It's the way i am

Switched!

2006-11-30T04:05:00.000-08:00

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2006-10-18T03:58:00.000-07:00

A.D.P

For everyones amusement..A.D.P in it's studio glory!

Its time for zeeee Guitars!

After the drums and percussions sessions. It was now oba and imrans turn to face the music. And boy it was fun!

Omar was the first one to record. Did his setup in the recording booth. Fixed his Amp settings. Recorded the rhythm tracks for Sultanat, Sajna, Likhta nahin, Sach, vaaday and Sheher ke aansoo. After this the next step was to record guitar solos. Its always hard to record solos. Because you need to feel what your playing. Every solo has its own feel. And when i say feel, Sultanats solo comes into my mind. Omar takes off with his trademark Sultanat solo and boy was it rocking or what!

Excellent feel. Just takes you to another level. It took him 3 takes to get it right I guess but amazing guitar work indeed. Then Sheher ke aansoo wasnt bad either. great feel amazing skills on the guitar and his solos were just getting better every minute. Nice and simple one on Sajna. The worst experience for Omar was recording Vaaday. Obviously after all that he recorded it was hard to figure out what to play in this fast paced song. He tried it once, twice, and then he decided to do it later. But after the motivation session given to him by me, ok and imran.. he then again went in the recording booth and recorded a one final take kick ass solo.

I am proud of my band :D

Now we will have an ADP limousine!

Maybe, a personal jet

A helicopter?

People will be taking our pictures everyday, every moment!

We will be Rockstars!

Wait a minute

We are Rockstars! :P

Changing the face of this music industry. yeah yeah!!!

After a lengthy recording session, Omar was exhausted and felt like peeing all over the place. I mean puking all over the place. No no, what am I saying, I meant Puking and Peeing all over the place hehe but seriously he was tired after this non-stop 4 to 5 hour session. He recorded most of his songs and did the solos and other related stuff. After which Imran felt like puking as well. And decided to do rest of the songs next week. This eventually never happened. Because Imran is currently suffering from joy and dus!!!..:S

We hope he gets well soon and returns in action. Our next shift is on Thursday, which is tomorrow. Will blog about the upcoming sessions as well.

Oh, we have taken loads of pictures!!!

All you ADP lovers will get to see them pretty soon.

Stay tuned!

2006-10-11T01:54:00.000-07:00

blogword: Red

I can't believe how four sounds red to me!

Am I seeing red

wherever I turn my eyes,

or is this an aberration of my mind?

Funny, pretty red!

2006-10-04T00:54:00.000-07:00

Aunty Disco Project

Coming Soon!!!!

Well... we started our recording for the album last month and its still in process. Now we know how hard it is to record in the studio..i mean it's totally different from what you play live. A different ball game all together. First and the most difficult phase of the recording was recording live drums. Which we did alhamdulillah. We took one day to setup the drums and checking out the sound. Ashfaq bhai (Recording Engineer) knew what we wanted. Gave us the best possible sound for the drums. The next day... great Omar Khalid [O.K] recorded live drums for 11 tracks in a day with 5 to 6 takes of each song!!!....amazing man!!! never went out ...stayed in tempo had his frustrating moments but nailed it. Omar Khalid is indeed a great drummer and people like gumby and alan and whoever should watchout now...because O.K express is on its way!!!

After recording the drums it was my turn to record the darbuka. And boy i had fun or what in doing that. Again great sound setup. We took two days for darbuka so that i can record what i want to record araam se and not get confused with O.K kind of beat structures (which are hard to follow). First day i recorded 4 songs..First was Sultanat which took 2 hours... which i never expected..i thought i can do it in a go...but no...after we heard my first take which was the way i play live on stage with the drums....it sounded ....horrible! Jee...horrible..it sounded muffled with no sequence no way to go kinda thing. But as we moved on...i got the hang of it and recorded a kick ass beat with the drums...which sounded great. Changed the feel of the song all together. After i finished recording sultanat..i recorded other four songs..with minimum takes..and then there was a point where i couldn't move my arm. I was locked in a small room...with no fan or air conditioner what so ever...(obviously not needed in a recording booth).The next day i came all pumped up and ready to finish my darbuka parts for the album..but no...KESC never wanted this to happen...light gayi!!!!!!!!and that day we could only record one song. I was thoraa sa disappointed..

The next shift was scheduled after a week. I came in a immediately went into the songs. We have this song called MERE DOST..which is actually different from all other tracks because it goes on and on and on and on..lol...recording this song was fun...Improvising over Omar khalid drums is like playing against zakir hussain on tabla...hardly give you room for extra beats..lol but we actually managed to record it. It sounds great...nothing like it!
People are in for a great treat i tell you.. we are giving everything we have for this debut album...next session is for the guitars..best of luck to my boys..Lodhi and Oba!..i know you guys will nail it.

will update about them soon...

2006-10-03T23:27:00.000-07:00

blogthought: Because i didn't...

This is our last embrace,

Must I dream and always see your face

Why can't we overcome this wall

Baby, maybe it is just because I didn't know you at all.

Last Goodbye

jeff buckley

2006-09-27T22:57:00.000-07:00

blogthought: If i could, I would...

