Goin down the memory lane....

Hey Hi....
today was a fine day,though fully loaded with studies.Anyways,Today I got my hands(after a long time) on an electric guitar in school and it was so heavenly to listen to the distorted sound coming out of the amplifier and all this revived my old memories of the few early months of this year.
It reminded me of the house days when we used to sing and play music all the day long while practicing for our gig.It was kind of a whole story in those days with a bit of climax also.I was one of the 2 lead vocalists and we had to lead electric guitarists and a third guitarist on an acoustic guitar and we had a drummer and a keyboard player.
All was going well and we were thinking of doing three songs in all,namely,Summer of 69(Bryan Adams),Breaking the Law(Judas Priest) and Smells like Teen Spirit(Nirvana).Our preparation was going really smooth and we were way ahead of our competitors(it was an inter-house competition).

But as you know everything doesn't go as we want it,something always goes wrong when everything seems almost perfect and we're nearing success.So, in all this ,our lead guitarist a guy from 12th was down with Chicken Pox and another day our other lead guitarist was down with fever.We lost all our hope and I almost gave up the idea of participating as we had to give a lil' rehearsal on that day.So,then our acoustic guitarist,my classmate, gathered up all his confidence and played the music of Summer of 69 totally unplugged.I really mean UNPLUGGED!! It was such a great feat.We gave our performance and it was liked by all.But still we knew this was not enough for us to win the competition.
So,in a couple of days we made phone calls and SMSes to our lead electric guitarists and as they were true 'metal-heads' they didnt give up their hope and came back with a bang just three days prior to the gig.And yeah they didnt needed to practice much now as they had practiced a lot all the 'riffs' and 'solos' in this unusual break.But now we decided to do only two songs,i.e.,Summer of 69 and Breaking the Law.We then practiced non-stop all day long in band room ,classrooms, hindi room and even in the Bio and Physics Labs.We even stayed back one day and synchronised our various instruments and vocals till the evening.
Anyways,on the D-day,i.e.,on the day of the show we gave a great performance and all the school cheered it a lot.It was quite a good performance.Others performance was also quite nice and only one house had a 'rock' performance which was at par with ours.
And when the results were being announced, we were already ready to stand up and shout!!
but we got the 3rd position out of 4 houses and 1st was got by the other 'rock' house.the others had done so called 'soft-emotional' songs which was liked by the judge who was an old lady who didn't really appreciate Rock songs.She said we were the true winners but our second song : BREAKING THE LAW sent wrong vibes.Even the headmistress and chairperson consolled us but we're in so much angst that we dashed out of the auditorium,sulking.
So,that's how we lost and life took different twists n turns altogether.
Now I'm looking forward to the teacher's day gig being performed by 12thies and I think its gonna be a great success.lets hope for the best!!

Bye for now..Gotta go and study.
MS

Tuesday, September 2, 2008