There is only one correct answer: Deep Purple, April 2001.

We were surprised to receive a number of incorrect answers that said Jethro Tull, which was our second support act in 2006. We also supported Megadeth and Machine Head in 2008.

Our winners: Jayanth S, Bharath R, Bhargava Venkatesh, Anil V Anand, Arul Baliah, Ananth R and Aseem Mudbidri.

Congratulations, folks! Take a bow-wow!

Samson Madella from Hyderabad asks this month’s question.

Complete the lyric: Tie-and-dye dreams _______
a. Fade Away
b. Are Here to Stay
c. Are Sooo 70′s
d. They Make Me Scream

Special affection awaits the winner who also identifies the song and the album. Bung in those answers.

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Fire away your answers to taaqmail[at]yahoo[duht]com or use the form below:
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Last time Snehal Pinto asked: In Brigade Street (Thermal And A Quarter, Jupiter Café, 2002), where and what does ‘Six floors up, one street down’ refer to?

The answer, of course, is 606, Barton Centre, TAAQ’s jam room and cubbyhole that was ‘six floors up’ from MG Road and ‘one street down’ from Brigade Road, two arterial roads of Bangalore’s business district. 606 was our pad during the time that our second studio album Jupiter Café was written, composed and released.

We are proud to announce that we have ten winners this time — the most ever (so much for asking sitters, Snehal!)

• Ananthapadmanabhan Ranganathan
• Anushya Badrinath
• Bharath R
• Hari Adivarekar
• Jayanth S
• Raheel Shariff
• Roshan Vid
• Samson Madella
• Sourav Das
• Suresh Raju

Congrats, all! Please join the queue for the prizes *grin*

Also see our special retrospective: Ten Years of TAAQ on the Web

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Last month we asked: Who performs Indian classical vocals on the title track of Jupiter Café?
The answer: Rajesh Mehar.

Winners: Raheel Shariff, Bharath R, Jayanth S, Sourav Das, Roshan Vid and our regulars Ananth Menon and Snehal Pinto. Congratulations, folks! Await your elusive prizes!

By the way, that question drew the maximum number of responses, a number of them all-correct ones. As a listener-supported, user-generated content-driven band, we felt that we were reserving the dirty pleasure of asking the tough questions. So, in a sweeping gesture of democracy, we decreed that this month on, past winners shall ask the questions.

Snehal Pinto asks: In Brigade Street (Thermal And A Quarter, Jupiter Café, 2002), where and what does ‘Six floors up, one street down’ refer to?

Use the form to bung in your answer.

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This issue’s quiz question:

Who performs Indian classical vocals on the title track of Jupiter Café?

e) Bruce Lee Mani

Use the form to send in your answer.

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The Shut Up and Vote Tour

You have already previewed ‘Shut Up and Vote’ on YouTube. Now, coming soon to your city, or a city near you, is the ‘Shut Up and Vote’ tour, part of the Jaago Re One Billion Votes campaign. This is an initiative of Janaagraha and Tata Tea.

We will play in five cities to get the youth together to stand up, shut up and… vote!

It’s interesting how some good folks in the blogosphere are already dishing out their cynicism and quasi-intellectual gibber about the campaign and its effectiveness. They yap about India and China, about the economy and their parsimony, about the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games, about Padma Shrees and Padma Laxmi. But hey, just for a minute, get off that high horse and do something, people.

And well, about our song.

Some of the comments on the music video made a big deal about language: some viewers thought the song ought to have been sung in Hindi. Heh, we’ve heard that one even before most of you started to Rock On! Our piece of advice: Try that in Chennai, my friend, and you’ll spend the rest of your years picking splinters out of your rear.

But seriously, language is a non-issue. If you have English newspapers and magazines, English TV news channels, and English theatre, if you can fill your bank application form in English, and sign your name in English, why Bollywood-ise our world?

Go to the neglected Northeast (we have) – English works there better than the officialese of Hindi. And then, we have always maintained that English – thought, written and spoken our way – is an Indian language, and that stays.

For those who haven’t heard us before, we urge you to listen to our songs a little more carefully. Potatoe Junkie, Humpty Dumpty, Cynical World, Galactiqua, Sevenish, The Steal, Chameleon… scratch the surface of these songs and you’ll get to the heart of the messages we have been spreading for the last 13 years. To that list, Shut Up and Vote is one more addition.

So, come and watch the concert. It’s the first step you can take before you use your index finger to make a difference.

And while you’re at it, we’ll practice what we preach.

Here’s the schedule:

MARCH 20: Open Air Theatre, IIT Madras, Chennai

MARCH 23: Presidency College, Kolkata

MARCH 25: Pragati Maidan, Lal Chowk, Delhi

MARCH 27: D.Y. Patil College, Mumbai

MARCH 28: St. Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore

Be there!

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