<em>It's been a while since I put in an entry, every week i thought that I would write, but i guess it just didn't happen. From Norfolk, Virginia, back to Mumbai, through a viral fever, then on to Singapore, only to figure that I'm not an engineer, so move on...Mumbai, 2 back to back gigs at High Spirts(Pune) and then Blue Frog(Mumbai), with Spook. The High Spirits one was pretty banging. the BF gig has some crappy, shitty sound which we could just not overcome, seems like we're plagued by some technical curse!!! Then on to Bangalore and Kerala for a road trip. Kerala didn't happen because of some TN-Kerala water dispute at a dam, other routes would take 12 hours from Bangalore. So we stayed on at Anurag's house, ate good food, played basketball, twisted ankles, drank Belgian Wheat beer, planned out an album, all in all a good end to 2011.</em>
2012 starts on a mind frying note, waiting for the great elusive frying licence cooped up in a house, unable to move out until dark, no, its not as occult or supernatural as you or I would like to think.
The upside, enjoying my solitude and playing my guitar.
As for progress, the best part - I did my first ever 1 hour solo set at the Blue Frog. Past all the excitement it was an opening set. 5 covers, 5 originals.
2 were Spook originals, 1 was a resurrected old Zephyr original, and 2 were something brand new I had written in the same week, 3-4 days prior to the gig, in a slightly different zone then Spook stuff, i would like to think.
So, counting Spook and this solo act, its 2 out of 4, if you've been following the blog, if not, go back and read....
The idea, with these random songs written, is to do something about them, work with people around, get inputs on them, and push them forward to developing into a style and package that they are produced/engineered into after jamming, playing and working on them. They will initially be played as acoustic songs, to be put out there, to be composed and tested, but when in recorded format, they will be spun, woven, and relaid (all you perves, that does not mean what you think it does), to come forward as somethign completely different. And yes, there will be more Blue Frog early sets, so all you frauds who claim to look forward to one and support me, can actually come forward and watch *sticks tongue out and makes choked face*, and these songs will be heard, acoustic, along with some covers.
However, if I ever do get a chance to get a 'solo' performance slot at the frog, I will take the full form of these tracks, as backing tracks, with guitars being played by me live, and with whoever I get to sing and play on these tracks, engineer a real 'show', so its not 'just' another gig. The aim is to create an experience, not just have people come and get off on some band or person standing around , playing a guitar and singing. Unfortunately, without name (read as social public OMG status), fame (read as something touted by the twatter oriented, fad-loving Twitterati ) and claim (to some big band/album at some point), the kind of people who will be ready to accept and absorb and enjoy something like this with an open mind, will probably be a close friends' circle lot,and family, which for me is pretty darn limited. Wishes, horses, Ifs, buts...
<strong>As for plans made for the next couple of months.</strong>
Spook goes into working on our 2nd studio effort sometime soon, as soon as this goddamned house arrest and waiting for my licence is done. 8 songs, working with Kenny Wilson of Caesars Palace , Moon - Arre etc as co-producer and recording engineer. Drums, Keys, Bass will most probably be done in Mumbai, but for vocals and guitar parts, heading down to Bangalore seems like a good option so far. The plan is to take a little more time over this one as opposed to the 7 day charge that we pulled Underwaterseabird off in.
In other news, Anis Gandhi gets married at the end of this month and then once again with full ceremonies at the end of Feb. Another Spook drummer departs due to the same reasons as the previous one, not enough gigging to make the cut etc etc, same bugger all shit that gets caused by monopolies and other such bastardy that locks out dates and venues(reference to rant a few paragraphs back).
Music plans 3 and 4 will hopefully get under way soon, let's see how that goes and progresses, and hopefully, we will all(including myself) see more regular updates and posts on this blog. Come next post, I'm going to upload those tracks from the Blue Frog of the two new originals.
For now, I shall sign off, though I'm not entirely sure whether I'm following plans that I made, got angrier, calmed down and so on. Let's see where this goes.
Cheers,
Beast
2012 starts on a mind frying note, waiting for the great elusive frying licence cooped up in a house, unable to move out until dark, no, its not as occult or supernatural as you or I would like to think.
The upside, enjoying my solitude and playing my guitar.
As for progress, the best part - I did my first ever 1 hour solo set at the Blue Frog. Past all the excitement it was an opening set. 5 covers, 5 originals.
2 were Spook originals, 1 was a resurrected old Zephyr original, and 2 were something brand new I had written in the same week, 3-4 days prior to the gig, in a slightly different zone then Spook stuff, i would like to think.
So, counting Spook and this solo act, its 2 out of 4, if you've been following the blog, if not, go back and read....
The idea, with these random songs written, is to do something about them, work with people around, get inputs on them, and push them forward to developing into a style and package that they are produced/engineered into after jamming, playing and working on them. They will initially be played as acoustic songs, to be put out there, to be composed and tested, but when in recorded format, they will be spun, woven, and relaid (all you perves, that does not mean what you think it does), to come forward as somethign completely different. And yes, there will be more Blue Frog early sets, so all you frauds who claim to look forward to one and support me, can actually come forward and watch *sticks tongue out and makes choked face*, and these songs will be heard, acoustic, along with some covers.
However, if I ever do get a chance to get a 'solo' performance slot at the frog, I will take the full form of these tracks, as backing tracks, with guitars being played by me live, and with whoever I get to sing and play on these tracks, engineer a real 'show', so its not 'just' another gig. The aim is to create an experience, not just have people come and get off on some band or person standing around , playing a guitar and singing. Unfortunately, without name (read as social public OMG status), fame (read as something touted by the twatter oriented, fad-loving Twitterati ) and claim (to some big band/album at some point), the kind of people who will be ready to accept and absorb and enjoy something like this with an open mind, will probably be a close friends' circle lot,and family, which for me is pretty darn limited. Wishes, horses, Ifs, buts...
<strong>As for plans made for the next couple of months.</strong>
Spook goes into working on our 2nd studio effort sometime soon, as soon as this goddamned house arrest and waiting for my licence is done. 8 songs, working with Kenny Wilson of Caesars Palace , Moon - Arre etc as co-producer and recording engineer. Drums, Keys, Bass will most probably be done in Mumbai, but for vocals and guitar parts, heading down to Bangalore seems like a good option so far. The plan is to take a little more time over this one as opposed to the 7 day charge that we pulled Underwaterseabird off in.
In other news, Anis Gandhi gets married at the end of this month and then once again with full ceremonies at the end of Feb. Another Spook drummer departs due to the same reasons as the previous one, not enough gigging to make the cut etc etc, same bugger all shit that gets caused by monopolies and other such bastardy that locks out dates and venues(reference to rant a few paragraphs back).
Music plans 3 and 4 will hopefully get under way soon, let's see how that goes and progresses, and hopefully, we will all(including myself) see more regular updates and posts on this blog. Come next post, I'm going to upload those tracks from the Blue Frog of the two new originals.
For now, I shall sign off, though I'm not entirely sure whether I'm following plans that I made, got angrier, calmed down and so on. Let's see where this goes.
Cheers,
Beast
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