I came across this brilliant video of one of my favourite bands “Rush” trying to play one of their most popular songs “Tom Sawyer” on Rock Band! And needless to say they Suck at it!! But it makes for a damn hilarious watch!

Seems like our friendly neighbourhood software company is either trying out new marketing tactics or is the victim of some interesting spam?

This has been a long neglected area of my life, I got my DSLR (off my good friend Ashwin of course) over 2 years back now and I have been taking lots of photographs mostly because I am usually the only person with a good camera at hand, but of late I have begun to seriously like photography!

Unlike a lot of people in my circle of friends, I am not so much a wildlife photographer, and I don’t really see myself going that route either. I am more of a people and faces kind of photographer and would love to click pictures of emotions and people when they are not aware that a camera is pointing at them.

This usually poses 2 problems, one is the issue of permissions when photographing people etc .. and secondly, the ability to actually take good photos!

The latter is the easier problem to fix and I think its time I went over to my good friend Kallu for some guidance .. Once that is done, we’ll take a look at the other issues

I have just started putting up photos of my lovely trip to London on my photoblog and it should be all up there by the end of the week. Please check from time to time

The past few weeks and the next few to come have officially been the craziest times of my life! I have learnt so much its not even funny and everything just happened at the same time.

After the North East trip, I have come out a much stronger person and I must say my resolve to do something on my own has strengthened and I am determined to do something about it.

I am in Bombay this week, talking at the ‘Palm Expo’ and also as part of the Onstage Foundation! More about that later .. and there is a LOT more to come about that

Next week I travel to London for the finals of the International Young Music Entrepreneur award and that will be a whole new experience.

I am just making a note of things I should write about in detail and I will!

For now wish me luck .. on all fronts

I got back to Bangalore yesterday and I’m still trying to catch up with things on multiple fronts. The trip through the North East of India has positively changed my life! And in many ways, the lessons I have learned from this trip I would never ever have got otherwise ..

I will update the blog with pics and stories in the time to come but this is a quick hello to let everyone know that I am alive and well and raring to go infact

Just dropping in to say a quick ‘hi!’ from Kohima. The trip has been a blast and I am having the time of my life and this is just the first 4 days! 20 more to go and lots of updates shall happen .. but for now .. I bid farewell as I trudge on

I have clicked tons of photos as expected and I will be uploading them soon so all of you can see

In a couple of hours I set out on the longest and possibly the most interesting trip I have been on yet! I am going to be traveling with ‘The Raghu Dixit Project‘ on a 7 city tour of the North East of India as part of the Roots Music Festival. We are traveling with 4 other bands, Too Late Lucy from the UK, Dub LFO from Israel and 2 musicians from the North East, Guru Rewben Mahsanghwa and Warklung.

We are playing at the following venues over the month -

ROOTS 2008 TOUR DATES:

May 03 Saturday ROOTS Fest IMPHAL @ BOAT
May 04 Sunday W’SHOPS IMPHAL

May 24 Saturday ROOTS Fest SHILLONG @ FIRE BRIGADE Ground
May 24 Sunday W’SHOPS SHILLONG

It has always been my dream to travel to the North East, right from when Sashi in college described the place to me. This is one trip I shall not want to miss for the world!

I shall do my best to keep in touch, but expect me to pop up at the most inappropriate times! … So wish me luck and I shall miss a lot but I hope I will be able to catch up and more importantly .. regale you with stories from the North East!

It was my birthday a couple of weeks back and as a birthday gift the lovely Shilpa rounded up a few of my friends and got them to contribute to my “Buy a new Lens” fund!

Needless to say, my generous friends dug deep into their pockets and helped me along nicely! now its only a matter of ordering the right lens and getting it which should happen soon

Thanks again to Shilpa for getting it done and for all of you for contributing! And for the brilliant card that came with the gift! Thanks all you guys for doing this .. it is really really special!

I have put up the card online, so please take a look!

I had a very very interesting day today! Firstly, the previous day spilled over majorly into today and today started way too early considering that!

I landed up at the Taj Land’s End hotel in the morning for some a interesting discussion with Mr. Jasbir Singh, who is *THE* biggest music instrument dealer in the country and who has the who’s who of brands with him and has big plans for music instrument retailing in the country! The discussion led to very interesting ideas which if executed, will absolutely change the way music retail is carried out in the country!

That was followed up with a music networking lunch at the Zenzi club where we met a whole bunch of interesting people from very very diverse areas of the music industry! lets hope something comes from that also …

It all ended with some more meetings about endorsing instruments and finally a party at a friend’s place with some Tequila!!

So I go to bed now and wake up early for a 4 hour drive to Pune for our first gig there! That promises to be fun