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alahai dr. macam nerd la plak. anyway memang saya tersentuh betul dengan gambar ni.
dr xde image consultan utk malay attire ke?
1. sampin tu beranak.
2. songkok beli le yang mahal sket
anyway yang bagus sebab x nampak macam orang UMNO hehe
ok selamat hari raya to you too. salah silap saya dalam menghantar komen harap abaikan le.
Herman Abdullah
the malay press
The first music I listened to and appreciated, as a child, was Bach. I still admire Bach, and music of the Baroque period has a special place in my heart.
Perhaps it was the classical 'inclination' of bands like Emerson, Lake & Palmer, vintage Genesis and Jethro Tull, but my later appreciation of these bands, when I was in Form 1, are seen as a natural progression.
Then came punk rock and their vitriolic disavowal of rock music's dinosaurs, or anything that had more than tree chords.
I like heavy metal too (particularly Led Zep), but never noticed the Satanic aspect of rock music. The devil only became apparent in the trying-too-hard posturing of later metal bands like Motley Crue, Wasp, Venom and the so-called black metal death metal bands.
I've seen clips of Venom, Gorgoroth and Mayhem, and despite the snarling and hail-to-the devil salutes, I see them for what they are — a bunch silly looking fright wigs, no more and no less.
If you want to see truly chilling undercurrents of diabolism, catch that scene in Led Zep's The Song Remains the Same movie, where the band, accompanied by outriders, are driven to the concert venue in dark looking limos. One could almost imagine none other than the Devil himself being driven to a meeting of witches and warlocks. How can bands, whose idea of scariness is ghoul makeup, noisy guitars, smoke machines and headless goats, compare with the experts?
Am I bothered about the so-called devillish elements in rock music? No, not by a long shot. Oh yeah. It makes great fodder for the child rebelling against family and social norms. But scary? Who are you kidding?
A sobering thought is that the devil in music is nothing new. Have you heard Gounod's Faust? Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique? Scriabin's Black Mass? Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer? And what about discordant notes (aka the devil's notes) lurking in the music of Gershwin?
In the words of Deep Purple (yet another fave) "You Fool No One".
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