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Initiation.

The last set of concerts we did saw two new people join the gang. Here is a very brief ode to both of them ...

The Raghu Dixit Project has been looking for a guitarist for a long time as indicated by quite a few posts and mentions that Raghu himself had made in our communities and otherwise. After much fussing and auditioning and trying out people, we finally identified one guitarist who suited the bill!

Now Vijay was still trying to get around to playing the songs right when the rest of their band saw him as a brand new audience member to try all the old jokes on! and we did :D ... It was like entering the engineering college hostel in the first year! but Vijay did not wilt under pressure ... he kept smiling and holding on to the airplane seat like his life depended on it! (more about that in a post that will follow)

On stage, he was a tiger let loose in the jungle, gracefully and majestically devouring every solo! The appreciative audience and the pats on the back after the shows were proof enough of that!

Nitin Joshi joined us for the first time in Guwahati as the sound engineer for the show there and the show to follow. What we saw when he entered was a cool guy with a funkier goatee than me! who was crazier about photography than me! and whose sense of humor was in the same range as us .. we loved him already! before he had been let loose on the console ... The fact that he took

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and did

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to give us



was an accomplishment that we cannot describe in words! We will take a close look at the brilliant range of speakers on display very soon, but trust me, Nitin was ready to work even if there was an iPod dock and a creative 5.1 system put up there! That is the brilliance of the man .. I have a sneak suspicion that we will be seeing a lot more of him here!

So there we are .. put your hands together for the brand new members of the band!

The blue frog (c)ro(a)cked!

We finally got to play at the much talked about 'Blue Frog' at Mumbai which in my humble opinion is one of the best clubs to play at in India. We had heard from everyone how it was a wonderful place to perform at and in many ways, it did live up to the hype!



After an uneventful journey to Bombay and being taken care of very well, we landed up at the Blue Frog for sound check in the afternoon and had to wait a bit for the sound engineer to arrive and start the check, but it was time well spent with Siva and me up to our standard stunts and in between all that trying to teach the lovely Neysa (from Only Much Louder - the band management company) some South Indian slang!



Sound check finally got underway and after some time, we managed to get somewhere with the sound and there were some interesting moments on stage like this where Raghu was completely lost in the music. Please do check the fantastic Gibson guitar that he was wielding! And do check out the cool hairdo I am sporting thanks to the lovely Shilpa :)



The show was fantastic! we had a super audience who were quite enthusiastic, thanks to everyone who came, our friends and fans who pushed up our enthu and energy on stage!

Among many other things, this gig will be remembered as Anirban's last gig for some time ... You will be missed :) .. Best of luck with your new adventure!



PS: If you haven't already, please do check the photos of us playing at the Blue Frog! Thanks a ton Kalhan for these amazing pics!

The brand new blog!

A lot of fun things happened during the last month for the band and one of the things we have promised ourselves to do is to keep in touch with everyone through this blog!

We will give you an exclusive sneak peek at the band coming together, the band on tour and a total access backstage pass for every show and the times in between shows. So sit back and enjoy the ride as we go through our first album release and watch the band shape up in front of your eyes!

Make a note of this page and make sure you check back often to keep up to speed with us ... fasten your seatbelts ... we are ready for takeoff!