Pas Band, Nostalgia Bersama Mantan Drummer

Pas Band

Nostalgia Bersama Mantan Drummer

Jakarta. Masih ingat dengan Richard Mutter? Drummer yang terkenal pada era 90an. Yah, drummer ini akhirnya kembali ke “pelukan” Pas band. Namun jangan senang dulu karena ini hanya ada di Java RockinLand (JRL).

Pada jumat (8/10) kemarin, bertempat di Tebs Stage, Pantai Carnaval Ancol. Pas band berhasil mengingatkan kembali memori penonton akan kejayaan mereka pada era 90’an. Masa dimana musik Altenative rock, Grunge dan bahkan Punk menjadi tren saat itu. Kala itu,Pas band disejajarkan dengan band Nirvana, Pearl Jam, dan Soundgarden. Lagu - lagu hits pas band dibawakan, seperti bocah, kesepian kita, impresi, dan jengah.

Dengan rambut khasnya yang panjang di ikat satu per satu selayaknya rambut gimbal. Yuki Arifin Martawidjaja sang vokalis menyapa penonton. Tak lepas microphone yang selalu dipakai dua sekaligus saat bernyanyi. Gaya unik inilh yang dinantikan oleh penonton.

Aksi sang gitaris beng beng pun tak kalah bagusnya. Dengan ritme musik distorsi sambil mata melotot meliuk-liukkan gitarnya. Sesekali tangannya menunjuk kearah penonton. Bahkan, melemparkan pick gitar kearah penonton.

Penonton juga dikejutkan dengan hadirnya Melanie Subono saat pas band membawakan lagu Yesterday. Lagu popular The Beatles yang dibawakan dengan versi punk ala pas band ini.

Tak hanya lagu yesterday, lagu Kesepian kita juga dinyanyikan duet bersama Melanie. Lagu yang dulu dinyanyikan oleh Tere pada album Ketika tahun 2001.Cabikan bass Trisno juga seakan menghipnotis penonton saat ia mencoba memperlihatkan keahliannya di lagu ini.

Pada saat pertengahan lagu, Sandy (drum) lansung memanggil Richard Mutter “ Pada awal kesuksesan Pas band tak lepas dari orang ini kita panggilkan Richard Mutter” ujar Sandy sambil berteriak. Penonton pun lansung berteriak keras. Richard dengan rambut gondrongnya keluar dan mendekati Yukie,Beng beng, Trisno dan Sandy. Seakan malu-malu, Richard terlihat tersenyum kearah penonton. Lantas sandy dan Richard kembali ke singgasananya karena ternyata dua drum memang sudah di set untuk mereka.

Lagu impresi yang dibawakan dengan dua drum, Sandy dan Richard. Penonton pun lansung ikut menyanyi lagu itu. Pasalnya, lagu ini merupakan lagu hits mereka pada era 90an. Lagu ini masuk pada album In (No)Sensation yang di rilis tahun 1995.

Setelah itu, Richard yang mengambil alih drum sedangkan Sandy turun dari panggung. Pada segment ini lagu - lagu Pas band saat Richard masih bergabung. “ Mana nih yang angkatan 90an dan 2000an. Keliatan yang angkatan 2000an masih semangat yang tahun 90an udah ngak semangat nih” Tutur Yukie sambil menunjuk tangannya kearah penonton.

Lalu, lagu medley intro deep purple smoke on the water, Metallica sands man, Niravana smells like ten spirit, dan lagu – lagu hits rock yang dibawakan secara instrumental. Lagu jengah menjadi akhir reuni pas band ini.

Terancam Bubar

Pas band terancam bubar? Spekulasi bawa pas band bubar ternyata ditepis oleh Yukie. Kesibukan masing – masing personil, kekosongan jadwal tur dan penurnan drastis penjualan album fisik tidak lantas membuat pas band bubar. Namun, mereka tetap ada dan eksis di kancah musik rock Indonesia.

