3 things

pagi2 buta ni, pagi raya..
so
1st - Selamat Hari Raya Haji wherever everyone is.
2nd - Aku dengar cerita Search nak 30 years shows ngan perasan " its going to be the same old same old same old ", ngan everyone waiting for Isabella, and I am going to be bored. Aku ada contemplate nak pergi KL and JB back to back gig macam DT starting tu hari, tapi ngan rasa kurang semangat nye contemplate
Tapi sms dari kawan aku semalam buat aku excited sikit, Singapore nye Search show bulan satu ni ada XPDC.

Boleh? Aku lagi excited untuk tengok 2nd band dari headliner???

Ooohh nampak nah betapa Search dah jatuh dalam carta rock melayu aku sejak berapa tahun lepas..

Well....

3rd - So skarang kan Nicko McBrain tengah buat drum clinic kat Eropah.
Jadi ni ialah cerita2 yang terjadi.
Dikatakan dia katakan tahun depan confirm Jepun. JEPUN!! Maknanya...dah dekat maknanya busuk2 pun kalo tak datang Spore dan Indon, busuk2 pun KL dan Bangkok.
Tapi memang lagi afdal... Bangkok, KL, Singapore, Jakarta haha.
Pasal aku rasa ialah Maiden England theme tour.

Pasal...drum clinic ni nampaknya Nicko bawak lagu Moonchild, dan dia sign autograph belakang lagu SSOASS, dan dia humming lagu Inifinite Dreams.

Thats all.

review Whitesnake - 1st Nov 2011 Singapore

Sample of David Coverdale stage banter last night
" F*%k me is this hot all the time? Splendid! Dont you like it when its moist? moist moist? I feel like moving here " haha.

This is a review of what I saw and heard last night at Singapore's Fort Canning Park of Whitesnake Forevemore Tour 2011 concert.

Firstly, I just want to say Singapore got two surprise extra songs ( one and a half but if you want to count that very short Slow N Easy teaser we got three songs haha) , a short Lonely Days Lonely Nights as a birthday song and also Bad Boys after Burn. David Coverdale even remarked whether they still remember the song. I think this is the first time the song is played on this world tour that had played many parts of the world already.

Talk cock in Malay a bit.
-Datang ngan selipar, bawak beg sling standy baju extra haha, musim hujan la siak. Kalo nak bawak payung, siak payung aku jenis lipat kecik2 ada bunga2, lawak lak tengok Whitesnake pegang payung pompuan haha
- Dah jadi macam habit lak, sengaja datang lambat tak kuasa nak tengok band openers. Semalam, Band Indon, SLANK. Aku tak kesah la kalo konsert Inul kat Singapore promoter panggil Slank opening. Tapi ni Whitesnake! Semalam jumpa kawan aku pun cakap sama " Takde band rock Singapore ke nak panggil?? Malek ke? ". Aku sebenarnya dalam hati nak kumpulan Lovehunters. Get it? Lovehunters? ada paham? dari mana nama tu? haha. Anyway nak kena harapkan band Indonesia? Memalukan la.
Dah la last song Slank panggil dua pompuan Indonesia kat crowd naik stage, joget dangdut je aku tengok.
A could be scenario
Foreigner " hey, is this opener a local band? ". "Nope, Indonesian". " What? You cant even have a local rock band to play tonite? ". Embarassing right?

ok ulasan Whitenake semalam..

Enjoying a show and recording a personal bootleg of the event especially outdoors with many people around having lots of fun is a challenge haha. But I am happy with the quality. At least not so embarassing if people wants a copy.

This is the setlist songs played last night, same and added extras compared to other places.
- Intro - My Generation ( The Who not the Iron Maiden version haha ).

- Best Years
- Give Me All Your Love Tonite
- Love Aint No Stranger
- Is This Love
- Steal Your Heart Away
- LONELY DAYS LONELY NIGHTS ( acapella birthday song for a Bob who is in the audience last night )
- Forevermore
- Guitar Duel
- Can You Hear The Wind Blows
- Love Will Set You Free
- Drums Solo
- The Deeper The Love
- Fool For Your Loving
- Here I Go Again
- Still Of The Night
- Soldier Of Fortune
- Burn / Stormbringer
- BAD BOYS

- Outro - We Wish You Well / Always Look On Brighter Side Of Life



What I notice and interested enough to blog about it

- Doug Aldrich - The Dio guitarist for Killing The Dragon and a few other releases. So of course I like him as much as David Coverdale in the current whitesnake lineup.
He is like more high profile on stage compared to Reb Beach. Funny about him seating down for Forevermore and David Coverdale complaining the guitarist and drummer seating down like signing cheques or something like that.
Doug has more solos on the Forevermore album songs they played tonite.

