It was great to have Aditya Dipankar ( http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=9125229749940862084) come all the way from Bangalore to jam with us! He is great on the guitar and rendered beautiful numbers like 'Teri Deewani', 'Dooba Dooba'; 'Hey Bhagwaan' and 'Im in Mumbai Waiting for a Miracle' two beautiful songs from Raghu Dixit's self titled new Album! and not to forget 'Khudee' by Junoon
Just the day before, Id gone out with my roommate, Madhur, to the Juhu beach
and we'd taken the guitar along..and we had a great nice session of playing, mostly for ourselves there, squatting on the beach, when we gradually broke out into playing in our frantic frenzy style...and made some friends there, and talked to Tanya, one of our few appreciative audiences about the concept and asked her to be there at Bandstand for the Sunday's Jam; It was great to see her in the jam!
We started with "Write about it" from Lynyrd Skynyrd and I just feel so connected to that song..It makes we wish the whole world were a village, living at a pace which shows respect to the pace of nature..see this article on 'Appropriate technology' : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology
We moved on to our by now tried and trusted and rusted intro of the concept: "aap thodee der ke liye bhool jaiye kee aap kitni badi gaadee chalate hai, ya kitne chote ghar me rehete hai" and "for once forget all the judgements in your mind and become one on this platform of music" etc etc.
and then we moved on to playing some popular stuff, 'mae ree' (Tarun wont let one jam go until I wail out that song) and then we moved on to taking some requests, which Vinay and Aditya were pleased to play. We had Anil Swami who took to the djembe intermittently and it was great jamming with him!
We had great participation, with some real original compositions by some real people from the earthy, dhoti-kurta facet of India, accompanied by our unruly team of guitar toting (and drum bearing), disorganized, wanting-to-wail-out-a-message-to-the-world team of 'musicians'!
We finished with Vinay playing 'Baadshah in Jail' by Indian Ocean, Aditya Playing 'Khudee ko kar Buland' by Junoon and me with 'Laal Meri Pat' and 'Sanu Ek Pal Chain naa Aawey', done in our own "we are our own music" style!
Thats what Music For Meaning stands for me in a big way, a simple small scale platform to bring out creativity from all across-from the untrained, rusty folk innards of India to the refined Gharanas to us 'Moderns'; to become a fuzon melting pot enabling small community events-a platform for unhindered social interaction.
Here's the pic-story!:
The 'Band' is sprinkled like pepper in salt! 
oyeee! attitude? noooooo! thats some real 'song acting' (=acting out a song!)
This Guy who incidentally collects stuff nobody wants lying around, lying around (repetetion is intended) (which somebody throws) has ART inisde him! Khai ke Paan Banaras wala!
This guy from (a Village who's name I forget) in Bihar had some real neat compositions..about mata pita kee seva nahi karoge tau chaar janam tak dukkh paooge and some real nice bhajans! Incidentally you see me (jee haan aapka pyaara Suraj) standing encouraging company to the little uncertain performers!
Swami (On the Djembe) was a one from the audience who played with us! Vinay (stooping over the guitar) and Aditya (Arm over the guitar) give great company!
Cheers! Tarun finally makes it in this pic!No Windup pic this time! Sorry! from all of us at MFM..take the cares and keep the faiths and be Good and May God bless all!
