※ 引述《blanki (规划)》之铭言： : http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2007/new/jul/22/today-show4.htm : 闪灵北美巡回札记之10 闪灵摇滚登封 加州杂志肯定 : http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2007/new/jul/22/images/33.jpg : ■闪灵表演结束後，签名会上乐迷排队要签名的盛况。 : ■Freddy : 昨天进入Boardwalk Live Club的时候，看到入口处有一叠杂志，封面看起来很眼熟，不 : 过由於忙着准备表演，就没有特别去察看到底是什麽碗糕。 : 乐迷捧杂志 签名会超high : 隔天抵达第四场Ozzfest山景市场地的时候，又遇到了几个Guitar Center( 美国最大的连 : 锁乐器行)的琴师跟我们恭喜，但是也是忙着准备Ozzfest表演，根本还来不及搞懂他在讲 : 啥，就又开始搬东西了。 : 如前几场一样，今天在Ozzfest表演结束後，又是签名会。有乐迷拿着那本看起来很眼熟 : 的杂志给我们签名了，这是本在加州所有的乐器行、夜店、演唱会场、唱片行都看得到的 : 专业音乐杂志，而当期的封面故事就是闪灵！我超爱的加拿大摇滚乐团 Skinny Puppy版 : 面竟然还比我们小很多。 : 第1次登封面 感动梦成真 : 我一时间有点反应不过来，因为闪灵虽然已经陆续在许多欧美的音乐杂志有相当版面的报 : 导，但是这还是第1本闪灵登上封面的杂志，感动中带着一些梦幻。其实，以前看着「成 : 名在望」、「摇滚巨星」等好莱坞电影描述的美国摇滚艺人巡回演唱的剧情，现在我们自 : 己终於也走到这一步，这一切不都是很梦幻吗？ 在这个部落格找到 http://cleverclaire.blogspot.com/ 如果部落格主人有看这边 先说声抱歉 直接贴了过来 <(_._)> ----- http://0rz.tw/512Rn http://0rz.tw/8a2Pt (以下转贴部落格的文章) 这本杂志是免费的，在北加州各地的唱片行、乐器行、特定的音乐表演场地摆放供乐迷索 取。根据米台目的说法，Skinny Puppy 在这里非常的受欢迎，这一期也有Skinny Puppy 的专访（放在闪灵专访後面），但是Your Music Magazine弃Skinny Puppy而选闪灵当封 面，让他觉得很惊讶也很impressed！ 以下为专访全文（我一字一字打下来的哟）： CHTHONIC (pronounced “Thon-ick”) HAS BEEN CALLED THE “BLACK SABBATH OF ASIA,” AND WILL BE THE FIRST ASIAN BAND TO PLAY OZZFEST. THE MORE I LEARNED ABOUT THIS DARK, MYSTERIOUS METAL BAND, THE MORE I WANTED TO INTERVIEW THE LEFT FACE OF MARADOU, A.K.A. FREDDY LIM. I CALLED HIM ON HIS CELL AND ROUSED HIM OUT OF BED THE MORNING AFTER HIS FIRST GIG OF THE SUMMER TOUR. I SPOKE WITH HIM ABOUT OZZFEST, THE TAIWANESE METAL SCENE AND HIS PROUD HERITAGE. MikeL: So, last night was the first show of your international tour called UNlimited? Freddy: Yeah, I am really tired. It was at The Wall in Taipei, Taiwan. The show was packed. There were about seven hundred people. We had a very successful show yesterday we were very happy with it. We have done a lot of exercise and practice to get ready for this whole tour because it’s our first with more than ten shows. MikeL: You’ve played in America before… where did you play? Freddy: Metal Meltdown and Milwaukee Metal Fest. MikeL: How did you like the American audience? Freddy: I like them very much. They are very different than the Asian type of fan because they have a more direct reaction. When you play fast they will bang their heads, start a mosh pit, fight with each other, and shout real loud. In Asia the fans stare at you and try to learn your skills and try to learn the technique of the guitarist. So it’s quite different. In places like Taiwan, Japan, or Hong Kong the fans want to sit and watch the show, without all the interruptions. In the US, I like all the chaos in the audience. They like to fight with each other. MikeL: Why did you name the tour UNlimited? Freddy: In the beginning we were just supposed to play Ozzfest. Then we teamed up to tour with Nile and play more shows with them in between Ozzfest. We decide to open our schedule cause more and more cities wanted us to play, including places in Canada. So we felt it was like unlimited. We will continue to tour North America until the meeting of the United Nations starts this year. We feel it’s a good opportunity to let all the fans understand our ideas and beliefs. As an independent country, it is not fair to not let Taiwan be a member of the United Nations or part of any other National Organizations. So I feel it is a good opportunity to teach our fans about our ideas. All our songs are about Taiwan and all the concepts are about Taiwan. I don’t want to say it’s a great country, but it’s just a country like your country. It’s a normal country, we pay taxes to the government, we hate the government, we have televisions, we have the army, we have policeman, and if you want to come to Taiwan you have to apply for a visa directly from our government, just like if I want to come the US, I have to apply for a visa from your government. So it’s quite a normal country, just