Saturday, November 12, 2005

LIVE!!

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This was probably the best time I had on stage! Everything was so perfect! A great venue, a good crowd and a magnificent performance...you are looking at pictures from 'Live at Heritage Institute Auditorium'!!
The song list was mixture of some classics and other utterly worthless compositions:
  • Coming Back to Life - Pink Floyd
  • Bandeh - Indian Ocean
  • Mama I'm Coming Home - Ozzy
  • Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd
  • Aadat - Jal
  • Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Greenday
  • Raatri - Original
  • Icche Dana - Lakkhichhara

I'm particularly not too proud about the last song, but sometimes you have to do stuff just for the crowd.

The ocassion was the Heritage Institute Freshers Party and I was the guest guitarist because apparently there is no bassist in the entire college!! But most people say that this isn't true and that I was invited because I'm a good friend of the college band members. Well, I'm still not convinced...not all colleges are as rich in musical talent as Xavier's!!

Our lead guitarist - Utsav.

And thats me...the Blazing Bassist!!


When the ambience is good you dont have to concentrate on playing, you start enjoying the whole performance. That's the good thing about this auditorium, its a cool place to perform at. The crowd was very annoying at times though, requesting Iron Maiden, Fossils, Megadeth, Hindi film songs and one guy even had the guts to request Bombay Rockers. That is sickening!! On the whole I had a good time. By the way I was a bit high during the performance on a couple of Crocins and a fever of 102 degrees!! Thats why I look pale and always in the same pose!!
Sorry for the poor quality of the pics...the a.c. was too strong and the camera-person was shivering in the cold!!

19 Comments:

Blogger Unjustified Insanity~~ said...

WTF??
dude why did u not tell me/ give me free tickets ????

Sun Nov 13, 03:03:00 PM 2005  
Blogger The Absolutist said...

Sorry dude, it was a freshers party...no outsiders allowed. Rest assured, you will be invited to my next concert (wait for the next blue moon!).

Sun Nov 13, 03:28:00 PM 2005  
Blogger Unjustified Insanity~~ said...

BLOG MEET

At Park street Barista

On 20th

3:30 PM

be there

Sun Nov 13, 11:05:00 PM 2005  
Blogger a-list said...

nice...better than ur usual posts...u look very doped out in the last photo tho...

Mon Nov 14, 12:06:00 AM 2005  
Blogger The Absolutist said...

lol!!...yes i was high on fever!!

Mon Nov 14, 12:17:00 AM 2005  
Blogger Loony Libberswick of Llapland said...

hey!! I thought you weren't doing this! But cool! You rock as a bassist, and well, you're pretty awesome with lead as well!

Mon Nov 14, 09:24:00 PM 2005  
Blogger The Absolutist said...

hey UI...i have a fusion instrumental thingy at Umang on wed16 1 o' clock.
So now u cant say i didnt invite ya!

Tue Nov 15, 01:35:00 PM 2005  
Blogger Aruni Bhattacharya said...

nice pics.

Tue Nov 15, 01:54:00 PM 2005  
Blogger Subhrajyoti Mukhopadhyay said...

correction : icche dana is by poroshpathor not lakkichara

Tue Nov 15, 02:02:00 PM 2005  
Blogger The Absolutist said...

yeah well whatever...lakkhichhara or poroshpathar... its all the same substandard music to me..so...

Tue Nov 15, 11:40:00 PM 2005  
Blogger Bone said...

wow... if you can pull off a song without even knowing it, which i think was the case of the parashpathar/lakkhichhara/whatwasit song... you should be seriously good!

from the post it seems like you played with a band not your own. i'm not much into bands but the name utsav sounds kinda familiar... guy plays in jack rabbit? what about your own band?

Wed Nov 16, 12:23:00 AM 2005  
Blogger The Absolutist said...

ooooh! JackRabbit is THAT famous? well, i was a founder member of jackrabbit but left it quite some time back...they have really grown as a band...i miss playing with them. Utsav is my childhood buddy!! Brilliant guitarist! As for me...i can just about manage to play the bass and the guitar. I have no band to call my own (sob, sniffle)...actually i'm quite lazy..cant put up with regular practices and all that, so i just play very ocassionally.
Insignificant Existence!

Fri Nov 18, 12:09:00 AM 2005  
Blogger jaded said...

hey, am back after a long time!lost the link to your blog..anyways i have heard of jackrabbit too, cant remember where or why but i have heard of 'em.and thats saying a lot considering i am the last to know about music!nice to see you flunked an honours paper, am planning to do the same!

Fri Nov 18, 09:14:00 PM 2005  
Blogger Bone said...

i guess jack rabbit has become THAT famous (whatever that means) after winning the boom-bass-stick competition and the evening at someplace else, but i had heard of them before that. i happen to know a couple of guys from the band, that's how. though not utsav. so... given that you're a founder member, i believe you were from dbpc too, batch of '04?

Sat Nov 19, 10:38:00 PM 2005  
Blogger The Absolutist said...

Jackrabbit night at SPE was amazing! They had a great songlist which merged completely with the charm of SPE. I'm from the '03 batch of dbpc and so is utsav. You probably know inam and Sayatya, they are from '04.

Sat Nov 19, 11:14:00 PM 2005  
Blogger Bone said...

probably :)

Mon Nov 21, 04:40:00 AM 2005  
Blogger jaded said...

who is coming to our fest to play?dont tell me it's kunal ganjawala puhleese!

Mon Nov 21, 10:44:00 PM 2005  
Blogger The Absolutist said...

well...yes the ganja-seller is coming but for Beyond Barriers (its a money minting endeavour by the alumni, you hafta BUY a ticket for 150 bucks to enter...we normally choose to boycott the event)...unofficially, Xavotsav will be a sad affair this year due to a lot of technical and beauracratic reasons, so dont expect much. I have officially washed my hands off everything and am blissfully leading the life of a recluse!

Mon Nov 21, 10:53:00 PM 2005  
Blogger Delphic Oracle said...

yes...well, it's so lovely to hear u bitch about that ganja-seller...oops, I guess that was only analysis, not bitching.....

Fri Nov 25, 10:03:00 AM 2005  

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