Hello People,
Had been a very long time huh!
Yeah that’s true that it had been a very very very looong time since we had posted any new stuff on the blog. I think you might have already thought of forgetting us thinking RiverX has gone inactive, before even we could make some room in your minds to stick there forever. But we make this clear that RiverX cannot go inactive for any reasons. And please don’t keep any apprehensions. This post of mine proves that we are healthy and have become far far more active than before. It was just a transitional time-out that everyone had taken due to multiple reasons. We need to have stuff before we make a bang again and we were making that stuff ready during this time-out.
It was really strange and acceptable that life was experimenting on us and we all were experimenting with the life. A lot had happened during this period, and just to express we might need a 20000 pages note book which I doubt may fall short. So shall not try and make this too complicated or else I would get sued by the environmentalists for unnecessary usage of paper. SO! I would just cut down the unnecessary and shall jump on to few necessary and important things that had happened.
First of all Ashish da our drummer left due to his personal commitments, which is a bad news. Good news is that RiverX got a new member Kishore a replacement for Ashish da and later Bharath went busy for a while in Arth’s recording for good. After all these downs and ups, we jammed, jammed and jammed, built enough material to kick ass and were waiting for a right opportunity to unleash the energy which was there due to resilience. That’s when we got an opportunity to play at Sammad 09 at Durgotsav, Koramangala on 27th September 2009. A gig similar to what we had played a couple of years back on the same place.
Though it was a similar show, it was altogether a different experience we had. The stage was bigger, brighter and sound was awesome and audiences were a lot lot better. This show was a bit special, the reasons would be that, this was our first show in 2009, the first show we performed with our new member Kishore, Bipin's debut as singer :) and the show where we debuted most of our original compositions in front of a rock savvy and a wider audience. The show was more of a competition kind and unfortunately there were only 2 bands who had registered. Shame to say this for a competition but it’s whimsical. Well there was one more band besides 2 which were expected which didn’t turn up on time. Or else it would have justified the meaning of competition.
Without any countering the organizers asked us to hit the stage first and in the last moment Shubham found out that the lyrics for Paranoid was missing and had to copy the same from internet using GPRS on my cell phone :) Technology boss! Use it till it gets outdated!!! Or else u would miss a chance. Funnier thing was none of us had a pen to copy for which we had to borrow the same from a security guard. Well I had promised him that I will return it, but couldn’t. I am sorry boss! I shall return it in the next show same place almost same time but next year.
Soon we started off and as planned started to execute our play-list one by one. We started off with Another Brick in the Wall-The X Version and soon taking on our own compositions Droh, Zindagi Se Bhari, Ek, Quaza and ended with covering Paranoid-Black Sabbath. The stage time was constrained to 30 minutes and 6 songs exactly packed the time frame. As our play-list moved on song by song the crowd too enjoyed every bit of it. The songs that we had put on a small test had paid off with the reactions from the audiences.
This was a show that looked like a perfect rock show with Kick ass energy, Kick ass stage, Kick ass songs and Kick ass audience. The rains of appreciation started showering, especially Bharath, Kishore and Shubham due to their shear explosive energy. The whole of the band got some good opinions and suggestions from experts and critics. Soon after that the next band performed. Later came the better part of the show “the announcement” where we were felicitated for our victory and received cash prize as reward and that was the end of the show. Yet another important show to count on, that acted as a booster dose to us shouting ”Guys Pull up the Socks, It’s Time to Rock Now!!” No matter what, this show will definitely fall in our fond memories and we take this as another major curve in the relentlessly flowing RiverX..
