TAAQing

Pictures from the Jethro Tull opening act

I’ve heard that certain pipples in this town are calling me just that. Wonder how that started. Sure, I’ve fixed a few guitars, set-em up, adjusted tremolo bridges, stripped/cleaned/adjusted floyd roses, tweaked truss rods, lowered/raised action, soldered/unsoldered connections, replaced pickups, re-wired, replaced parts, restrung, re-set necks, filed down nuts and bridges, cleaned, polished and shined [...]

Can you play Hotel Carlifonia? (note distinct Mallu accent). I can’t remember the number of times I’ve been asked that question. But as a kid growing up in some obscure village (Ambalamugal to be precise) in God’s own Kerala, this song, unknown to me, had already entered my very soul.
My earliest memory of ‘HC’ is [...]

for those who came in late, (a la phantom) the thattu kada gig was for Capt. Nagaraj, a commercial pilot, on his 40th birthday. He plays some decent drums, and promised us some real flying time if we let him play with us…

The malayalee Thattu Kada. What a gig. Rojew wanted to play all 46 songs on our list, but we managed to get through just 25. Some very cool jam things happened with the big man Mr. Prakash Sontakke, who just landed up. Good trip. There’s also a very concrete plan to put in some actual [...]

When the pre-historic TAAQ was getting together we had a good source of angst: Our silly college politics which didn’t allow little boys to play on stage in case we upstage the big boys.
Our erudite venom spitting generator of TAAQ copy, Bijoy was there waxing eloquently and hatefully of all who opposed us and the [...]

if you come today
Got hints of Jimi hendrix, jamiroquai, RHCP all blended perfectly into a sort of Annavaru-Groove. Some funky lyrics too.

Though Rudy passes himself off as an ordinary guy, with an ordinary life, the conspiracy theories have to make their presence felt.
First. Rudy is not a mal. How come? Well I heard Rajeev say it for one. The other is have you ever ever heard of a mal called Rudy? Mals generally take any 2 [...]

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“I’ll get you in the end” was a Bruce Lee Mani original — lyrics, I mean. The young and spunky Sunil Chandy added some cool touches to it.
I think the first time it was performed was at Christ College before TAAQ was born — we were just the Christ College band then. It was the [...]

One of the memories that will be filed away in the old steel-trap (hah!) brain from this concert will be this: turning around and seeing a 50+ dude with a humongous beard, eyes closed, snaggle-teeth fully visible, bellowing lustily along with Ian and the boys on Aqualung and Locomotive Breath. Old rockers never die…
Other memories? [...]

We recorded “ill get you in the end” and “catharsis” for a show on MTV called MTV-U, which incidentally was the TV Show that launched Cyrus the MTV VJ. I believe he’s also going to be there at IIM for Unmaad.
We were approached by someone from TV 18 to do a shoot. The dude who [...]