School Performance

Reading sowmya's fond memories of school performance, remided me of the first time I went on stage. The atmosphere was fantastic. It was January 1993, I was in class XI and should have been spending more time with my books. But the rock n' roll disease had caught on and everything else was secondary. Four of us (three of us in the same class and the drummer was in 9th std) created Amnesia (that was what our band was called). Being rock fans, it was imperative that we did something from the 1970's. The song we chose was from a cult band called KISS and the song was Love Gun. We did not have a vocalist, so we thought the best idea was to entertain with a dose of instrumental hard rock. Well well well, it was a performance to remember! We made tons of mistakes (abhaswaram is more like it), but then parents are parents (everybody clapped lol). Off stage there was a lot of praise and we were basking in glory. Hmm, two days later back in school, reality strikes. Our friends recount the terrible performance it was and oh cheezzz (rest is best forgotten..the giggles from the girls and the sneer from the guys). Anywayz fond memories and I rerecorded the track i performed for the first time. I tried to jam as close as possible with the one back in 1993. Obviously the technology we had was far more limited than this recording. So you can imagine how it would have been 14 yrs ago. Enjoy!

Love Gun (1993 Jam)