monster live
was rummaging through my old stuff a few weeks back and stumbled upon this old cd - a live recording of this 'monster live' concert. i googled it, and realised the concert was held in 1998.
it was a concert of 魔岩artistes - 杨乃文，陈绮贞，张震岳 and 顺子.
the opening act is 杨乃文. i had liked her vocals, but never really owned any of her albums. favourite songs gotta be 星星堆满天 and 爱上你只是我的错 (which i only just found out was co-written by 陈绮贞). she kinda faded out after her third album. her latest album is one of english numbers, which i didn't haoting beyond 3 songs.
the 压轴 was 顺子, which i guess was cos she was quite a diva back then. her jazzy live improvisations sound pretty damn good. i have her 写一首歌 album, which i think is pretty classic, if not grossly overplayed. last i saw her on tv was when i was in beijing. she was judging some singing competition.
张震岳 doesn't sound so good at the concert. i never really liked him until 思念是一种病, which i also have lying in some shoebox. i liked the album right down to the cover art - i think he was playing guitar in a suit. and his face is not quite shown.
陈绮贞 has only 2 songs on the concert album. since then, i have bought 2 of her albums - 太阳 and 还是会寂寞. and attended 2 of her concerts. and will be going to my third one in november (woohoo!). my 还是会寂寞 album has her autograph on it, and i remember where i got it - outside city link mall's hmv. and the queue wasn't even very long.
physical cds no longer have much relevance from a pragmatic perspective. because even when i buy a cd, i gotta rip it into my mp3 player. but physical objects provide visual and tactile points of reference. sometimes very subtle, and often unnoticed. i dun really quite know how to articulate this. but perhaps it is like some kind of 'tactile memory'?
i just finished my reservist. we only do it once a year for 2 weeks each time, max. we no longer sleep in the same bunks, but the metal cupboards and single beds are roughly still the same. it's funny how the moment we all settle into the bunk, we do exactly what we did 6 years ago when we were still full-time soldiers. i tuck my slippers neatly under the bed, and helmets go on top of the cupoards. i still lock up my cupboard in one clean sweep (to clear the number lock's code) before i exit the bunk, and still remember where to slot what into the fieldpacks to maximise space.
it's like what my army friend commented - how everything and everybody has changed (by a lot). and yet, it's all so familiar.
