The 'Ganpati Bappa Morya' Jam of 16th Sept @ Bandra

A nice eventful jam. Although it was a day of the Ganpati Visarjans for many, and quite a few of our gang was not there, but you see our jam is no less than a religious ritual and it goes on! And we thought of merging the jam with the Ganpathi processions and being part of the great spirit of this unique festival of Mumbai. Quite a few people from the last jam appeared again to be part of the ever growing band. Deepti, an outdoor broadcaster from Red FM covered the jam, interviewed us (me hehe!) about the concept and braodcasted excerpts the next day on 93.5 FM at 9:30 Am. Another of Vinay's friend was interested to publish about the concept as well. A nice Ganpathi song which we improvised on the moment for the spirit of the Ganpathi festival, was aired as well! We wore the T-shirt banners advertising MFM's jam and website and also distributed the "I support MFM" badges. We passed a scrapbook around for comments and got many nice uns! We also had the honour of having Vinod Shreedar, who works with Leslie Nazareth in Phasefive (www.phasefive.org), an entrepreneurial organization which works for a more holistic world (please go through the whole site for a proper intro) be part of the jam!

For the guitar-bashers, it was the day of the string breaks, with passions running high! A lot of people participated and we had some nice talent on board! Gajendra and Dependra, the two guitar gangs kept up the jam with full spirit while we talked to people who wanted to know about the concept!

So here is how it went: (Thanks Nishant as usual for covering the 'event'!)

Pre-jam gymnastics! @ Bandra Bandstand artiste's court! Some stage effects!

Vinod Shreedhar (Standing, white T blue jeans) talks while Vinay does his usual antics!

The 'Bannered Band': we wear the T-shirt stick on that talk of the MFM concept. Vinay is a defaulter-not wearing it!

Dedicated Drummer!

Thats not a duplicate of Mahatma Gandhi, Thats our rangeen Shukla who's just donated his hair for the betterment of mankind

We speak about the concept to the people..

'Shiny happy people' (nice single by R.E.M)

This guy Bharat was from Apni Dilli and really enjoyed singing and dancing along the request he made!

A bird's eye view..

That's Kailash (left sitting!) and not Kailasha! all sing with passion!

Vinay is trying to pounce on Suraj? no that's his way of clapping...

Deepti from Red FM records as Gajendra sings on!

Deependra and his friend have become regulars now since 2 times! they play and sing very well!

Another dedicated Drummer! Thats Tarun now, that day without his Djembe!

Kailash sings as Deepti Records..

People writing healthy things on the scrapbook we passed along! No we dint force anybody!

This guy came up with some soulfull singing-'straight from the heart'

Gajendra has become our official string-breaker! he broke 2 this time!

It was this beautiful lady's Birthday and her pals dedicated a song to her! MFM does some heart stiching!

Paul, from a local Bandra gang came up to play

Good night! Sitting, L to R: Arvind, Gajendra, Richard and Gang,

Second Row: Pradep, Ali, Chintan, Deepti, Tarun, Deept's friends (name??), Suraj, Desmond

Top:Tarun's cousin, dont know who, Vinay, Bharti, Tarun's cousin