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ARR's LIVE concert in Long Island, NY

Topic started by Dorai (@ 216.217.47.130) on Mon Sep 25 10:01:44 EDT 2000.
All times in EST +10:30 for IST.

Folks,
I had been to ARR's Live concert in Long Island, NY. Apart from 2 or 3 songs out of a total of around 25 to 30 songs all the Music was DEFINETLY played from tracks. ARR had hired musicians locally (ie., in the US) to make such a drama or what???.

Its totally a pity to see a established MD to trick and fool people with track music played in live shows. He should have tried to bring the real live music from his troop whether it comes out good or bad.

I saw most of the foreign musicians idle most of the time and the good part about it is that they did not pretend to play music as opposed to their Indian counterparts who were pretending all thro the show.

Any more obervations are welcome.

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• From: paamaran (@ 207.188.29.253) on: Mon Oct 9 18:40:02 EDT 2000
  
  My KaRpanai on ARR's KaRpanai
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  VM might have infuenced the State Government (his friendship with MuKa is known) to pressure/influence the US Consulate in delaying the Visas :)
  
  
• From: Tamil Music Fan (@ 128.97.91.94) on: Mon Oct 9 18:58:31 EDT 2000
  
  This is a report of the Ar RAhman show in LA....report may not be
  the best one, but I hope it is in good detail for those who didn't attend.
  The show started at around 7:55pm. Some dancers/musicians dressed in flashy
  clothes entered the auditorium from the main entrance and walked towards the
  stage, playing some kind of percussion instrument simultaneously. Sivamani
  was one of them. Javed Jaffrey (Hindi dancer) gave a brief introduction on
  how everyone starts listening to music even before they are born and some
  such crap...and he began the countdown.
  10..9..8..7..6..5..4..3..2..1..0...then the curtain lifts and the band
  starts playing Rangeela theme song....with Anupama humming the song. This
  happened ofcourse with a great ovation. The compere was Javed Jaffrey
  (wasn't really needed...he was only pissing off some junta with his
  nonsense). The song list is below:
  
  2. Oruvan Oruvan muthalali (SPB....superb response from all Tamil
  Junta...and whistles)
  
  3. Que Sara Sara Sara....from Pukar(Shankar Mahadevan (SM), Kavitha
  Krishnamurthy (KK))
  
  4. Choti Choti asha ......( Sadhna Sargam (SS).....one of the best singers
  in the show.....she was almost perfect in all the songs she sang)
  
  5. Thaniye Thannanthaniye (SM...superbly sung song...he has a very good voice)
  
  6. Ea ajnabi..from Dilse (Udit Narayan, Sujatha who had a flawless voice)
  
  7. Pachai nirame...(Hariharan was introduced in this song and he received a
  major applause but he goofed in the lyrics...but the laser lights changed to
  the appropriate 'colours' during the song.....Clinton sang the 'sagiye'
  part, but didn't sound like the original recording)
  
  8. Javed Jaffrey started talking nonsense again and praised Rahman saying
  that his song comes from 'the sky' and his heart and asked Rahman to say
  something from the bottom of his heart and Rahman started singing 'Dilse
  re'......
  
  9. Rabta jogi...from taal (Sukhwinder singh and Saadhna sargam...Sukhwinder
  sing cashed in this song and the american orchestra was very involved in
  this song..meaning a lot of musicians were playing violins/trumpet/trombone
  etc.)
  
  10. Jiya Jale (from Dilse by Saadhna sargam....very well executed
  song...Clinton and Srinivas were involved in the chorus - the mallu rap
  which comes in between. for those of you who don't know, Clinton is the guy
  who sings 'sagiye' in pachai nirame and who sang 'endrendrum punnagai' in
  alaipayude)
  
  11. Mukkala Muqabla (from Kaadalan (hindi version) sung by SM and Dominique)
  
  12. Ishq bina..from Taal (by Sujatha and Srinivaasan......Sujatha was perfect)
  
  13. Jugalbandhi by Sivamani, one mridangist and one other ghatam player...I
  am sorry I forgot the names of the mridangist and ghatam player. But this
  was a very good piece. Sivamani, especially was very impressive.
  Throughtout the show, he never seemed to have got tired of playing. He was
  playing with full enthusiasm till the end...he was completely surrounded by
  various percussion instruments.
  
  14. Taal se Taal mila ..from Taal (very good orchestration by the New York
  musicians)
  
  15. Kaadal Rojave/Roja Janeman (this was a superb piece by SPB and
  Sujatha...Sujatha was as usual very impressive. SPB started off the song in
  Hindi and suddenly switched to the original Tamil version, when you should
  have seen the applause by the Tamil audience....this probably is an
  indication that original version is the best!)
  
  16. Suntha hai mera mera....from pukar (by Udit and Kavitha
  Krishnamurthy...Udit was very good in this song...just like the original
  recording)
  
  17. Nahi Saamne from Taal (by Hariharan...was sung very well. There was
  some good dance also for this song. Rahman was playing the keyboard....he
  did for most of the songs.)
  
  18. Snehidane...from alaipayuthey (my favourite!....marvellous performance
  by Saadhna Sargam...infact it sounded better than the original...only thing
  was that Srinivas took off the song on a different sruthi and changed it
  later because the instrumentalists were playing it on a different pitch!
  But that was soon forgotten. Srinivas was very impressive
  otherwise...looked very humble,etc. This song evoked a very good response)
  
  19. Rang De from Thakshak (Saadhna sargam...again a very good performance
  and an apt response)
  
  20. Sandhana thendralai from Kandukonden (by SM and Kavitha
  Krishnamurthy....very well sung by SM. the western orchestration was
  superb...the violin interludes and stuff..)
  