Pas band sendiri telah berdiri sejak 1989. Kala itu, mereka masih menjadi mahasiswa di Universitas Padjajaran (UNPAD) Bandung. Namun, resmi berdirinya Pas band tahun 1990. Mereka bergerilya lewat musik indie yang saat itu masih dianggap sebelah mata.

Kesuksesan mereka di kalangan musik indie membawa mereka masuk dalam jajaran band rock terbaik di Indonesia. Aquarius Musikindo mulai melirik mereka pada tahun 1995. Album In (No) Sensation (1995), IndieVduality (1997), Psycho I.D (1998), Ketika (2001), PAS 2.0 (2003), Stairway to Seventh (2004), The BeAst of PAS 92006), dan terakhir Romatic... Lies… and Bleeding (2008) merupakan album mereka bersama label Aquarius Musikindo.

Awalnya, EP album “Four Through The Sap” (1993) pada saat itu mencapai 5000 kopi. Angka yang besar saat itu untuk musik indie. Kesuksesan mereka dimulai dari membuat album indie sampai akhirnya mereka diterima di masyarakat.

Namun, pada album keempat Richard Mutter terpaksa keluar karena adanya perbedaan visi. Richard Mutterpun banting setir menjadi sutradara video klip. Dan digantikan dengan Sandy yang kala itu keluar dari U’Camp.

Beng beng yang bernama lengkap Bambang Sutejo sempat membuat band bernama Air. Dengan Sintawati adiknya sebagai vokalis. Lagu Bintang pun terkenal pada tahun 1998. Sempat membuat dua album tapi setelah itu tak terdengar kabarnya lagi. Beng beng pun sekarang lebih sibuk menjadi tamu musik klinik atau seminar-seminar musik. Personil tetap Pas band sekarang, masih ditempati olehYukie (Vokal), Beng beng (Gitar), Trisno (Bass) dan Sandy (Drum). - Hans Sinjal

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Jeremiah Wright: The Audacity To Hope

Jeremiah Wright, nama yang mungkin asing bagi sebagian orang. Tapi dia merupakan salah satu pemimpin spiritual Barack Obama. Yah, dia salah satu tokoh spritual tak hanya bagi barack obama tapi seluruh masyarakat Amerika Serikat atau bahkan seluruh dunia.

Ia mulai terkenal saat Barack Obama menjadi kandidat presiden untuk partai Demokrat. Sebelumnya, nama dia sempat masuk dalam buku Obama yang berjudul "The Audacity Of Hope". Obama kagum dengan khotbahnya pada tahun 80'an yang berjudul "The Audacity To Hope". Khotbah yang mengubah pemikiran Obama akan dunia ini.

Audacity To Hope dalam bahasa Indonesia bisa di artikan "Keberanian untuk berharap". Keberanian untuk berharap ditengah kesulitan dunia seperti peperangan, kelaparan, kemiskinan, dll. Lalu, apa yang menarik dari khotbah ini?

Berawal dari sebuah lukisan yang berjudul hope karya George Frederic Watts. Pada lukisan itu memperlihatkan seorang wanita sedang bermain alat musik semacam harpa yang duduk di atas bumi. Dengan kepala yang dibalut perban, dan baju yang lusuh. Lukisan itu menjadi sebuah perumpamaan tentang keadaan carut marut dunia ini. Namun, ada seorang wanita yang tetap bermain musik walau dunia sudah seperti neraka.

Ia juga mencoba menjelaskan tentang mujizat Tuhan dalam Alkitab yang menceritakan Hana, Sara, dan Elisabet yang akhirnya mempunyai seorang anak. Setelah divonis mandul dan menganggap itu merupakan akhir dunia. Namun, ditengah ketidakpastian dan harapan di dunia ini ketiga wanita itu berani dalam mengambil keputusan untuk berharap kepada Tuhan.