Its interesting to see how they split the old Whitesnake / Deep Purple songs solos.
First solo Is This Love is shared.
Reb Beach guitar solo for
- Give Me All Your Love Tonight, Deeper The Love, Here I Go Again etc
Doug Aldrich guitar solo for
- Is This Love 2nd solo, Bad Boys, Still Of The Night, Burn, Love Aint No Stranger etc.

Drum Solo - Too long, I always hope they rather squeeze an extra song but definitely David Coverdale need to care for his voice and rest. I wonder how many drum sticks this drummer use everynight. Maybe they recycled?? haha.

Bass player - At the song Burn I thought it was Glenn Hughes at the Budokan mid 70s like what we all see in Youtube haha.

David Coverdale - he can still scream. He still got his voice for his age. Very good still although its too bad we only catch him in action now. Like he say " Why the Hell it took so long ?? " to come here I think thats what he means.

Band Introduction is funny
- Soon to release a book called " Waitresses I Have Known - bass player Michael Devin and they play a bit of Aerosmith's Walk This Way
- The Man With The Massive Organ - Keyboards player
- Red Corner, Crown Prince Of Porno - Reb Beach and they play a very short Slow N Easy.
- Blue Corner Lord Of The Les Paul - Doug Aldrich


Deeper The Love - They dont play the fading end part of which is my favourite the " never gonna let you go in my heart I know " section.
But this song makes me so fuckin happy. I was like smiling from ear to ear haha. BEST GILER SIOL ni lagu. Its like everytime I see Deep Purple and once they start Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming haha.

The crowd ( and even its a Tuesday crowd are many ) knows the older famous songs so its great everytime there is the crowd singing participations and David Coverdale ask the crowd to sing certain parts of the songs.
Everytime David Coverdale ask to clap or havent ask to clap, many in crowd co-operate haha. Sporting crowd, and this why Fort Canning Park helps to promote a rocking environment rather than the boring seating down of watching a rock concert.

What is all that flying around? Fruit Bats?. I think they love Whitesnake/Deep Purple music too.

After Burn, David Coverdale says Thank You, but then the surprise thing is the band members were not assembling in front of the stage for their bow.
And the crowd was not moving away... when I think majority in this internet age knows Burn is the last song of this tour, Some cheers of We Want More! from the audience.
David says " you want more? "
And they start to play another song.
HAPPINESS!! I thought I am not going to hear Bad Boys live. HAPPENING SONG!.
Doug Aldrich huhu really awesome on this song.

The way I look it, the band was on fire tonight. Must be the outdoor weather that they are not used to, and in fact its already cool as its rainy season. Or else it will be like what Andi Deris Helloween says at Fort Canning " Sweating like a pig! ". haha.

The New songs played last night are really nice... Forevermore gerek siak intro. Lain2 pun sedap.

The Outro tape is the song We Wish You Well and after that a big surprise to me - " Alway Look On The Bright Side Of Life ", which is also used by Iron Maiden. Very nice.


I see what I can do with the taping of the audio I did last night. Its all for my own satisfaction, but if its not too embarassing quality, I hope to share it.


p.s - First concert I attend for 2011, the 1st January Lovehunters show has Soldier Of Fortune being sung by Yazid, last night, which is maybe last concert for 2011 for me is also the same, but by the original singer haha.
So something fantastic for a fantastic song haha.

three serpents

"she's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rain"..
(click all photos to enlarge, as per normal on this blog )

First, Eastern diamondback rattlesnake





Second, king cobra ( ular tedung selar )

Dont Tread On Me.. ( hehe ).

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Early Early Bird.... boleh? Aku? Ngan Band Indon Slank sebagai opener?

