Once again, long absences , promises made and broken, long drawn out bouts of creativity, activity, screaming, speed kings, jams, fireballs , blessed curses and the like.
a TRUCKLOAD happened, after the last post, pretty much.
1.The Timmy Verghese got married, and i'm not sure he's entirely come to terms with it yet, heh(that's me the cynic talking).
2.Spook successfully got a new guitar player on board, played 2 shows with him, and he is BRILLIANT!!! Michael Lee, priorly of KSM, PDV , Love Kamikaze and still of Aftertaste!!!! Its a blast having him on board, guitar driven Spook sound, getting closer, maybe we'll get there soon enough. He's bringing in some super tastefully lines and work into the songs, that's just getting the music off in the right way, all we need to do is to now translate this into album work. NO, the second album, currently titeld Lyrical Cynic, has NOT been tracked yet. Shall keep you posted on that. Though we did upload some kickass live tracks at www.soundcloud.com/spooktheband-1
We played one pretty fun show with guest musicians at the Blue Frog; Sidd Coutto, POzy Dhar, Anurag Shanker, Unni, Crosby, Zain Calcuttawala.... and sadly we got cut off just as we were about to play Top of the Rock, the most depressing part of the gig - HEH!!!!
Vaibhav Wavikar is now playing with Spook, some very good news, with Arfaaz coming in when the former can't make it. Arfaaz unfortunately fell sick and couldn't guest with us on a Zebediah Plush song, which supremely sucked.
For SPook, its now about completing the sound that we seem to be getting closer to, and recording the album.
I played another 2 early sets, 1 that was actually planned, which ended with me playing Someone like you - Adele. Yup, BIG surprise there, with a bunch of crazy bachelorette party types wanting to give me a hug 'coz your like...so so bitter dude'...haha..that was funny..The second one was actually a truckload of confusion, where i got booked for a set, but it wasn't confirmed, so i ended up actually starting at 8.15. Decent gig, played for 15 people, ate, drank, got paid(hoping to)..heh
I managed to put together a badass, full fun Deep Purple tribute at the Blue Frog, with 14 musicians on board. The turnout wasn't that great, shows the chuthia, bakchod fickle outlook of Mumbai on music. I mean, nobody's really in that space anymore, but hey, the point is to tribute something great, and come out to watch it. but 'Oh, we'll go out to watch Dylan tributes coz he likes, smoked n all bro ' (read aloud in stoner voice) - U MORONS!!!!! DEEP PURPLE WERE ON ACID - NOT COOL ENOUGH?!?!?!?!!?
Either way, the Frog was happy, and the 14 of us worked our butts off, and had an absolute BLAST playing the gig!!!! I sang Burn, Fireball, Speed King, Demon's Eye, Never Before, and joined in with everybody for the Smoke on the Water finale, which was crazy because Ravi Iyer and Vinay Lobo were messing around with the time signature of the song through the riff. The audience of course didn't really know what was going on. All in All full adrenaline pumping through out the gig, and well pulled off!!!! It was owned.
HELLWIND HAPPENED!!!!!!!! www.soundcloud.com/hellwind !!!!!!!
80 s MAD melodic band.....playing crazyass pop covers worked metal style. It's been completely insane working towards this hushed up project. We had a 1000 hits overnite on the first track!!!!! 1.5 hour gig as frontman at HRC Pune, nearly ,lost my voice, but it held, and I just went for it!!!!, I can't wait for more to happen with this band!!!!!!!I popped my frontman (minus guitar) + Metal cherry at that gig.
If it weren't for the Deep Purple gig, I wouldn't have know what the bloody hell to do at this one.....
Another licence rejection (yes....because i rehehehheaallly didn't expect that), some more desi DGCA bullshit about some rules being changed and some flying not being recognised and some babu in Delhi who decided to scratch his nuts and change another rule.
1 more project, which will actually involve me singing in Hindi on an entire album (details ONLY on album release - i'm sworn to secrecy on pain of death)
At the lightening nationals this year, i FINALLY popped my National title cherry as well!!!! after playing bridesmaid all these years, with Xerxes as skipper and Khusru on board as well, we nailed it, 5 out 5 guns. Not big, but hey - cherry popping is cherry popping.
An Italy trip which also involves visits to Cannes, Monaco, Pisa, Florence , begins this week, for the Doofus' graduation . Never thought I would see this day(wipes away a tear)..... but as they say, Never say Never..
I just realised - It sucks when too much happens in a span of 3 months and you need to Rush and catch up on it in one blog post that you're hurriedly writing because you got some chuthia inspiration to write just as Mother was making roast mutton with baked potatoes in mint sauce....and hence..this is a Test for Echo (we sincerely hope you're still out there and reading)
All the deep dark inspiration that got me to write, that sometimes made me NOT write, that sometimes caused worse things to happen in my head - seems to be lurking around somewhere, I'm just trying to get my hands on it , firmly.
Things change everyday, sometimes you write well, sometimes you summarize, and sometimes, well ; you're purely an entertainer and a story teller. I don't know which one this is, but i definitely know, that this is one of those lessons that teaches me to write more often, else one day I'll wake up and realise i've forgotten more then half my life...
