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Your BA in
Rock- Live & in Mumbai!
Bryan Adams chose to return
to India in the summer of 2001, and boy did he add to the heat!
His show in Mumbai (on May
6th) was a sure-fire sell-out, and the crowds outside indicated
that passes might even have been oversold.
The enthusiasm of the 20,000
strong crowd was whipped to a frenzy by MTV VJs- Nikhil & Maria,
and the inspired opening act by Mumbai based Aqua Flow paid respects
to Santana, Eminem, Shaggy, etc.
Though Aqua Flow sounded
pretty neat, they had to plead with the Adam-hungry crowd to let
them finish their half-hour act. Not too surprising!
Now,
we bet you've read and heard enough about Bryan, his bio, his dog,
his guitar and even the show. But here are pictures and snippets
you probably wouldn't have seen elsewhere:
Highlights
It
was a truly live show. No lip-synching a-la Vengaboys, Tunga-girls,
Def Leppard, etc.
Bryan
flew in with 7000 kg of sound & light equipment and his
own supervising crew. (He also had his own chef.)
Bryan’s
sound and light engineers worked with clockwork precision, the
lighting was different for each song, muted for ballads and
blazing for others. They had it all rehearsed and set, the order
of songs, the lights, the sound?everything!
Listen to a
typical pre song Bryan Adams crew conversation ?????? light
(pre sets)?Best of Me?go Bryan!?
MTV
used an eleven-camera set-up to catch Bryan & his fans rocking.
It was a 35-member production team.
Apart
from his technical crew, musicians Keith Scott on guitar and
drummer Mike McLeary, (who have been with the band since inception)
accompanied Bryan.
The
concert provided the MTV production crew with 32 separate channels
of audio. (Out of which 16 tracks were from the drums itself!)
Bryan
Adams/crew wanted to meet VJ Malaika Arora backstage, which
she politely declined, as she had to leave early.
VJs Nikhil,
Maria, Malaika and Mini sang, swayed and shrieked as Bryan performed.
Lezz Lewis, Phalguni Pathak, Sachin Tendulker and Arshad Warsi
were also seen waking up their neighbours.
A brave paraplegic
girl in a wheel chair was seen singing along with each and every
song that Bryan sang. The joy on her face and the fulfilment
on her mom's face was a sight to be seen.
Simran from
Mumbai was the lucky girl who Bryan picked out from the crowd
to sing with him. And a natural performer that she was, she
seemed completely at ease with the lyrics, the mike and Bryan
by her side.
Lowlights
People in
the 300-buck enclosure jumped over the barricade and were soon
in the 500-buck enclosure closer to the stage.
Super enthu
girls right in front were smashed between the marauding crowd
thronging towards the stage & the barricades ahead.
Junta was
fainting left, right & centre and had to be 'rescued' over
the barricades near the stage. The heat, dehydration, and claustrophobia
could be held responsible. (Later this became a modus operandi
as many saw this as a chance to be peacefully seated right under
the stage.)
The traffic
arrangements were very poor and there was chaos outside the
venue.
- Mobile phone networks
were jammed and all those who planned to 'reach there and call
on the cell' in all likelihood would never have managed to meet
up. Even SMS was jammed!
- There were complaints
from some quarters that the quality of sound in some areas wasn't
good enough.
All said and seen it was a good show!
And if not on cloud no 9, one could surely manage to reach cloud
No.7!!
And if you flunked this BA in rock, make sure
you don't miss the one-hour concert special on MTV. (We'll keep
you posted on the exact timings.)
Enjoy!
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