Tuesday, May 19, 2009

A lil gear info about The Scratch Card Winners



For all you out there who might think how we manage to get our awesome tone and sound on stage, here are the following gear info :

JAE
Guitar : Greg Benett AV3
Amp : Marshall MG 15CD
Mike :Shure Sm 58

ZOE
Guitar : PRS SE Single Cut with Trem
Amp : Behringer V tone 103
Effect : Boss Ds1 + Zoom g7.1ut
Mike : Shure Sm58

GD
Guitar : Washburn Bass Guitar
Amp : Kustom 80W Bass Amp
Effect : Zoom Bass Unit

Shashi
Drums : Jhonson kit
Cymbals: Basix cymbal stand
Paiste 18' ride crash
Paiste 16' crash
Sticks : Vic Firth signature series- david garibaldi

My new Musical Endeavor

Well on a fateful day of April 18th 2009, I finally managed to create a band that would stay for a long long time. We initially named ourselves as THE YOUNG GODS but now we call ourselves as SCRATCH CARD WINNERS.
I am currently doing vocals and lead guitars for the band. Jae, my friend is doing main vocals and guitars, GD on bass guitars and sound guy and Shashi on drums.
Having loads of fun in this band. All great friends and good musicians. An amazing jam room and ever supportive parents of Shashi. Its his place that we use for the jam. His bro Kirti is the ever enthusiastic fan of the band.

Keep in touch with this blog to know more about THE SCRATCH CARD WINNERS.

Our official email is : scratchcardwinners@gmail.com
Also join us at Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=84992968171

Little Billy

Just a forward message i got through one of my friends. Too good to be left out

LITTLE BILLY ON GETTING OLDER

Little BILLY was sitting on a park bench munching on one candy bar after
another.

After the 6th one, a man on the bench across from him said,

"Son, you know eating all that candy isn't good for you. It will give you
acne, rot your

teeth, and make you fat."

Little BILLY replied, "My grandfather lived to be 107 years old."

"Oh?" replied the man. " Did your grandfather eat 6 candy bars at a
time?"

"No" replied Little Billy, "he minded his own fucking business!!"



LITTLE BILLY ON...PHILOSOPHY



A teacher asks her class, "If there are 5 birds sitting on a fence and
you

shoot one of them, how many will be left?"

She calls on little BILLY.

He replies, "None, they will all fly away with the first gunshot."

The teacher replies, "The correct answer is 4, but I like your thinking."

Then little BILLY says, "I have a question for YOU. There are 3 women

sitting on a bench having ice cream: One is

delicately licking the sides of the triple scoop of ice cream. The second

is gobbling down the top and sucking the cone. The third is biting off
the

top of the ice cream. Which one is married?"

The teacher, blushing a great deal, replies, "Well, I suppose the one

that's gobbled down the top and sucked the cone."

To which Little BILLY replied, "The correct answer is 'the one with the

wedding ring on,' but I like your thinking."


LITTLE BILLY ON... MATH



Little BILLY returns home from school and says he got an F in arithmetic.

"Why?" asks the father."

"The teacher asked, 'How much is 2x3?' I said 6," replied BILLY.

"But that's right!" says his dad.

"Yeah, but then she asked me, 'How much is 3x2?'"

"What's the fucking difference?" asks the father?

"That's what I said!"


LITTLE BILLY ON...ENGLISH



Little BILLY goes to school, and the teacher says, "Today we are going to

learn multi-syllable words, class. Does anybody have an example of a

multi-syllable word?"

BILLY says " Mas-tur-bate."

Miss Rogers smiles and says, "Wow, little BILLY, that's a mouthful."

Little BILLY says,

"No, Miss Rogers, you're thinking of a blowjob."


LITTLE BILLY ON...GRAMMAR



One day, during lessons on proper grammar, the teacher asked for a show

hands from those who could use the word "beautiful" in the same sentence

twice.

First she called on little Suzie, who responded with, "My father bought
my

mother a beautiful dress and she looked beautiful in it."

"Very good, Suzie," replied the teacher. She then called on little

Michael.

"My mommy planned a beautiful banquet and it turned out beautifully."

The teacher responded, "Excellent, Michael!" Then, she reluctantly called

on little BILLY.

"Last night, at the dinner table, my sister told my father that she was

pregnant, and he said "Beautiful, just fucking beautiful."











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I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life ... Procrastinating and rationalizing.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Still Looking but not found

Well me being the average musician, getting a gig is almost next to impossible, I mean a worthy gig that pays. Anyways, most of the time I am in the perplexed state if I can really get something I really want as gear for my musical inventory.
Now I am from the north east, and getting quality musical instruments is a thing only the rich can afford. Well the scene is not that vastly different here in NAMMA BENGALURU as well. Some of the decent musical shops here take you for a ride. They charge exuberant rates for something you definitely dont want to give. But you have to. Well take for example, a pack of 6 strings from D'addario(nickel) costs a whopping 350-400 bucks in Bangalore. Okay, i guess maybe its same in rest of India. But do you think its fair??? In US it costs as little as 50 bucks. Beat that.
I am very pissed at the Indian Government and their motto of SWARAJ. Balls. Developing something indigenously is good but what about some products you cant afford to make at home?? We can always import but ....put a stamp of 20-33% of excise duty on it. I seriously think its a huge asking margin. Why in a country like ours, we have the right to enjoy freedom?? A guess its just a relative word.
Anyways back to the topic. Because of these reasons, Me, as a poor but eager musician have no option but to play to the tunes of the unworthy shop keepers in Bangalore. If you have friends or relatives abroad then you can afford all the luxuries you want, but what about the rest like me ??
We need good equipments. And for that we need cash. Cant bug mm n dad all the time can we? And We need good quality stuffs and not the China made craps.
I just hope oneday we can just afford to have the same equipments as our brothers in other DEVELOPED nations are having.