Aerosmith plays Walk this way and gets some sweet taste of India
Sunday, September 23, 2007 by King Xaqo
"The concert - according to the Managing Director of event organisers DNA Networks - was be the real big gig, complete with three ramp-stages, top sound and dazzling lights. "
Rock-star cool met desi exotica, as legendary American band Aerosmith gave random takes on India after touching down in Bangalore, for their concert in the City.
“Aap khush hai?” asked frontman Steven Tyler after the flight from Dubai, flashing the famous grin and ma kin tattoo.Joe Perry, hoisting a snazzy guitar, chatted the scribes up on what he knew about the country.
All, staples from the Westerner’s India: spices, incense and the elephant.
Even as passengers and onlookers at the HAL Airport tried figuring out what brought a host of journalists and security men around in a makeshift enclosure in front of the terminal, the men of the moment - Tyler, Perry, Joey Kramer, Brad Whitford and Tom Hamilton - walked in, to loud cheers and palpable buzz.
Tyler and Perry did the talking, while Kramer, Whitford and Hamilton just hung around striking poses.
Taste of India
Tyler, meanwhile, went ‘Vindaloo!’, announcing the Indian connection.
Tyler said the boys from Boston would have the ‘sweet taste of India’ first thing, winking on the connection - the band’s track Taste of India, from Nine Lives.
He also obliged with a take on Indian women: ‘It’s all about the bindi.’
A contingent of more than 40 members accompanyed the band.
‘Always in the mind’
And what brought them here? “That we’ve never been here. India was always in the mind.”The concert - according to the Managing Director of event organisers DNA Networks - was be the real big gig, complete with three ramp-stages, top sound and dazzling lights.
The play-list had all the big ones, including (Dude) Looks like a lady, Walk this way, Crazy, Janie’s got a gun and Sweet emotion.
Rock-star cool met desi exotica, as legendary American band Aerosmith gave random takes on India after touching down in Bangalore, for their concert in the City.
“Aap khush hai?” asked frontman Steven Tyler after the flight from Dubai, flashing the famous grin and ma kin tattoo.Joe Perry, hoisting a snazzy guitar, chatted the scribes up on what he knew about the country.
All, staples from the Westerner’s India: spices, incense and the elephant.
Even as passengers and onlookers at the HAL Airport tried figuring out what brought a host of journalists and security men around in a makeshift enclosure in front of the terminal, the men of the moment - Tyler, Perry, Joey Kramer, Brad Whitford and Tom Hamilton - walked in, to loud cheers and palpable buzz.
Tyler and Perry did the talking, while Kramer, Whitford and Hamilton just hung around striking poses.
Taste of India
Tyler, meanwhile, went ‘Vindaloo!’, announcing the Indian connection.
Tyler said the boys from Boston would have the ‘sweet taste of India’ first thing, winking on the connection - the band’s track Taste of India, from Nine Lives.
He also obliged with a take on Indian women: ‘It’s all about the bindi.’
A contingent of more than 40 members accompanyed the band.
‘Always in the mind’
And what brought them here? “That we’ve never been here. India was always in the mind.”The concert - according to the Managing Director of event organisers DNA Networks - was be the real big gig, complete with three ramp-stages, top sound and dazzling lights.
The play-list had all the big ones, including (Dude) Looks like a lady, Walk this way, Crazy, Janie’s got a gun and Sweet emotion.
Labels: desi exotica, DNA, DNA Networks, tom hamilton, top sound, vindaloo
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