I always loved live music and my parents always talk about the time when I went right up to a piano when I could barely walk and was standing at one of the piano legs listening to the person play. They also always talk about me going to a fair, getting the person at a crockery store to get me some water, filling water into porcelain cups, to have one cup play one note, to form one full octave and them me playing songs with the cups. and the story when we bought a gramaphone record player at home when I was 3 and I had it hooked up and playing music while my dad was reading the instructions. I loved the gramaphone player and still have some of the LPs from that time.
When I moved to the US, one of the first things I got registered for (even before a credit card) was with columbia house for 13 cds for 1cent or something rediculous like that. With my first salary I bought a 3cd music player and a keyboard piano that was on sales during thansgiving :).
I always had music with me and my friends bought me an MP3 player that was 128MB and held 30 songs on a teeny weeny pendrive!
Texas had good weather all year round and I got the chance to listen to a lot of live music and see a lot of great shows.
One of the first concerts I went to was by a band called "bare naked ladies" - it was a band of 4 grown up men and they had some pretty nice lyrics and were a very popular band in 1998-99. We got free tickets to this concert and it was my first show in the US. People had brought blankets and were sitting on the lawns, there was a lot of "fair food" with turkey let, funnel cake, and the sorts being served.
The next one I went to was Rod Stewart -I think I got free tickets for this too and as I loved his songs, it was nice to see him live. I also got to see Cindy Lauper 20 years after she won her grammy for Time after Time and she was still the bubbly, jumpy enthusiastic entertainer.
A lot of country singers came and went thru FortWorth - so I got to see a lot fo them - the most famous ones being Billy Joe Shaver, Mark David Manders, Charlie Robison (several times), Willie Nelson (several times), the Bellamy Brothers.
Seeing and meeting several singer songwriters at The wildflower concert in Richardson, and the Summerfest concert in Milwaukee where I got to see the eagles are some of the highlight concerts.
I got a lot of singers to sign either CDs or my straw cowboy hats.
Willie Nelson and Charlie Robison on one straw hat I think is my favorite memories.
When we had decided to move back to India, Ramya and I had gone to a Charlie Robison concert and after the concert, I waited for his autograph and told him that "Andy the Indian" was moving back to India and he said he would love to come do a tour in India and to stay in touch - which Totally WOWd Ramya since we had been married just some 6 months then and she had heard and loved him sing in front of the sold out crowd at Billy Bobs :)
When I moved to the US, one of the first things I got registered for (even before a credit card) was with columbia house for 13 cds for 1cent or something rediculous like that. With my first salary I bought a 3cd music player and a keyboard piano that was on sales during thansgiving :).
I always had music with me and my friends bought me an MP3 player that was 128MB and held 30 songs on a teeny weeny pendrive!
Texas had good weather all year round and I got the chance to listen to a lot of live music and see a lot of great shows.
One of the first concerts I went to was by a band called "bare naked ladies" - it was a band of 4 grown up men and they had some pretty nice lyrics and were a very popular band in 1998-99. We got free tickets to this concert and it was my first show in the US. People had brought blankets and were sitting on the lawns, there was a lot of "fair food" with turkey let, funnel cake, and the sorts being served.
The next one I went to was Rod Stewart -I think I got free tickets for this too and as I loved his songs, it was nice to see him live. I also got to see Cindy Lauper 20 years after she won her grammy for Time after Time and she was still the bubbly, jumpy enthusiastic entertainer.
A lot of country singers came and went thru FortWorth - so I got to see a lot fo them - the most famous ones being Billy Joe Shaver, Mark David Manders, Charlie Robison (several times), Willie Nelson (several times), the Bellamy Brothers.
Seeing and meeting several singer songwriters at The wildflower concert in Richardson, and the Summerfest concert in Milwaukee where I got to see the eagles are some of the highlight concerts.
I got a lot of singers to sign either CDs or my straw cowboy hats.
Willie Nelson and Charlie Robison on one straw hat I think is my favorite memories.
When we had decided to move back to India, Ramya and I had gone to a Charlie Robison concert and after the concert, I waited for his autograph and told him that "Andy the Indian" was moving back to India and he said he would love to come do a tour in India and to stay in touch - which Totally WOWd Ramya since we had been married just some 6 months then and she had heard and loved him sing in front of the sold out crowd at Billy Bobs :)
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