  21. Konjam Nilavu from thiruda thiruda (Anupama sang this song just like
  she sung it six years back...this song had some major dancing and laser
  lights + crackers).
  
  10 minute break
  
  The piano was set up during the break.
  
  22. Some female called Carol (born and brought up in Canada I suppose) sang
  a piece from Bombay dreams for which Rahman is collaborating with andrew
  lloyed webbers. She was ok and the piece wasn't extra ordinary or anything.
  
  23. Bombay Theme music...the western orchestra was extremely good and they
  were all in very good unison, especially the violinists.
  
  24. Unplugged is what they called it: four singers - SPB, hariharan,
  Sujatha and Kavitha Krishnamurthy came to the stage and sat on four tall
  chairs with Rahman on the Piano. This was supposed to be without any other
  instruments but the piano. There was a brief but good talk by SPB saying
  that music transcends all languages and that their mother tongue is 'music'
  and so on. SPB started off by singing Anjali Anjali (from Duet) in Telugu
  and received a major applause...Hariharan continued along the same mood by
  singing 'Dheemi Dheemi' from 1947 earth. Sujatha was the best of the lot
  when she started 'kal nahi..' from Vishwavidhatta and switched over to it's
  tamil original version 'nettru illatha maatram'. She was absolutely
  flawless. Kavitha Krishnamurthy started off reciting the lyrics for 'katre
  un vaasal' from rhythm, in Hindi and suddenly developed that into the song
  itself. She was very melodious. Rahman was playing the background for all
  the songs continuously without any break.
  
  25. Rahman and Clinton paired up and sang 'humma humma' both in Tamil and
  Hindi, with Rahman singing in Tamil. Sivamani was very good at drums.
  
  26. Taal instrumental music was played and it slowly developed into 'ruth
  aagayi re' from 1947 earth, with Sukhwinder singh in the lead.
  
  27. 'kaadalenum thervezhuthi'...the hindi version of this song was sung by
  Srinivas and SS. Srinivas was very good. He was super.
  
  28. Mustafa Mustafa was sung by rahman. He removed his outer jacked and
  wore a green cap and came down on the stage and received so much applause
  for this. People didn't stop saying 'once more' after the end of this song.
  Rahman said that he would do it again but there was not much time left.
  
  29. Chayya Chayya from dilse was sung by Sukhwinder sing and dominique.
  There was too much response for this song, but Sukhwinder didn't put too
  much effort and it didn't sound like the original version. Nevertheless,
  the response was great.
  
  30. Smaiyai from KK by Clinton and Devan which slowly developed into
  'Dhandiya aattamum aada' in Hindi by Udit Narayan, which in turn developed
  into 'samaj gaya' from Taal by Sukhwinder and finally ended with 'taal se
  taal mila'.
  
  31. Rahman ended the show with 'Maa tuje salaam'. He sang this song with a
  group of small children dancing, wearing clothes with Indian flags on them.
  All the singers joined him towards the end and they all joined and raised
  their hands to conclude the song.
  
  In the few words that Rahman spoke he said that LA was the best
  audience. I wasn't very convinced by that because I heard that there were
  tens of thousands of people for his concert in Toronto. I was a bit
  disappointed with the concert because he didn't sing that many tamil songs
  and he left out great songs from movies like Jeans, Iruvar, Minsaara Kanavu,
  Padayappa, Mudhalvan etc. Chitra was missing in the show. UnniKrishnan
  would have definitely made a difference, but he wasn't there either. There
  were 42 instrumentalists on the whole. Rahman was playing on the keyboard
  for most of the songs. Dancers did a very good job..they must have really
  rehearsed a lot because they were dancing for most of the songs and the show
  lasted four hours! On the whole, it was well worth the 55 dollars that I
  spent. I had a pair of binoculars also with me and I got to see all my
  favourite singers. The show was well organised and Rahman was truly
  professional. I left the auditorium with a small disappointment that I
  couldn't meet any of the artists. Well, they had to close the auditorium
  and were driving the people out of it. Anyways, I was more than happy on
  Friday evening!
  
  
  
• From: bb (@ 216.217.80.201) on: Mon Oct 9 18:59:20 EDT 2000
  
  ...and since he can't influence the US consulate as such, he bribed the mailmen who delivered the visas to the appropriate people:)
  
  
• From: fan (@ 63.225.172.248) on: Mon Oct 9 19:45:36 EDT 2000
  
  sabesen , I got you, since i know what happened i tried to explain, :)
  bb:), yes some what true.
  
  
• From: Sridhar (@ 171.70.66.229) on: Mon Oct 9 20:18:42 EDT 2000
  
  Waav Tamil Music Fan,
  It's an awesome report.
  Thanx for the excellent narration.
  I think, except a couple(more specifically 2/3) songs, the order,and songs are the same here in the SFO too. Even Rahman taking his coat off happened here too. And same with Bombay Dreams,JJ asking Rahman to say something and then he starting singing DilSe Re..
  
  Sridhar
  
  
• From: chandy (@ 131.230.25.38) on: Tue Oct 10 11:46:37 EDT 2000
  
  Tamil Music Fan :
  
  thanks for your excellent report of the ARR show
  
  chandy
  
  

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