You know it by now. The greatest link in Pink Floyd’s chain of consequences is broken.
Syd Barrett – genius, legend, raver, madcap, seer of visions, martyr, the original piper at the gates of dawn – is gone.
Syd is a perpetual area of darkness in pop history. Musically, he has been interred for years. A starburst [...]
Naveen Dubey sent us these pics of our Pubrock Gig in Delhi. He was at our GIR gig there as well, back in ‘97 or ‘98. As a photographer, he says he’s ‘much better now’. Dude, thanks.
There’ll be more soon on www.thermalandaquarter.com. Do check em out.
The last time we played at a gig with a concept woven around the band and its music must have been The Potatoe Junkie show. Back in 1999. A total TAAQ production it was.
The At Home gig, put together by the fine folks at Prospect Inc., was a revelation. Yes, there actually are ‘event’ people [...]
Indya.com – ‘Twas a place that threatened to eat up the rest of the world. Many of us almost had careers there – Bru, for one, actually did.
Here’s an old chat transcript from circa 2001, a little after Bru’s 23rd burpday.
Funny reading all that stuff.
(Btw, our ten-year birthday party is still on)
‘…we’ve evolved, as all things must. We’ve gone from straight ahead rock n’ roll to some heavy progressive stuff to fusion experiments to jazz-funk to whatever, and our sound is still evolving… we’re at the stage right now when we’ve got a unique voice. A TAAQ signature that is identifiable.’
And while we were away, there [...]
‘There’s a strong buzz about the rock revolution that India is waiting to witness and TAAQ have already got their anthem going. Very fresh, very original, solely Indian…’Â
Despite a bad copy editor, this news item in The Hindustan Times (by way of Yahoo! News) has a warm heart.
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