Mixed Fruit Jam Through the years

February 1996 - December 1999

		
   
		In February 1996 George, Arvind and Thomas decided to liven up their monotonous and rigorous college life 
	at R.V. College of Engineering. George already had six years of experience in the world of music as a guitarist.
 	Thomas and Arvind were ready to begin a new phase in their lives. Music Bands in those days had a tendency to stick
	to one particular style, maybe rock, metal, blues, jazz, classical, reggae and so on. A desire to formulate a ‘band
	with a difference’ gave birth to ‘Mixed Fruit Jam’. This band was committed to perform music of a wide variety that
	included all these styles so that at any performance, they could appeal to the mixed musical tastes of the audience.

		George played the lead guitar, Arvind experimented with his first rhythms on the drums and Thomas took to 
	the Bass Guitar. After a month of jamming in their college music room, Krithika and K.T. Thomas joined the band as 
	vocalists and Jathin as Rhythm Guitarist.

		At first the band performed for their friends in their own college. As time went by, they gained confidence 
	to represent their college at various inter college music festivals all across the country like St. Johns Medical 
	College, Ramaya College, National Law School, Christ College, MCC Madras, St. Joseph’s College, MVIT, PESIT, UVCE, 
	Baldwins, SJCE Mysore, and BITS Pilani. Mixed Fruit Jam also performed at many Freedom Jams held in Indian Institute 
	of Science and Ravindra Kalakshestra. Some of their unforgettable performances include Opening for the popular Heavy 
	Metal Band ‘Millennium’ at RVCE, an Independence Day Rock Show at the Koramangla Indoor Stadium and shows at ‘The 
	Club’ on Mysore Road.

		During these four years the band has changed many musicians like Anindita as Vocalist, Amit as Rhythm 
	Guitarist, Arun as Bass Guitarist, Sanchith on Keyboards and Avishek as Vocalist. At the end of the Millennium Mixed 
	Fruit Jam had a whole new team comprising of K.T. Thomas, Anindita, George, Amit, Arun, Sanchith and Arvind. Mixed 
	Fruit Jam also had a collection of five of their very own songs composed during these years. Before this team 
	dispersed all across the world for further studies, they came out with a Demo CD of these five songs which served as 
	the base for the release of Mixed Fruit Jams first Album ‘Out Of The Dark’. 

		

The first Line Up

Two years Later

By 1999