Another festive day and another jam of "the evergrowing people's band" rocked it up with many of the core members of the band missing and we missing them too.
With the absence of Pulin the jam took off this time with Yogi, Rachit and his friend (sorry) taking stage who beagn strumming their guitars and our percussionists - Tarun and Chintan providing the energetic beats on the Djembe and Snair resp. The competitor's of the T20 dance girl's went missing while Suraj and Vinay were still on their journey sperading MFM. Our regulars Sanjay, Ali, Pradeep were also present who participated and of course encouraged us...Tarun and Sanjay took the lead to explain our purpose of the there and spreading our concept to the wonderful audience. The crowd too appreciated our spirits, requesting for their favourtie songs and participating along with us.
The highlight of the evening that day was the entry of Mr. Kekoo Gandhi who wasn't alone this time. He had brought along with him Mrs. Geetu Rajeha who also participated in the jam. She sang for us two english songs that created a magic in the atmosphere. Her soulful voice changed the entire evening and made it all so much better...She too seemed very happy and appreciated the concept of us young generation making an effort to change the environment.
I apologize on the delay of the posting of this write up and also because we couldn't capture the eventful evening in pictures...
- Kailash
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
the Traveller's Spirit---- 7th October 07
The jam that rocked the spirits as two of our lone travellers Suraj and Vinay chose to take on the little known streets to spread the spirit of jam, nevertheless the bands' stand at Bandra and so did we !!!! Though we missed our colleagues in the fun, some new faces and an already awaiting audience cheered us along..!!! The crowd now seems to multiply everytime and that puts the whole wave to "rock and roll "with people from all age groups diving in the fun and making us realize we are " an evergrowing people's band"and the MFM spirit is spreading.. and catching up the best hues ...The audience volunteer on the common platform to raise a voice against issues we yearn for and again we Dive in the Music that is made for a meaning... hmm
The special attraction of the jam though this time was its transformation from the once allotted "all man jam band " to an " all woman jam band" as pretty ladies came up from the audience raised issues for the global warming and even danced and honed our vocals this time!!!Mrs Poonam Sharma volunteered to address the audience and talk about global warming as Jatin Sharma ( nah, not her son though , just that sharmas got together hehe),, the assisstant producer working with Red Fm briefed on the same issue.
-Our pretty smart men Pulin, Kailash,Chintan, Danish, Tarun performing their best skills on guitars and "djembe" --- u already know who plays that, right???;; were this time hidden behind as girls and ladies took to dancing centre stage !! Akanksha,her friend , Gauri and ofcourse me hopped enough so as to give the T20 dancing girls a hard competition with our dancing skills ( laugh out aloud), yes and then we were joined in by aunties and bhabhis , and girls and yes yes not to mention some men later joined in to dance!!!!Rachit and Sanjay are now well enough trained to complete in our lesser known songs and provide us with good vocals although they were also asked to favour us by clicking on the best moments as both our photographer and the digicam went missing !!! but sorry people yet the pics are so dark ,,you shall hardly identify me or for that matter aneone there, lolz , so we shall be putting up with just one pic,,that was taken in broad daylight to give a proof to Suraj when he is back that ---- we were there ---- hehe YES WE WERE!!!
Well also we had Pradeep our team , our regular audience, and participant who claps the loudest u bet hehe , a painter by profession who recently made waves with his works of arts in many of the leading newspapers and was applaused by our gratifying audience!!!As for the day to give a dawn , Tarun made the lasting beats,Kailash, Pulin and Danish made the guitars go rocking and yes Chintan was finally spotted sitting in the audience, hiding amongst the bhabhis hehe and requesting a song!!! hmm Chintan!!!! As for the girls , the day dint seem to end , but hey travellers we missed you, although we know U making waves there too!!!!!!
and to this long pending update , all you audience,,, I am here for a written apology , for
We have known how you await us there at 6.oclock sharp every sunday and last sunday when we couldnt make us to your smiles ;we swear ----- We all missed them too !!!! so get back to Rock ,, times ahead ,,, many more to go!!!!!
the band's stand at BAND STAND!!!
The special attraction of the jam though this time was its transformation from the once allotted "all man jam band " to an " all woman jam band" as pretty ladies came up from the audience raised issues for the global warming and even danced and honed our vocals this time!!!Mrs Poonam Sharma volunteered to address the audience and talk about global warming as Jatin Sharma ( nah, not her son though , just that sharmas got together hehe),, the assisstant producer working with Red Fm briefed on the same issue.
-Our pretty smart men Pulin, Kailash,Chintan, Danish, Tarun performing their best skills on guitars and "djembe" --- u already know who plays that, right???;; were this time hidden behind as girls and ladies took to dancing centre stage !! Akanksha,her friend , Gauri and ofcourse me hopped enough so as to give the T20 dancing girls a hard competition with our dancing skills ( laugh out aloud), yes and then we were joined in by aunties and bhabhis , and girls and yes yes not to mention some men later joined in to dance!!!!Rachit and Sanjay are now well enough trained to complete in our lesser known songs and provide us with good vocals although they were also asked to favour us by clicking on the best moments as both our photographer and the digicam went missing !!! but sorry people yet the pics are so dark ,,you shall hardly identify me or for that matter aneone there, lolz , so we shall be putting up with just one pic,,that was taken in broad daylight to give a proof to Suraj when he is back that ---- we were there ---- hehe YES WE WERE!!!
