Saturday, February 25, 2006
Great Indian Rock 10
Last weekend, RSJ's 10 annual Great Indian Rock fest was held at Pragati maidan, Delhi.
I headbanged on the second day, with Zero ...
The show began with Cassini's Division, who played an impressive and animated all-original set. Next were Medusa, with their sampler ... they played tight, and they showed great energy ...
The crowd roared when Demonic Resurrection entered the fray ... most of the rioting in the moshpit was when DR was on-stage ... their guitarist had sound troubles ... but it was finally sorted out
Next was Perestorika ... but their sound mixing was not good ... their guitars could hardly be heard ... though u did see the lead guitarist trying very hard and playing very-visually-impressing looking guitar ...
Zero, the most-awaited band of the day, the veterans who have set the Indian Rock scene afire, finally took stage ... they played some new songs, a funky cover of Sting's Roxanne, Lucy ... and a great rendition of Mariachi ... after every song, those of us near the moshpit kept shouting PSP PSP PSP ... and Bobby and Warren and Rajeev were trying hard not to pay attention to us ...
Finally, Zero was left with 5 minutes, and their last song, began with slow opening bars ... the crowd felt it was a new one and started tapping their feet ... we fans were dissappointed ... and then suddenly we realised that it was a mellowed down intro to PSP!
At that moment the moshpit went wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillllllllllllddddddddddddd ... and then they finally kicked off into PSP ... and no one in the crowd was left 'standing by'
The last band of the day, firangi guests from Britain, "Your codename is: Milo" took stage. The only thing that went against them was that Zero had played before them ... they were a good Brit-rock band ... if you like that kinda thing ... anyway, their bassist kept the junta entertained with his antics ... and his yellow t-shirt was in great demand ... he didnt do a Salman Khan though ... much to our disappointment ...
All in all, a good spend of Rs 150/- (better than watching a dumb Hindi movie at your nearby PVR)
I headbanged on the second day, with Zero ...
The show began with Cassini's Division, who played an impressive and animated all-original set. Next were Medusa, with their sampler ... they played tight, and they showed great energy ...
The crowd roared when Demonic Resurrection entered the fray ... most of the rioting in the moshpit was when DR was on-stage ... their guitarist had sound troubles ... but it was finally sorted out
Next was Perestorika ... but their sound mixing was not good ... their guitars could hardly be heard ... though u did see the lead guitarist trying very hard and playing very-visually-impressing looking guitar ...
Zero, the most-awaited band of the day, the veterans who have set the Indian Rock scene afire, finally took stage ... they played some new songs, a funky cover of Sting's Roxanne, Lucy ... and a great rendition of Mariachi ... after every song, those of us near the moshpit kept shouting PSP PSP PSP ... and Bobby and Warren and Rajeev were trying hard not to pay attention to us ...
Finally, Zero was left with 5 minutes, and their last song, began with slow opening bars ... the crowd felt it was a new one and started tapping their feet ... we fans were dissappointed ... and then suddenly we realised that it was a mellowed down intro to PSP!
At that moment the moshpit went wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillllllllllllddddddddddddd ... and then they finally kicked off into PSP ... and no one in the crowd was left 'standing by'
The last band of the day, firangi guests from Britain, "Your codename is: Milo" took stage. The only thing that went against them was that Zero had played before them ... they were a good Brit-rock band ... if you like that kinda thing ... anyway, their bassist kept the junta entertained with his antics ... and his yellow t-shirt was in great demand ... he didnt do a Salman Khan though ... much to our disappointment ...
All in all, a good spend of Rs 150/- (better than watching a dumb Hindi movie at your nearby PVR)