Saya dan Anda pasti pernah berpikir bahwa tidak ada harapan di dunia ini. Namun jika kita bersandar kepada Tuhan semua yang tidak mungkin adalah mungkin bagi Tuhan. Disaat cobaan datang, kita tetap bersyukur kepada Tuhan. Sebab semua itu pelajaran bagi kita untuk tetap di dalam Tuhan. Seperti pada akhir khotbahnya " keep on hoping, keep on praying".

Berikut rekaman khotbah:

Khotbah "audacity to hope" Rev. Jeremiah Wright part.1

Khotbah "audacity to hope" Rev. Jeremiah Wright part.2

Teks khotbah "audacity to hope"

Several years ago while I was in Richmond, the Lord allowed me to be in that city during the week of the annual convocation at Virginia Union University School of Theology. There I heard the preaching and teaching of Reverend Frederick G. Sampson of Detroit, Michigan. In one of his lectures, Dr. Sampson spoke of a painting I remembered studying in humanities courses back in the late ’50s. In Dr. Sampson’s powerful description of the picture, he spoke of it being a study in contradictions, because the title and the details on the canvas seem to be in direct opposition.

The painting’s title is “Hope.” It shows a woman sitting on top of the world, playing a harp. What more enviable position could one ever hope to achieve than being on top of the world with everyone dancing to your music?

As you look closer, the illusion of power gives way to the reality of pain. The world on which this woman sits, our world, is torn by war, destroyed by hate, decimated by despair, and devastated by distrust. The world on which she sits seems on the brink of destruction. Famine ravages millions of inhabitants in one hemisphere, while feasting and gluttony are enjoyed by inhabitants of another hemisphere. This world is a ticking time bomb, with apartheid in one hemisphere and apathy in the other. Scientists tell us there are enough nuclear warheads to wipe out all forms of life except cockroaches. That is the world on which the woman sits in Watt’s painting.

Our world cares more about bombs for the enemy than about bread for the hungry. This world is still more concerned about the color of skin than it is about the content of character—a world more finicky about what’s on the outside of your head than about the quality of your education or what’s inside your head. That is the world on which this woman sits.

You and I think of being on top of the world as being in heaven. When you look at the woman in Watt’s painting, you discover this woman is in hell. She is wearing rags. Her tattered clothes look as if the woman herself has come through Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Her head is bandaged, and blood seeps through the bandages. Scars and cuts are visible on her face, her arms, and her legs.

I. Illusion of Power vs. Reality of Pain

A closer look reveals all the harp strings but one are broken or ripped out. Even the instrument has been damaged by what she has been through, and she is the classic example of quiet despair. Yet the artist dares to entitle the painting Hope. The illusion of power—sitting on top of the world—gives way to the reality of pain.

And isn’t it that way with many of us? We give the illusion of being in an enviable position on top of the world. Look closer, and our lives reveal the reality of pain too deep for the tongue to tell. For the woman in the painting, what looks like being in heaven is actually an existence in a quiet hell.

I’ve been a pastor for seventeen years. I’ve seen too many of these cases not to know what I’m talking about. I’ve seen married couples where the husband has a girlfriend in addition to his wife. It’s something nobody talks about. The wife smiles and pretends not to hear the whispers and the gossip. She has the legal papers but knows he would rather try to buy Fort Knox than divorce her. That’s a living hell.

I’ve seen married couples where the wife had discovered that somebody else cares for her as a person and not just as cook, maid jitney service, and call girl all wrapped into one. But there’s the scandal: What would folks say? What about the children? That’s a living hell.

I’ve seen divorcees whose dreams have been blown to bits, families broken up beyond repair, and lives somehow slipping through their fingers. They’ve lost control. That’s a living hell.

I’ve seen college students who give the illusion of being on top of the world—designer clothes, all the sex that they want, all the cocaine or marijuana or drugs, all the trappings of having it all together on the outside—but empty and shallow and hurting and lonely and afraid on the inside. Many times what looks good on the outside—the illusion of being in power, of sitting on top of the world—with a closer look is actually existence in a quiet hell.

