September 23, 2005

• i spent the entire day with SeoTaiJi....  well, not really

  so i finally got to download Seo Taiji Live Tour ZERO 04 and watched it
  OMG he's so crazy!  Heff Holter is crazy!  SeoTaiJi is crazy!  everyone in that band is crazy! WOW!

  Click HERE for taste of ZerO

  after watching that, i just couldn't sit around, so i ended up grabbing
  my guitar trying to play Victim, but.. yea my fingers didn't know where
  to hold... or what chord to press...

  after digging in internet for 2 hours, i found "10월 4일" chords! 

  OH~  that's good song~! (let me know if you want that song)
  i played for another hour~ 

  and THEN!
  look what i found about SeoTaiJi
  HIS REAL NAME!  Jung Hyun-Chul

  "At the age of 14, Jung Hyun-Chul (Tai-ji) participated in several
  amateur rock bands. In 1990, at the age of 17, he was recruited into
  the underground metal group Sinawi (pronounced shee-nah-wee).
  Taiji chose to drop out of school, a system that he felt did nothing
  but corrupt the minds of youth, and become a professional musician.

  After the break up of Sinawe in 1991, Tai-ji switched gears and formed dance group Seo Tai-ji and Boys (서태지와 아이들) with dancers Lee Jun-o and Yang Hyeon-seok.
  The introduction of the first Seo Tai-ji and Boys album announced a
  complete shift in the focus of popular Korean music that is still felt
  today. Their first single Nan Arayo (난 알아요, "I Know") was a hugely
  successful hit, being one of the first songs in K-Pop to meld
  contemporary dance sounds with urban-influenced rap lyrics.

  The sound of Seo Tai-ji and Boys' albums was constantly evolving.
  The first album was very dancey, while the second album began to
  introduce more hard rock and heavy metal influences, but still
  remaining mostly a dance album. The first single off of their second
  album, Hayeoga (하여가) combined heavy metal sounds with traditional
  sounds of the taepyeongso.

  The third album switched gears to being much more heavy metal and
  rock driven. The danceable tunes are nearly non-existent. Instead,
  songs such as the extremely controversial Gyosil Idea (교실 이데아,
  Classroom Idea) took center stage. Gyosil Idea was extremely critical
  of the Korean education system and its brainwashing of the youth of
  Korea. Accusations began to fly about Seo Tai-ji and Boys. They were
  accused of backwards masking Stalinist messages in their songs.

  Not backing down, Seo Tai-ji and Boys' fourth album exploded with
  more controversial songs. Come Back Home was a forray into Korean
  gangster rap. Shidaeyugam (시대유감, "Regret of the Times") was nearly
  banned by the Korean Broadcasting Ethics Committee as having lyrics that were considered harmful to the young listeners.

  Seo Tai-ji and Boys broke up in 1997 after four wildly successful
  studio and two hugely popular live albums. Tai-ji disappeared from the
  music scene for the next two years moving to New York City, living a
  low profile and working on his come-back.

  In 1998, Tai-ji returned to the music scene with his first solo
  album, Seo Tai-ji. His self-produced album continued with his long
  established sound of mixing contemporary American rock and pop music
  with Korean vocals. His comeback album, while not a huge success, put
  him back onto the path of greatness.

  In 2000, Tai-ji exploded with his hugely popular sixth album,
  Ultraman. With his new band, he blasts out an album with hardcore,
  crashing metal tracks. Ultraman, Internet War, and Tank were all huge
  successes. With the release of his new album, Tai-ji embarked on his
  first Korean tour since 1996 playing to sold out crowds.

  Ultraman was re-released in 2002 with remastered tracks and featured live Tai-ji tracks from the 2002 ETPFEST.

  In early 2004, after almost four years, Tai-ji's first all new album 7 was released."

   -From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  interestingly crazy dude... 

  i need to play that song more

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