Monday, October 4, 2004

The Band Audition

OK... so it's supposed to be just my 2nd day on the job right? Not supposed to do anything weird like take off from the office too long for lunch, show up late, make bad jokes etc, right? well... for the sake of Oracle, the band where i play as a bassist, i took off for about 3 hours for a band audition, the Yamaha Asian Beat Competition, for the Jakarta level.



Emil, my cousin and former co-worker, picked me up at the office and after picking up my bass at my house and weaving through the usual hell of traffic in daytime Jakarta, we reached the audition place just barely before 2 pm, our audition time, to have time for a 5 minute nasi goreng break! hahaha. i was really hungry, and Wisnu, Udang and Jimmy had not arrived yet.



The other guys were bitching about the requirement to use Yamaha instruments, rather than our own, because it would take time to adapt to the tonal qualities and sorts needed to achieve a certain sound. And the other thing, we came with no warm-up session... so the audition was pretty bland, give or take a few mistakes... oh well. At least we gave it a shot, what happens, happens. And i fulfilled my promise to the guys that i would help them through to the audition (i had been practising with them for about 2 months). But now, i also want Oracle to become something... if not for Oracle itself or the other guys, but more for myself.



Now.. back to work. Still kind of disoriented... might as well look through the files left behind by the previous guy.

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