Strike right chord to be a rock star
They say that the desire to live a dream can make one go places. My dream was to be a drummer wanting to express my emotions through cymbals and tombs, and do everything, which probably musicians do both on and off stage. But coming from a small town in
Assam, it didn’t take me long to realise the need to venture out of my homeland, someplace which is bigger, friendlier and has more opportunities for a budding musician. And my parents’ plan to send me to Delhi to study Law after my Class 12 exams came as a blessing in disguise.
I came to Delhi, and as I couldn’t clear my Delhi Law Faculty entrance (thankfully), I enrolled myself in the Jagannath Institute of Management and Sciences, in a management course.
I started as a drummer for my college band, but after a few months I quit as it was getting me nowhere near my dream. The silver lining in the cloud came when I got an opportunity to play at the IIT music festival. Our band didn’t do well, but I was lucky to be spotted by a few guys, who were good at what they did, and above all practice the same kind of genre as me, rock ‘n’ roll.
I started jamming with them thrice a week. Simultaneously, the city too became friendly as I made new friends, and started to enjoy my new-found freedom keeping my dream alive. After playing in a number of college gigs and various malls (thanks to a guy called Stanley), my understanding of the craft grew for good, and somehow I knew there is something more challenging waiting for me.
Today, I have my own band called 256 BC. Though my dream of being the ultimate “rock star” is yet to be fulfilled, I’m quite optimistic. Here I remember what Thomas Alva Edison once said, “Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets good planning.”
Assam, it didn’t take me long to realise the need to venture out of my homeland, someplace which is bigger, friendlier and has more opportunities for a budding musician. And my parents’ plan to send me to Delhi to study Law after my Class 12 exams came as a blessing in disguise.
I came to Delhi, and as I couldn’t clear my Delhi Law Faculty entrance (thankfully), I enrolled myself in the Jagannath Institute of Management and Sciences, in a management course.
I started as a drummer for my college band, but after a few months I quit as it was getting me nowhere near my dream. The silver lining in the cloud came when I got an opportunity to play at the IIT music festival. Our band didn’t do well, but I was lucky to be spotted by a few guys, who were good at what they did, and above all practice the same kind of genre as me, rock ‘n’ roll.
I started jamming with them thrice a week. Simultaneously, the city too became friendly as I made new friends, and started to enjoy my new-found freedom keeping my dream alive. After playing in a number of college gigs and various malls (thanks to a guy called Stanley), my understanding of the craft grew for good, and somehow I knew there is something more challenging waiting for me.
Today, I have my own band called 256 BC. Though my dream of being the ultimate “rock star” is yet to be fulfilled, I’m quite optimistic. Here I remember what Thomas Alva Edison once said, “Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets good planning.”
Kuldeep,
College student
The writer is a third year management student of JIMS
