I saw the promos of the movie 'Rock on' on TV recently
Somehow it swept me off to those dreamy days post college
I was fresh out of college, not in a hurry to do anything
I knew I was to get though to one of those big wig companies everyone was talking about, yep, that much arrogant I was ;)
So now that my game was set, I spent most of my time idling in my sister's tiny apartment (if you could call that one :P) in Bangalore
The day time was when I slept, ate, pretended to skim through news paper for job ops
But life usually came alive post sunset, roaming about Jayanagar fourth block, munching roast butta, hanging out at planet M, buying nothing but browsing through the catalogs endlessly and listening to radio non stop well past mid night, much to my mother's chagrin!
Bangalore has been quite the place for headbangers...next only to perhaps Kolkata? (but it's all that jazz really)...
Really, Thank god, coz in this place, rock is a little more than Bon Jovi (forget the fact that Bryan Adams keeps returning to haunt the city year after year!)
But I wonder at the same time, how many out there are aware of those rock gems that keep springing up from the north east....Manipur, Nagaland, Shillong...anyone?
Getting back to the point of course, it seems a real long time back, a different time, different life, a different person, almost...
It's as if you think, you have grown out of that kind of life...but then you cant help leaning back and smiling out of the window during that rare moment when an old Creedence track leaks out of your car's stereo.

P.S: BTW, the one thing that did take me back to days of yonder, the movie Rock On, has mediocre music, may be because of that VOICE. Farhan Akhtar....why?! scream man....this isn't deep enough!
P.P.S: I'm gonna catch this movie on wednesday. And that's not only because I've always had a monster crush on Arjun Rampal ;)

If in a mood to touch base with rock....try Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival / Poison by Alice Cooper

Mood: Nostalgic
Song On: Pichle saat dino mein

Oh Mi Gawd! They're here!!!

All through my teens I listened to Aerosmith much to my pa's irritation. He used to threaten to throw the table cloth over the TV screen when Liv Tyler (she's the lead singer's daughter by the way) pole danced in Crazy. And my mom thought that the man's mouth filled up the entire TV screen (well that was about Steven Tyler!). My sister found Tyler's scream intolerable...well he is known as the Demon of screaming after all! And to quote Nikhil Chinnappa, if Steven Tyler and Mick Jagger were to be featured in a video, what would you see? Two Big mouths...you can't see anything beyond that..hehehe (Did he mention a David Bowie, not sure!)

But what the heck, the guys were drooling 24/7 looking at Alicia Silverstone in their videos...and we girls, well we just loved the fact that Dueces are Wild...and why 'Falling in love is so hard on your knees'. Their music brings back all those good ol' days spent loafing around in Trichy's BHEL township. That incredible video of 'fly away from here'...that awe inspiring 'Dream on' featuring that SCREAM...(recently covered by Eminem)

And there's harldy a die hard romantic who hasn't melted away to 'Don't wanna miss a thing'

I'm trying for the tickets, but apparently, given b'lore's history with rock n roll, there's a mad rush for the tickets...i have practically no hopes :( Anyway it has to be booked online; and our group's looking too small for now :(( [actually it's just 2 of us!..rest thought Aerosmith is someone who makes aeroplanes...a la gold smith!...aiyo!]

Here's the list of gods I've missed seeing perform live here in B'lore:

1. Roger Waters - college final sem exams; I still had plans of running away and returning by the intercity express!

2. Mark Knopfler...Adhaa Dire Straits - Tickets ellam arranged...suddenly had to leave to UK. Sold the tickets and left :(

and I am afraid Aerosmith is soon going to join this league :( (I've not included Iron Maiden, not a metal head anymore!)

Song On: Sunshine

Mood: Dull