From time to time, Avery House (the house I live in) holds social events of various kinds. One such social event is this faculty dinner/dessert night thing where we students invite professors to come and eat dinner with us. This is usually followed by dessert and some performance by the students.
Last month (February), we held one of these dessert night things. I heard from people that last time, most of the performances were classical (vocal and/or instrumental). This time, the new organizer (Ning) was trying to get some variety with music genres to keep things interesting. Since I dabble on the guitar a lot, we teamed up, and along with a drummer (Ryan), we scrapped together some really crappy equipment (the crappy/cheap guitar I had here at Caltech, a cheap electronic drum set, and an alright PA/mixer system).
The video is here: Avery House (Caltech) - Winter Dessert Night 2007
I play in the first song, middle part (~22:56) and in the last song (~1:03:11). Forgive me for trying to sing, and for picking an emo song (Vindicated). I didn’t have a second guitarist, a bass player, a decent drum set, or a decent guitar to attempt a good rock song. In addition, I’m wasn’t sure the faculty would have enjoyed some of the songs I wanted to play. Well, I wanted to do “Bitch Please II” by Eminem, Dr. Dre, Xzbit, Snoop Dogg, and Nate Dogg but I was talked out of it…