Avery nasty post…
Friday, November 30th, 2007Is this world, there are always good ppl and bad ppl; honest ppl and dishonest ppl… Well, there’s good in everybody but some just choose to be bad. This is my disclaimer…every other next sentence in this post is going to be very very blunt.
Westerners are DUMB…at least for the ones that are here. Malaysians are DUMBER.
Here’s why: Notice Malaysians look highly to Westerners. A friend of mine once confessed that his Western friend could just enter a condominium without getting stopped by security or being checked-in first just because he was a Mat Salleh. Familiar scenario? Well there’s more. In our musician’s circle…there a a mixture of foreigners and locals…And somehow..Malaysians always think that foreigners especially Mat Sallehs are better.
Recently, i had a rehearsal for a gig…there was an awkward conversation with the guy(A) who called me a few days earlier
A :Daniel…we’re not having a drummer…cuz our’s pulled out last minute.
Me: ok..so u want me to get u a drummer?..
A: No its ok….my keyboardist (Mat Salleh) is really good.
Me: ( wat the hell has that got to do with my question bout a drummer) U mean he’s gonna play drums on keyboards?
A: No…he’s just really good.
Well guess wat…our pot-belly beer drinking Mat Salleh plays keyboards with the root note to every chord. To those stupid Malaysians; u don’t freaking play the root note because thats the bass player’s department you freaking retard. So I casually asked:
Me: Hey *** , did u use to play the organ?
Mat Salleh: Yes i did. why?
Me: Cuz i noticed u’re playing the root all the time.
Mat Salleh : oh yea…but i’m just doing it for now for my sake. I won’t do it during the gig.
Bloody excuses… *tsk tsk tsk*. Shame on u and your Western countrymen. He doesn’t even know the changes to Fly Me To The Moon!!! My juniors in college can nail that song anytime man!!! Wat the hell!!!!…. And they have the nerve to brag bout how some of the Chinese girls were blushing away while the Mat Salleh was talking to them. Shame on you Chinese-heritage girls with so few dignity.
There was another gig I had with a vocalist from the States. It was my worst gig ever up to date. Even though I was just a session player…i took in more than wat a band leader could swallow. Can you imagine that bloke stopped the band more than a dozen times in the midst of the show>??? Talk bout professionalism. Its really common for vocalists to be slightly confused and loose track of where they’re suppose to start the song…hence, he’s trying to save his black ass by blaming it on the band. I mean…WAT THE FREAKING HELL!!! The bass amp was going on and off (NOTE: the clubs bass amp….not mine) but the DI was still working and we had bass in the monitors and in the house….BUt guess wat???? He stops the band every time the bass amp goes off or crackles, looks at me and makes a sarcastic statement. OK ok..so i’m chinese and i’m suppose to know kung fu but i don’t do magic and fix the bass amp on the spot man…PLus if u guys aren’t getting the point by now: IT’S NOT MY FREAKING FAULT!!! Am i turning the bass amp on and off while i’m playing just to mess things up???? NO. Is my body projecting some weird radiation that causes the cables to go berserk??? I definitely don’t think so.
In another situation…we shared a night with a Mat Salleh acoustic guitarist; we played 1 and a half sets and he did one set on his own…. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD OH HEAVEN….that guy can’t even play in time and he’s here as a clinician for a very notable local music school/store. My keyboardist was like:
" Wat the hell….we trying to learn from them (Westerners) and be like them and this guy comes here and messes things up. Now we have to teach him how to play. F**ked-up. " HAHAHAHA…I mean…c’mon man..he was playing a US5000 dollars acoustic guitar…thats like RM15,000 . u could buy a kancil, drive to the Klang River and push the kancil into the river!!! For u stupid Westerners…a Kancil is our local car made by Perodua and we’re freaking proud of it!!!!!!!! Some clinician for some music school…he needs to go our Chinese clinic and get his rhythm acupuncture-d.
My fellow countrymen…pls stop assuming that Westerners are definitely better than us ( us meaning u me and everybody Asian). Use your ears and not your eyes. There are hotels, companies and cooperations that are earning hundreds of thousands and millions by the months; and there are always demands for foreign musicians because it would appear to be more glamorous. As musicians/entertainers, it is up to us to secure our market because it is OUR future. It’s not bout discrimination nor racism…its bout making the right judgments. I for one love to play with as many musicians possible whether local or not. And i love listening to music from that part of the world; learning as much as i can bout groove and vocabulary. But when sharing the stage with a Westerner…i do not wish that audiences would listen with double standards.
ps: for those insulted…pls refer to my disclaimer at top of post.
