Hmmm after a long pause I am back in action.......
Yes this is all about our recent Gig at The Mobile Store, Koramagala. This was the place where we played our stuff in front of a dynamic audience. The attempt was to convert the dynamic audience to static audience... well.. well...well.. that's enough of engineering jargons dont scratch your heads there no sense .
The show date was 14-Jun-08 and we were booked a day before... Cool we had enough time to practice and perform... I think RiverX has something special about the Date 14th cos three months ago from that date i.e on 14-Mar-08,we as a band had performed at Genpact.. ..... Isn't that COOL.
Back to the point... exactly a day before on 13-June-08 I was in office trying to close some petty jobs and was preparing for the end of the weeks work. Suddenly Shubham pinged me and started talking about the weekend plans and songs on which we would Jam on Sunday, our chatting went on and there was a small pause!!! no response from Shubham, I pinged him again but no answer.While I was wondering what might have happened, I got a call from Shubham, and to my surprise he said " we have a show tomorrow so get prepared!!!". And we started thinking of the songs that can be played for the show. The requirement was, for a band who can perform for 4 long hours at a retail outlet for some special event. All together it was a promotional event for which they need a band. Hence our thought process was running at high speeds thus throwing the names of the suitable songs immediately on the paper, and within few minutes our playlist was ready but needed to be finalized. At the same time Shubham told about Dada's and Bharath's nonavailability for the show, and for us deciding to play as an incomplete band was hard :-(. Anyways commitment is a commitment and we had to move on..
Bips was also kept posted and we three finally decided to meet-up at Shu's home at 9.00 PM that night to practice. I finished all my jobs at office and rushed to home, packed my bags and drove away to Shubham's home. Once I reached the place Bips was already there and we had some snacks then kick started the Jam. That night we jammed till 12.30 AM Midnight and were able to complete songs back to back. The playlist was finalized and made suitable for a three piece band ( and not for two piece bikini gals ;) ) I was overall happy cos out of 6 songs three were new and we did that all well.
The night was over and the next morning Shu had to take his car back from the service station where he had given it for a FACE LIFT.After our breakfast we again started the Jam at 12.30 PM in the afternoon, the time was less!! we were informed by the event managers that the event would start from 4.00 PM and we had to complete doing 17 odd numbers . Finally a break through!!! We got the information that the Show will be at "THE MOBILE STORE" @ Koramangala, the juicy side of Bangalore. The Time was running out and some how we completed around 14 Kickass songs and we started for the show.On the way we were welcomed with a huge pile of traffic , honks, chicks and 10 -15 calls from Event managers.
Finally we reached at 5.00 PM assuming it as 4.00 PM... welll... this is what we call it as maintaining the punctuality in not being punctual.. well sorry event managers we were very late.....
We arranged everything.. the stage was small , we felt if Dada and Bharath would have come then we all five of them wouldn't have fitted. After arranging we started kicking asses. While all these preparation happened, our finely confused Bips forgot the most important thing , ie his handycam so that we could record our show which was our first motive for that show. He forgot the cam in his car, while we traveled in Shubham's car... It was an awesome situation for everyone and our intension to take good quality videos failed terribly. Well there was a reason behind that, Bips was traveling continuously form past three days and without any rest we had to Jam.... he was terribly exhausted. I dono how he could manage to play with a high fever.
As we started playing, people use to see our performance, stop for while, applauded and then moved on. The sound arrangement was awesome, the moving crowd was awesome too ;). I was trying to be naughty unknowingly, whenever i tried to play some drum track with full volume on my keyboards, the models who stood there near the speakers they jumped cos of fear as if some explosion had happened. I found this out then did thrice or four times willingly till they moved out of that place(They were distracting you know!!), I was playing devil but no one could make out, ha ha ha.(Mogambo Khush Hua). The Hunger was overwhelming as time passed and we were surviving on water.
With hunger acting a spoil sport we were loosing our energy song by song. I still remember we were playing Eric Clapton's wonderful tonight and as we finished the song, suddenly we heard someone clapping from faraway, we were searching for the person who clapped for us, but couldn't find . Again we heard the applause, and for our surprise , a lady on a bike who stood there waiting in the opposite road for the traffic signal to turn green, removed her helmet and waved and cheered (Cool Man RiverX has a decent fan crowd). That act of the female was like a punch to our performance , everyone got recharged and had a blasting performance till the end of the show...
Overall, the response was good. Feedback from the event managers was awesome.
And there ends another chapter of our musical journey.
