Back in those days in 2008 and now in 2018

Led Zeplin at their best in live!

Do you remember people actually listening to Rock Music back in the days? Does CEPT ring bell? Remember how the youngsters used to come together and discuss bands from The Beatles, The Who, Led Zeplin to Guns N roses, Metallica, Megadeth to Pantera, Children of Bodom, Lamb of God to Gojira, Born of Osiris. Mannnn Those days were the most genuine and pure musically.

Back in those days, people used to gather to actually listen to music and have fun. Local talent used to get promoted so much due to unity in musicians and band members. It was a small but powerful community back then.

That's Decayed Souls back in 2011

There were competitions between bands but off stage, they were all great friends and cold war enemies :p
However, with the generation Z the whole mindset has been shifted to something so hollow.

Ecstacy a fine rock band from Ahmedabad

There would be whole night music competitions like Blizzards of Rock IIMA and every one would be present at the Auditorium for their performances and to check the Headlining act of the night. I still remember checking out Prestorika killing it on stage with numbers like Painkiller, Holy Wars, Number of the beast and so much more.

Metalabad Hall Of Fame Dushyant, Ravi, Sanam, Joel, Harsh to name a few new musicians

Metalabad was one was the great initiatives by Dushyant Dubey. He organized number of Rock and Metal Concerts and became backbone of Ahmedabad Rock scene for few years. The best thing he did was what you can see in this picture where he honored all the great musicians of Ahmedabad. Legends like Lenny Kisku, Anup Phookan, Cedrik Fernandez, Mark Haydon, Shailesh Rathod etc.

The new kids do not have that passion what I used to see and feel in people back then. I feel the technology has taken it's toll and started trolling the whole human species. The boy bands that form now only sing songs of Arijit Singh which is way too overrated. Of course I am not against Bollywood and the artists there, they are terrific but playing baseless music takes you no where and I think Blues, Rock, Metal has a base. A strong root and history.



Most of the kids that I teach at my academy wants to start playing on stage. They think knowing 5 chords is enough as the listeners don't matter what the musicians play. And it's not me who is saying this I have heard this from dozens of people..


I remember the names like Dushyant Dubey, Sanam Mushi, Ravi bodiwala, Pyro, Devkinandan, Binny, Chinmay, Nicolette, Michael, Anay, Malav, Nicholas and so many more... These guys have/had such passion about music that they still keep going in one form or another. But I remember how they used to practice and sound like. Such Talent!!!!

                         Some terrific musician that I know personally. Check them out below!

If I had to choose between Rock scene before 10 15 years or playing every single Bollywood show in country, I'd choose the first option. At least people back then genuinely cared about your band and your music. People paid money and bought passes and came for the shows.

Share any incidents in comments if you remember that still makes you laugh or makes you cringe or breaks your heart!!