I took one of the songs I did in 2007 and polished it up a bit, adding a needed bridge and made a video of it. It's about a poor, lowly dishwasher named Fang Pi whose dream is to go to Taiwan and meet his idol, Ella Chen, of S.H.E. Actually, I was thinking of making a series of videos.
In 2006, Ella Chen appeared in a Taiwan drama Hua Yang Shao Nian Shao Nu, known as Hana Kimi, where she plays a student from America who goes to Taiwan to meet her idol (by enrolling in an all boys school where he attends). So my video is a play on that.
The song I used from FAWM 2007 didn't actually have a title. It was a bunch of typical cliches I stitched together (on purpose), but I felt it fit in very well for the purposes of this video.
I used the Fender Stratocaster on it. I find that this Strat (American made 2003/2004) has a very bright--almost harsh and metallic--sound, so I always have to tinker with rolling off the highs with it and try to smooth out the sound. Once again, I recorded it through the POD 2.0 using the Vox AC-30 Top Boost setting.
In some ways I like the sound of my 1986 Fender Squire Strat better, as that seems to have more of the traditional glassy, bell like tone of a Strat. I don't know--I must not be doing something right.