Cheers!!
Zo
Yes this is all about our recent Gig at The Mobile Store, Koramagala. This was the place where we played our stuff in front of a dynamic audience. The attempt was to convert the dynamic audience to static audience... well.. well...well.. that's enough of engineering jargons dont scratch your heads there no sense .
The show date was 14-Jun-08 and we were booked a day before... Cool we had enough time to practice and perform... I think RiverX has something special about the Date 14th cos three months ago from that date i.e on 14-Mar-08,we as a band had performed at Genpact.. ..... Isn't that COOL.
Back to the point... exactly a day before on 13-June-08 I was in office trying to close some petty jobs and was preparing for the end of the weeks work. Suddenly Shubham pinged me and started talking about the weekend plans and songs on which we would Jam on Sunday, our chatting went on and there was a small pause!!! no response from Shubham, I pinged him again but no answer.While I was wondering what might have happened, I got a call from Shubham, and to my surprise he said " we have a show tomorrow so get prepared!!!". And we started thinking of the songs that can be played for the show. The requirement was, for a band who can perform for 4 long hours at a retail outlet for some special event. All together it was a promotional event for which they need a band. Hence our thought process was running at high speeds thus throwing the names of the suitable songs immediately on the paper, and within few minutes our playlist was ready but needed to be finalized. At the same time Shubham told about Dada's and Bharath's nonavailability for the show, and for us deciding to play as an incomplete band was hard :-(. Anyways commitment is a commitment and we had to move on..
Bips was also kept posted and we three finally decided to meet-up at Shu's home at 9.00 PM that night to practice. I finished all my jobs at office and rushed to home, packed my bags and drove away to Shubham's home. Once I reached the place Bips was already there and we had some snacks then kick started the Jam. That night we jammed till 12.30 AM Midnight and were able to complete songs back to back. The playlist was finalized and made suitable for a three piece band ( and not for two piece bikini gals ;) ) I was overall happy cos out of 6 songs three were new and we did that all well.
The night was over and the next morning Shu had to take his car back from the service station where he had given it for a FACE LIFT.After our breakfast we again started the Jam at 12.30 PM in the afternoon, the time was less!! we were informed by the event managers that the event would start from 4.00 PM and we had to complete doing 17 odd numbers . Finally a break through!!! We got the information that the Show will be at "THE MOBILE STORE" @ Koramangala, the juicy side of Bangalore. The Time was running out and some how we completed around 14 Kickass songs and we started for the show.On the way we were welcomed with a huge pile of traffic , honks, chicks and 10 -15 calls from Event managers.
Finally we reached at 5.00 PM assuming it as 4.00 PM... welll... this is what we call it as maintaining the punctuality in not being punctual.. well sorry event managers we were very late.....
We arranged everything.. the stage was small , we felt if Dada and Bharath would have come then we all five of them wouldn't have fitted. After arranging we started kicking asses. While all these preparation happened, our finely confused Bips forgot the most important thing , ie his handycam so that we could record our show which was our first motive for that show. He forgot the cam in his car, while we traveled in Shubham's car... It was an awesome situation for everyone and our intension to take good quality videos failed terribly. Well there was a reason behind that, Bips was traveling continuously form past three days and without any rest we had to Jam.... he was terribly exhausted. I dono how he could manage to play with a high fever.
As we started playing, people use to see our performance, stop for while, applauded and then moved on. The sound arrangement was awesome, the moving crowd was awesome too ;). I was trying to be naughty unknowingly, whenever i tried to play some drum track with full volume on my keyboards, the models who stood there near the speakers they jumped cos of fear as if some explosion had happened. I found this out then did thrice or four times willingly till they moved out of that place(They were distracting you know!!), I was playing devil but no one could make out, ha ha ha.(Mogambo Khush Hua). The Hunger was overwhelming as time passed and we were surviving on water.
With hunger acting a spoil sport we were loosing our energy song by song. I still remember we were playing Eric Clapton's wonderful tonight and as we finished the song, suddenly we heard someone clapping from faraway, we were searching for the person who clapped for us, but couldn't find . Again we heard the applause, and for our surprise , a lady on a bike who stood there waiting in the opposite road for the traffic signal to turn green, removed her helmet and waved and cheered (Cool Man RiverX has a decent fan crowd). That act of the female was like a punch to our performance , everyone got recharged and had a blasting performance till the end of the show...
Overall, the response was good. Feedback from the event managers was awesome.
And there ends another chapter of our musical journey.
Cheers!!
Zo
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