Its been an interesting little while. Things have happened, things have changed. I've gone to places that I never thought I would be. From a career path that started out somewhere on the road to the Defence Forces, to brand consultancy, to sailing instruction, to music and events chief for a firm, to VP Marketing and Sales for Wishberry, to random freelancing, to putting together some random shows and playing them, while an attempted career at commercial flying started after brand consultancy and ended earlier this year.
When the shit hit the fan, there was a lot of number crunching, cursing the govt. desperately looking for solutions, talking to people from the aviation industry and figuring out whether it was worth putting another retirement plan towards flying.
With all the drama, people crashing aircraft, cabin crew randomly disengaging autopilots, fat bastard liquor barons not being tortured with intestine spillage, and people who said things like 'Oi chhad yaar , controller ne circle to land kahaa toh kya hua, main toh straight in he land karoonga', at flight school, getting jobs because they're endlessly funded and connected , and the all encompassing fact that i was more likely to get lucky winning a fortune in the Monaco casinos then gambling on conversion money at the DGCA and a type rating, I guess we decided that it wasn't really worth playing with all that green dough (although our currency comes in various shades of reds, purples etc as it were).
With a plan of action as to what NOT to do, at least there was certainty as to what direction not to go in. Beyond that, most things were seamless, literally, attempts to find work blended one into the other, and the most random work came my way, or rather didn't come my way.
I eventually ended up calling some one for a gig cheque follow up and ended up getting a job as his chief conspirator. Great job, with a studio, good boss, brilliant name and work in the Audio Engineering industry, very progressive and always ready and wanting to do more and more stuff. I've currently been thrown into manage our audio production team along with one mad and world famous audio engineer on a certain very large and prominent project. Its reasonably overwhelming , and there are reasonably frequent times when i spend a few seconds and then a few minutes as a large deer (not that i would physcially qualify from any angle) in a huge chain of spotlights. For some reason, people around here think that I know more of what's actually going on than others do. Its more than just interesting, because while i'm trying to often find answers from the people who actually do know what's going on, I'm pointing and laughing my ass off in my head at those who ask me questions (which really is nothing new, but i guess it shows how much of my time I actually spend doing that). Ah, how i love being pitched headlong into the deep end. (while i do get off on it, please, for those of you who don't really get it, please allow your wonderful sense of humour and its perception to register the reasonably prominent sarcasm ).
While i'm permanently arguing with myself for and against the concept of destiny, fate blah blah blah, i guess these things merit a mention. Within 2 weeks of starting work with Ashish at Flying Carpet Productions, I ended up singing my first tv commercial jingle, and then going on to sing my first track for a Bollywood movie. Pretty crazy, not something i EVER saw myself doing, even as a one off, which, chances are this probably is. heh. Me - singing in Hindi, trust me, everyone who heard that I did that, went quite riot laughing about it.
So here I am, one month, almost, into working fulltime in the music industry. Something I was probably fighting for the longest time. Spook, Hellwind, and JATP (new 3-piece acoustic project) go on, and evolve, and so far, touchwood, there's been a decent amount of opportuniy for me to give all 3 a little attention. I guess it won't be a whole lot until I've gotten the grip of this job entirely.
this is a link to a random scratch from the new project. www.soundcloud.com/akshay-deodhar
The Spook gig we played at Kino 108 was fully smashing and brilliant, progress i guess.
I also met Timmy Verghese, Ruth and Kirtana. Timmy clicked a pic of holding Kirtana with her smiling back at me and posted it online, which kind of had people tripping out on it for a bit. It was rather out of character for me :P . I managed to get away with getting him to lend me his USA made Fender Strat for a little while. Combined with my own Fender amp, its sounding absolutely delicious - I could literally eat the tones coming out of that rig right now.
On this train of thought, I guess I could pretty much keep writing(typing), and not stop, I'm vaguely having quite a blast in my head. I am currently an evil, team controlling, *insert whatever word you'd like to*.
I've been coming up with some ideas and plans of things to do, but more on those as it progresses. ( It - defined as just about anything you want to put in its place).
Like I said, shit may just get interesting around here. Now, while I know you feel there here is inside my head, it isn't, because inside my head its so interesting, that I don't even have a word to describe it.So, i'll stick to telling you what's going on JUST outside my head.