Konfirm Mat Salleh semua ketawakan Singapore...
" YOU NEED AN INDON BAND TO OPEN WHITESNAKE?? " , " YOU DONT HAVE ANY LOCAL ACTS ?? ".

Nak beli jiwa penonton2 Indon beli tiket show ni malam kot?
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THERE WILL BE A LOT OF BOOING AND CURSING TONITE DURING THE OPENING ACT I BELIEVE.




I cant make it for the KL one but the first few reviews are out - http://www.spadesmagazine.com/2011/10/31/whitesnake-live-in-kuala-lumpur-october-30-2011-gig-review/
http://darkshahrulez.blogspot.com/2011/11/whitesnake-live-in-depan-mata-aku.html
seems the show itself is fabulous unfortunately the crowd attendance is not.

Talking about tonight,
Susun berderet la penyanyi dari zaman rock 70an depan segala mat rock dan minah karen 70an yang skarang rata2 semua pakcik2 makcik2 nye pangkat..
David Coverdale memang ada dia punya tarikan yang buat ramai teruja.
So aku tak surprise ni malam untuk Singapore punye show ramai old timers turun tengok David Coverdale, Doug Aldrich and company perform lagu2 Whitesnake dan jugak zaman Deep Purple dia. I am going to love it. Especially looking at the just completed Japanese tour setlist they include Deeper The Love. ( the song that can compete with the ending of Wing's Sejati "kenangan itu!!", with the "never gonna let you go...in my heart I know...( fade ending ) ".

- Fort Canning, aku suka... berdiri atas rumput bawah cahaya bulan dan kalo hujan, basah kuyup la. Kalo tak mau diri, korang golek2 la atas rumput tu.
Harga tiket semua sama, (I always find in shows with staggered pricing tickets, you can find the more hardcore fans in the peasants seats faraway when they deserve to be right in front), so ulang lagi sekali - Harga tiket semua sama... aku suka... korang nak berebut depan atau lepak kat belakang, takde hal. Dan aku selalu baca kelebihan Castle Donington Park ( tempat lagenda Monsters Of Rock dan skarang Donwload Festival ), ialah sloping ground dia...satu tempat dari aku budak sekolah aku nak pegi, tapi rasanya tak boleh ah...kecuali aku tersandong harta karun, atau harta general yamashita.
Gitulah Fort Canning pun serupa.. sloping... best... walau korang diri atau golek2 kat mana pun..
Macam aku cakap.. aku suka...


In other news,

I'll try to start my opinion for the On Board Flight 666 book and post some of the content today or tomorrow..

alligator snapping turtle & death lemurs frolic in the park

alligator snapping turtle ni istimewa. Dia tak gerak, mulut terngangah, nanti kat lidah dia ada cam bentuk cacing menggeliat gitu. Ni umpan supaya ikan datang dekat terus abislah la ikan tu kena ngap. Korang letak jari, rasanya jari korang nanti kodong. Gitu la kuat kena ketap ngan mulut penyu ni. Ikan2 kat sini semua main jauh2 sey, dorang dah kenal sangat kot haha.




Like the signage says alligator snapping turtle is one of the largest freshwater turtles in the world with weights hitting 100kg. It can stay submerge for 40-50mins with a worm like structure tongue to lure fish. The jaws can snap off fingers so have to be careful.

In this video to see the worm like structure on the tongue is about 26 seconds and 56 seconds. The fish in the tank are very experienced. They keep away from the turtle.
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Next,



More from the magical wonderful playful agile lemurs. Since its morning, seems they are basking in the morning sunshine, sunbathing and cleaning themselves and each other.





I like to move it move it..










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TWO wishlist, ONE bumi berais, ONE just arrived yesterday.

4 things, aku sumbat semua senang..

1st,
Wishlist number one is the autobiography by Herman Rarebell,yes, there other latest and more popular books by and about Ozzy Osbourne and Dave Mustaine etc, but I am not really interested unless the library carries them then I will borrow.
But I think this one seems fantastic..this is the drummer of Scorpions best years to me, the person who help writes another piece of meat haha, and the way I read the 6 reviews at amazon.com by other readers make me very very keen on this one.

