Way to go.
I have felt that electric guitar and electronic keyboards are in tune with the
industrial age - their tunes gel well with heavy machines,
motorbike/chopper/helicopter/truck thunders and clanging of the metal --
classical old world instruments of India or west or elsewhere cannot thus be in
synch with new age young folks and soothe them .
Heavy metal is light stuff which stands out when you are on the thundering
bikes or working in heavy machinery.
any comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o-2bKN6UdI A video of Lou Majaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCO8KkkmdIE
Eric Claton
Umesh
utpal borpujari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For information:
The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts
(ENTRY FREE)
Monday, 29 October at 6:30 pm
A Celebration of Peace, Freedom and Justice
A Concert presented by Lou Majaw and friends Sam Shullai, Arjun Sen and Lew
Hilt
Lou Majaw
A quintessential rocker Lou Majaw lives Bob Dylans music. The brain child of
Lous, the Bob Dylan concert has become an annual ritual for this singer and
songwriter extraordinaire who has been organising this festival in Shillong
since 1972 to celebrate the Tambourine Mans birthday on 24th of May.
Born to a poor family, Majaw could not afford a guitar or a radio for
himself. In a friends house he was introduced to the music of Bill Haley and
Elvis Presley and taught himself the guitar in school. Majaw then moved over to
Calcutta where he played in bars and pubs for various groups. For the
Northeasts own Dylan, it has been a roller coaster ride in life. In his own
words, he sums up the story of his life:
Ive known hunger since I was ten
Loneliness is my good friend
Ive known to laugh when I feel sad
When I see good times turnin bad.
This 60 year Khasi guitarist singer with his shoulder length salt and pepper
hair, and in his trademark short shorts, a cut off T-shirt, Lou Majaw has been
belting out Dylans songs for 35 years. He discovered Bob Dylan after he heard
the seminal album, The Freewheeling Bob Dylan. His songs lit up my life and
gave it a lot of meaning and simply blew me up admits Majaw.
In 1979 Majaw, Arjun Sen (lead guitar), Lew Hilt (bass guitar) and Sam
shullai (drums) came together to form Great Society. It was great, we were
doing what we wanted to do, writing our own songs. They did different things,
went to Calcutta and Delhi and performed rock and roll and reggae. But it is
Majaw that has really shaped Shillongs music destiny. No record companies
travel this far out. So people just do what they have to, live for their music.
And Lou has helped show the way: with his cocktail of talent, passion and
persistence.
As a fitting tribute to this 60-year-old artist, who stood his ground amidst
the popular scenario of quick remixes, that a rockumentary has been made this
year on Lou Majaw titled The Great Society.
A man who charted his entire life to popularise and establish Dylanism
amongst the youth of India, these lines by Johnny Cash who wrote Of Bob
Dylan, wonderfully match up to Majaws own personality:
There are those who do not imitate,
Who cannot imitate
But then there are those who emulate
At times, to expand further the light
Of an original glow
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Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)
www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used )
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http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
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