Gregory Leow

I’ve been vlogging and blogging about hawker and heritage food in Singapore since 2014. I play geetar

[Gregory Leow @GregoryLeow]

@bbkingofficial ‘s Thrill is Gone is so iconic that the best approach is to just play it straight! And trust me, it’s harder than it looks, because BB King gives a lot of space in his solos and he makes every note count.

#bluesguitar #guitarsolos #sgmusic #sgmusician

[Gregory Leow @GregoryLeow]

@bbkingofficial ‘s Thrill is Gone is so iconic that the best approach is to just play it straight! And trust me, it’s harder than it looks, because BB King gives a lot of space in his solos and he makes every note count.

#bluesguitar #guitarsolos #sgmusic #sgmusician

[Art @ZarkFiles]

The E. Jean Carroll case against President Trump is one of the strangest civil cases in American history. The foundational problem is this: Carroll could not identify when the alleged incident occurred — not even the year with any precision.
That should have killed the case as dead as a skunk on the road right there.
Without a temporal anchor, no defendant — regardless of guilt or innocence — can mount an alibi defense. Trump, who has maintained detailed calendars and staff records for decades, was denied the most basic tool of self-defense: the ability to establish where he was. That is not a technicality. It is a due process violation at the constitutional level.
Then Carroll produced the one piece of physical evidence she claimed corroborated her account — the dress she wore during the alleged incident. It was subsequently established that the dress was designed after the incident could have occurred. The sole corroborating evidence falsified her timeline.
The case proceeded anyway.
The resulting verdict was then weaponized in a defamation suit — where Trump was held liable for denying the allegation, while being procedurally barred from defending against it, because it was already "proven" in another court, regardless how flawed the procedure was. He was punished, in effect, for asserting his own innocence.
Compounding everything: coordinated professional and physical threats so thoroughly intimidated the legal community that attorneys refused these cases regardless of available fees. When you systematically destroy a defendant's ability to retain counsel of choice, you forfeit the right to a legitimate verdict.
An allegation is not evidence. Process without substance is not law. And a verdict produced under these conditions carries no legitimate authority — whatever its formal status.

Not only is it the right move to investigate Carroll, but every other person involved as well. Trump is owed serious damages here, and there may be a few people who belong in prison for their roles in the case.

[Gregory Leow @GregoryLeow]

through the MXR 108 fuzz and the Rat for this track, but this setup finally feels spot on. For now at least… we all know how it goes 😂
#GuitarTone #Pedalboard #GuitaristLife

[Gregory Leow @GregoryLeow]

Just dialed in a great heavy tone for this one song that our band does - @muse - Feeling Good
I run my Way Huge Fat Sandwich (Harmonic Saturator) boosted by the Greer Lightspeed into the Boss GE-7 with the mids pushed just a touch. The combination is massive - thick,

[Gregory Leow @GregoryLeow]

harmonic-rich distortion with the Lightspeed giving it a little more note clarity and punch — exactly what this song needs.
Ironically, I scored the Fat Sandwich for only $80 with a busted knob. Swapped the knob (ordered from Mxr) and now it’s running like brand new. Been cycling

[Gregory Leow @GregoryLeow]

No better feeling than when the band’s locked in the groove!
We’re playing “Johnny Got A Boom Boom” by @imeldaofficial at one of our gigs at @handlebaroriginal
#rockabillyrevival #sgmusic #sgmusician #singaporemusic

[Gregory Leow @GregoryLeow]

#springreverb #accutronics #surfybear #reverbtank #surfmusic

[Gregory Leow @GregoryLeow]

Changed the reverb tanks out of my deluxe reverb and Tweedyverb combos recently.
From reverb tanks that were smooth and dark and long decay to more splashy, bright ones with short decay from @surfyindustries - a syrfypan extra and an Accutronics Reverb Pan 8AB3C1B model,

[Gregory Leow @GregoryLeow]

which is the splashier, short decay model.
The result is that you can do surf music and artists like Khruangbin, Stray Cats and Stephen Sanchez.
Sure, you can use a reverb pedal but nothing (and I mean NOTHING) sounds like a good tube-driven spring reverb tank!

[Gregory Leow @GregoryLeow]

Anyone used this Yellow Lantern sauce before? Is it really that good on fried fish or other dishes?
#HainanChili #YellowLanternSauce #SpiceLovers #TooSpicyForMe #FoodieSingapore

[Gregory Leow @GregoryLeow]

Was given this Hainan Yellow Lantern Chili Sauce (黄灯笼辣椒酱) from Chun Guang 😋
I was excited to try it, especially since people say it pairs amazingly with fried fish… but honestly, my spice tolerance has completely disappeared since going low carb 😂

[Gregory Leow @GregoryLeow]

These days even mild spice sends me running to the toilet.
This one is seriously fiery. Even my wife who loves chilli found it shiok but damn spicy.
Might have to give it away to someone who can handle the heat better than me, like my mother.

[Gregory Leow @GregoryLeow]

Man, primary 5 assessment maths is so difficult these days that my wife and I have difficulty tutoring the son.
So who comes to the rescue? Our daughter, who’s done the whole PSLE thing and starts tutoring all three of us 😂
#singaporemath #tuitionsg #hometutoring

[Gregory Leow @GregoryLeow]

Throwback to when we had a guest jammer, Rob, who’s visiting from Australia!
Here, he is doing a fantastic trumpet solo over One Scotch, One Bourbon And One Beer by Amos Milburn at @blujazcafesg #sgmusic #singaporemusic #livemusicsg #sgmusician

[Gregory Leow @GregoryLeow]

tremolo.
I plugged it into my very old souped up pro junior and it’s sounding pretty good!
Now to find the time to head down to blues jams 😂
With family and band commitments, it’s not easy to be honest.
One day…!
#bluesjam #pedalboardoftheday #travelboard

[Gregory Leow @GregoryLeow]

I put together a small jam board for blues jams (travel board maybe? 😆)
Something light and contains all the bare essentials that I need for any sort of jam, not just blues.
This is how I approach it - 3 levels of gain and a boost to add mids and volume, plus reverb, delay and

[Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 @SBakerMD]

Really cool to finally meet Maggie, the rancher

85 years of age and carnivore for 68 years

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.

The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.

The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.

The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.

The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.

The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.

The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.

He is confident.

He has always been confident.

The confidence has never been the problem.

The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

[Gregory Leow @GregoryLeow]

I’m surprised no one has suggested doing a non-woke Oscar ceremony. Anyone?