Well, back to the story on my passion on the guitar. For those who didn't read the first half of the story, please do so. If not you will definitely be feeling lost and then comes a hooded man carry a scythe asking you to follow him into the night (Ok, I just made that up). Anyway, please do so, I will greatly appreciate it.
My second revelation came when i was first introduced to the concept of the electric guitar. For years, I stuck with playing just basic classical guitar and simple strumming stuff. As a matter of fact, up till today, I didn't even bother to improve my theory to the point that I can't even count the timing, beats, tempo and whatever. So, back to the electric guitar. I was studying in Lasalle SIA College of the Arts back in 2000. At that time, I had really cool classmates whom I already lost contact with. Now, what happened was they introduced me to a form of music which I never thought was pleasant before. Metal.
Now being a kid from a conservative society not knowing what I should and should not believe in, I was told that Metal is music created by the worshiper of Satan. Can you believe that bullshit? Well yea, I was that dumb. But anyway, I didn't explore listening to metal, not until my classmates introduced me to it. For the first time, I heard KoRn and Sklipknot. No, I ain't a fan of emo scremo (Sorry for the pun) stuff but KoRn actually do. Look for "Blind" and "Adidas" up on youtube.
So after that, I decided that I needed to learn the electric guitar. It's the coolest instrument ever. It does this Chugga Chugga kinda sound. I happened to have this electric guitar that my classmate from my secondary school days sold me for real cheap. However, it ain't working anymore, so being a dumbwit that I am, I just decided to get it fixed up. So, I brought the thing to Bras Brasah complex, and headed down to Sweee Lee. Now, every one knows Swee Lee right? Never mind if you don't. It's just this huge musical instrument shop in the complex. So I needed to buy pick ups and switches and stuff, for the guitar. So my friend showed me this section called "Dimarzio". What is Dimarzio? Well, it's a brand that is famous for electric guitar pick ups that is being used by artists worldwide. However, they aren't cheap. So the salesman pop over and asked me for my model preference. This was exactly how the conversation went.
Salesman: "Hey Bro, what model you want?"
Me: "I don't know leh."
Salesman: "Which guitarist you like? What kind of sound you looking for?"
Me: "I don't know leh."
Salesman: "Ok Bro, you want power power sound is it?"
Me: "Ya. Power good. I like power."
Salesman: "Ok. You buy this one. Evolution. You know Steve Vai? His sound damm power one. We got one set somemore. This one good!"
Me: "Ok".
There you have it. Gullible me. So, I bought the pick ups home, bought the electronic parts that I needed, and got the salesman to install it for me. It took a while but got it all done up. At that point of time, I still had no idea what setup and stuff meant. Well, looking back, I can safely assure you all, that guitar was unplayable from the way it was setup. But anyway, that isn't important at this point of time.
So I didn't actually knew what i bought, nor did I had any idea what difference would it made. So for a while, I was jamming with my classmates, playing Chugga Chugga stuff with a really crap guitar but super pick ups. Imagine, Proton car with Ferrari Engine (Not that it can really work, just an analogy). So that was fun for a while.
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