like the US, Canada, or Australia, so it’s not fair. We will be able to share our songs to lots of fans this time, and we want to let the fans know that it’s about much more than the music. This country is what supports us and gives us the concepts to write these songs. I don’t mean money; this country inspires us to write more stuff. And I fell it’s good cuz I can always right more and more stuff… there is no limitation for me. I have lots of inspiration from this country; legends, and ghost stories. MikeL: The name ChthoniC is a Greek word right? Freddy: Yes, in the beginning when we wanted to find a name for ourselves, we looked in the mythology dictionary and found Chthonic and thought it was cool. But a few months later, when we started writing songs about Taiwan we thought we should find something more meaningful and something that related more to Taiwan. But our fans like Chthonic and we got used to this name so we didn’t want to change it. It means the gods form the underworld. MikeL: One of your tales is the Seediq Bale and it’s a Taiwanese tribe. Could you tell me about the story? Freddy: The Seediq tribe is a kind of warrior tribe where all the men had to be trained as a warrior. In the 1930’s when Taiwan was occupied by Japan, the colonial government saw the tribe as a threat, so they brought the leader of the tribe to Tokyo and showed them modern culture and modern weapons. They showed them tanks, airplanes, and guns to try to show them and ask them not to fight against them. The Seediq tribes have tattoos on their faces to prove that they are fighting people. The Japanese government stopped them from doing that. A couple years later, the leader found out all the young people still wanted to fight with the Japanese government, and the leader told them they needed to stop fighting cuz there was no chance they could win. The main reason the leader didn’t want to fight with government was because he wanted his tribe to survive and at that moment he decided, no more tattoos, no more fighting tribe. The tribe occupied many mountains, but after the modern weapons they started to get wiped out. The women and children of the Seediq tribe decided on suicide because they wanted to let their husbands and fathers fight carelessly so that they wouldn’t have to worry about leaving their family behind. To me that is the most touching part of the story because many women and children killed themselves so that their warriors could fight. The Seediq tribe believes that the whole tribe belongs to one spirit. So eventually they would all end up together again, which helped the warriors to get over the deaths of their women and children. They have a tradition that when they are 18 years old they have to cut the head off of their enemy and then drink wine out of the neck. They believe that the enemy spirit is part of your spirit now, and that the enemy is not dead, that he will actually live in your body. I think the most important part of this history is that people need to fight for what they believe in. the Seediq people fought for their tattoos. Of course they had lots of problems between them and the colonial government, but they key point is they wanted to keep their identity. So for Taiwanese young people and the modern youth, I think it is very important to think about what it is that’s worth it to you to fight for. You can’t waste your life doing something you don’t want to do. MikeL: Wow! So, looking ahead, what are you looking forward to most about playing the Ozzfest? Freddy: I was a die hard fan of Ozzy Osbourne and Crazy Train was the anthem of Taiwanese young people who wanted to have a band; everybody had to practice that song. So for me to get to watch Ozzy live is one of my dreams. I am also very excited to be able to play in front of all different kinds of metal fans, and not just black metal. --

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