Wow! We DO Rock?!?

Not bad for a bunch of ajeoshis. We placed 3rd in the local K-Rock Festival auditions, meaning our band will advance to the 2nd round, and play a song in Seoul in November, competing for a chance to play in the K-Rock festival in December. For having placed in the audition, I am told, we will get 500,000 won, which is about $600.00 Canadian. Band money exists again! Nice, as we’re talking about the next album already. And here I was thinking the heavy metal girls in the tight clothes jiggling their tender bits would be a shoe-in for prize …

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New Song, Old Song, Prison Song, True Song

I’m trying to work on a new song for the band, something to expand our sound somewhat; the song is, I’m thinking, going to be a kind of warped version of the story of Bodhi-Dharma, the famed and highly mythologized Indian monk who went abroad and reputedly spread Buddhism across Asia. So, of course, I have a nice musical sample of what I’m going for. Lately I’ve been gravitating toward older and older styles, such as the road-country of Spiritwood as I intend it to be sung, and while I flirted for a while with a somewhat warped blues form, …

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Dabang Band – Bbang Club Show

Dabang Band is playing at Bbang Club in Seoul on Saturday Night. As usual I don’t know exact times, but I think you’ll want or need to be at the club by 8pm to see us play. Here’s a page about clubs in Shinchon. There’s a map on this page though I don’t know how useful it is. There’s also a phone number for the club, if you can call and speak in Korean: (82-2)-362-1089. Of course in Seoul you only need to dial the last part, and in the rest of Korea only the “-2-” prefix. If you have …

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Dabang Website Upgrade Completed

Well, almost, anyway. We still need Seong Hwan’s “bio” (questionnaire answers, that is) and a translation of all the bio stuff into Korean for the Korean pages. I got some translation help from two of my friends, Young Ja and Sang Joon, and did some of the translation myself (which means some of the Korean text will be pretty screwed up.) I’ve also added a bilingual Korean/English blog (hosted here on my webspace, because setup was easier) for the band, which takes some of the burden of updating off my shoulders. That’s where you can see new pics, find out …

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