Evergreen Unplugged

Whoa, what a week that was in Mumbai! As you all know, we participated in the MTV Taking Pole Position and as part of it, we were asked by the MTV officials to record two hour footage of our journey. We had to shoot our entire journey on our handy cam. Four of us - AD, Jagan, Sammy, and Sunil went together to the airport and AB joined us later.
Well, we were not allowed to take videos inside the airport. But we started shooting anyway because it’s a once in a lifetime chance. Jagan was the cameraman for the day. We were going through the security checking and due to excess luggage problem, Jagan had to go deal with it and the camera was passed onto AD. While shooting, AD felt someone tapping his shoulders and when he turned he was shocked to see an AK47 facing him. It was as if the whole world crumbled in front of his eyes. He was taken to the chief security officer. And lo here comes the second comic event of the day. None of us knew Hindi and the chief didn’t know English. And then comes Superman... Jagan (jaggu bhai) to the rescue. He apologized and told that he would delete the last security checking footage. After that, we paid a hefty fee for the excess 27kgs and moved on.

We were done with the checking and were ready to board the flight. Since this was AD’s first flight, we fed him scary stories while waiting in the lounge. At the same time we continued to shoot. The flight was announced, we got into the bus, found that it was a small flight, a propeller. We continued nagging AD by telling that something might go wrong during the flight and as expected we continued shooting while boarding the flight.

Just then, a heavenly figure walked towards us in slow motion as we gasped for air, mesmerized by the beauty. The air hostess then asked us not to take the video of the crew and we were crushed. Being a Kingfisher Red flight we were not served food. We flew till Bangalore starving, bored and heartbroken.

After landing in Bangalore, we had an hour’s break and we boarded our next flight towards Mumbai. Fortunately, here we were served with food. The Non-Veg got over after the fortunate Sammy’s turn, which left the rest of us without any option other than veg (shudder).No offence but the veg food here plopped and slobbered. Out of courtesy, Sammy offered his chicken to us and we grabbed the coming opportunity without any delay. It was like piranhas on a fresh kill.
We landed MUMBAI airport at 8pm. And while taking the luggage Mr. Vasanth, the coordinator of the show, called us and informed us of the shooting with the hidden cameras while departed from the airport. It was a really special moment for us and we felt like true rock stars. We got into the car with Mr. Vasanth and another lady official. On the way they questioned us about our flight, Metallica and little other random stuff. At last we reached our hotel. They had made the arrangements for us in a huge suite. We had five more bands in the same floor. To taste the flavour of Mumbai, we got fresh and stepped out into the city looking for the famed Bade Miya’s, Mocha and a bit of beer.

Hello there.............

Hey guys, we are back and back with a bang. We have churned our energies in the past few months working on our new songs. And there is a new line up now with our new drummer Arun and new keyboardist Samuel lee Karen (our motif Sam because he is the cool guy who owned motif keyboard from its early days in Ernakulum).

We had started our practise since last week and hope that our hard work reaps melodies. It’s a totally different experience for us with all the new sound and music and it’s really exhilarating. We had a break for almost two months and before that we were trying out our hand on 3 new songs. Currently we are practising on these songs. You know what guys, we have with us two Aruns in our ensemble - AD & AB. AD is our Arun drummer and AB Arun bassist.

Jagan and Sunil had a great experience judging the budding rock bands at SCMS engineering college, Ernakulum in the rock competition during their IGNIZ tech fest held on 17th September. Seven rocking bands participated in the competition. Usually our days are kind of monotonous, starting and ending in the practise room and studio, but this was a welcoming change, actually more than welcoming.... as there were many beautiful girls around us.

One funny incident which had occurred during this visit; due to a misunderstanding caused by a small board we ended up reaching a small home and found a lady and we asked her way to the college. But we were embarrassed when she said that this is not the college. Thank god that the lady did not take us as eve teasers. Fortunately the lady knew the way to the college and helped us out with correct directions.

Recently we had a photo shoot with our new members. Watch out... we are going to upload them soon. As you might be knowing about our YouTube channel, there is going to be a new addition to its series, "THE PRACTICE ROOM", and we will be uploading our videos periodically which will give you a sneak peek into our jamming sessions, our witty as well as stressful behind the scenes of what makes evergreen so happening. our link is www.youtube.com/theofficialevergreen.

Evergreen working on 'From Here To Clarity' - Chilled Out Version

After the extremely positive feedback gained from the chilled out version of Sublime, Evergreen began working with Sam, a very good friend and talented musician, on their hit song 'From Here to Clarity.'

As it stands, the drums, guitar and bass parts of the song are pretty much complete... The next step will be to merge these sounds with the keyboard; the song will be complete with Jagan's vocals.

As you all know, the chilled out version of 'Sublime' is very different in terms of it's style and sound when compared to the original version.

'From Here to Clarity' is also very different - remember, it's a chilled out version... But again, very different to the chilled out 'Sublime.'

Sam is going out of his way to maximise the potential of Evergreen and take them to higher places; and Evergreen are working hard to utilise his capacity to their advantage.

Here follows a jamming session with Sam....