Tuesday, December 03, 2019

Andy 60's Music: Silver Strings 55th Anniversary 2019 Part 2

All photographs by Alistair Leo

Thanks to the boys who backed us up.
So it's just them on this posting.
No singers will be discussed nor highlighted.
Cheers to Michael, Nick, Peter, Johnny and Audie.

Band boys have never been the focus at pop concerts. It's always the singers, so this time around, I'm highlighting our Silver Strings members who have been so busy practising and accompanying the singers these past weeks.

It's also strange but drummers and keyboardists always come at the end of any  photograph presentation. So here, I have placed our two Silver Strings members, Michael Cheng and Nicholas Strevens at the forefront. 

An enthusiastic lady in the audience asked me during our 55th Anniversary Concert break, "Who's that striking, youthful, new drummer with the pony tail and black leather? Can introduce?" She knows.
Then there's our piano player or keyboardist Nick. Another lady came over, sidled up and remarked, "He looks like George Clooney.  Alamak, so handsome!"
Peter Han and Johnny Yeow were the talk that evening too. Both were doing lead but with different songs. And both were just as adaptable with the instrumentals and melodies they tackled. 

With ease and plenty of charm, Johnny has this smile that distracted many in the audience. He's one of the young ones... not young once. And he sang the song too.

Likewise Peter memsmerised his audience with his serious play but he provides his own guitar humour when he dances and prances in unique poses to the tunes he plays.
He wrote to me on SMS that the bass guitar was so heavy that it became a challenge to handle for three hours. But the few minutes break did justice when Audie Ng, leader of the band, could rest his legs to watch others sing and play on stage and enjoy his show.


ALISTAIR LEO took these photographs with super zoom lens from the back seat, and are copyrights reserved. Thank you Alistair, and with MC's help, for contributing these images for the blog.

23 comments:

Anonymous said...

A TRIBUTE TO THE BOYS WHO BACKED US UP.
THANKS TO MICHAEL, NICK, PETER, JOHNNY AND AUDIE. :-)

CHARLIE YAP (LOCOMOTION BAND) said...

Wow! All the top musicians! 🥁🎹🎸🎶🎤🙂👍👍👍

Anonymous said...

Hi Charlie Thanks.
I took your advice and put up the poster.

STEPHEN HAN (TOP CONTRIBUTOR TO THIS BLOG) said...

The photos of the new Silver Strings looked great but no picture of the resident singers.
Andy and Veronica Young.

TERENCE LEE said...

Nice write up. Cheers.

ANDY: Pop Music Not Pills. © said...

Hey Terence thanks.
The focus has never been with the band boys at any concert.
It's always the singers, so thanks for the accolade.

STEPHEN HAN said...

Looks like the band members are lady killers too.

ANDY: Pop Music Not Pills. © said...

Ha, ha.
They are.
Many asking about the new three and Nick.

FREDA HANUM said...

Good tribute to the band Andy, and indeed lady killers too 😁👍👏

ANGELA LEOW said...

Enjoyed myself tremendously. 😀

ANDY: Pop Music Not Pills. © said...

Thank you Angela for attending the show and a personal meet. :-)

facebook chats said...

THANKS TO ALL BELOW WHO LIKE THIS POST

Freda Hanum
Peter Cheong
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Ann Rowena Lim
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Terence Lee
Martin Ong
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Tan Andrew

LIM KUAN MIN (FORMER SCHOOL PRINCIPAL) said...

Bet you had a great time performing.
Wow your gesture with this song.

My mum thanked you for the song.
I just played the video.
She still remembers you...

Your lead guitarists, my deep respect.

Anonymous said...

The show was indeed a night of beautiful memories...
Let me know if you are doing any more concerts.

(To Audie: mail has been edited.)

Anonymous said...

I'm so glad I came, really enjoyed the show.
I thank you so much, great memory.

(To Audie: mail has been edited.)

Anonymous said...

I really admire you.
For your age you are really fantastic.
My sister wants to share in my thanking you too.

EDDIE ENG said...

The drummer, who gave the heartbeat to the music and bringing it to live, was just fabulous. If I may make a comparison, he was better than Ringo Starr for sure.

(This note has appeared in the SS !ST POSTING)

RICHARD RAJOO said...

CONGRATS! ANDY, AUDIE.
On your SS Anniversary Show.

ANDY: Pop Music Not Pills. © said...

Again many thanks to friends and fans who attended the show and made comments on this post.
On behalf of AUDIE, JOHNNY, PETER, NICK and specially MICHAEL whose friend Alistair contributed to this post, KAMSIAH.

FREDA HANUM (TEEPEES KEYBOARDIST) said...

Good tribute to the band Andy, and indeed lady killers too 😁👍👏

ANDY: Pop Music Not Pills. © said...

A special thanks to ERICBRONSON WONG who has been sending me greetings and wishes all these months. Appreciate your kindness and gesture.

Also to DAVY CHAN and RODNEY TAN who missed the show.
Perhaps next time Rodney.
Thanks for your support on FB too.

facebook chats from FREDA HANUM'S POST said...

Linda Tan
Freda, your artwork? I am impressed 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Freda Hanum
No Linda, it's Andy's blog dear 😁 I shared from his fb
Yes the artwork is impressive, Andy's a very creative person.👍

Linda Tan
I am surprised 😃

Andy Young
thanks Freda for sharing. You are very kind.

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