Normally, I prefer reading books, actual books whether paperback or hardcover. This time, I thought, I'd read it using the Kindle app on my phone. It wasn't that bad. The only issue I had was that pages with images didn't show up. So, eventually I switched to reading on the kindle app on my laptop where things worked just fine.
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Here's a post that is long overdue. During my last visit to England in early January 2014, I went to the university town of Bath in Somerset. There were quite a few amazing musicians playing really good music.
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Have been a bit busy so this post is a few months late… these are pics from the Steve Vai concert in Seattle last October. The concert rocked big time. Though the glamorous costumes seemed a bit to much that paled in comparison to the mind-blowing music.
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It was a wonderful concert, with some unexpected, yet entertaining performances. Starting with the famous James Bond Theme, made famous from Dr. No, the orchestra kept us in awe with performances of the themes from From Russia with Love, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever and The World Is Not Enough. The last two were performed by Broadway Soprano Debbie Gravitte.
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Found some videos of the sparkling ragas practice sessions and performances. For those of you who don't know us, Sparkling Ragas was Microsoft India's very own music band, consisting of various people at various times including drummers Anand and Kamalesh, guitarists Jairam, Joesph and Sameer, on keyboard myself (Alvaro) and Deepti, Rohit on vocals and congo, vocalists Shalini, Sumeet, Mrutyunjaya, Elsa, Shweta, and Pavan.
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Attended an amazing performance by Tom Morello in Seattle on 18th Oct. He really is an awesome guitarist. Towards the end of the show he actually called the audience on stage to sing 'World Wide Rebel Songs' with him.
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Awesome performance by Yanni. It simply couldn't get any better. Below pictures are of the performance of Aria. Unfortunately, the clarity of the pics are poor.
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We had our Microsoft IT Annual party recently. Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy were the main performers for the evening. Loved their show. It was a great performance what with all the latest songs..
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