每日一首好音樂! Plain Beautiful

New Blog!

2010-01-16T02:18:00.000-08:00

Hey guys & girls~

I've finally started my new blog that I've always been wanting to start since July of 2009! And it's finally here~! I'll be using that blog from now on. Don't worry, the music element of this blog will be a part of my new blog! Just that there'll be more stuff and more interesting posts! So go check it out =)

http://aworshipper.blogspot.com

See ya all there!

It's Just Love

2009-12-11T12:42:00.000-08:00

Wow......................

MISIA - It's Just Love

Who Am I

2009-12-08T23:21:00.000-08:00

Casting Crowns - Who Am I

Thank you...!

2009-11-02T23:41:00.001-08:00

Thank God for you, bro!

I love you. And thank you for loving me.

For you, RUN!!!

Guitar cover 2

2009-10-27T19:33:00.000-07:00

Another guitar cover on the same song by another youtube user.

The sound is not identical to the CD's tone. But his playing is not bad~

GLAY - laotour ~震える拳が掴むもの~ -- Guitar cover by tsunvun86

Guitar cover 1

2009-10-25T23:18:00.000-07:00

Can't help it but to post one of my favourite song by GLAY. This is one of their new song in their newest album "The Great Vacation Vol.1".

This youtube clip is a guitar cover by COYOTECOYOTE1110, meaning COYOTECOYOTE1110 is playing guitar along with the CD track. His guitar sound and playing is almost identical to Hisashi's (GLAY) guitar playing. Enjoy! (It's GLAY's song that I want to share, but that's the only clip I can find on youtube)

GLAY - laotour ~震える拳が掴むもの~ -- Guitar cover by COYOTECOYOTE1110

Autumn Leaves

2009-10-20T23:40:00.000-07:00

Ah~ I've been wanting to post a post about my favourite Autumn since Autumn started! But I guess my friend here beat me to it.

Well here's one of my favourite song: Autumn Leaves

Nat King Cole - Autumn Leaves

The falling leaves
Drift by my window
The falling leaves
Of red and gold

I see your lips
The summer kisses
The sunburned hands
I used to hold

Since you went away
The days grow long
And soon I'll hear
Old winter's song

But I miss you most of all
My darling
When autumn leaves
Start to fall

Since you went away
The days grow long
And soon I'll hear
Old winter's song

But I miss you most of all
My darling
When autumn leaves
Start to fall

Have been trying to find an Ella Fitzgerald version on youtube, but couldn't. Maybe in the future...

MISIA

2009-10-11T00:53:00.000-07:00

Wow! The music and her, and every musician, just blended in!
Impressive! And most importantly, enjoyable!

Wait for the "surprise" =)

MISIA - Believe

Hashiru!!! (RUN!!!)

2009-10-07T00:09:00.000-07:00

Ahhhhhh man!!!!!!! This was the tour that I wanted to go last year!! And they went to the U.S. again this year!! Missed it twice already...!

This live house performances are so special because the live houses are so small that you can see them closely rather than really far away comparing to their 100,000 people live performances. I hope I can go to at least one of their concerts if they ever go to U.S. again..

GLAY - RUN (U.S. Tour 2009, live at the House of Blues - Sunset Strip)

Shall We Talk

2009-09-30T20:36:00.001-07:00

陳奕迅 + 林子祥 - Shall We Talk

曾給妳的一個承諾

2009-06-19T05:53:00.000-07:00

花與音符

To my love

2009-06-18T07:34:00.000-07:00

Just feel like this song at the moment, enjoy~

周杰倫-蒲公英的约定

Random Music By Creative People 7

2009-05-08T15:40:00.000-07:00

Well, after ALMOST a year without posting anything, I will feel like I've let you all down if this new post is not something crazy or worthwhile enough to make up for my hiatus. But trust me, this is something absolutely amazing! (well, at least to me)

The creator of this is truly creative. Not only did he have a lot of time in his hands to spend, but he also has got talents! The insane preciseness of the timing between the game elements matching with the background music and how he managed to combine 33 songs into a medley for the background music is just incredible.

