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The Concert — Part I
WE ahstys lansSi nd Shubho a genius In aU aspects. He was a poetic fellow with an tends of tendencies we never dreamt of following. He woke up al 13 noon bunked college and had breakfast along with a number of sedatives Then he would start to paint foil on canvas) and draw people waking up al 12 noon and having breakfast with marijuana We Ignored his bad habits Just for one reason He was a micro version of Jlntml Hendrix
This Bengali Jimmi I lendnx would therefore spend the dull afternoon listening to music by The Doors or Deep Ihirpfe pop in some more sedatives like se-duxln or phensidyl. then start playing his gigtar like enuty.
Back In 1982. we (more or less ail the guys of the same age in the city) were amazed by his talent. One day we heard that Shubho had formed a band called the Phasing Point. We were thrilled. At that lime there were small numbers of bands In the country like -Feedback. Souls and Miles But ere considered these bands either vegetables or lacking originality. So we thought this was U Phasing Anni was going to boll the whole musical arena of the country
Phasing Point started practice almost everyday. The line up was Mlaz vocals. Hamid baas. Shubho guitar and key hoards bul the bund had not vet found any drummer or a back up guitarist. Il needed a drummer like Ian Page (of Deep l-urpk-l ... no. no, Led Zeppelin s Bantham. bul some one like Carl Palmer of Emerson. Lake and Palmer would do. Sharier, If you find anyone like them." said Mlaz one day (loaded with drugs of course)." plcash. let ush know"
Mte* never could pronounce anything properly. He would pronounce- song as shong", bul that was hi* style
One day wc heard that they were getting ready for a super-hit concert. They had temporarily arranged a drummer and a keyboardist. The drummer was a professional man and he had never heard of rock and roll. But he knew all Hindi songs bv friend of the band numbers hand only finished learning the major and minor chords. His name was Dulu (presently he is known to be a famous composer among the bands of the country).
Wc thronged to the practice spot Alter all w> had to-main tain liaison with them sum! pn tend to be close friends of ihe band tn order to get "patta (atten'KMi) from other guys
Now, I was amazed lo sxv ihe drunaner. He had a hair style of 1974. wore disco shoes (pointed bliM k shoes with a gokit-n plate on its lap), a light jeans and .i skin-fit shirt. Man. was he ridiculous I He could not catch any.of the beats of Phasing Point's music. Shubho was shouting out names at him every now and then. Dulu seemed to be stupefied’.
11 amid the bassil, was in our o|Miilon a-wtob, Wc wverrhad any patta' from him. Ite would not talk unnecessarily and he iwiT let anyone touch his bass guitar. Unlike Shubho he did not touch drugs and probably used lo read "Adam Smith" instead of many people s kan lo-ward "Karl Marx" to practice pseudo intellectuality
Shubho and Mlaz were alright But they were always sinned and could not practktv
I m off to sleep, you praclkv . Shubho used to say Others did not mind, for Shubho was a master musician. Mlaz was ,d-ways busy mixing lev cubes and lemon in phcnsldyl. Okay," al last one day Shubho gave us "patta." you take the charge of selling 20 ttckels. "You gel a ticket free of course r he added. Gulp I I did not expect such responsibility in order to get "patta*. A ticket cost 50 taka to 10 taka. Back tn 1982-83. that waa like MO taka to BOO taka.
Anyway, since Shubho had a reputation of a Jimmi Hendrix, I managed to sell 18 tickcis to my friends after a lot of persun sions.
The concert wnuc was fixed at an oU community auditorium. So on the scheduled time out we went heads high. Dhaka city waa going to have a Motor* musical lime a* bat We got into the auditorium. There was arrangement for 250 seats The scats had Just started to fill up I found out that almost every one In the audience was known tome.The stage was dark. Bul I could sec cigarette burning In a circle. I had a feeling it was a marijuana gang. I went up the stage and a group of six friends of mine, close to the Phasing Point were busy smoking marijuana. They Ignored me. I wits a sissy and they considered me stupid because I avoided Their Jidda "Ilf S&arlcr T one of them said. They were VIP's then. So .1 should be proud that one of the Phasing Point's helpers even spoke to me. Anyway. I got back to my scat '