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The Mat Rokers
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hang around in groups under the void deck of HDB blocks, sometimes
strumming a seemingly tuneless song on an old guitar, sometimes doing
nothing. Their hair is long and almost always unruly and their lanky,
scrawny body perpetually encased in tight jeans and T-shirts. They smoke
endless streams of Camels or Gudang Garams and listen to loud
head-banging rock and heavy metal music.
If you happen upon them, you are likely to move away, afraid that you may end up being mugged. After all, males with long hair are thugs and having lived through the seventies, you are convinced that there must have been a good reason for the government's policy of serving them last. You meet their gaze and you give them a contemptuous look that says they are a societal nuisance, and they look back at you blankly as if to tell you that they don't care a hoot about what you think. Yet, they're one of my greatest influence. |
Mat Rokers: A part of Singapore culture. |
Famous Quotes
"There're only two kinds of music. The good one. And the other one." - Duke Ellington
"Start well, and end well. The middle will look after itself." - Stephane Grappelli
"I've never restricted my appreciation of music to what would fall into the category of jazz, I see myself first and foremost as a guitar player. It just happens that I've always been in this sort of jazz tradition, so I guess it's accurate to call me a jazz musician. But I'm a guitar player who plays jazz, as opposed to a jazz musician who's chosen the guitar as his instrument." - Martin Taylor
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