I'll try to keep this next absence short....really short.
cheers.
Beast
a TRUCKLOAD happened, after the last post, pretty much.
1.The Timmy Verghese got married, and i'm not sure he's entirely come to terms with it yet, heh(that's me the cynic talking).
2.Spook successfully got a new guitar player on board, played 2 shows with him, and he is BRILLIANT!!! Michael Lee, priorly of KSM, PDV , Love Kamikaze and still of Aftertaste!!!! Its a blast having him on board, guitar driven Spook sound, getting closer, maybe we'll get there soon enough. He's bringing in some super tastefully lines and work into the songs, that's just getting the music off in the right way, all we need to do is to now translate this into album work. NO, the second album, currently titeld Lyrical Cynic, has NOT been tracked yet. Shall keep you posted on that. Though we did upload some kickass live tracks at www.soundcloud.com/spooktheband-1
We played one pretty fun show with guest musicians at the Blue Frog; Sidd Coutto, POzy Dhar, Anurag Shanker, Unni, Crosby, Zain Calcuttawala.... and sadly we got cut off just as we were about to play Top of the Rock, the most depressing part of the gig - HEH!!!!
Vaibhav Wavikar is now playing with Spook, some very good news, with Arfaaz coming in when the former can't make it. Arfaaz unfortunately fell sick and couldn't guest with us on a Zebediah Plush song, which supremely sucked.
For SPook, its now about completing the sound that we seem to be getting closer to, and recording the album.
I played another 2 early sets, 1 that was actually planned, which ended with me playing Someone like you - Adele. Yup, BIG surprise there, with a bunch of crazy bachelorette party types wanting to give me a hug 'coz your like...so so bitter dude'...haha..that was funny..The second one was actually a truckload of confusion, where i got booked for a set, but it wasn't confirmed, so i ended up actually starting at 8.15. Decent gig, played for 15 people, ate, drank, got paid(hoping to)..heh
I managed to put together a badass, full fun Deep Purple tribute at the Blue Frog, with 14 musicians on board. The turnout wasn't that great, shows the chuthia, bakchod fickle outlook of Mumbai on music. I mean, nobody's really in that space anymore, but hey, the point is to tribute something great, and come out to watch it. but 'Oh, we'll go out to watch Dylan tributes coz he likes, smoked n all bro ' (read aloud in stoner voice) - U MORONS!!!!! DEEP PURPLE WERE ON ACID - NOT COOL ENOUGH?!?!?!?!!?
Either way, the Frog was happy, and the 14 of us worked our butts off, and had an absolute BLAST playing the gig!!!! I sang Burn, Fireball, Speed King, Demon's Eye, Never Before, and joined in with everybody for the Smoke on the Water finale, which was crazy because Ravi Iyer and Vinay Lobo were messing around with the time signature of the song through the riff. The audience of course didn't really know what was going on. All in All full adrenaline pumping through out the gig, and well pulled off!!!! It was owned.
HELLWIND HAPPENED!!!!!!!! www.soundcloud.com/hellwind !!!!!!!
80 s MAD melodic band.....playing crazyass pop covers worked metal style. It's been completely insane working towards this hushed up project. We had a 1000 hits overnite on the first track!!!!! 1.5 hour gig as frontman at HRC Pune, nearly ,lost my voice, but it held, and I just went for it!!!!, I can't wait for more to happen with this band!!!!!!!I popped my frontman (minus guitar) + Metal cherry at that gig.
If it weren't for the Deep Purple gig, I wouldn't have know what the bloody hell to do at this one.....
Another licence rejection (yes....because i rehehehheaallly didn't expect that), some more desi DGCA bullshit about some rules being changed and some flying not being recognised and some babu in Delhi who decided to scratch his nuts and change another rule.
1 more project, which will actually involve me singing in Hindi on an entire album (details ONLY on album release - i'm sworn to secrecy on pain of death)
At the lightening nationals this year, i FINALLY popped my National title cherry as well!!!! after playing bridesmaid all these years, with Xerxes as skipper and Khusru on board as well, we nailed it, 5 out 5 guns. Not big, but hey - cherry popping is cherry popping.
An Italy trip which also involves visits to Cannes, Monaco, Pisa, Florence , begins this week, for the Doofus' graduation . Never thought I would see this day(wipes away a tear)..... but as they say, Never say Never..
I just realised - It sucks when too much happens in a span of 3 months and you need to Rush and catch up on it in one blog post that you're hurriedly writing because you got some chuthia inspiration to write just as Mother was making roast mutton with baked potatoes in mint sauce....and hence..this is a Test for Echo (we sincerely hope you're still out there and reading)
All the deep dark inspiration that got me to write, that sometimes made me NOT write, that sometimes caused worse things to happen in my head - seems to be lurking around somewhere, I'm just trying to get my hands on it , firmly.
Things change everyday, sometimes you write well, sometimes you summarize, and sometimes, well ; you're purely an entertainer and a story teller. I don't know which one this is, but i definitely know, that this is one of those lessons that teaches me to write more often, else one day I'll wake up and realise i've forgotten more then half my life...
I'll try to keep this next absence short....really short.
cheers.
Beast
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