well said, u saved my time :)) On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Arijit Debnath <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since I love Rahman... always listen to his music.... some of my > friends for some strange reason can't digest that... it's not the fact that > they are having attitude, or musically brilliant, or something.... but they > are the easy gores... they would ask... > > Why ur 'orkut' name starts with Rahman? > Why Rahman poster is hanging in ur bedroom? > Why Rahman wall paper is there in ur laptop? > Why u always listens to Rahman there are so many..... > On this last point if I start any of the following from my > collection they again got upset...it's not their kind of Music :(, they will > hv below comments: > Pink Floyd (whats going on! r u mad??) > Metalica (earbuds will burst) > Evanescence (tooo loud) > Alicia Keys (never heard this kind of sound ever) > George Michael (less complaints) > Santana (don't know the language) > Yanni (instrumental...ooops) > Rabindranath Tagore songs (pls stop his boring songs in 21st > century) > Lusiano Pavoratti (cat crying) > Andrea Bocelli (cat crying) > ShivKumar Sharma/Rano majumdar/Navin/Zakir/Rashid Khan/Ajay > Chakraborty/Sultan Ahamed/Amjad Ali/Ravi Shankar (when time will move?) > Celene Dion (liked 'my heart will go on' .... that's all) > The list goes on...... However who asks me the above set of > questions.... they never enjoy any of the above musicians....for them Kumar > Shanu is a living legend, Nadim-Shravan created best ever melody in history > of Indian Music, Abhijeet is one of the best singers of the nation, Pritam > is the most talented composer in current time...... and their list goes > on....... > > So I treat them as Musically illiterate and vice versa. Also I try not to > waste my valuable time with fighting with these guys... I tell them... pls > forgive me.... I hv my own likings.... > > On the better side...I hv few friends who are professional Indian Classical > instrumentalists..... sometime they come to our vicinity for concerts.... > and whenever we meet I provide them Rahman's gems... and in return they > provide their valuable time in discussing music (mostly Rahman's music). > > I generally don't type so much.... but happened today... > > Arijit > > 2009/9/2 ichord <[email protected]> > >> >> >> .....because you're so passionate about ARR? I love to talk about ARR, his >> music, his life, and some people think that I go overboard...think that he's >> all that I listen to and that I have no other musical interests besides him, >> which is not true. I get sarcastic comments sometimes or people having the >> attitude, "there he goes again with his ARR thing.......implying that I'm >> totally obsessed with him. I think there is a difference between passion and >> obsession. >> >> I love lots of musical artists from different genres of music, but of >> course, ARR represents a very heavy part of my rotation. >> >> > > -- Cheers, Pradeepan. "All you need to do is, decide what to do with the time that is given to you !"
