God cant stop laughing while writing this, every time me and Indu ( Indresh Pathak ) see each other we laugh so much while talking about this, that neither of us is actually able to speak about this weird cheap thing we did back in those days.
It starts like this, I was in my first year of graduation and Indu was in his second year, we had met only a few times since the first band war auditions where we actually met for the first time. We were really amateurs in planning jam sessions and thought everything haves a Jugaad. It was seven of us in the band that time, 4 vocalists, 2 guitarists and one Indresh Pathak :D, we decided to have a jam session in the college itself since it was not possible for hostlers to get out of campus any time anywhere. Soon we realized that we need proper instruments and Amps to have a proper jam, we arranged it some how but drums were not available anywhere easily,which meant we had three options, 1. Buy it on our own which no one wanted to do since we were not even good friends 2. Make the college buy it, forget it the college still don't have even a flute and last one 3. RAISE FUNDS AND GET IT ON RENT. The third one is what we chose and the hillarious game was about to begin. No band member was ready to do it so me and Indu had to do it on our own. The plan was to go in every section every classroom of first year and ask them for funds, hitting there nerve of unity for"B-TECH". Second year students are always the people who don't give a shit to anything related to the college since they have suffered one year already, so no point going to them. So we started and the speaker for the first and last time was Indu,
INDU(Shouting) - Hi everyone we are a band called Crystal heads, we represent B.tech and you know what, we don't have drums. So i want everyone to contribute money as the drums will help the B.tech people to win. I am not forcing anyone if you want to be part of this great move of unity, do contribute.
As soon people heard that they have a choice to not to pay too, everyone shouted back " we don't want to be part of it", Indu lost his mind and had an argument with a couple of them. Result - Fail, I some how gathered Indu back and we tried a different approach. I was the speaker this time and we focused more on giving an idea that it is compulsory to contribute. Everything from there went well, we wrote down roll nos. and amount people were paying just to make it look more formal, sometimes we just acted as if we were writing,and the money started coming in.Everyone contributed 10 to 20 to 50 Rs. It took us whole day. In the evening we found an empty classroom and started counting the money. We needed around 2000 to 3000 bucks to get the drums on rent for at least two days and our collection was fairly more than that, I looked at Indu, Indu looked at me and we were laughing rolling on the floor. We got the drums and the Sabian symbols (a good brand for symbols ) too.We did it the next year too. Sorry 1st year students, we didn't had a choice that time. We won the Grafest three times everyone was happy and everyone forgot, but Me and Indu..ha ha ha...Never.
Here's a rare pic of Indu with that drum kit, practicing one day before performance in the Civil lab.
Post your comments and let me know if what we did was write or wrong.
It starts like this, I was in my first year of graduation and Indu was in his second year, we had met only a few times since the first band war auditions where we actually met for the first time. We were really amateurs in planning jam sessions and thought everything haves a Jugaad. It was seven of us in the band that time, 4 vocalists, 2 guitarists and one Indresh Pathak :D, we decided to have a jam session in the college itself since it was not possible for hostlers to get out of campus any time anywhere. Soon we realized that we need proper instruments and Amps to have a proper jam, we arranged it some how but drums were not available anywhere easily,which meant we had three options, 1. Buy it on our own which no one wanted to do since we were not even good friends 2. Make the college buy it, forget it the college still don't have even a flute and last one 3. RAISE FUNDS AND GET IT ON RENT. The third one is what we chose and the hillarious game was about to begin. No band member was ready to do it so me and Indu had to do it on our own. The plan was to go in every section every classroom of first year and ask them for funds, hitting there nerve of unity for"B-TECH". Second year students are always the people who don't give a shit to anything related to the college since they have suffered one year already, so no point going to them. So we started and the speaker for the first and last time was Indu,
INDU(Shouting) - Hi everyone we are a band called Crystal heads, we represent B.tech and you know what, we don't have drums. So i want everyone to contribute money as the drums will help the B.tech people to win. I am not forcing anyone if you want to be part of this great move of unity, do contribute.
As soon people heard that they have a choice to not to pay too, everyone shouted back " we don't want to be part of it", Indu lost his mind and had an argument with a couple of them. Result - Fail, I some how gathered Indu back and we tried a different approach. I was the speaker this time and we focused more on giving an idea that it is compulsory to contribute. Everything from there went well, we wrote down roll nos. and amount people were paying just to make it look more formal, sometimes we just acted as if we were writing,and the money started coming in.Everyone contributed 10 to 20 to 50 Rs. It took us whole day. In the evening we found an empty classroom and started counting the money. We needed around 2000 to 3000 bucks to get the drums on rent for at least two days and our collection was fairly more than that, I looked at Indu, Indu looked at me and we were laughing rolling on the floor. We got the drums and the Sabian symbols (a good brand for symbols ) too.We did it the next year too. Sorry 1st year students, we didn't had a choice that time. We won the Grafest three times everyone was happy and everyone forgot, but Me and Indu..ha ha ha...Never.
Here's a rare pic of Indu with that drum kit, practicing one day before performance in the Civil lab.
Post your comments and let me know if what we did was write or wrong.
Have exam tomorrow, c ya later.
ReplyDeletewat u did ws ryt & a grt wrk bro...... evry grt or famous prsn is havin sumthing funny bt a grt incident wit dem... by d way cn u tel dat wat exactly u said 2 first year students at the tym of collection for drum>??????
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha..yes Amìt Shukla. Can't tell what things we said.
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