睇Blabbermouth文字版,因為睇到更多。
BBM被喻為metal界CNN,料永遠唔會獨家但肯定全球最快,而出名除左快仲有troll到爆炸的版友,好耐之前有個訪問,唔記得邊隊band邊個人就指名道姓講Blabbermouth回post班人十個有九個on99 - 冇錯,果條BBM新聞內容就係寸BBM班傻仔。提到Commander-In-Chief訪問篇新聞,唔理厹果班,回響居然偏向正面。實屬非常難得。當然主角係個樣唔差的囡囡是大因素,如果係條仔的話,俾人洗板怒插不足為奇。
見到監製長篇大論同大家講隻EP點樣全無數碼加工即場收音製作,其實好灰,無論有幾多器材同技巧幫到你,錄音本身唔係應該靠番樂手本身實力去做到最好咩?所以包括大量復古band,無論玩得幾勁幾精彩硬係覺得冇幾多隊搵得番當年感覺,正因音樂做到足但出到黎太「假」。Commander靚女之前首《Paranoid》唔算好好,但鍾意,就係因為果種而家好難搵得到的陳年味道錄音。
同,講黎講去其實都係果樣野:係佢寫歌普通,係佢唱歌更唔掂,係佢手結他唔差但亦冇其他,但睇完個訪問,不得不再讚嘆同感嘆一番,香港以外的世界才見美好呀。
這可能是史上最強game trailer之一,而家港產片都拍唔出。唯一遺憾係個名唔叫番True Crime: Hong Kong。
話時話,係咪特登改奸角個名做仆街,其實鬼佬知唔知點解,哈。
2012年愚人節最大最大最大的笑話,是電管局及影視處大陸化成「通訊辦」,居然不是笑話。
最後一次返母校已經係七年前畢業禮,其實一直有諗過返去探探人,但一程要搭兩架車個幾鐘來回仲辛苦過返大陸,又懶(...),始終未能成事。兩年前本身有機會,謝安琪出《Slowness》公司唔撐傳媒唔理,冇大型演唱會只有自己走幾間大專巡迴演唱(大陸同台灣歌手唱校園show好平常甚至當紅先有人搵你唱,香港相反好多時去唱學校代表你霉冇大show出,真灰),但過左先知道超級唔開心。
等左好耐終於再有機會,有Kolor仲要開讓人懷念的D1-LP-04演講廳唱,熱切期待點知睇真先發現,玩我嗟,星期一晚七點半開場唱一個鐘咁大把,放工立即趕過黎到左都可能core已en。上星期又係盧凱彤超想睇但要平日晚入中大。indie同「暗星」真係咁難拎到靚或好少少的檔期嘛。
難得調到今個禮拜六唔使過會展擺fair,有冇人有星期六晏晝中環Backstage謝安琪unplugged演唱會飛一張可以施捨過我,之前諗住去唔到冇參加比賽拎飛,而家喊晒,去唔到喊得更大聲
"Noisy, Dirty, Confused, Low Quality" may be the comment of major Hong Kong people to Heavy Metal. Probably, people listened to the some music related to band sound who may just think they accept the Heavy Metal music easily. In fact, many people still have negative impression and they do not want to know about the true meaning of Metal music culture.
"Nowadays, a lot of people do not use their ear to listen the music. They tend to use their eyes to capture the music. Once an artist has a good appearance whether he or she is a male or female, their music will be popular. For instance, something like "PangPangTong" (棒棒堂), if they play heavy metal, I believe many people would love to listen! "Nicolas Leung, a music fan, replied at a post in discuss.com. Is it the reality? Let"s see the past record of the recent years of music award organized by the mass media. There are none of the winners playing the metal music. And most of the music group / few people project are mostly the idols that have attractive outlook, dancing competences. Surprisingly, after Beyond or TaiChi, there are none of a band which can attain the publicity as them after 90s.
