David Tao 123 We Are All Wooden Men World Tour

The first show was held in Shanghai 070707,

I guess it's high time I shared the pictures! :)

For all David Tao fans,

I'm sure you've read about this new tour

where almost 80% of the songs are rearranged!

And I must say it took a while for me to get used to them,

but I'm loving it!

Very groovy, very happening!

The backing vocalists (David Tan, Elisa, and myself) gathered at

David's hotel room to go through our parts first,

and were momentarily distracted by the DOUBLE RAINBOW!

This is the view from Conrad Hotel's top floor,

in case you were guessing :)

Okk, back to rehearsal. hehe

During the long ten-day rehearsals,

Elisa and I tried out some Beyerdynamic mics to compare sound quality...

in the end

I was convinced to replace my current Shure Beta58A

with the Beyerdynamic Opus 89!

(As seen here)

Although the Shure mic is a proven value-for-money and generally good mic

for all kinds of voices,

I wanted to invest in something better for my weekly gigs,

so decided to give this a try.

The cheaper rates that my music director Kheng Long got for us was also

too tempting to resist!

(P.S. Whenever I whip out my own mic for use at gigs,

many people are usually surprised that I have my own!

Haha very professional right!

But other than sound quality,

I'm really more concerned about hygiene issues as I usually

smother the mic with my lip gloss and saliva. EWW)

So!

After a gruelling ten days of rehearsals we fly off to Shanghai!

Land of the Xiao Long Bao!

Click here for previous Shanghai Xiaolongbao escapade for JJ Lin's show last year!

We didn't queue up for the famous Nanxiang Xiao Long Bao this time,

and settled for some commoner Xiao Long Bao,

which turned out to be really crappy =S

We are smiling in the photo because we haven't tried it yet. (-_-)"

This is Elisa from Taiwan,

my fellow roomie, tourist partner and backup vocalist.

She also plays the trombone, guitar and violin!!!

Multi-instrumentalist!!!

This is 城隍庙

where they offer open thermantidote.

and sell DND.

Free haircut in hotel room toilet

by Elvis, celebrity hairstylist from Taiwan, before the show :)

They call him 猫王.

I call him 猫哥.

Straight to the show!!

at Hong Kou Stadium

The crowd loved it.

The rearrangements were fresh,

they went wild everytime they heard the 1st line of the song,

since they usually couldn't recognise the song from the altered intro.

The rain was pouring,

it got heavier throughout the show,

and many fans simply gave up trying to shelter from the rain

and started waving their umbrellas around,

soaking in the rain,

and their adrenaline.

A little opera segment during the show??

In this tour,

as usual the musicians share in David's limelight.

I sing 天天 with him,

as well as 苏三说, 今天你要嫁给我.

As mentioned on Leelian's program last night,

天天, now an acoustic version

is simply,

David, myself and guitar.

When you duet a love song, with a single guitar,

in front of 25000 people,

its simplicity is magnified

and its impact multiplied...

My name my name!

The press usually likes to publish photos of body contact, apparently.

This was during the song Shanghai-ed 讨厌红楼梦, I think.

I remember vividly that at one point,

during the song 爱我还是他

i was pretty much overwhelmed with emotion

watching the crowd,

soaked silly,

but contented.

In many ways, I thought the rain released all inhibitions,

rather than dampened the crowd.

Everyone was drenched,

they were standing on their chairs

having the best time of their lives.

we had a great time too :)

When was the last time you got completely drenched

by music, emotion and rain all at the same time?