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Readers may question FM’s policy of endangering article subjects, but the burning desire to know the reasons behind the masks is widespread. A completely unscientific poll of Quincy House residents conducted on Sunday suggests that everyone is confused by this mask-wearing trio. Neighbor Phillip M. Chan ’03 observed that the three “seem like pretty socially active guys.” Having noticed the unusual costume following one of Quincy’s recent nighttime fire alarms, Chan speculated that “maybe they were protesting against the fire drill...
...what does an LMF song have that you can't get in a bubblegum-smacking Kelly Chan tune? "They say what the young want to say," says Cheung Chi Wai, a 29-year-old photographer who has worked with the band. "It's not about foul language. The young generation gets the lyrics because they've had the same experience." Twenty-nine-year-old lyricist and rapper Chan Kwong-yan, a.k.a. M.C. Yan, wants to make music that reflects the way people really talk. "We use a lot of Cantonese street slang in our songs. Canto-pop love songs...
...they turned bass player Jimmy's apartment -- which had earlier doubled as the Anodize band HQ -- into a recording studio that has since produced four LMF albums, plus solo albums by band members DJ Tommy, who spins and scratches hip-hop beats onstage, and guitarist and producer Davy Chan. The band's songs are collaborations, but Davy and DJ Tommy -- who both have more than a decade of experience professionally fiddling with sound equipment -- are the ones largely responsible for the high quality of LMF's recordings. Davy -- who plays several instruments -- composes, arranges and edits the music, while Tommy...
...sound-padded back room, Davy crouches in front of a drum set. Even sitting down he seems tall, but it may be just his hair, long and gelled straight up as though he's falling from a plane. A studio musician for pop stars like Kelly Chan and Leslie Cheung, Davy is the only LMFer who earns a living wage with his music. "I do pop music only for the money," Davy says, looking around the room, his neck tattooed with two dice rolling a hard eight. "But here it's my music. Here we do what we want...
...dominates the Chinese-speaking world. Cantopop stars are mobbed in Beijing and Taipei, in London and Las Vegas. Last Christmas, veteran mesmerizer Leslie Cheung gave a sold-out concert at Caesars Palace, where tickets went for $80 and $238. The same night, half a mile down the Strip, Jackie Chan--yes, he's also a singer--led an all-star music revue that packed the 17,000-seat Garden at the MGM Grand at a top price...