I was at Swee Lee Music @ Bras Basah Complex...looking for guitar strings... really did not know what brand to choose....was not even sure what string gauge to use...extra light, light, medium....decision, decision, decision...
While I was looking at these packs of strings, I saw this one tall ang moh... who was half-squatting beside me... looking at those small guitar amps on display...
Suddenly he turned his head and looked at me... and said,
" Would my old strat sound good with this baby"
Being a shy person, I just numbled, " think so..maybe".
That was the time that I had a good close look at this mat saleh.
Boy! I could not believe my eyes. This guy who was then standing so close to me was no other than..
OMG! OMG! OMG!
RITCHIE!!!.......RITCHIE BLACKMORE!!!!.
I was so like wanna die...my lips were locked tight and my throat was as dry as Sahara Desert. He kept staring at me for he knew that I was in such an awkward position....or you can say, STAR-STRUCK...phew...
"yea yea..i'm ritchie" - he simply said
I GAVE HIM ONE HELL OF A BIG HUG.
He then sat naturally on that tiny amp....and plugged-in one of those guitars on display... think it was an Ibanez RG...and started to play...
Oh boy, without any effects, Blackmore sounded just like Blackmore....
He then played a famous riffs and then looked at me....who still having my jaw wide open...just like... a male cat when saw a pussy cat...
He asked, “You know this one, kiddo?”
I replied, " Yep, Catch the Rainbow"
He then played another one of his trademark riffs,
I said confidently, “that’s Lady of the Lake”
Then, dia changed click the pick-up selector & did that familiar double-stop riffs, I immediately said, “oh…that’s Mean Streak…Purple’s newer ones…”
He then stopped playing, placed the guitar back on its stand and said,
“You’re really into Purple heh?"
I answered, “ Nope…..I’m SOOO into BLACKMORE!”
He then stared sharply into my eyes & after a while shaked his head...
He then picked up his big black bag which was left on the floor & took out something...
oh…. it was just an old Fender Strat Guitar Neck......
He passed that neck to me and said,
"Think you deserve this.....memory from California Jam...."
Then I started to realise the significance of this old guitar neck
OMG! OMG! OMG!
This guitar neck was the left-over of that Strat he smashed at the TV Camera during the concert with Deep Purple way back in 1974 at Ontario Speedway.. that concert fondly remembered as California Jam.
OMG! OMG! OMG!
Boy! Thought I died & gone to heaven....tears started to roll on my cheeks....I could still recalled watching that concert in a friend's home on video-tape...when I just 14....I guess
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Suddenly a familiar tune was heard…. JAI HO – PUSSY CAT DOLLS???
OOOOOOH…..That was my alarm tone….alamak!
So it's ALREADY 7am!!!
Just when I was just enjoying one of the best dreams of my life…that stupid Nicole Scherzinger & her Friends came & kacau...
What a luck!!!
A nite with Ritchie was 1 THOUSAND TIMES better than with that freakin' Dolls....
it that really???...hehehe..
So then it wasn't California Jam....
but my HEAD was JAMMING with MIGRAINE.....
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