Enjoy!

Super Mario World Music

Random Music By Creative People 6

2008-08-20T15:04:00.000-07:00

Alright! Finally found one that truly satisfies me and worthy of posting as the 6th post under the "Random Music By Creative People" theme!

This is truly hilarious. Can't stop laughing!

Enjoy!

Bruce Lee vs. O.A.U!

P.S. Mixing Bruce Lee with music! Truly entertaining and creative. =)
O.A.U! is a 2 male group that composes, mixes, and remix/edit music + videos. (Info taken from their myspace)

Random Music By Creative People 5

2008-07-16T15:44:00.000-07:00

Here is another creative way to use pipes as an instrument other than pipe organs, bagpipes, etc.

This is a great performance by the Blue Man Group. Has anyone heard of them or seen them? For more information, click here.

Enjoy!

Blue Man Group at Berlin music awards - Drum Bone

Random Music By Creative People 4

2008-07-03T20:02:00.000-07:00

Have you ever seen anyone playing guitar with a spoon in their mouth? Well here's one!

This person, named Hannes Coetzee, is a guitarist from South Africa. His unique playing style using the spoon-in-mouth-to-play-slide-guitar technique is called optel and knyp.

Enjoy!

Hannes Coetzee - Playing guitar with spoon slide

P.S. For you musicians out there, also notice the vibrato he does! Amazing isn't it?

Random Music By Creative People 3

2008-06-26T15:45:00.001-07:00

Here's a piece by a group called "iBand". They're a "band" who play music together using their iPhones. However in this song, they're using 2 iPhones and 1 Nintendo DS to jam.

Enjoy! Quite creative!

Random Music By Creative People 2

2008-06-25T13:18:00.000-07:00

This following piece of music is created with only the sounds from Windows XP and Windows 98. This person is totally creative! This piece of music is absolutely amazing! I'm still awed by it after watching x number of times! It is amazingly awesome!

Enjoy!

SomethingUnreal - "Music using ONLY sounds from Windows XP and 98!"

Random Music By Creative People

2008-06-24T19:30:00.000-07:00

So, has any of you played Mario Kart before?

Here's a creative person writing lyrics and singing to the song "Rainbow Road" (A background music track for the game Mario Kart) and it is extremely entertaining.

Enjoy!

Rainbow Road

Dedication to The Great Oscar Peterson 7

2008-05-10T22:42:00.000-07:00

Hiya all my readers! =)

Sorry for not updating the blog for more than 3 months now! Haha, I guess my blog went down with Oscar Peterson as he left us.

However, just to make it up to you guys, here's a little "icing on the cake" before the real deal.

This is a really fast, 1 phrase without any break, solo done by Oscar Peterson.

And to end off my tribute/dedication series to the great Oscar Peterson, here is "There Will Never Be Another You".

Oscar Peterson - "There Will Never Be Another You"

R.I.P. Legend.

P.S. Some parts of the song are cut off in the video, what a shame.

Dedication to The Great Oscar Peterson 6

2008-01-30T14:43:00.000-08:00

Oscar Peterson doing a piano solo in a concert held in Japan back in 1983. I believe that's the same concert as the one where he plays "Alice In Wonderland".

He totally swings even without any accompaniment by the bass player or the drummer. Truly a legend.

Enjoy!

Oscar Peterson - "'Round Midnight" & "Waltz For Debby"

Dedication to The Great Oscar Peterson 5

2008-01-23T09:18:00.001-08:00

Oscar Peterson playing "Mack The Knife" back in 1974. First time I've heard this version. His hands were surely fast...

Enjoy!

Oscar Peterson - Mack The Knife

Dedication to The Great Oscar Peterson 4

2008-01-20T18:40:00.001-08:00

Almost a month since my last post!