"People in Hong Kong listening Metal is all about trend," said Lau Sir, TRHK salesroom manager,"Movie of “Detroit Metal City” reflects the typical view from public to Heavy Metal." In traditional music industry, rocker and people playing band are forced to cut out their long hair, hide their anger and turn to a gentle, clean and healthy style in order to suit the public culture. “D.M.C.” brings out an existing problem: Publics, or even the music lovers, mostly adore the outer level of Heavy Metal instead of the symbolic meaning behind the production. To the musicians who really play the Death Metal, the degree of Japanese visual make up is "Arabian Nights". Perhaps the people play with Black Metal would do something like that. Simply, the key attractive point to the youth is the visual effect, not the music of metal. In 2004, a magazine, "Milk", talked about death metal. In fact, there are more than 10 pages shown about the fashion of death metal and just published 1 page to give a brief introduction of the death metal. 4 years later, in the view of masses, Heavy Metal is only a format in culture but not the arts. Lau-Sir claimed, "actually, “DMC” stimulate the youth care about Death Metal. Someone came for music does not have any knowledge about death metal, even metal. The noise of the music far from their expected standard therefore lots of them just went away; someone came for the make up. Although I have explained with”Death Metal do not make up” many times and introduce them to Black Metal which is a type of the music style playing with corpse fashion. However, they give the same response to the guys asked for music - just go away because of the noisy music. "In reality, truly participating, analyzing, getting interested in the music"s people is hardly to be found in Hong Kong. You may ask, "why there are just a few people get interest with Metal in Hong Kong? Haven"t the mass media mentioned something about Metal?"
Surprisingly, there were just little reports about Metal in the media. I have searched the title with Chinese "Metal, music" in wise news in recent 3 years, there are only 2 reports used Metal to be the main theme of it. One is something like press ad which promoted the music concert, and the other is talk about DMC by Nanfangdaily, yet Nan is a China publishing. Further, I searched the same thing with content. It"s quite interesting.
According to The Sun daily, "Research from Australia, the researcher focus to the secondary school student and showed that the people who love Heavy Metal would relate to suicides, depression, criminals and drinking." Additionally, "Milor stated when the volunteers were listening some music that they dislike e.g. Heavy metal, their bollod vessels diameter contracted 6% ." quoted from HKCD. Another news report in HKCD," Kelvin used to be an heavy metal lover, however, once he believes in islam…."It"s not hard to imagine that people is socialized to be have a negative impression on heavy metal. It may be affected by the news organization"s value or the professional value of the journalists. There is no doubt to claim that the society"s value or culture do not accept the Heavy Metal too much in Hong Kong. Some may think the metal band do not have a sufficient market value for promotion or capture the profit. It maybe true, however, is there any other reason to explain such kind of situation?
To chase with the origin of heavy metal, the music started with history, political issues. Just listen at Cathedral "s Hopkins (The Witchfinder General) in 1968, in the lyrics, you can see the European religion, literature and philology inside. These are all the things that the musician and their society experiencing in the past. The music and the symbolic meaning made resonance effect to the public. Hong Kong has his own music culture and it is mainly affected by mainland china and Taiwan. Since poor technology in 60s to 70s, people in Hong Kong reached the J-rock till 80s. "If X-Japan (a visual band from Japan) was not popular in Hong Kong, there would not have people to discover the underground music, even Beyond may not be promoted by big label," Lau-sir claimed. When the people in Hong Kong started at listening to the Metal Music, some Europe countries such as Norway, England developed their Metal music culture about 10-15 years. There is a long way for Hong Kong people to learn and develop their own metal music culture in the future.
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1.1 劉Sir Matto Lau S.H.A.D.O.W. 12/7/2008 SAT
http://www.lau-sir.com/music/projects/blackwine_08/shadow.html
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剛剛個幾字前會展完左每日一次的大抽獎暨今次fair最後一次抽獎,大獎係New iPad一部,劉Sir黑開有條路當然乜叉都抽唔到最cheap獎原子筆都冇枝啦,但作為一個正宗地道香港人最鍾意睇人仆街,抽完獎第一件事梗要立即上黎同大家分享呢單笑料。
話說大家企左半個鐘(中途仲發生一單中國阿叔不滿主辦單位「親白人歧視黃種人」擾攘一番玩到實Q都黎埋趕人的小插曲),終於等到抽終極大獎New iPad,抽左出黎公佈之後,全場立即噓爆散水。幸運兒現身,點知持證人唔係得獎者本人唔合資格領獎,走緊人的百幾人(劉Sir嗟)立即走返轉頭歡呼拍爛手掌。雖然到頭來原子筆都抽唔到,成世人未試過參加抽獎抽得咁開心。
立即想到已被傳頌萬世的鄧健泓爆石事件。
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57411010/60-minutes-icon-mike-wallace-dies-at-93/
五個月前《六十分鐘時事雜誌》台柱之一Andy Rooney走左。五個月後7/4/2012,輪到另一台柱Mike Wallace。
真係好驚過多排,會聽到連David Letterman都瓜埋。