That Day This MorningCategory Archive

It’s been a mad week (office work, band, band work, home, home work, folks, friends etc.) hence the delay in blog post. Now I will be fined my match fee by TAAQ management for this delay…grrrrr Anyway…

Missed the maiden gig wish I had missed the India Bangladesh match instead. Whaaat’s with these Indians man???… i think we need more mallus in our cricket team…. bleddy pandaram!

I’ve heard this ‘saying’ type thing :- 1 Indian s/w engineer is greater than 10 American s/w engineers put together but 10 Indian s/w engineers put together is worse than 1 American s/w engineer
Point being Indians suck when it comes to working as a team. There is so much potential in the individuals but when you put them together it gets all messed up. On the other side of the border our Paki bros n sisters also have their unity and team work issues but when they get together they can sometimes create magic…but then there’s no stop to that unity and team togetherness etc…it just goes off onto the other extreme and they collectively go nuts..all grow long beards and bring in religion into their sport etc etc its crazy!….then there is match fixing and the death of their coach and then getting the team to play again under such terrible conditions. It’s horrible….
It stops becoming a sport after a while.

I wonder if professionalism is the answer to good team work. I wonder if Professionalism exists in our wonderful Indian culture. We’ve had great individual stars, the Aryabhata’s and Tagor’s and mmm ok Sachin’s etc but very few Indian TEAMS that rocked on a world stage.
Then again professionalism could spoil the natural spirit of the sport… the magic and the uncertainty and unpredictability goes off… guess Professionalism in Sportsmanship and Musicianship kinda works the same way. Professional Musician/Artist….now is that an oxymoron? Should it be one? mmm ill go there some other time..

Coming back to sport these Aussies are great. No matter how professional they are about it they always enjoy their game, they have a blast. And If.. and a big IF they lose, they are the first to congratulate the other team and acknowledge that their opponents played better than them. I think our cricket team is good and if.. and a big IF we beat Sri Lanka on Saturday then its gonna be one hell of a killer ride ahead.
In the music/art scene the best part is that there is no winner or loser. Iron Maiden, another great TEAM that’s been at it together for what 40+ years… super guys.

I think Bruce Dickenson has some mallu blood somewhere in him and Steve Harris chetan is definitely from Kottayam

Oops its 2.00pm appol…lal salaam, rajeev

It is important to blog and I haven’t been doing it, purposely. My first and most important fear has to be poor spelling and grammar skills. TAAQ is quite an intimidating place to be when it comes to mass communication, journalism, content writing, copy writing, lyrics, vocabulary, reading habits, pronunciation, diction, studies, etc. I suck big time at all of the above..yet I embark on this “dig-baby-dig your own grave in public” type initiative. So here goes:

“Dream Girls, Metallica and bands that stuck together”
On Sunday I saw a Metallica rocumentary on VHI called “When Metallica ruled the world” and later on that evening i went to see the movie Dream Girls. As you can see I need to keep my musical schizophrenia in check at all times:) In any case the villain in both was the same, people id like to call the “band breakers”. Just like there are few individual believers of a band who ultimately are the key contributors to the success of a band there always are key players who break bands up. Metallica surely had a few of these people around them. To see the greatest force in heavy metal break down and destroy everything they were about and get into legal battles with fans and then lose key long term band members was really sad. The program was a documentary style thing with real footage of band meetings etc. It hurt to see a great band go through such a dive from being loved and worshipped to being bitterly hated.

I sometimes wonder why people HATE bands. They are just musicians out to entertain you, if you don’t like it that’s cool but the HATE is scary. And the hatred towards Heavy Metal music by the non-metal heads is a lot more potent that the reciprocal hatred towards Pop n Disco from the metal freaks. The number of pricks who were up against Metallica for the Napster shit was crazy, people who in any case knew nothing about their music just got a great juicy opportunity to screw the band more….F’ing B*#^hes!!

Anyways in Dream Girls, despite its melodrama that could have put Bollywood to shame, it very theatrically shows how commercial sense in replacing a band member and carrying on can remove the soul from a group. The movie goes on to prove how the longevity and success that comes along with such commercial moves is pretty fake musically.

Guys like RHCP, Aerosmith and U2 who for the most part at least stuck to their original line-ups are truly kick-ass. Im sure they met a few ‘band breakers’ in their life span and probably had burnt their fingers once or twice.
And if you notice, suddenly its becoming all hip to be in a long standing band..i mean what was Sting thinking when he quit the Police and now why get back, Similarly RATM why get back after shagging alone or being part of some other scene. Pretty sucky me thinks.

AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Rolling Stones, U2, RHCP, Led Zep, Nirvana, Beatles these are the boys who stuck together through everything without breaking up. That’s the tough part.. not making the music or marketing it etc…

OOOK I better stop now, but lots more gyan coming.. so waatchout! waatchout! for the mean mean mean mean … chowmeen