If I could I would, but I dont know how
If I could write you a song, to tell you how I loved you

If I could I would and I'd take you now!

and as Edward Hopper quotes ...

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

2006-09-19T23:36:00.000-07:00

blogword: Words

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2006-09-13T07:06:00.000-07:00

blogword: Right

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

2006-09-06T04:15:00.000-07:00

blogword: decisions

Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.

2006-08-30T21:51:00.000-07:00

blogword: End

Why do we all end up alone?
Why do we always have to find our way back home?
Why do we all end up alone?
We gather no moss just like a rolling stone...

Why do we all end up alone?
Why do we always have to find our way back home?
Why do we all end up alone?
Why so we all end up dead drunk or stoned?...

Saw you on the big show saw you swinging from the big trapeze!
Standing on my tip toes while you brushed the dirt from off your knees!
Should have come as no surprise no one else here did have your drive!
You've got a big white stretch parked right outside but nobody there to share your ride!

Why do we all end up alone?
We gather no moss just like a rolling stone...
Why so we all end up dead drunk or stoned?...
Why do we all end up alone?

2006-08-27T22:52:00.000-07:00

FREAKY!!!

I got my new apartment at khayaban-e-badar 26th street yesterday. The place has 2 bedrooms a lounge and another room which is kind of a dining room and a big kitchen. And i was spending my first night there....alone!!!

I don't have any furniture right now because i intend to share the apartment. So setting up all alone is not my cup of cake. My band mates (imran and omar khalid) were with me when i shifted in the apartment. I must say that my band mates are the greatest brothers i have. They stayed late at my place so that i don't feel all alone. Before shifting to this apartment i was living with imran in his apartment. Which was a great experience.lol. I gave my mattress to another friend of mine who needed it while i was sharing the bed with imran :) (Sounds great doesn't it_)

However, in my new apartment i had no choice but to sleep on the carpet. But Omar went back and got a mattress from his place and told me to keep it until i get mine. I hugged him and was like thanks bro!!!... Another surprise was this that omar got me his mini stereo. So that i can listen to the radio all night long if i couldnt sleep. Which i actually did....because i couldnt sleep poori raat. I was freaked out. I locked the door of the room i was in. Lights were on throughout the night..lol...and my stereo was on its max volume. And still i heard weird voices from the room next to mine. I freaked out like anything!!!! for once i thought i should go downstairs and tell the guard to sleep upstairs and give me his (Charpai) for the night. But i managed to overcome my fear and lied on the mattress like a brave boy and heard the night transmission of every station one by one...lol...this was at about 2.30 in the morning. I finally went to sleep for 2 hours and woke up at 5ish in the morning again when i heard someone was actually knocking on my door!.... Which again was the fear factor...it just was in my head that kuch tu hoga ......!! But then i tuned the talawat for fajr prayer on the radio to the max volume and went to sleep again....and then woke up at 7 to get ready for a new day at work. And right now im here writing i dont fucking know what...bas likh rahah hu.... I mean i have been living alone for more than 2 years now..and never felt this way...but this was one unique experience.

Should i sign out? still confused!! :S

2006-08-20T23:06:00.000-07:00

Ideas and Opinions

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience. Einstein- _Ideas and Opinions_, (Dell, Pinebrook, N.J., 1954).

2006-08-13T03:13:00.000-07:00

"Fortunate Fool"

She's got it all figured out
She knows what everything's about And when anybody doubts her,
Or sings songs without her
She's just so mmm

She knows the world is just her stage
And so she'll never misbehave
She gives thanks for what they gave her Man,
they practically made her Into a mmm

She's the one that stumbles when she talks about
The seven foreign films that she's checked out
Such a fortunate fool
She's just too good to be true
She's such a fortunate fool
She's just so mmm

She's got it all figured out
She knows what everything's about
And when anybody doubts her
Or sings songs about her
She's just so mmm

She's the one that stumbles when she talks about it
So maybe we shouldn't talk about
Such a fortunate fool She's just too good to be true
She's such a fortunate fool
She's just so mmm

Hafta jaye magar Mufta na jaye!!!

2006-08-13T01:43:00.000-07:00

Hafta jaye magar Mufta na jaye!!!
ITCN exhibition 2006 took place at the karachi expo centre. We had to represent our station. And give liveupdates... We were told that the first two days will be for coorporates. But no ... it was a lie...every freakin mailaa showed up and danced in the world of telecommunications. I mean why? WHY? Why can't they understand that they can participate in a normal way. Just answer few questions properly and win a nice prize. But no...they have to sing...they have to dance...and they have to shout out and beat each other up for free giveaways!!! I saw samsung people throwing empty bags (shopping bags) and people were going crazy..i saw a guy who slapped a guy next to him and took his bag...lol...i mean why dude..its just a bag.
Free gifts and our people ....its just impossible!!!
It really was a crazy week for me. People trying to grab all the celebs present there... there were popular names ... anusheh, dino faizan ...and me...well yeah!!
I cant really explain how bad these 3 days were....i mean i dont want to think about it guess.. therefore, this event will always be one of the worst experiences of my life.
Signing out..

2006-08-10T22:51:00.000-07:00

Started my blog again...guess i just can't stay away from this...i have to do this...

let the games begin!
:D