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Linkin Park Competition Final Opinions.. I promise.

Ok guys, I just wanted to finally clear of any confusion as to my past comments regarding this competition. I've had a few people send comments to me about my negativity towards this competition.Right now it looks like our band is going to be in the top 5 of the contest as long as our fans keep voting for the rest of the night.I want people to realise that now that we are in the top 5, I still stick to what I believe in.I am not a sore loser, I was NOT speaking out previously because I was angry with our band not being in the top 5.I was simply defending music, integrity and justice with all my previous comments.As artists and musicians who stand for what we believe in, it is imperative for us all to speak up and stand together for injustice. Be it little things like competitions like this, or seriously important subjects like global warming or poverty.We have the power to make some difference to the world. Michael Jackson is proof that one man and his music can make the world a better place.I'd like to make one final judgement on this competition, I know Alive Not Dead had great intentions at heart when they offered all of us a chance to play with LP.I know Alive Not Dead tried their best to keep it fair and definitely did not bias the competition in any way what so ever.And I know all of our bands are grateful to be given the chance to take part in this competition.Just for the record I seriously respect AnD for everything they do (and try to do) to help the artistic scene here in Hong Kong which seriously does need help.HOWEVER.I do still believe that the competition did not work out great.Because some bands / or fans DID cheat. The results are not 100% accurate. With the elimination process of one IP per vote only, AnD tried their best to keep the integrity of the competition and keep it fair. However we all know that right now, bands number 3,4,5,6,7 are SOOO close that through this "Indiscriminate" (which means AnD did not discriminate in any way) system of filtering, no one really knows who the top 5 REALLY should be.Now please remember my band is about 80 votes ahead right now. So I don't want to be attacked about being bitter because really I'm super happy right now. I think so far we've lost about 70 votes to this process of one IP, one vote. But it's fair to say we've all lost votes and it has been fair. I hope people can finally stop attacking me as being a sore loser, or hating on AnD, because it's never been about any of that.I love a lot of you guys out there. A lot of your bands I love and a lot of musicians in them are good friends and allies in the fight against Cantopop. Not all of our bands are amazing yet, but that's the beauty of music. I was a TERRIBLE singer and I'm still no Freddie Mercury, but we grow and improve as artists and that's what it is ALL about. A young band now making tonnes of mistakes in 5 years could be the best band in the world! YOU GOTTA START SOMEWHERE! And my first 3 bands were AWEFUL I'm telling you! I couldn't sing, no one could play a note or hit a beat! But it's the growing and improving that makes music so awesome!I put my neck out on this chopping block for all of us musicians, I've had a few chunks taken out but luckily my head didn't come all the way off ;)I want to suggest one more time that all of our bands be put forward to LP for them to choose a top band. Let the votes be shown to them. Let LP know who's won the most votes, but don't let good bands be pushed out because of top 5.If LP knew how heated this competition got, I know they're busy guys but I think they would be happy to look at 15 more bands and let the votes make a difference to choosing. but not ultimately make the choice of the competition. No one loses any respect for AnD or the competition and I think everyone would be happy.Please understand that playing with LP is my dream. I love LP and my entire life I've dreamed of playing with them since I got Hybrid Theory when I was like 15 or something. I remember thinking these guys are all Mixed up like ME! because where I was from I was bullied for being mixed all day long. They gave me hope that one day I could be in a cool band and be like Mike or Chester.By suggesting this change of rule for the competition I'm sure everyone can see that I'm really decreasing our bands chances of success..However I still stand for integrity, even if band number 6 or 7 were chosen. I'll be happier to know that Linkin Park got to choose who they wanted the most. We'd be totally devastated about losing, but at least I could feel like they got a good choice.and just  for the record...IF 24Herbs win, also know that I will feel like it was fair decision. Those guys do work a lot with AnD and they are super tight with them. But I know Patrick Lee would never do anything to influence the voting of this comp in their favour or sway Linkin Park's choice.I'm friends with Ghost Style and he's a super cool guy. Just based on how cool he is I know why people do like 24herbs so much, Conroy and Eddie are super nice guys too. I dunno the other guys at all but I presume so also. Being nice people gets you far in music and in life in general.That's another reason why they do so well. They respect the local scene. Love being chinese and love being HK. That's so important.As mixed race as Gong Wu looks. We are all made in Hong Kong, can all walk into china happily and love being HONG KONG people. In our band room our main language is CANTONESE. Not only because I love practicing my chinese. but because we ARE chinese and proud! (and a little white here and there ;))For whichever bands believe that if 24herbs win it was fixed, you seriously have to get it out of your head. If they win I'll be happy for them (I'll hate them out of pure jealousy) but nonetheless, give them respect for their work here in HK.Anyway,Finally. Love me or Hate me. I hope all the bands can understand that everything I've been saying had no selfish motive. I was never complaining because we weren't in the top 5. It isn't my style to be negative without true reason.It was always purely out of fairness to all of us.. Because all my life since I was 15 I've been in bands and had to fight these fights, voting comps, battle of the bands, and time and time again losing (or sometimes winning) but always there was some kind of problem.You'd never get a "battle of the painters" or a "who's art is the best" voting comp. Because Art is totally subjective! And to most people music is too. It's so hard for an indie fan to understand why death metal singers scream. Yet Metal fans probably find Indie too tame and safe! So BOTB's and this kind of stuff is really tricky to get right and terribly frustrating when it doesn't work out..Anyways, I'm sure everyone gets my points now. (I hope)Good luck to all of you guys, top 5 or not!Hope to see you all on the road soon and ROCK THE HELL OUT!My band, Gavin, Larryz, Andrew, Lawrence have not read this yet. But I'm pretty sure they would be happy for me to put this up because they are with me because they too believe in what I believe in. Gong Wu stands united in what we believe in. That's why this band was made and why I never wanted to be a solo Cantopop singer! urrgggh...Much Respect to Patrick Lee and Raffi K for giving us all the opportunity to have a chance to play this show with LP. You guys are not only "the guys in AnD" but just know that no matter how annoying my comments are. I still have loads of respect and friendship for you.Peace and Love n shit..Li

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thanks for the post. a few things I wanted to clarify - 1) Linkin Park was the one who suggested the voting as the way to select the opening band. We counter proposed picking one from the top five so they can find a band that matches them the best, not just the most popular. 2) the vote was 'who do you want to see open for Linkin Park?' not 'who is the most musically talented band', not 'who is the most deserving'. 3) Expecting LP and their management to sit down and review 21 bands within two days is NOT a realistic option unfortunately.
