Memory Box: noori’s first ‘real’ conCert
We left off with my vow never to do a show again after the humiliation of kids screaming “hum ne ap ke ganay nahin sunnay hain” at the Sacred Heart show … That was 1998.
I was pretty dejected but in a few weeks things came back to normal and I, like a “dheet” person said to myself… “to hell with it I’m not giving up”. The goal however, seemed a bit clearer: how do you perform your “Original songs” ….”LIVE” in front of an audience that has never heard them before and how to get them to say “hum nay aap ke ganay phir se sunnay hain!!”
I remember it became an obsession… Law did teach me one thing and that is to toss, twist and turn an idea around in your head a million times and actually conduct a 1000 experiments all in your own head without even lifting a finger.
So I thought and I thought … I created scenarios of many a different live performance … made so many different versions of each song … figured tempos … made a hundred song lists……I took a good 3 years doing all this!!!!!
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