Anyways, this is Oscar Peterson playing one of the "standard" Jazz standards that every Jazz musicians know and must know.

I really like this song and his version of it!

Enjoy!

Oscar Peterson - "Autumn Leaves"

Dedication to The Great Oscar Peterson 3

2007-12-29T17:44:00.000-08:00

Another one of my favorite ballad. "Alice In Wonderland" performed by Oscar Peterson in live in Japan 1983.

Enjoy~

R.I.P. Oscar Peterson

Oscar Peterson - Alice In Wonderland

Dedication to The Great Oscar Peterson 2

2007-12-27T12:46:00.001-08:00

One of the Jazz Standards - "There Is No Greater Love" performed by Oscar Peterson, Niels Hennings, and Ray Brown.

Enjoy!

Oscar Peterson - There Is No Greater Love

Dedication to The Great Oscar Peterson

2007-12-24T13:31:00.000-08:00

I'll have to stop in the middle of the "Awesome Jazz" series, and go into a series of dedication to my musical hero Oscar Peterson.

The great Oscar Peterson has passed away yesterday, Dec 23, 2007, aged 82.
He was considered one of the greatest piano player + musician of all time. And he is truly a legendary Jazz musician.

I'll dedicate his own song that he dedicated to his passed away Jazz musician friends to him.

R.I.P. Oscar Peterson

Oscar Peterson - Requiem

Awesome Jazz 3

2007-12-11T14:03:00.000-08:00

This video was featured on youtube's front page earlier, and I think that this is one of the most capturing video ever! I gave all my concentration and attention to this energetic music I was listening to and just got captured fully during the 8:46 minutes.

This is totally "love". Not in the sense described in Bible, but uhh, in terms of music! hahaha. Father and son playing together. The father is Ron Artis, and the son is Ron Artis Jr. The bass player and the drummer is also part of the Artis family. Victor Artis on bass and Stevon Artis on drums.

Very touching that the father teaches their kids how to "release [their] emotions through dynamics and phrasing." - Ron Artis

Ron Artis is also an artist who paints. For more information about him or the Artis family, check it up on youtube by clicking on the video below =)

Enjoy!

Art...is Father & Son

Man! A family full of great musicians! What immense fun it is to spend some quality time with the family and just jam for hours! A great way to spend time with family, everyone is totally communicating!

P.S. I like their creative title, all their projects/productions or shows are named "Art...is ____"

Awesome Jazz 2

2007-12-07T12:48:00.001-08:00

This song is "Take Five" performed by Dave Brubeck's band back in 1961.

The song is called "Take Five" because it is in 5/4 time instead of the usual 4/4 time (for all the musicians if you know what I mean). And it is a "3 + 2" 5/4 time. So you count 3 beats then 2 beats; one two three, one two, one two three, one two, etc.

Just a little background for more appreciation of the song =)
Enjoy!

Dave Brubeck - Take Five

P.S. Btw, Dave Brubeck is not the drummer. He's the pianist.

Awesome Jazz

2007-12-03T12:02:00.000-08:00

Haven't featured my hero for a long time now~ Here he is, playing one of my favourite song that is also one of his original composition.

Enjoy!

Oscar Peterson - Nighttime

This concert is "A Night In Vienna" and it's out on DVD for those of you who are interested and would like to get it =)

P.S. I'm gonna havta get this someday! hahaha

Rockin' the House! 7

2007-11-28T21:23:00.001-08:00

Ah~ yes! =) I've shown this song before. However, this is from one of their recent lives! I believe this live is called "Love Is Beautiful". And this song is one of my favorites!!!

So enjoy! =)

GLAY - Beautiful Dreamer

Rockin' the House! 6

2007-11-26T13:09:00.000-08:00

I must say, this one is quite noisy... very hard rock.

This is B'z playing with the famous Aerosmith (American rock band) and playing Aerosmith's song "Train Kept A Rollin" at their concert in Japan for FIFA World Cup 2002.