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Ok that's cool. Glad everything has been clarified. Of course that makes sense to me not matter if I agree or not. And yes screening 21 bands is tricky. But I had to at least suggest something that I thought was cool. Etchy bro thanks for all the support you've given us and we're obviously happy from our end the way our votes worked out no matter how the competition played out. You guys did your best and that's cool with me. Good luck to everyone in the next 3 hours I guess!
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I respect both your opinions, but I personally believe that rules shouldn't be changed once their set otherwise it changes the whole situation. The top 5 gives a rough idea of who the majority want to see open for Linkin Park, the rest is really up to them. AnD and its team has done a good job in making this contest as fair as possible by keeping the same rules, logarithms or what not, for each and every band. I think keeping it the way is now will avoid a landslide of whole new bitching and complaints. Gong Wu, you guys do have a very valid point though, but at the end of its really down to Linkin Park no matter how many bands they are shown. Cheers, Fall in Line
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Yeah agreed bro. We're obviously happy to be here right now and yes after hearing Raffi out. I agree top 5 should stick. I guess next time there's any kind of competition like this we've all learned a lot! hahaha. good luck guys!
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you keep going on and on about the integrity of voting because it should be about the music, but yet you keep big upping 24 herbs because "ghoststyle is so cool" and "how hard they've worked". What does that have to do with their music? And look at how many people you are fans of. 500 something? To me: being a fan of like, A RANDOM BUNCH OF people is just an attempt to draw traffic to your own blog. That's why I only fan people I actually like, going around fanning everything cheapens the term "fan". I just think your complaints aren't valid
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Hostile possibly, but that's what's great about opinions. You should be entitled to them. I've always been a champion of musicians like AXL Rose and MJ. Not only because I love their music, but simply because they are reknowned as being a complete ASSHOLES or FREAKS! It gives me great pleasure when I hear people criticise them personally. Because normally I will say. Not matter what AXL is like as a person, His Music makes up for any flaw. Same thing for Michael Jackson. I love both of them because the fact is, no matter how weird or horrible they are. They have an amazing talent that they share with the world and are entitled to be assholes or weird. Whatever, music has always been first for me. AnD get a lot of flack around here for having favouritism for 24herbs. I was hearing a lot of negativity about them and felt like because I know the guys on a personal level and a lot of guys don't, I should try and defend both parties somewhat in case there was some kind of underground scandal! I personally, have no passion for Hip Hop, just like my favourite girls are chinese. But nonetheless I can register the fact these guys work hard and have reason for being here. not all musically related! I hated hearing people moaning about the comp being fixed. Some people read my words and didn't translate them too well. I never said that. I only ever said it was a flawed comp and not just this one, music comps in general are always subjective anyways. As for fanning 500+ people. I never liked the idea of picking and choosing my friends (because trust me in HK when you're totally in the artist scene you have a lot) and tonnes of these guys I know through clubbing or working. So why not just fucking add them all and save the trouble when people secretly get upset that your friends but you aint a "fan" I don't like the "friends and fan" seperation but I guess after being on this website for almost 2 years it kinda gets muddled up after a while. Go look at our facebook and you will see my "top friends list" comprises of my band and my band only, for fear of offending good friends who would be upset if I didn't have enough space on there for them. Anyway judgeing from the tone on our blog I'm presuming this might be a wasted defence of myself but I hope you understand my logic, and if not, hate me as a person. but respect the fact we make music that people do love. cheers for coming over and taking the time to comment bro. Li
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Oh and for personal reasons I became a fan of you too. Hope that pleases you secretly ;)
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Thank you so much. You're one of the few people who actually got my points for what they meant without distorting them too much. It's a relief that people are agreeing with me because I've been worried from the start about causing trouble with honesty. It did indeed cause a lot of tensions it seems. But I hope I made the right choice in sticking to my beliefs. I'd die if I found out my personal opinions ruined any future chances for my boys in my bands as they don't deserve to be tarred with the same brush as me because these have always been my strong opinions! Thanks Belkie it means alot! ;)
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oh sorry figure of speech. You distorted nothing. You got my points exactly as I feel I wanted to put them across. I shouldn't need to thank you but thank you for taking time to back me up! :) Li
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