For The Love Of Music

A chilly morning breeze greeted me as I walked out of the lobby of my building. I smiled to myself, thinking ahead to February. A much colder environment awaited us there. My mind wandered. I couldn't remember the last time I jammed or was involved in any music related activity with friends. Probably Nostalgia 2006. Too long a gap. Talk about losing my way.

ND had been breaking her head for song(s) she could perform in a small society gathering. Having come across very few choices, she'd spoken to me about it. I wasn't much help either but somewhere along the way, we stumbled upon "Desperado" by the Eagles (her suggestion), which in my opinion turned out to be quite a scorcher. For starters, I had not heard the song too often. Yesterday I got home and I ripped the song from the CD. Then I heard the track on (a trusted) Winamp repeat mode and fixated myself on it for a while.

When we met in college, KP & MG had joined in the fun. MG got his guitar along while KP saw the entire plan as a great opportunity to start things off on what he'd been looking forward to for sometime now. We started off a little awkward. I relied on ND's familiarity with the song's tune. It helped me pinpoint the chord timing. I'm very finicky about that, no doubt (MJ is grinning ear to ear at this point). I have to get it spot on or I'm not going to move ahead. Meanwhile, the two other musicians were busy discussing various chord formations and exercising their fingers like never before.

We got rolling in half an hour and ND picked up the pace. She sings well. Don't know why that stage fright syndrome rings in for all of us. Post 26th, things should change. I have another 'session' tomorrow. Punctuality? Yea. 9 a.m. Give it all I've got.

Gnite.