This is one of my favourite band. They are popular among the local underground music lover and have earn big sucsess after their debut album are sold for over 60,000 unit. They are noted as the best alternative band among the Malaysian teenagers.
OAG was formed in 1992 and its original members are Radhi(vocal & guitar), Chi(drum), Ivan(lead guitar) and Lam(bass). In 1994, they recorded a demo tape and sent it to Paul Moss, a producer at Positive Tone. After hearing the tape, he quickly got these guys under Positive Tone.
In 1995, Lam and Ivan have to leave OAG to further their studies. Their place was replaced by Adin(lead guitar) and Edmund(bass). With the new band members, their show around Malaysia have taken a lot of fan. OAG's popularity was noted by a lot of people when they show in Coca Cola's comercial (I like that comercial ;-P).
OAG's success was proven when they won The Best New Artist catagory in Anugerah Industri Muzik (AIM) 1996. Their 60's TV video clip was also nominated for The Best Video Clip. Beside that, the clip was in fourth position for 6 consecutive month in Chart Show's Best of 1995 that was shown in Metro Vision.
The music that they played are called 60's Crunchy Pop Fuzz, based on the combination of the 60's music era and todays music, resulting their own type of music. All of their lyrics are done by themself. Its not that they dind't want any help from great composer in our nation but its because their song doesn't really go with OAG's music. Despite of that, they still admire great composer such as M. Nasir, Saari Amri and many more.
Recently, OAG have given the honour to sing The 9th FIFA/Coca Cola Cup World Youth Championship theme song, held on the 16 June, 1997. The event, the first time held here, featuring the theme song will be aired in 25 country that took part. The title of the song, Name Of The Games are done by Radhi and the lyric by Paul Moss.
Idea to make the song came when Coca Cola asked OAG to do the theme song for them. Since they used to play football for their school, they accepted the offer. OAG also involved in making the Name Of The Game video clip and will be aired soon in all local and other country tv station. I've already seen the clip and it was briliant. I like it very much.
I've heard it from a friend that they are going to realease their second album by the end of this year. So you OAG fans out there, watch out for their album.
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Last update : 27th July, 1997
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