Phenom
My Saturday evening 29th July was broken into by a phone call. As soon as i pressed the answer button a song began to play. Through the static and crowd noise i smiled at the wonder of the moment. Phenom was singing its swan song. And i was miles away in another city... There is too much to think about so i'll have to do it in parts...
PART ONE
People go through college and look back with fond memories at whatever they find fond. ok i just used that as an opening line for lack of anything better to start off with. it obviously means that i really don't know where to start. phenom has been a defining experience for me and the engineering years will be fondly cherished to a great extent because of the part that phenom had to play in it.
The biggest thing for me would have been the fact that Gaurav, Mrinal, JD and me lived through the entire (gruelling!!) cycle of "you suck" to "you suck less than the rest of the pack" routine :D
there are bands that just seem to pop up from nowhere and steal the limelight instantly; bands that are formed after like minded musicians meet each other and decide to play together in a group; bands that seem to never have sucked during their lifetime! But ours was a case of a bunch of blokes who were so clueless and wayward that we didn't even have our positions right with respect to instruments being played!
But that had a beauty of its own.
It led to the fact that the four of us were instrumental in each others evolution and growth as musicians much more than otherwise. we were building from scratch. so, despite the lack of tiles/bricks/rocks/building material at hand, we built the structure together piece by piece rather than having to align separate structures to uniformity :) excuse my lame attempt at being metaphoric!
but what i mean is that currently if each one of us were to try and fit into bands/ form bands etc we would have a much harder time since structurally we have matured as musicians as compared to what we were back then :) so starting off together as a sucky bunch gave us a cohesive bond which might have been lacking otherwise :)
I'll do the climbing up the ladder bit in my next post