Joe Satriani live @ mumbai

Joe Satriani was in amchi mumbai last friday and he rocked it in style with a capital R!! I was the last minute pile up with Krishna and Mak. Thx to Ruzan for opting out. We stood in queue almost an hour before and managed to get in the 4th row. Actually after the front row, every place was same. He came on stage in the black shades around at 7.00 with his guitaar and only stopped at 10.00 pm after 3 hours of continuous rock, blues and whatever the hell he does with his guitar. It felt like the guy makes love to his guitar. This is what Mak has to say about the show:

It was a nite to remember ... to cherish ...
The GOD himself had come down to the MMRDA grnds Bandra mumbai ... to enthrall His mortal audience with a music which the blind could see ... the deaf could hear ... music which could pump life into a corpse ... The 8000 strong crowd waited patiently for 2 hours before the schedule just not to miss a single "see", a single "hear" from the cool goggle clad, shaved head GOD.
The show started with "Up In the Sky". The ticket money that we paid ... got over on this very song ... and O' boy who knew that there were 19 more tracks to come .... Then came the cooolest song .... my favourite ... cool as a breeze, COOL # 9. By the time He played "Flying in a blue dream", we were already out of this world ... in the GOD's durbar ... "the heaven" :)
This is the divine creature who has professionally taught "Metallica", "GnR", Steve Vai ... and the like ... who themselves are considered to be the Gods of music !!! The other songs that we had the extereme privilege to listen were - "Is there love in space", "Starry night", "The Mountain song".
And last but not the least ... the penultimate one - "morrocan sunset" followed by the laaast "Psycho monkey" !!! What a show it waaaas !!! killing performance ... No wonder they had scores of ambulances lined up outside the stage ... :D
But was that the End ???????????? NOOOOOOOO WAAAY !!!!!!!!!! the worshippers wouldnt just let the GOD leave like that !!! The worshippers kept chanting "more" "more" .... Their penance was answered ... and the GOD reappeard !!!
So, finally ... last but not the least .... the penultimate one ... again my fav - "Surfing with an alien". Phew !!!!!!!!!! what energy ... equivalent to a 1000 atom bombs exploding inside of u !!! And the last song ... "Friends" left us gasping for more !!! That brought to an end, a show which I would rate the best till now ... A show the memoirs of which would last for 7 of my lives ... A show for which I have already sinned by putting it into words ...

Mak did recording of almost all his songs with his friend's camera. I also managed to take some cool pictures heading my camera over the dancing shoulders. Mak was rocking like someone in true love with Joe, and so was the girl standing adjacent to him. She got so impressed with Mak or may be with his camera that she gave her phone number and asked him to be in touch. So if mak is not in office during weekends, you a reason to doubt. And if someone needs the phone number, Mak stored it in my cell phone :)

After the concert we went to Mocha...a nice joint with some cool sitting arrangement. The best part was the flavoured tobbacco less hukka which we enjoyed with a competition of who makes the perfect smoke rings.