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| by comrade commissar | Thomas | @ Saturday, November 05, 2005, 12:27:00 AM | permalink |
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Boon has graduated from a passive anything-rock-is-cool freshie to a bassist inspired by blues and funk genres these days. I'm made aware of these when a recent attempt to introduce him to that new song set on repeat in my mp3 player was met with a straightforward "Nothing special leh, this track." To think that 3-4 years back, all the tracks on his PC went something like dooch dooch dooch dooch dooch dooch dooch, doot-doot-doot.Hell, Delon & him were the ones who pioneered re-remixing Expresso's Drive Me Crazy (Christmas Bells Remix) with sounds of my snoring. Now that was some driving sanity up walls. Mine. During those early days of conversion I would introduce him to rock music that I considered as canon pieces, Third eye Blind's Semi Charmed Life, Blink 182's Dammit, Greenday's Good Riddance etc. What really fired off his enthusiasm was when he decided to take up the guitar. Soon he went looking for music that he could pick up pointers from to improve his playing, and everything went autopilot from there. So Boon has now fully transferred his previous zealous allegiance from music with tempo in the 130-140 range to selected rock genres. A provocative, if not politically-incorrect answer he gave to why he don't like R&B music (its not really my thing either really) was "I don't like having the image of black people having sex in my head." I think all I could do at the time was to cringe. I'm not sure if his stand on sexuality remains as prudish as in the past, its kind of hard to reconcile views like that with some of the lyrics in the the stuff he listens to. Jamiroquai's not exactly grooving/singing about friendship and ponies you know. I should be happy that the guy's moved on to more matured music flavour, even if his modes of expression haven't changed noticeably. But I can't really help but feel like some sort of sorely disappointed mentor/guru Obi Wan Kenobi when I'm told Surreal too punk rock lah. |
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