I'd like to say that its good to have you folks reading these installments and chapters that I keep putting up. I aim to give you a good, fun (albeit in my own twisted and oddball way) and entertaining read, which could pretty much be a textual version of 'we aim to please' . heh.
Until the next one,
Cheers,
Beast
When the shit hit the fan, there was a lot of number crunching, cursing the govt. desperately looking for solutions, talking to people from the aviation industry and figuring out whether it was worth putting another retirement plan towards flying.
With all the drama, people crashing aircraft, cabin crew randomly disengaging autopilots, fat bastard liquor barons not being tortured with intestine spillage, and people who said things like 'Oi chhad yaar , controller ne circle to land kahaa toh kya hua, main toh straight in he land karoonga', at flight school, getting jobs because they're endlessly funded and connected , and the all encompassing fact that i was more likely to get lucky winning a fortune in the Monaco casinos then gambling on conversion money at the DGCA and a type rating, I guess we decided that it wasn't really worth playing with all that green dough (although our currency comes in various shades of reds, purples etc as it were).
With a plan of action as to what NOT to do, at least there was certainty as to what direction not to go in. Beyond that, most things were seamless, literally, attempts to find work blended one into the other, and the most random work came my way, or rather didn't come my way.
I eventually ended up calling some one for a gig cheque follow up and ended up getting a job as his chief conspirator. Great job, with a studio, good boss, brilliant name and work in the Audio Engineering industry, very progressive and always ready and wanting to do more and more stuff. I've currently been thrown into manage our audio production team along with one mad and world famous audio engineer on a certain very large and prominent project. Its reasonably overwhelming , and there are reasonably frequent times when i spend a few seconds and then a few minutes as a large deer (not that i would physcially qualify from any angle) in a huge chain of spotlights. For some reason, people around here think that I know more of what's actually going on than others do. Its more than just interesting, because while i'm trying to often find answers from the people who actually do know what's going on, I'm pointing and laughing my ass off in my head at those who ask me questions (which really is nothing new, but i guess it shows how much of my time I actually spend doing that). Ah, how i love being pitched headlong into the deep end. (while i do get off on it, please, for those of you who don't really get it, please allow your wonderful sense of humour and its perception to register the reasonably prominent sarcasm ).
While i'm permanently arguing with myself for and against the concept of destiny, fate blah blah blah, i guess these things merit a mention. Within 2 weeks of starting work with Ashish at Flying Carpet Productions, I ended up singing my first tv commercial jingle, and then going on to sing my first track for a Bollywood movie. Pretty crazy, not something i EVER saw myself doing, even as a one off, which, chances are this probably is. heh. Me - singing in Hindi, trust me, everyone who heard that I did that, went quite riot laughing about it.
So here I am, one month, almost, into working fulltime in the music industry. Something I was probably fighting for the longest time. Spook, Hellwind, and JATP (new 3-piece acoustic project) go on, and evolve, and so far, touchwood, there's been a decent amount of opportuniy for me to give all 3 a little attention. I guess it won't be a whole lot until I've gotten the grip of this job entirely.
this is a link to a random scratch from the new project. www.soundcloud.com/akshay-deodhar
The Spook gig we played at Kino 108 was fully smashing and brilliant, progress i guess.
I also met Timmy Verghese, Ruth and Kirtana. Timmy clicked a pic of holding Kirtana with her smiling back at me and posted it online, which kind of had people tripping out on it for a bit. It was rather out of character for me :P . I managed to get away with getting him to lend me his USA made Fender Strat for a little while. Combined with my own Fender amp, its sounding absolutely delicious - I could literally eat the tones coming out of that rig right now.
On this train of thought, I guess I could pretty much keep writing(typing), and not stop, I'm vaguely having quite a blast in my head. I am currently an evil, team controlling, *insert whatever word you'd like to*.
I've been coming up with some ideas and plans of things to do, but more on those as it progresses. ( It - defined as just about anything you want to put in its place).
Like I said, shit may just get interesting around here. Now, while I know you feel there here is inside my head, it isn't, because inside my head its so interesting, that I don't even have a word to describe it.So, i'll stick to telling you what's going on JUST outside my head.
I'd like to say that its good to have you folks reading these installments and chapters that I keep putting up. I aim to give you a good, fun (albeit in my own twisted and oddball way) and entertaining read, which could pretty much be a textual version of 'we aim to please' . heh.
Until the next one,
Cheers,
Beast
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