You used to be cool dude!
There was a time (in Delhi) when if you wanted to listen to good Rock, Great Indian Rock was the mecca for all the head-bangers.
Back then, live music was not that popular in pubs (It was either heavily taxed or banned - no clue). And apart from college fest's (IIT's Rendezvous in particular), there was a serious dearth of Rock gigs in the Delhi Circuit. GIR came as a respite for all the rock lovers.
Solid, good rock for 2 days - What else could a guy ask for.
Things changed. Gigs were taking place every now and then. The Mezz, Turquoise Cottage, Cafe Morrison, Haze, Cafe Thai - Go to any of these places and you'll be served with fresh live music along with the usual affair. So, going by the market dynamics (hi-fi jargon) your target audience had to be more specific.
And finally, I'm proud to say - We have arrived.
GIR, rather than offering you a variety of genres, presents to you good (sic!), clean, distortion-friendly heavy death metal!
Well, that's good as well as bad.
Good for those who know what they want and what they are going to GIR for.
And bad for those who are either old timers like us and newbies who want to get a taste of rock (all that howling and mosh associated with death metal can actually be a turn off)
So the need of the hour is 2 GIR's :D
- one for the college kids (ya they look like kids now)
- one for the oldies like us (sad to say this, but We are a bunch of oldies now)
RSJ, are you listening?
God, are you listening?
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Around four years ago four specimens of the ape-descended species, which inhabit this utterly insignificant little blue green planet met. After a few months of relatively formal chit-chat they realized that they shared amongst them a rare brand of insanity. This blog is an attempt by these very same specimens and their friends to share their plethora of thoughts which range from the insanely sane to simply, insane.
5 comments:
Yeah I totally agree with you blath ... old timer, oldies etc are precisely the terms that used to come to my mind whenever I went to a rock show over the past 1 year .... couldn't recognize the songs.... I guess I am getting old [:(]
You sad little oldies....mature is the word :D
But seriously, metal ain't all bad, but only when served with the right mix of classic rock, alternative, punk, funk etcetera etcetera ;-)
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And not to forget the jazz-blues-et-al that we are (at least I'm) now beginning to experience!
By the way, the comments from anonymous now seem to outweigh the actual ones :-(
zz9 started listening to jazz and blues! That's news to me :O
From Avril Lavigne to Louis Armstrong -- You've come a long way, dude.
I fail to understand why it's always u who brings up Avril Lavigne...a hidden liking, perhaps?? :D
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