Ro thinks. Golu Rolls. And I wonder in awe that i mugged with them.: The decadence of Mock n Roll

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

The decadence of Mock n Roll

"6...6.6The number of the beast!"
"That was a soundcheck, lets hear for Adrian Smith - a racing lead , Steve Harris - a heart busting bass line, Nicko McBrain-thunderous rolls, ...
music starts off again
"This is trooper .."

The tattoed-bare chested, 6-footer with a bundle of papers in his hand, lip-synch vocalist headbangs to the speed rythm the 2 guitarists play on their snazzy cardboard guitar cut-outs... the bassist outdoing steve harris on his silver painted bass cut-out while the drummer ran rolls after rolls on the blue and red pearlpet buckets and a big round tub-bass.

Meet Creative Destruction - the gurus of mock rock!

The early success of performing at their hostel competition, gave them ideas of going inter-college. They picked up none other than 'Malhar'.
Nights were spent practising to get the flows right, the vocals, guitars, drum rolls, the sounds. Last night - the eve of D-Day - the men braved storms of no minor proportions taking a painstaking 3 hour ride from Powai to Napean Sea Rd. They had everything they needed. Cardboards, paints, glues, markers, headgear, nothing could go wrong!By the wee hours of morning, they had their guitars painted and strapped - ready to melt the crowd's face, the headgear - old cassette reels made for their long glam rock hair, the performance had been audio recorded and the sound manager breifed.
Early next morning, the men entered the arena with their gear. The place was abuzz - with their performance, it was just the right concoction.It started with an elimination round. The band made it's guitars scream, they headbanged their way through the gut-busting 10 min performance.

Man, were they happy.

"He knows what he's singing" - the vocalist claimed the judge mentioning.
"We worship rock!!" - they shot back at the papparazzi looking for some pop.

An hour more of bearing witness to a gamut of patched up toons, and it was time for the results.
The finalists were
1. Y.M.C.A.
2. Moulin Rouge
3. ..

"WHAT?!!!THAT'S NOT BLOODY ROCK!!!"
"It's not even close to rock"
"WTF?! Is this mock-rock??"

Y.M.C.A. went on to win the mock rock competition!

Creative Destruction was distraught! What's the world coming to??

"Dudes!.. This is not for us men. It's for sissies! Mock Rock is out. We need to get into some serious business!"

They walked out, slept off the day and ended up at Independence Rock in the evening, headbanging to the riffs they belonged to!

Creative Destruction:
Vinod - Rookie - Vocalist
Shubhankar - Pappu - Bassist
Sidney - Sid - Drummer
Sawa - Sawee - Guitarist
Aviral - Viral - Guitarist
Rohit - SRo - Band/Sound Manager

5 Comments:

At 11:16 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

:)))))))))))))))))
That day sure was fun viral! But Ill tell u what...I had thought about how could YMCA win a mock-rock competition...and then I realized it was never a mock-rock competition...if I remember right it was called 'battle of the bands' or something....but I still remmeber Ruby Bhatia and DJ Yudi being very impressed with rookie...drummer of Brahma was the 3rd judge right? :)

 
At 8:57 PM, Blogger duhcreaturewithdrumsticks said...

:D:D
yeah he was the third judge!
didn't remember the DJ though!
abey but we were so uselesss:D:D:D
just day before me and rookie were laughing our asses off on this!

 
At 1:44 PM, Blogger Golu said...

sidney was drummer and u were guitarist :P talk abt reversal of roles :))))))shit man do u have pics

 
At 10:06 PM, Blogger duhcreaturewithdrumsticks said...

no rey!
actually Creative Destruction started with 4 members, Rookie,me sawa and pappu, with me as drummer. sid managed sound then.Later he joined in for drummer and i went for the guitar.(very similar to FFF, yardbirds and RHCP)
there were 2 pics which we had taken but i kept them in my kreysig which i gave off to DJ! though i think at some point i has removed them i dont know where they are! we have tattoos and kuch kuch!

 
At 4:11 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey guys
I remember one of those malhar mock rocks , they used to be rather funny , you guys are made for sterner stuff :DDD

 

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