If you like hard rock, enjoy =)

Aerosmith & B'z - Train Kept A Rollin'

Rockin' the House! 5

2007-11-21T13:14:00.000-08:00

This is a tribute to Siam Shade! =)
They just had their reunion concert on the past Sunday for their deceased manager.

This is the 7th ending theme song for the anime Rurouni Kenshin (浪客劍心 in Chinese)

This video is not from their reunion concert, it is from their V7 Live.

Enjoy!

Siam Shade - 1/3 no Junjou na Kanjou

Rockin' the House! 4

2007-11-15T17:33:00.000-08:00

The visual kei pioneers, X Japan! again =)
This is another song from their last live.

They're having a series of reunion concerts right now after their first concert on Oct 22, 07.

This totally rocks.

Enjoy!

X Japan - Rusty Nail

Notice Hide (the pink hair lead guitarist)'s deadly smile during his solo.

P.S. The font that this person used to sub this video made it look like some 80's subtitles.... arghhhhhh

Rockin' the House! 3

2007-11-10T17:33:00.000-08:00

GLAY in one of their concerts playing the following two songs. 1. Blast, and 2. Peak Hateshinaku Soul Kagirina. (The subtitle had the wrong song title there)

I really like the song "Blast" as it added some Jazz elements in it along with the rocking tenor saxophone. =) (But hahahaha, the saxophonist couldn't hit the highest note that he was supposed to hit as in the song because he was posing tooooooo much. Totally uncool after he realized he couldn't reach the highest note yet posing in such a cool pose. lol )

Enjoy!

GLAY - "Blast" + "Peak Hateshinaku Soul Kagirina"

And it's time to know GLAY's line up!

Vocal - Teru
Lead Guitar - Hisashi (the one with white guitar)
Leader/Guitar - Takuro
Bass - Jiro

And their support drummer that has been playing with them for all 10+ years ---- TOSHI! (the drummer that comes in at the 2nd song)

Rockin' the House! 2

2007-11-08T12:36:00.000-08:00

This is L'Arc~en~Ciel's live in Korea, performing their song "New World"!

For those of you wondering about the comments on the last post, THIS is Hyde, the vocalist. Does he sound like Koshi Inaba from B'z?? You be the judge!

Enjoy! =)

L'Arc~en~Ciel - New World

Here's the line up for L'Arc~en~Ciel
Vocal - Hyde
Guitar - Ken
Bass - Tetsu
Drums - Yukihiro

Rockin' the House!

2007-11-07T14:07:00.000-08:00

B'z is a band comprised with only 2 people, Tak Matsumoto (Guitar) and Koshi Inaba (Vocal). The other musicians playing on the stage are the support musicians.

They're a very popular and influential hard rock band in Japan and they'll be the first artists of Asia to have their handprints and signatures put on Hollywood's Rock Walk.

B'z - Ai no Bakudan

Lovely Ballads 7

2007-10-30T13:09:00.000-07:00

I think this is the first song I heard from Béla Fleck and the Flecktones instead of just listening to Victor Wooten (bass player) alone.

This song attracted me right away when I first listened to it, and my first response was "wow, this is absolutely amazing... just amazing, totally incredible". And it seems to leave you being unsatisfied if you don't listen to it again since the whole song, the sound of the song is stuck in your (well, my) head.

So, enjoy! btw.. this is just AMAZING!

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones - Lover's Leap

Just to give you guys some background, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones is formed in 1988 by Béla Fleck and Victor Wooten.

Béla Fleck is the banjo player. His playing style "mixes a bluegrass and folk sound into a modern improvisational style. Fleck has received Grammy nominations for performances in the jazz, bluegrass, pop, spoken word, contemporary Christian, gospel, classical, and country categories. To date, he is the only artist to receive nominations in as many diverse categories." - Wikipedia

Victor Wooten is the bass player and he's one of the leading bass virtuosos today. He has amazing techniques on "slapping and popping" (a bass technique) and has great influences on many bass players!

