BaSsically

GONG XI FA CAI, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR('s eve's eve)
Let's strive to ignite all the souls that would die just to feel alive.

Okay, I have something to say. You know guitars? (I'm assuming yes, to some extent or another). Well, I don't really like them anymore. No, not that I don't want to play anymore, its just that they seem rather limited in their, shall I say, colour. Now there's just so much out there that basically eclipse the guitar. The cool dude with sunglasses and a bass guitar is, in my eyes, 1/sinx as x-->0+ times cooler than the fat, oily, long lice-infested-haired, dry-throated, sweaty man with a deadly-sharp looking axetar. The guitar just doesn't have that groove of the bass. Moreover, it lacks in musical colour (not being an Andy musician, that's what I'll call that experience of listening to music), that seems to ooze out of violins and pianos. It doesn't have that ability to evoke emotions of sadness, joy, melancholy, that violins and pianos deliver - it delivers, in essence, anger, anger, angst, and excitement. And unplugged and unwired, it delivers anger, sadness, and that mental state called groove, to a somewhat lesser extent than the bass.  Besides, it's got nothing on the sheer ridiculous ownageness of the xylophone.

Maybe I'm just not looking into guitars in depth - Santana has nothing if not colour, Slash is certainly lively, Satriani is fun, and Hendrix is freaking groovy - but listen to pop, rock, even metal, and the guitar sounds like a piece of dry wood. However great, it seems that guitars have got nothing on the sheer colour of a full orchestra, or even a single pianist.

Which is why I want to bass instead of lead, and which is why I sort of want to be able to play violin and piano like I'm some Andy or something.


On another note, DTs on Top was stuck in my head for like the past week, before the prefects showed it. Hahaha.