By Harry Chops a.k.a Harish Chopra

Even God loves good music! As the D-day approached, the scorching heat of Delhi surrendered and the heavens opened up. When we woke up on the 16th, it was raining and it continued for the whole day. We were now scared as the location we had zeroed in was an open sitting Cafe Coffee Day (CCD Taj-Chanakya Puri)bang opposite theTaj Mahal Hotel. However, as evening approached, it became a perfect setting.

All eyes were now set to see fellow Muzibians who had never met each other (except a few). The excitement was great and every one was looking forward to this as evident by the phone calls being exchanged between them.

Here is the link to the awesome pics.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844209@N08/page2/

One of the videos with Amit and gang

When Neha and Harry reached the destination at around 7 PM, Shubham was the first one to be sighted. No great efforts in recongnizing each other though meeting for the first time. Within no time, there was a hetrogeneous group (of 13-14 guys) of homogeneous Muzibians.  So finally after some convincing to be done with CCD staff, we managed a corner space for us, which could sit us all. Everybofy gave a brief ‘intro’ and voices and names got faces and expressions. It was fun to know the people you already knew through Muziboo! There were guys coming from different professions and few of them full time into music.  One of them, Amit Yadav started with some useful tips on recording techniques. thanks mate! The Guitars carried along were put to best use and slowly everybody got into mood. An array of songs right from Kishore da, Lucky Ali, Palash Sen and Pink Floyd were all in waiting to find right vocals.  Nandu, Neha, Jane, Harry, Amit, Saurabh, Shubham, Prateek and all others participated with best of their skills.  Prateek and Saurabh displayed their guitar playing skills. Way to go brothers! keep it up!

We took Rakesh Baro on line for a special yodling act by him and some of Kishore da’s all time greats in his powerful voice. Thanks buddy!

I must also mention that the mango people (aam aadmi) present around us thoroghly enjoyed and they appreciated all our efforts with lots of cheers and clapping.  There were regular photo shoots between the sessions.

Supposed to be an hour of jamming session extended well into the night.  ”Music knows no boundaries” was felt by all of that day.  The deadly meet was finally declared closed at around 10 PM. Each of us went back with promise to make such special sessions more frequent.

Great coffee and greater music savoured by all

When Prateek and myself ventured out in the Mumbai heat at around 2pm on the 1st of August, there was just one overpowering feeling – the excitement of meeting Muziboo users. Muziboo as a community is so closely knit that you never consciously realize that you have never met any of your music buddies outside the virtual world of Muziboo. Till of-course a meet of sorts happens!

When we sunk ourselves into the comfy cushions of Cafe Mocha at 3pm, we expected to stay there till 4.30. Happily enough, when we paid the bill and got up to leave it was a lil past 7.30! Geniusoid was the first one to join us and a good samaritan that he is, he had gotten his guitar along. With more people joining us, the group slowly warmed up to some Pink Floyd. Soon enough it was Indian Ocean and the league. We ended our session with ofcourse ‘Bollywood’ with everyone shouting his guts out.

Here’s a collage of the pics that we had taken

Initially when I had requested the bearers to turn down the volume of the music they were playing, they almost got defensive and turned it up to make sure their other customers weren’t distracted by what we were playing. But half an hour down the line, when most other customers in the cafe started humming and shaking their heads to our tunes, they were polite enough to turn their music off completely.

To say the least it was an uber-cool weekend entertainment. The best part is this meet enthusing the Delhi and Chennai Muzibians to arrange one for themselves. Expecting the ripple-effect to continue and Muziboo meets happening all over the world:)