Lovely Ballads 6

2007-10-26T12:06:00.000-07:00

This is a very touching song.

Oscar Peterson - When Summer Comes

It's just too beautiful...

Lovely Ballads 5

2007-10-24T00:00:00.000-07:00

YEESSSSSS!! Finally, the song that I wanted to show earlier is uploaded by someone on youtube recently! ^^ Although I really want to show this song in the concert version which is reallyyyy grand and cool, but this is still good! This is the PV (MTV) of this song.

Enjoy! This is one of my favourites!!

GLAY - White Road

This youtube video is not in sync.

Lovely Ballads 4

2007-10-21T18:03:00.000-07:00

Another good ballad by L'arc! Although his highest note does not sound as perfect as Vitas' in the previous post, but those are still pretty hard to reach high notes! :P

Overall, good song!

L'Arc~en~Ciel - 瞳の住人 (Hitomi No Jyunin)

Lovely Ballads 3

2007-10-18T21:07:00.001-07:00

Plain Beautiful.

Vitas - Dedication

A song dedicated to his mother.

Lovely Ballads 2

2007-10-06T09:28:00.000-07:00

YES! Finally, found some left over GLAY stuff from youtube since they've removed a lot of GLAY's videos.

Here's a song I really like =)

Enjoy!

GLAY - Bokutachi no Shobu (僕達の勝敗)

P.S. Notice the description under my "About me" =)

Lovely Ballads

2007-10-04T14:17:00.000-07:00

Ahh~ Recently Youtube has banned a lot of Music Videos that I wanted to post, so right now I'm still in search of sites that has those songs which I wanted to show you guys/gals! But anyhow, please enjoy what we still have right now! =)

L'Arc~en~Ciel - Anata

海闊天空

2007-10-01T22:50:00.000-07:00

Beyond 海闊天空 again! But this is their 2003 live!

For those who don't understand Cantonese, this is a song about dreams and the struggle one goes through trying to achieve his/her dream!

Beyond - 海闊天空

Beautiful Dreamer

2007-09-30T16:18:00.000-07:00

One of my all time favourites!!! And it's a song by my favourite J-Rock band. GLAY - Beautiful Dreamer! I tried to find the PV version which I have on my computer on youtube, but they don't have it... and this is not the best recorded version of this live in terms of camera angles and other camera shooting techniques comparing to the version I have.... but anyhow~ just wanted to show you guys/gals this awesome song! Although the quality of this has cut down at least 30% of the awesomeness! =(

But anyways, enjoy this! =)

GLAY - Beautiful Dreamer

Dreams

2007-09-29T12:53:00.000-07:00

This is the first song I heard from Siam Shade and it is one of my favourites! =)

Do you guys/gals have any dreams? =)

Enjoy!

Siam Shade - Dreams

My Heart Draws A Dream

2007-09-28T11:47:00.000-07:00

L'Arc~en~Ciel is another really popular J-rock band in Japan!
They have more rock songs than GLAY does, and their style, sound is totally different from GLAY which made both the bands so unique.

This is their concert in Korea playing their newest and unreleased song, "My Heart Draws A Dream".

Enjoy!

L'Arc~en~Ciel - My Heart Draws A Dream

I like it when Hyde(vocalist) looks like he needs so much effort to sing! And also, notice around 1:20-1:23 he is waiting to make interaction with the drummer and he makes it at 1:23.

Total Virtuosity 7

2007-09-27T13:51:00.000-07:00

For the last post of the series "Total Virtuosity" (part 1), I'll end with my hero, again, other than Jesus, Oscar Peterson!!

They're playing one of my favorite song of all time - "Cakewalk" (by Oscar Peterson).

Nothing like a group of virtuosos playing together!
If this is not total virtuosity, I don't know what is. =)

On Piano - Oscar Peterson
On Bass - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
On Drums - Martin Drew

Enjoy!!!