That is exactly where Hannah is in 1 Samuel 1 :1-18. Hannah is top dog in this three-way relationship between herself, Elkanah, and Peninnah. Her husband loves Hannah more than he loves his other wife and their children. Elkanah tells Hannah he loves her. A lot of husbands don’t do that. He shows Hannah that he loves her, and many husbands never get around to doing that. In fact, it is his attention and devotion to Hannah that causes Peninnah to be so angry and to stay on Hannah’s case constantly. Jealous! Jealousy will get hold of you, and you can’t let it go because it won’t let you go. Peninnah stayed on Hannah, like we say, “as white on rice.” She constantly picked at Hannah, making her cry, taking her appetite away.

At first glance Hannah’s position seems enviable. She had all the rights and none of the responsibilities—no diapers to change, no beds to sit beside at night, no noses to wipe, nothing else to wipe either, no babies draining you of your milk and demanding feeding. Hannah was top dog. No baby portions to fix at meal times. Her man loved her; everybody knew he loved her. He loved her more than anything or anybody. That’s why Peninnah hated her so much.

Now, except for the second-wife bit, which was legal back then, Hannah was sitting on top of the world, until you look closer. When you look closer, what looked like being in heaven was actually existing in a quiet hell.

Hannah had the pain of a bitter woman to contend with, for verse 7 says that nonstop, Peninnah stayed with her. Hannah suffered the pain of living with a bitter woman. And she suffered another pain—the pain of a barren womb. You will remember the story of the widow in 2 Kings 4 who had no child. The story of a woman with no children was a story of deep pathos and despair in biblical days.

Do you remember the story of Sarah and what she did in Genesis 16 because of her barren womb—before the three heavenly visitors stopped by their tent? Do you remember the story of Elizabeth and her husband in Luke I? Back in Bible days, the story of a woman with a barren womb was a story of deep pathos. And Hannah was afflicted with the pain of a bitter woman on the one hand and the pain of a barren womb on the other.

Hannah’s world was flawed, flaky. Her garments of respectability were tattered and torn, and her heart was bruised and bleeding from the constant attacks of a jealous woman. The scars and scratches on her psyche are almost visible as you look at this passage, where she cries, refusing to eat anything. Just like the woman in Watt’s painting, what looks like being in heaven is actually existence in a quiet hell.

Now I want to share briefly with you about Hannah—the lady and the Lord. While I do so, I want you to be thinking about where you live and your own particular pain predicament. Think about it for a moment.

Dr. Sampson said he wanted to quarrel with the artist for having the gall to name that painting Hope when all he could see in the picture was hell—a quiet desperation. But then Dr. Sampson said he noticed that he had been looking only at the horizontal dimensions and relationships and how this woman was hooked up with that world on which she sat. He had failed to take into account her vertical relationships. He had not looked above her head. And when he looked over her head, he found some small notes of music moving joyfully and playfully toward heaven.
II. The Audacity to Hope

Then, Dr. Sampson began to understand why the artist titled the painting “Hope.” In spite of being in a world torn by war, in spite of being on a world destroyed by hate and decimated by distrust, in spite of being on a world where famine and greed are uneasy bed partners, in spite of being on a world where apartheid and apathy feed the fires of racism and hatred, in spite of being on a world where nuclear nightmare draws closer with each second, in spite of being on a ticking time bomb, with her clothes in rags, her body scarred and bruised and bleeding, her harp all but destroyed and with only one string left, she had the audacity to make music and praise God. The vertical dimension balanced out what was going on in the horizontal dimension.

And that is what the audacity to hope will do for you. The apostle Paul said the same thing. “You have troubles? Glory in your trouble. We glory in tribulation.” That’s the horizontal dimension. We glory in tribulation because, he says, “Tribulation works patience. And patience works experience. And experience works hope. (That’s the vertical dimension.) And hope makes us not ashamed.” The vertical dimension balances out what is going on in the horizontal dimension. That is the real story here in the first chapter of 1 Samuel. Not the condition of Hannah’s body, but the condition of Hannah’s soul—her vertical dimension. She had the audacity to keep on hoping and praying when there was no visible sign on the horizontal level that what she was praying for, hoping for, and waiting for would ever be answered in the affirmative.

