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Things Young Indie Musicians Say

In the recent past, the ‘Shit’ series has been doing the rounds oh so majestically on the internet. From Punjabi moms, to white girls, to regular girls, to regular boys, cats, to engineers, and the list will go on until we’ve walked the entire length of the Chinese wall. But the young and talented lot of indie musicians in India too have a list of quirky anecdotes, whines, and exclamations that have possibly gone unnoticed till date. Here’s a list of things we’ve eavesdropped on so that you can understand character traits of our artistes.

The Original Music Fakers

In corporate spaces they believe in putting up a face of confidence even in trying times. Well, some of our musicians apply it to themselves. If asked by a venue manager to do covers the response is, “We do only original songs.” The manager then gets upset and begins walking away when he hears, “ummm… only this one time we’ll do covers. Only because you insist. We don’t do covers, EVER!”

The Blame Game Players

When at a gig with a sub-standard acoustic setup, the musician will always take a chance with the gig. And if the odds are bad, which he finds out after the gig, he’ll say, “Bro the monitor mixers were f***** up… and … even… what was the sound engineer doing. Who gave him that post. LOL, we were very good. That front row uncle came and told me personally.”

The Fawners

Mumbai-based metallers Demonic Resurrection’s Sahil Makhija is the go-to person, apparently. We’ve even heard non-metal bands says, “Dude let’s slyly become friends with Sahil Makhija, he’ll endorse us dude!”

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The ‘I-Don’t-Get-Metal’ Lot

A bunch of musicians who don’t like metal like to impose their thoughts onto the world until it crumbles and metal’s existence gets rendered invalid. Vague presumption is, with a scrunched up nose, these musicians go, “Why is metal so famous yaar. It’s just one guy screaming and the others making noise.”

The Valued Musicians

Let’s be honest about one thing – no one wants to pay for music in our country. Yes, things are changing and only handful folks are opening their wallets, leaving the majority still hiding their money under doormats. It’s deplorable. So when musicians say, “We don’t do free gigs, guys!”, we believe you and we’re with you! You guys are doing a spectacular job and money matters will flip on its head soon.

The Flowered Accents

Lastly, when the bass gets mistaken for stench, all laughter breaks loose. At festivals, you might hear bands on stage, during the sound check, say “BAAAAS Badha Do” or “I’m BAAAAS guitarist”.

The Commercial Sour Grapes

When musician A goes up to his friend B, who happens to be a musician in another band, A sticks to his safest comment, “You’re good. But you’re too commercial brooooo! I don’t do commercial music at all. N-E-V-E-R!”

To read about the growing strength of indie music, locally and internationally, click here. To read about the indie musician’s dilemma – to Bollywood or not, click here. 

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