2nd,
of course like all other true-blue loyal metal maniacs my second wishlist is LULU. HAHAHAHA. ACAH JE!!!
No, my second wishlist is the Paradise Lost Draconian Times MMXI DVD.
I know, they should have added the most happening Sister's Of Mercy Walk Away as its what appears as an extra track on some pressings of the original cd, but never mind we still get the first twelve songs, and the best songs from so remind me of Depeche Mode "One Second".
If, if only Depeche Mode do songs a bit similar to Paradise Lost " One Second ". That would be something.

3rd,
I dont know, Iced Earth latest cd, is something that is ok for me if I never have the opportunity to listen to it at all but seems whoever buy the cd or whatever, I am not sure, will get access to download Iced Earth latest version of the Trooper.
As you all Iced Earthlings know, Alive In Athens had Iced Earth performing Trooper as a tease at the very very end of the triple cd version.
But this time Iced Earth with the new singer had covered an interesting version of Trooper.
For those Maiden freaks who cant get enough of Maiden, this is the Iced Earth version of Trooper latest - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdfQrNsXAL0
Sorry what the fuck - YOUTUBE delete it, so until someone else upload it to Youtube , you all have to buy the Iced Earth latest cd to get the password to download this song haha.

4th...
Just arrived, its supposed to arrived about 10 November or something, as I only used the normal version of delivery..but its already here yesterday.
I will write it soon...once I go thru it...
BEST GILER, TEBAL GILER, QUALITY FIRST CLASS!!!
All I can say is, bila aku flip sekali dua, terus terang lag nyata, There are a few photos of muka budak2 melayu and abang2 melayu kat buku ni.
It could be your faces inside braders... Something to cherish.

Really really magnificient and heavy book.



I will write more when got time and space and access and if I got chance to flip thru this photo book.

zoo feeding scene - (Madagascar) Lemurs, Sloths, Fruit Bats, Red Lories @ Fragile Forest

Best memang best, tapi aku paling takut kalo kena 'shit on or piss on' ngan kelawar pasal dorang mmang kat atas kepala.
Lagi satu aku tengok kuku2 dorang, siot ah, kalo kena cakar abis la. Kalo kena gigit? boleh berlakon walking dead season 3 nanti haha. Siot je aku.



Pagi2 buta, (Madagascar) Lemurs tengah mandi sinar matahari sambil lompat energetik cammana kat dalam filem katun tu, beruang sloth aku carik2 mula2 tak jumpa, kelawar buah ( sorry la nama melayu aku tak tahu ) tengah cam biasa memekak. Burung si Red Dory tu memang cantik, of course lain2 haiwan dan burung pun ada kat dalam Fragile Forest ni... Tapi lets focus kat yang ni semua.



Kalo fikir balik, Allah tu maha berkuasa cipta semua ni.
Boleh makan berdamai dorang semua. Dah kenal kot so dah jadi members, saje je Fruit Bats ngan Sloth tu share makanan takde gaduh2. Betik! Jagung! Lobak!. Korang pernah kena maki " Serunding!!" tak? haha.
Korang kalo tengok video ni, tengok waktu 4.30 minit gitu si beruang sloth tu datang...ooo dia lepak tempat lain.




Fragile Forest , sort of a monster huge airconditioned dome enclosure at the Singapore Mandai Zoo. Early Morning. FIRST KOPEK of the day.
At last I have the opportunity to videotape ( something I have never done before with animals but now that we got a video camera so I can start doing things I love even more deeper, I got to videotape the 'umpan worm' inside the mouth of the alligator snapping turtle etc etc ) and the usual snap some photos during the feeding of the Lemurs, the sloths, the "i dont know what the name" black and white thingy, the beautiful birds including the Red Dories, the fruit bats and the best thing is they are all enjoying the fruits together.





This video I uploaded to youtube is about 6 mins long. Check out the entrance of the majestic Sloth ( I never know its full species name and never bother to check on it ) at about 4.30 mins mark.
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If got problem...kejap ada sound kejap takde, or jerk , enlarged, or whatever, go here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulR4-_PZTqk


More to come, at last I got to snap a photo of the lonesome Leopard seemingly opening its mouth in anger. Damn! I always fail in remembering which is the leopard / jaguar / cheetah etc haha. Yep, should be the leopard.
Coming soon next time if I got the time.

And I want...and I need...and I lust... Animal.. haha.