What Hannah wanted most out of life had been denied to her. Think about that. Yet in spite of that, she kept on hoping. The gloating of Peninnah did not make her bitter. She kept on hoping. When the family made its pilgrimage to the sanctuary at Shiloh, she renewed her petition there, pouring out her heart to God. She may have been barren, but that’s a horizontal dimension. She was fertile in her spirit, her vertical dimension. She prayed and she prayed and she prayed and she kept on praying year after year. With no answer, she kept on praying. She prayed so fervently in this passage that Eli thought she had to be drunk. There was no visible sign on the horizontal level to indicate to Hannah that her praying would ever be answered. Yet, she kept on praying.

And Paul said something about that, too. No visible sign? He says, “Hope is what saves us, for we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what a man sees, why does he have hope for it? But if we hope for that which we see not (no visible sign), then do we with patience wait for it.”

That’s almost an echo of what the prophet Isaiah said: “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.” The vertical dimension balances out what is going on in the horizontal dimension.

There may not be any visible sign of a change in your individual situation, whatever your private hell is. But that’s just the horizontal level. Keep the vertical level intact, like Hannah. You may, like the African slaves, be able to sing, “Over my head I hear music in the air. Over my head I hear music in the air. Over my head I hear music in the air. There must be a God somewhere.”

Keep the vertical dimension intact like Hannah. Have the audacity to hope for that child of yours. Have the audacity to hope for that home of yours. Have the audacity to hope for that church of yours. Whatever it is you’ve been praying for, keep on praying, and you may find, like my grandmother sings, “There’s a bright side somewhere; there is a bright side somewhere. Don’t you rest until you find it, for there is a bright side somewhere.”
III. Persistence of Hope

The real lesson Hannah gives us from this chapter—the most important word God would have us hear—is how to hope when the love of God is not plainly evident. It’s easy to hope when there are evidences all around of how good God is. But to have the audacity to hope when that love is not evident—you don’t know where that somewhere is that my grandmother sang about, or if there will ever be that brighter day—that is a true test of a Hannah-type faith. To take the one string you have left and to have the audacity to hope—make music and praise God on and with whatever it is you’ve got left, even though you can’t see what God is going to do—that’s the real word God will have us hear from this passage and from Watt’s painting.

There’s a true-life illustration that demonstrates the principles portrayed so powerfully in this periscope. And I close with it. My mom and my dad used to sing a song that I’ve not been able to find in any of the published hymnals. It’s an old song out of the black religious tradition called “Thank you, Jesus.” It’s a very simple song. Some of you have heard it. It’s simply goes, “Thank you Jesus. I thank you Jesus. I thank you Jesus. I thank you Lord.” To me they always sang that song at the strangest times—when the money got low, or when the food was running out. When I was getting in trouble, they would start singing that song. And I never understood it, because as a child it seemed to me they were thanking God that we didn’t have any money, or thanking God that we had no food, or thanking God that I was making a fool out of myself as a kid.
Conclusion: Hope is What Saves Us

But I was only looking at the horizontal level. I did not understand nor could I see back then the vertical hookup that my mother and my father had. I did not know then that they were thanking him in advance for all they dared to hope he would do one day to their son, in their son, and through their son. That’s why they prayed. That’s why they hoped. That’s why they kept on praying with no visible sign on the horizon. And I thank God I had praying parents, because now some thirty-five years later, when I look at what God has done in my life, I understand clearly why Hannah had the audacity to hope. Why my parents had the audacity to hope.

And that’s why I say to you, hope is what saves us. Keep on hoping; keep on praying. God does hear and answer prayer. (http://camelsnose.wordpress.com/2005/03/17/text-of-jeremiah-wright-audacity-of-hope-sermon/)

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This time we're not giving up.. Let's make it last forever..Screaming hallelujah.. We'll make it last forever..

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