Hive Open Mic 124 : "Moonshine" | Slank - Tonk Kosong cover by @donirosayandi

Hive Open Mic 124 : "Moonshine" Slank- "Tonk kosong" cover by @donirosayandi

Hi Hivers, how are you all? I'm sure we're all fine. By the way, my name is @donirosayandi, I'm a guitarist. On this occasion I will sing for the 124th week of Hive Open Mic #openmic , we will explore the following theme: "Mooshine." This theme is selected by our community's recent Spotlight Artist @anna-newkey

For this week's theme I have prepared a good song, a song yang related to the theme, namely the song called "Tonk kosong", this song was popularized by "Slank."

"Slank" is a famous band from Indonesia, they were formed in 1986, the first personnel consisted of Bimo Setiawan (drums), Boy (guitar), Kiki (guitar), Abi (bass), Uti (vocals), and Well Welly (vocals). By 1996, the band had changed personnel more than 10 times.

After repeated personnel changes, finally the band has a definite formation consisting of Bimbim (drums), Kaka (vocals), Ivanka (bass), Ridho (guitar), and Abdee (guitar). When pursuing their careers, they only played songs from idol musicians such as the Rolling Stones. However, over time, they began to work by playing their own original songs. His slengean style, aka relaxed, modest, and indifferent on stage made this band finally called the Slank band.

In the course of their career, Slank made a breakthrough by creating a song called "Tonk Empty". This song is included in their album entitled "again sad".

The sonorous empty barrel is a proverb that has an implied meaning, the empty barrel means that it is good at speaking, while the loud sound means that it is not good at acting or its implementation is less than optimal.

The word empty barrel is usually used for people who argue a lot or talk a lot but their implementation is not optimal and may even do nothing. This proverb is often used of people who are good at issuing words that motivate others, but the actor who is good at talking is not as smart as what he does, because the ability to speak with action is very different. Because the birth of a good action because of a brilliant thought, this is what sometimes or never known by people who are good at talking or arguing.

Empty tonk makes a loud sound
Empty klentangs talk a lot
Ocheh here and there there is no content
Shrimp brains say anything

The message of the meaning of this song is that when you speak, you definitely want to feel the best, most correct, especially if you have other capital than the people around you, but the reality is that in every presentation you have zero, this is what the lyrics of this empty tonk song title mean.

I chose this song, because it fits the theme chosen by our recent Spotlight Artist: @anna-newkey. That is "Moonshine"

Here are the full lyrics

Sedikit ngerti ngaku udah paham
Kerja sedikit maunya kelihatan
Otak masih kaya TK
Kok ngakunya sarjana
Ngomong-ngomongin orang
Kaya udah jagoan

Tonk kosong nyaring bunyinya
Klentang-klentong kosong banyak bicara
Oceh sana-sini nggak ada isi
Otak udang ngomongnya sembarang ah

Hak manusia ingin bicara
Hak manusia ingin bernyanyi
Kalau sumbang janganlah didengarkan
Kalau merdu ikutlah bernyanyi

Jangan ngelarang-larang
Jangan banyak komentar
Apalagi menghina

Tonk kosong nyaring bunyinya
Klentang-klentong kosong banyak bicara
Oceh sana-sini nggak ada isi
Otak udang ngomongnya sembarang

Lyric sources : https://www.lyricfind.com/