Hours: January 2007

Wednesday, January 17

Inspirational, Gifted, Talented and Moving.

Guitar players. Guitar players like never before. No, I'm not talking about random shredding and playing fast and whatnot, I am talking about skill, about people who make music. People who make the most inspiring music you could ever listen to. And all this comes from ten finger tips, sometimes less.

Music you can NEVER get tired of listening to. <- Not exaggerating.

This is music.

Andy McKee
Don Ross
Antoine Defour

Names to never be forgotten. Names that should be engraved in the necks of your guitars, because they define what a guitar can do, what music really is.

It's so hard to tell their influences, it's a blend of EVERYTHING. Most being classical.

THIS is the music I want to play.

And I shall strive till I achieve it.
Because it's worth it.

Oh and it's more than worth it.

Don Ross

Don Ross

Andy McKee

Andy McKee's cover of Toto's 'Africa'

Antoine Dufour

These men deserve the guitar.

Monday, January 8

Schmizel

We, Schmizel are very disappinted. In our vocalist, in our fans. But, at the same time, we are glad, glad that we played, at the very least.

Who is "Schmizel"? What did they "play"? Why are we disappointed?

Schmizel, is a band, a band that played their very first gig at Mazaya Centre on the 5th of January, 2007. And it would've been a better show, if we had a few more people to support us, Mr. Vocalist - that also includes you. Yes, we played vocalistless, and it didn't sound that bad actually. What did we play?

Well, after we were informed that Mr. Vocalist wouldn't be able to make it, which was halfway through our 5-hour practice, we had to get Mr. Fat-now-thin. Who actually, saved the day. Thank you Mr. Fat-now-thin, if it wasn't for you, we'd have to play bassistless too, which wouldn't have been pretty at all.

Schmizel is Kapil Mehra, Shaun D'Mello, Amrit Sharma, Vinay Nagaraj and Nishant Mehrotra.

And a whole load of music.

And we performed live at Mazaya Centre, with a medley of the songs "Rock You Like a Hurricane" by The Scorpions and "Blood Brothers" by Iron Maiden. And we played them instrumental, though they are ANYTHING but instrumental songs. With amazing vocal lines, which were performable by our lead singer, who didn't make it for our FIRST gig, the songs were quite boring compared to how they could've been.

But nonetheless, satisfaction overcomes regret, and very efficiently this time.

We expected to see at least a few friends there to support us, but unforunately, found none. This disappointed us a tad bit, but whatever, satisfaction overcomes the regret. I hope to see at least one of you at our next gig, that is, if, we have a next gig.

We ARE dedicated to the music we make, and we ARE firm in the decision to play on, until the whatever catastrophe disbands us. But as long as we ARE a band, we will be making music.

AND WE EXPECT SUPPORT =P

This show was organized by Glenn Perry, who has made quite a name of himself in Dubai, and you can visit him at http://www.glennperry.com . Thanks, sir, for the opportunity you gave us. We really appreciate it.

Well, in case you're looking for a video of us, there is one up on Youtube, but the audio and visual quality isn't good. I'll post it up here, so you can view it and give us your feedback.