Oscar Peterson Trio '85 - Cakewalk

P.S. Notice Oscar's hands around 05:52 (secs left), it looks like he's clapping them during the rests.

Stay tuned for more virtuosity in the future! =)

Total Virtuosity 6

2007-09-26T09:52:00.000-07:00

The legendary Tenor Saxophonist -- Sonny Rollins!!

Sonny Rollins, aged 77, is still creating amazing music up to date and has currently performed at Carnegie Hall on September 18, 2007 for his 50th Anniversary for his debut at Carnegie Hall 50 years ago!

I've studied this person in Jazz history class and ALSO saw him live recently at his concert in Vancouver! Amazing huh? Being able to see the legendary person live(as in concert, live) who you, usually, might only be able to see in history texts is totally amazing!

Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness

Total Virtuosity 5

2007-09-25T15:42:00.000-07:00

Jaco Pastorius, a legendary bass player who died very young! The self claimed "world's greatest bass player" had a lot of impact on the sound of a lot of bass players today! And he has also opened up new ways to play the bass!

One of my favorite song - The Chicken.

Jaco Pastorius - The Chicken

The whole band together created that virtuosity!! And the steel drum player is just totally amazing.

Total Virtuosity 4

2007-09-24T15:41:00.000-07:00

Hey y'all!!! Sorry to keep y'all waiting :P I was being lazy after I've came back from HK, but now I'm charged and ready to keep my blog going!! Here's the "series" continued...

Today's virtuoso = Lea Salonga!

My friend Joyce, very knowledgeable on musicals + other musical area, showed me who Lea Salonga is!

She's a total virtuoso who debuted and performed at the age of 19!!!! "She was [also] the first Asian to play Eponine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway" - Wikipedia

Her seriousness, virtuosity, and attitude during performances and even in rehearsals is what captured me to feature her in this blog! She's a real performer and musician... and that should be the standard of being a true musician rather than accepting "some famous, good looking people" who will sing off-tune every other 5 notes and still think they're cool who just totally disgraced the term musician or vocalist.

This is "On My Own" from Les Misérables (Broadway show).

Lea Salonga - "On My Own"

My Absence

2007-09-05T18:21:00.000-07:00

Sorry to all my dear readers! I tried my best to update my blog yesterday! But as some of you might know, I'm out of town right now and I'll be back on Sept 14. Accessing to a computer with internet is not very convenient here, so I'll try to update my blog as much as possible before I come back. If not, then please stay tune until Sept 14 so the blog will get back into the regular schedule! Sorry for delaying the "Total Virtuosity" posts! I'm sure everyone's eager to find out more virtuosos!

Well, TTYL!

Total Virtuosity 3

2007-09-03T11:36:00.000-07:00

After the Father of Jazz, here's another Jazz legend that contributed lots to the world of Jazz especially in the Bebop era -- Charlie Parker on Alto Saxophone!

The amazing legendary drummer Buddy Rich is also playing in this video! What a joy, 2 virtuosos in 1 video!

Charlie Parker - Celebrity

Total Virtuosity 2

2007-09-02T20:57:00.000-07:00

The Father of Jazz and also a true entertainer -- Louis Armstrong!!!!

He is the one who showed the meaning of what a true entertainer is!

Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World

Deep expressions! His performances makes people happy!
A legend who has brought great happiness and contributions to the world!

Total Virtuosity

2007-09-01T12:31:00.000-07:00

Russian singer - Vitas! or known as Витас(Bumac) in Russian.

His singing will explain everything.

Vitas - Opera #2

Stay tuned for more virtuosities!

Pure Emotion?

2007-08-31T11:00:00.000-07:00

This dude is hilarious and he's absolutely amazing!

Found him on youtube, and just like anybody else on youtube, he's doing a cover of the song called "Canon Rock" which Jerry C, the original person, took the original "Canon in D" and rearranged it and made it a rock version of Canon.

