TAAQing

1. What would you like to see TAAQ do in the next 10 years?
2. What are we doing now that doesn’t make sense to you?
3. Which TAAQ song would you like to see on video?

On a cold chilly day we step out of our cumulative jet lag and take main stage at Barfly – Glasgow. Tony’s guitar refused to behave and kept sliding out of tune.
We started cold and ended ‘Hot’ – given the response from the last gig we did on our first UK tour and the 5-star [...]

At the time of writing, my heart goes out to the Great Indian Advertising Machine, which lies in unhappy disarray after a hat trick of tragic catastrophes in the land of the Carib.
The first, of course, the still mysterious death of Bob Woolmer.
The second, the ignominious exit of Inzamam-ul-Haq from the World Cup and one-day [...]

It’s been a mad week (office work, band, band work, home, home work, folks, friends etc.) hence the delay in blog post. Now I will be fined my match fee by TAAQ management for this delay…grrrrr Anyway…
Missed the maiden gig wish I had missed the India Bangladesh match instead. Whaaat’s with these Indians [...]

The Tree Festival – early 2003 or late 02. Not sure the exact date – anyone?
We joined Kashi Art Cafe’s Campaign to save the Giant Raintree’s of Fort Cochin: With Sunset Man and the sun setting on a backdrop of ‘Chainese’ fishing nets.
Not to mention a dockyard full of local fishermen rocking along!

Brigade road goes [...]

What a gig this was! I will leave the gig review to the more music-educated.
Cheers to what happened back-stage. First off, a big hats-off to the guys at DNA. It’s getting bigger and better every time. To manage a gig is a Herculean task and to manage a Herculean gig needs that something more. The [...]

The early days of struggle…we had one and a half guitars. No Stage amps. One mic.
A drum kit held together mostly by will power and some bits of string (in the pre-digital/photoshop era a black marker direct on to the picture added aspiration – TAMA and an extra tom!). That didn’t stop us from getting [...]

That would be me on the drum kit – 1982 would be the year (I think).
Rohan on Guitars is a hot shot investment banker somewhere.
Christy, on the other guitar is a Full-time employee of Christ (not the college – the God!)
I, still like to give the drums a good whack once in a while (when [...]

Back in the day, I’ve played a few songs from the Iron Maiden catalogue – Run to the Hills, Can I Play With Madness, and more. Circa 1997 I think it was, and playing with a Prog/Metal band was the best way I could think of, at the time, to improve my chops. Lucid Dreams [...]

It is important to blog and I haven’t been doing it, purposely. My first and most important fear has to be poor spelling and grammar skills. TAAQ is quite an intimidating place to be when it comes to mass communication, journalism, content writing, copy writing, lyrics, vocabulary, reading habits, pronunciation, diction, studies, etc. I suck [...]

Grandmothers, mothers, sisters, wives, girlfriends, daughters, aunts, nieces, mothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, grandmothers-in-law…
(And not to forget wet nurses, nannies, ayahs, baby-sitters, nurses…)
To all the beautiful women in our lives, here’s lots of hugs and kisses.
For all the warmth and love and understanding. And the faked indifference when we were being bad boys.
For encouraging our best and suffering [...]

Update:
The occasion: Nate’s farewell party
The song: Keep the promise
The players: All of us, and more
Watch the video >>

You know how things are. Just when everything sounds normal, something or someone (in this case, both) comes and shakes you up… and then things get radioactive. So it was with Nate. We weren’t doing too badly, you [...]

Tonight, we’re in Delhi again.
Rendezvous: The School of Planning & Architecture, 4, Block-B, Indraprastha Estate, New Delhi.
Time: Midnight to 2 AM
That shouldn’t be such short notice after all.