Posts Tagged ‘bass’
Raghu Dixit Unplugged @ Swagath Garuda Landmarks (16th November 08)
It was quite a while since I'd seen Raghu Dixit perform live, even though I'd had a chance to pick his album up (and have him open the cover and autograph it thereafter, heh) and listen to it. The autographing was around the time I interviewed him for a cover story for RSJ, in April this year, which finally didn't happen for reasons I'm not [...]
Band Photo
So, the other day, our friend Shrenik came when we were putting practise, and using his flashy remote controlled Nikon DSLR took a few pics of us. Combined with Adobe illustrator, he's done something that you can see embedded here (see up). He's taken a few other weird and funny photos of us. For more of his work on flickr check out Shrenik's [...]
Every Band Needs a Sound Engineer
Every band, big or small needs a sound engineer. This painfully obvious fact struck me like a thunderbolt (ok, I am exaggerating. It sort of just came to mind arbitly) when I was at a pub gig in Mysore. For those unaware - yes, Mysore has pubs. Shocking but true. Sadly, it is going the Bangalore way, and while the ban on live music in places [...]
The “Rock On” Roast
Now that the entire hoopla about 'Rock On' has finally died down, I thought it is time to resurrect it again and engage in a roast dedicated to the movie. As defined in the wiki page that I hope you haven't been lazy enough not to click on, a Roast refers to the opportunity to make uninhibited fun and this is precisely what I am about to do. [...]
Making Music
This is one bit of shameless plugging of self that I'm indulging in, for a good cause. I play the bass guitar for a band named 'Arth'. Our lyrics are in Hindi, and one can classify our music under the rock genre. On the first day of the beginning of the second half of 2008, we've uploaded three mp3s of our as part of an initial demo we've [...]
Arth Music
Arth is a Bangalore based band, which I play the bass guitar for. In a sudden burst of enthusiasm, we decided to record a few songs of ours and post it up online under the creative commons license, for people to listen to, download and distribute. The player above lets you stream songs, as well as gives you the option to download our demo [...]
Barsaat
This is a song written about the time Arth had its first performance at the Sunday Jam, when it rained cats and dogs. Out of cheap thrills, we decided that we'd write a song about the rains, and what you can see above is what happened, as a result of that. Enjoy!
Sound Check – June 2008 Sunday Jam
Arth's first Sunday Jam performance. We'd come up with some arbit stuff to play for a sound check, and we, in an unnatural burst of creative insight named it 'sound check'. The video has been shot by the drummer Glenn's brother Gren, which explains why it seems as though we're sessions musicians with a drummer, as opposed to a full fledged band. [...]
