MY NEW TOY!!!!!!!!!

I've got a white stingray made in 91. the neck is in need of adjustment. other than this, every thing is fine. curently l'm biding on another bass. flea bass. haha. i know i'm kind of crazy. but if i get it at the price that i want, i think it is a good buy with high resale value.

Time to pick up our instruments again

Hey jeff, we're all missing your presence dude. We're gonna start jamming soon and try to come up with some new material so we can start recording when u're back haha yeah all our freaking exams are finally over woohoo! Seems like you guys learnt in the improvisation class that you must set a theme in order to improvise. In this case, we should set a theme to the songs we try to write and then work our way around it. I always wondered if its easier to come up with the melody first then fit lyrics into it or the other way round. anyhow, we'll keep u updated if we have new song ideas.

on a separate note, 'Clean' was truly enjoyable to watch. It din feel like a students' production at all and the satisfaction of hearing 'Shining' being played in the background was simply rewarding. Hope we get more of such opportunities in future.


kel

life in DC

Hi everybody! this is my 2nd week in th states! weather is great and whoa, everything is supersize!!! their burgers are huge!!!!! i ate burger king yesterday and the burger is as big as the Carl's Juniors burger!!!! i'm bidding for my WHITE stingray now. hope i will get it. i cant wait to jam with you guys..... my fingers are really itching. haha. think i will be rusty when i come back.... haha. write more songs man!!! letts aim to come up with an ablum in the coming semester and tour Singapre!!!!!!!!! haha

see you soon!!!

jeff

CLEAN

CLEAN - Featuring a CS FYP by Tianyun, XiaoTing & HuiMin! Great stuff gals... great reviews and good comments from most ppl that watched it.

Once again, a word of thanks to the trio who recorded "Shinin'" fer Smash INC!!!






Also on CLEAN's soundtrack - "Running".

Kudos to...
Gina Lin- Vocals
Goh Jun Feng - Drums
Derrick Ong - Keyboards

Thanks fer coming along fer this musical adventure! hah!

We'll be making some footage available...eventually. ( My gosh, I'm a techno klutz, haha...)


Peace - Lawrence

the E word

Hey guys, im sure exams prep must be taking its toll on all of you now.. just hang in there and persevere. Definitely easier said than done but I hope this encourages u in some way. God Bless!

Kel

Dream Theater Acoustic Covers!

Hey guys, this french couple have been doing some acoustic covers of DT. It's not easy playing DT songs let alone playing on an acoustic guitar so do check it out.

Kel

Cultural Night @ Hall 7

Hey! here's some pics from hall 7 cultural night yesterday. It was our last performance for this semester but we'll soon be in action again after exams. It was fun to perform in front of so many familiar faces. Started the set with our rock instrumental and the crash cymbal stand came loose after a few mins into the set, I must have smashed it too hard :P Jeffrey thought I intentionally angled the cymbal towards me hah but I cldnt even hit it after it fell off.



There was this surge of energy the moment we walked up the stage, adrenalin rush probably. Anw we injected that energy level into our performance on stage and did our best to entertain the audience. Jeffrey stood on the bass amp for the intro of 'Shining on Me'. In fact, he was on there for so long I thought he din wanna come down haha




Yep, still there.

Lawrence had something up his sleeves last night man. Before we started, I walked to the stage and saw the chair near him and away from the drumset. I asked "Can I use the chair?", half expecting him to agree. But he said "I need it." So ok, I took another chair wondering if he's gonna sit on it during the set. Halfway into 'Shining on Me', our dear guitarist took the chair out and surprised the audience including myself as he stood on it and extended his arms out in a 'flying' position during the quiet bridge. Too bad i dun have any pics of that.


Notice the wooden little chair at the back ;)

Kel

Cultural night - Hall 7

Yes, its official! I'm lagging by a week, Haha. Here are a couple of pics to share.

Great effort by Chermaine + Kelvin!!! Thanks guys...
Wow! Heerens was a great experience. Humbling at the same time... Many thanks to those who came down to give their support! Ya don't know how much it means!!! =)

~Check out Jeff's Hair - Style redefined... Hah! ~


Hall 7 cultural night will probably be our last event this academic year... Do come down if you're free. (Smash Inc will be the closing act!)

Date/Time : 22nd March Wed - 8pm
Location : NTU Hall 7 - Common Hall


Its been a mad rush of activities hasn't it dudes? Enjoyed all of them though. ( Got a few musical projects for next sem lined up already, haha...)

Let's stay humble and continue to improve! We owe it to the people who have been giving us their support!!!

God Bless, Liam

Updates!

We're gonna take a break from jamming after the performance for Hall 7 Cultural Night next week. Yes .. Exams are coming and we all have to put aside our instruments and pick up our books, at least for the next few weeks till May. Not to worry, we'll still continue to update our beloved blog and we'll try to fill up the 'profiles' page soon so as not to remain anonymous.

FIRST ENTRY!!!!!!!!

I think this blog is great!!! Color, layout, pictures... perfect. Thanks to our designer Kelvin and Chermane (hope i spell it correctly).

Smash INC. Well, well, what can i say. Definitely the best band that i've ever joined. Creative forces welling up inside us, waiting to explode into songs... If only we have more time to jam.... schoolwork is a pain. If only i had flung my O levels. I would have plunge into full time musician. Haha... I'm lookig forward to greater moments and gigs ahead. SMASH ON!!!!!!!!!

Jeff

Live It Up CD Design

Hey guys, here's the CD cover designed by Leroy. Some nice Adobe photoshop effects there by our vocalist. I pronounce it as Er-doh-bee but he thinks it is Ah-doh-bay. But anyhow, I think it's quite a cool design for our CD cover, though I dunno why there are 4 cherries hanging off a vine. I suspect it has something to do with one of our early proposed band names "black horse and a cherry tree". OR they could be something else? hmm .. will find out from him soon. Lemme know what you guys think bout it.

Our Blog is Born!

Hey guys, we finally got a blog up and going woo hoo! Many thanks to Chermaine who set up this blog for us; rest of us being blog illiterate wld be hopeless at setting up one.

For the benefit of those who don't know, we wrote an original composition for Red Cross Youth Donor Club as a theme song and we played at the official launch at Heeren's on Sat 4th Mar 06. It was an excellent experience playing a gig outside Heeren's and we played our hearts out in all 3 sets no doubt. Even though the sound system was a little let down and the sun was scorching so badly I perspired throughout every set, I still enjoyed playing our originals and introducing our new songs to the public. Many thanks to our family, loved ones, friends, moxxie, YDC volunteers and also our new found groupies(?;P) who were there to support us and cheer us on. Thanks also to the emcee who was so generous with his kind introductions.

I'm eagerly awaiting to listen to our recordings we did @ SCI for 'shining on me' and 'live it up' and also to see the video we filmed for 'live it up'. Kudos to Huimin, Tian Yun, Xiao Ting, Alethea, Jian Ming and Benny for recording and mixing our songs. Will try to post the songs n maybe some clips when i get them.

Kel