His username is mattrach and he has rearranged the solo guitar part of Jerry C's "Canon Rock" into a new version of "Canon Rock" which is titled "The NEW Canon Rock".

mattrach - "The NEW Canon Rock"

Pure Emotion 6

2007-08-30T18:03:00.000-07:00

One of the greatest,
One of the most influential,
One of the extremely famous bands,
One of the pioneers of J-Rock -- X-Japan.

This is X-Japan's last live in 1997 before they disband due to the vocal joining a cult. There are mix emotions within each of the members and especially their leader Yoshiki, who's on piano, who never wanted the band to disband.

X-Japan - Endless Rain

Pure Emotion 5

2007-08-29T18:18:00.000-07:00

Beyond was a famous band in Hong Kong and one of the most influential musicians ever existed in HK. They were revolutionists against HK's corrupted music industry.

The original vocalist 黃家駒 (Wong Ka Kui), who was also the main composer and lyricist for the band, has died in an accident on 1993 in Japan during the filming of a Japanese game show. His brother 黃家強 (Wong Ka Keung) then took over the lead vocalist position.

After the pass away of Beyond's main force, Beyond slowly died down and eventually disbanded in 2005.

This concert was taken place in 1996.

Beyond - 海闊天空

黃家強 (Wong Ka Keung) was crying mainly because of his passed away brother and the emotion arousing lyrics.

"The Japanese will never understand, for us and for Hong Kong, that the incident was not merely about the loss of an artist. It was about losing a music revolutionary, and an age of time." - Paul Wong (Guitarist of Beyond) on the death of 黃家駒 (Wong Ka Kui) (Wikipedia)

Pure Emotion 4

2007-08-28T13:09:00.000-07:00

Here's another example of great musicians enjoying themselves in expressing themselves through music!! You can totally see the enjoyment Oscar is having from his facial expression. A different kind of emotion expressed through a more joyful, fast paced tune comparing to the previous post.

Oscar Peterson - You Look Good To Me

Pure Emotion 3

2007-08-27T12:28:00.000-07:00

This is, other than Jesus, my hero Oscar Peterson!!!

Most of the great Jazz musicians you see performing on stage or just jamming with their friends are always deep into the music they're playing. Enjoying themselves and expressing themselves! And from watching Oscar Peterson, that deep emotion is shown with his facial expression as well as with each note that he's laying down under his fingers.

Oscar Peterson - Love Ballade

Pure Emotion 2

2007-08-26T19:58:00.000-07:00

This is a band I recently found out. They started out in 1993 and disbanded in 2002 because they have reached their goal which was to be recognized by the stadium "Nippon Budokan" which is where they held their last concert.

And this is one song from their last concert.

"Ooki Na Ki No Shita De" - by SIAM SHADE

Pure Emotion

2007-08-25T22:28:00.001-07:00

Ahh! My first post of my new blog! =) I gotta start it off with my favorite J-Rock (Japanese Rock) Band -- GLAY!!!

This song is called "However" by GLAY, and it is one of my favorite songs.

Although Teru (vocal) didn't do the best job in singing this song comparing to their other performances, this is nonetheless a great performance. He was purely emotional when singing this song. And THAT is good music and good musicianship.

GLAY - However

He cried while singing and after singing this song. And one of the reason being why he cried is because of the song's content. Just to keep it short instead of posting the translation of the lyrics of the song "However", here's a summary of what the song is about:

"Its about how he made a mistake saying goodbye to his old girlfriend(?). He wasn't strong enough to say things and it was his foolishness of youth. He goes on to say if he can, he wants to live with her forever and stuff." - superhikari1982 (youtuber)

STAY TUNED! =)

*I updated, changed to another youtube video for this one as the old one has been removed by youtube. This one has cut out Teru's talking at the beginning and his nonstop crying + wiping of tears with a black towel at the end*