Well also we had Pradeep our team , our regular audience, and participant who claps the loudest u bet hehe , a painter by profession who recently made waves with his works of arts in many of the leading newspapers and was applaused by our gratifying audience!!!As for the day to give a dawn , Tarun made the lasting beats,Kailash, Pulin and Danish made the guitars go rocking and yes Chintan was finally spotted sitting in the audience, hiding amongst the bhabhis hehe and requesting a song!!! hmm Chintan!!!! As for the girls , the day dint seem to end , but hey travellers we missed you, although we know U making waves there too!!!!!!
and to this long pending update , all you audience,,, I am here for a written apology , for
We have known how you await us there at 6.oclock sharp every sunday and last sunday when we couldnt make us to your smiles ;we swear ----- We all missed them too !!!! so get back to Rock ,, times ahead ,,, many more to go!!!!!
the band's stand at BAND STAND!!!
Monday, October 8, 2007
The low and high, slow and fast jam of 23rd Sept @ Bandra Bandstand
When Ali sent in the weather report that day, it was not good news-he reported bad weather and we decided to call the jam off but a stinger call from Monika and Pulin (who had already endeavoured to reach bandstand) sent everyone skeltering and getting there! I got there late and in a philosophical and contemplative mood, wanting to keep it all low key...We started with some Credence Clearwater Revival, some great meaningful songs and I felt that I had been missing playing these songs, for the jam is primarily all Hindi singing. Not that its a bad thing, for the jam should be beyond genres and languages, and there is no dearth of meaning in Hindi music, and one of the purposes of the jam is to bring people together and playing popular music helps to do that.
We had a bit of discussion about the purpose of the jam, about our individual roles and what each one seeks out of them, and how do we benefit fulfilling our and thus others' requirements (for human needs are more or less common..belonging to a community, interacting with like minded people, finding an uninhibited atmosphere to let go..etc. etc.) and we discussed regarding the jam wagon road trip that some of us had planned to embark upon (and are now almost through with) .
Coming back to the more real things of the jam, we started pretty low key, but a young 14 years old son-of-a-gun called Aakash livened up the whole evening with his energy. A wannabe in the city of dreams, he was on the point of returning home when he met us at bandstand and got everyone enthralled. Another closed group at bandstand who seemed to be rivalling us (!!) let go of their inhibitions and joined in the fun with us! We ended with some rain forcing us to hit the road. It was a good jam. A jam of reflection for me, and as I sit here in Bhopal and write this long due post, and having missed one jam in Mumbai, in a bittersweet way, I have a renewed hope that MFM will spread far and wide! Keep on rocking in a free world!
Points to ponder? we were in a thoughtful mood...
till Aakanksha and Monika brought cheers along!
and got the tempo going....
Thats the guy who took centerstage (literally!) , thats a 14 year old wannabe rockstar for you!
We play while Monika is upto her mischief tactics!
Pulin Dada!
Interview time! thats a mock interview under process with the 'founder of MFM' ! Laugh Out Loud!
From all of us at MFM! time to go home and leave the sea in Peace!
We had a bit of discussion about the purpose of the jam, about our individual roles and what each one seeks out of them, and how do we benefit fulfilling our and thus others' requirements (for human needs are more or less common..belonging to a community, interacting with like minded people, finding an uninhibited atmosphere to let go..etc. etc.) and we discussed regarding the jam wagon road trip that some of us had planned to embark upon (and are now almost through with) .
Coming back to the more real things of the jam, we started pretty low key, but a young 14 years old son-of-a-gun called Aakash livened up the whole evening with his energy. A wannabe in the city of dreams, he was on the point of returning home when he met us at bandstand and got everyone enthralled. Another closed group at bandstand who seemed to be rivalling us (!!) let go of their inhibitions and joined in the fun with us! We ended with some rain forcing us to hit the road. It was a good jam. A jam of reflection for me, and as I sit here in Bhopal and write this long due post, and having missed one jam in Mumbai, in a bittersweet way, I have a renewed hope that MFM will spread far and wide! Keep on rocking in a free world!
Points to ponder? we were in a thoughtful mood...
till Aakanksha and Monika brought cheers along!
and got the tempo going....
Thats the guy who took centerstage (literally!) , thats a 14 year old wannabe rockstar for you!
We play while Monika is upto her mischief tactics!
Pulin Dada!
Interview time! thats a mock interview under process with the 'founder of MFM' ! Laugh Out Loud!
From all of us at MFM! time to go home and leave the sea in Peace!L to R, Zig Zag, Pradeep, Monka, Aakash, Suraj, Jitin, Kailash, Pulin, Dont know name (Sorry!)
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