My ‘TIME’

(a small change made to the quite acclaimed song of Pink Floyd to describe my current status)

Weekdays:
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
I fritter and waste the office hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of training material in the office
Waiting for someone or something to show me the way

Weekends:
Tired of lying in the bed and watching TV all the time
I am young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day i realise ten years have got behind me
No one told me when to run, and I missed the starting gun

Dreams:
And I run and I run to catch up with the old days, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind me again
The memories are the same in a relative way, but I’m older
Shorter of breath and one moment closer to the end of the dream

Life:
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to halt or half a page of scribbled blogs
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the only way
The time is gone, my song is over, thought Id something more to say

The best part of all:
Home, home again
I like to be at home when I can
And when I come home, after the long travel
Its good to relax my bones beside my mom’s arms
Far away across the streets
The tolling of the church bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

The Boys from Boston

June 2nd broke a lot of records.
- The longest wait outside the entrance area – 2 hours
- The highest price ever paid by me for a concert ticket!!! My parents would require medical attention if they ever heard abt the price I paid for the ticket. The earlier generation can never understand the reason behind it (wink!)
- Screams of acknowledgment and joy that irritated the fellow creatures around me,
- The new challenge that I posed to the previously acclaimed bawlers. The decibel rate, if checked would have definitely broken all my previous records

The Aerosmith show was a rocker show!!! 1.5 months after the show, and the lasting effect created……. Phew!!!! Mind blowing!!!

No wonder they are called rock gods!! The energy, the passion, and the style was remarkable!!! 59 year old Tyler wasn’t an exception; he was just like any of us, in fact better than us, screaming into the mike, yet the screams produced music to our ears. He proved to the entire world that ‘chemical romances’ and the ‘crows’ and ‘monkeys’ come and go, but he was here to stay. The legend, who inspired the likes of ‘Bon jovi’ and ‘Guns and roses’, just picked up the crowd with an ease that only a professional could do!!!

8:00 p.m- Adorned in semi-Indian garments (a ganji and a lot of batik and animal print stoles around the neck), Tyler created a hypnotic spell by starting out with the ‘Taste of India’, the song that announced their love for India (not jus because of ‘land of elephants’ or mehndis, but for various other things). I was still in the queue outside, and swearing at the men and women for creating the commotion then, and wondering why couldn’t we have a proper queue system. But the moment the music started, it was a stampede, lead by none other than me (he he), plunging into the smelly, sweaty crowd to ensure a proper view of the favorite stars. Roshin, who had come along with me, had a tough time to match up.

It was a dream come true. They were so close….. hardly 15 feet away from me, and singing away the tunes that I loved the most.

‘Dream on’ was sung with the same feeling and passion as it was in the seventies. The other numbers followed- Livin on the edge, pink, falling in love, cryin, sweet emotion, dude looks like a lady, don’t wanna miss a thing, love in an elevator, Jaded, eat the rich (when he flashed a “lick me’ painted on his tummy) and some songs from their tribute to the blues. Joe Perry, the sexiest of the band, and my favorite, created frenzy when he started out with his solos ‘messin around’, and the synthesizer which had an electrifying effect on the audience!!!

More than three decades in the music world, its the combination spell of the toxic twins (Perry and Tyler), the scintillating gigs and the energy factor that makes them outstanding from the others.

The crowd just rocked and swayed, topped with the music of a lifetime, and obviously, because of an awful load of ‘smoke’ and ‘water’!!! But all were oblivious of the smells, the sweaty backs or the amazingly hot women around. Yes, the band captured all the attention!!!

It was with great disappointment that I left the Palace Grounds 15 minutes before the show ended, as I was not allowed to wait until the last of the show when the crowd goes bezerk, and missed the rather romantic number of the band ‘Don’t wanna miss a thing’. But as I left the palatial grounds in an auto rickshaw that burnt the holes in my pocket, it was only a deep sense of contentment that filled my mind!!