You have made me nostalgic and emotional , Sandeep. Roja released when I was in the 12th standard. Being from a middle class family, we didn't have any concept of pocket money. I remember we used to collect money for our friend's birthday and gift them cassettes (which we wanted to hear and which were borrowed on the same day). Most of them were ARRs.
Warm Regards ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vinayak theregoesanotherday.blogspot.com On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:11 AM, momohyoid <[email protected]> wrote: > hello guys > > there s been this issue that has been on my mind for the > longest time . when i or some of us collectively got into rahmans > music during the days of roja and afterwards , cds weren t that in > and popular and they were either too highly priced [ i had to give up > burning crackers on one particular diwali in exchange for my dad > agreeing to buy bombay original cd as it was rs 350 in those days and > for a 5 th grade kid in those days that was a massive amount to ask > for we only got 10 or 20 rupees max as pocket money ] or just didn t > release [ kabhi na kabhi ] or our parents just wouldnt agree despite > all the pleading and even crying [ muthu in my case ] . we would > however save nickles , pennies and ice cream money to buy first batch > original tapes [ second and later batch tapes would typically cut > down on album art and more often than not , the quality would > drastically drop ]. we all grew up to start making some money and > started buying original cds . i have so far successfully overcome the > temptation not to download bad mp3 s or buy dead cheap mp3 cds from > the pirated market . despite all our collective efforts we have > missed out on some stellar cds [ i only have about half of rahman s > discography in cd rest of it is in tapes ] . while i still love how > fanstatic my roja tape sounds i sometimes feel heartbroken when some > of those precious tapes are lost to fungus or misuse [ super police > and gang master in my case ] . i am also sadly aware of the fact that > someday most of my tapes would perish . > > so this is an earnest plea to gopal , vijay and > other influential fans on this formum to try and get rahman to figure > out a way to get the record companies to issue high quality reissues > of his earlier work [ preferably with original album art archival > pictures and even some jam session bonus material from that > album.heck !!! they do it all the time in the west ] . i am also > supremely interested in all the scores and cues for his films . > recently rahman exclaimed that there are typically about 190 odd cues > in an indian film [ i was like wow !!! that is like a wealth of > scores unreleased ] . i would urge once again influential members on > this forum to request rahman to release his score cds as well. i am > hoping a modest sucess of a project like this would indirectly > trigger companies to release some older composers work as well which > is a great thing for those interested . i also believe that it would > be a positive step ahead for indian music in general , and would be a > little step forward in creating public awareness about good sound & > the importance of preserving older classics . i mean just listen how > great ABBA & PINK FLOYD still sound , compare it with how > ridiculously bad some of those rd burman and mukesh compilations > sound . people need to stop throwing away old classics like that . > > DEAR BROTHERS GOPAL AND VIJAY IYER PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE > PLEASE PLEASE pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase............... FOR GOD S > SAKE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS MEN . > > REGARDS > SANDEEP > > >
