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A Tribute to SPB A Tribute to SPB

Topic started by bb (@ 24.6.251.57) on Mon Sep 20 02:03:20 EDT 2004.
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A good singer and a friend of mine, Raja Govindarajan, met S.P.B at Chennai a couple of months back. During their conversation, SPB mentioned that he doesn't remember/have a lot of old rare songs that he has sung and would love to recollect them and have them in his collection. Raja then told SPB about newtfmpage and Song Of The Day section and the discussions that take place there. He then offered to give SPB a set of old songs.

Fast Forward to today; I prepared a set of 41 songs, and a 90 page booklet on the songs. All these songs are old SOTDs and the booklet contained the discussions on these songs. SPB came to the Bay Area today for a concert at Hayward. I met him at the backstage before the concert with Udhaya. We gave him the CDs and the booklet and talked with him for a few minutes. SPB was very courteous and thanked me several times. I was surprised that he made time to to even see us and accept this, just half an hour before the concert. I told him that we have a lot of knowledgeable people and huge collection of his songs, so if he wanted more we could give him whatever information he wanted.

The booklet that I gave him is here: http://www.dhool.com/sotd/spb.pdf .

The 3 CDs that I gave him included 4-5 more songs that are not in this list, like 'vaa ponmayilE', 'malarE ennenna kOlam' and 'thErOttam'.

Hopefully, if SPB goes through the CDs and the text, he will be impressed with the selection and would get back to me or RajaG with his comments.

Update:

An Exclusive Interview with SPB!

See here for the complete interview: http://www.newtfmpage.com/my/spb/

Responses:

Old responses
From: bb (@ 24.6.251.57) on: Wed Sep 29 10:18:35 EDT 2004

Did Dr.SPB visit newtfmpage ??

I don't think he did, yet. He was on a concert tour, so may be he didn't have access. I've given him the site address, so he may look it up. I don't know.
From: KITKAT (@ 216.58.44.2) on: Wed Sep 29 10:43:59 EDT 2004

Thirumba thirumba padikkaren, Ver informative.
From: Chandrasekar (@ 168.168.67.112) on: Wed Sep 29 10:44:53 EDT 2004

RajaG, BB: Excellent Effort. The interview came out very well. Great job !
From: Saravanan (@ 195.229.241.184) on: Wed Sep 29 11:29:48 EDT 2004

kudos, bb, rajaG & Srikanth!

Interesting choice of questions; and honest, incisive answers. Well done!
From: eden (@ 136.1.1.33) on: Wed Sep 29 12:20:06 EDT 2004

SPB is great (both musically and otherwise IMHO) and this interview is a show case for his greatness...

Thanks rajaG,bb,srikanth,udhaya...looking forward to the remaining parts...
From: rajaG (@ 208.24.179.208) on: Wed Sep 29 13:13:35 EDT 2004

Saravanan,

Sincere aa solrEn. indha maadhiri engaLukku oru opportunity kidaichchadhukku moolakaaraNam, amongst others, unga interest, initiative, knowledge, and resources. Thanks for sharing that with us.
From: Saravanan (@ 195.229.241.186) on: Thu Sep 30 00:20:37 EDT 2004

rajaG, I am moved by your kind words. Thanks a lot.
From: bb (@ 24.6.251.57) on: Thu Sep 30 03:04:12 EDT 2004

I've uploaded Part II of the interview. Check it out: http://www.newtfmpage.com/my/spb/
From: SL (@ 61.246.245.2) on: Thu Sep 30 06:15:49 EDT 2004

Interesting interview !!! Cannot wait for the next instalment.
From: KITKAT (@ 67.68.37.42) on: Thu Sep 30 07:25:06 EDT 2004

BB
Very nice conversation.Andha critics pathina comment ella IR vs ARR sandai podaravangalum paakanum. Great job bb. Keep it up. With no compulsions to please anyone, the interview has taken a nice scenic route. newtfmpage levelae veranu kamichitinga. Kudos.
From: Webmaster - SPBINDIA.COM (@ 61.11.83.44) on: Thu Sep 30 10:50:39 EDT 2004

Balaji/Raja,

Thanks for your efforts to compile this wonderful exclusive interview. This is one of the best interviews of Shri.SPB ever. It's an honest, incisive and insightful interview. This interview covers the width and depth of Sri.SPB as a simple human being and a great musician. We at spbindia.com would like to treasure this content by including this in our website, with due credits given to the author(s) and the source. Kindly acknowledge through e-mail.

Once again, thanks and kudos to Balaji, Raja and the team for the sincere efforts in managing this event.

-- Webmaster, SPBINDIA.COM
From: Srik (@ 64.80.98.165) on: Thu Sep 30 11:30:44 EDT 2004

This is one of the best interviews till date from Spb. It was a great pleasure to ask questions and listen to one of the legends of India

Thanks to Rajag and BB for making me part of this conversation.
My studio [studio1234] is really proud to record & edit the interview in order provide a clear edition to newtfmpage.com, which in turn will make it available to the public. BB will get it out here soon!. Thanks everyone once again for this great opportunity.
From: bb (@ 64.181.143.2) on: Thu Sep 30 14:01:08 EDT 2004

SPB mentioned something about hasthashram and dheergashram whle talking about adjusting his music for lyrics. What are those?
From: Musicfan (@ 134.244.170.168) on: Thu Sep 30 14:12:51 EDT 2004

you guys rock. great interview. I also talked to SPB when I went to a watch a recording of telugu tv program "padalani undi". He is really a great person...
From: rajaG (@ 207.43.195.204) on: Thu Sep 30 14:18:48 EDT 2004

bb: kuril and nedil in thamizh
From: KITKAT (@ 216.58.44.2) on: Thu Sep 30 15:27:29 EDT 2004

Isn't it dheergaaksharam?
From: eden (@ 136.1.1.33) on: Thu Sep 30 16:03:27 EDT 2004

Part 2 is even more interesting...This thread is a real `original standard' newtfmpage thread (along with the SOTD & V Kumar threads)...

kudos to bb/rajaG/srikanth/udhaya...looking forward to part 3
From: Babaji (@ 62.7.140.216) on: Thu Sep 30 17:11:46 EDT 2004

SPB is the greatest but BB is also great, hats off to BB for such a work on an awsome singer!
From: MS (@ 24.168.196.217) on: Thu Sep 30 18:32:10 EDT 2004

A man with golden voice and a clear mind. I think tamilnadu is blessed to have geniuses like SPB et al who do not have shades of eccentricity - a trademark of many western giants. To quote ARR "IR proved to me that without drugs and alcohol and purely out of discipline, great music can be composed". SPB is another gem and I have not seen a musician more clear,evocative and articulate than SPB. Selfishly speaking he must outlive me.
From: Venkata Krishna (@ 68.160.176.133) on: Thu Sep 30 19:43:30 EDT 2004

Wonderful.. Great effort. Lookforward to the
audio and part II.

Thank You
VenkataKrishna
Boston
From: bb (@ 24.6.251.57) on: Fri Oct 1 01:42:10 EDT 2004

I've put up Part III of the interview: http://www.newtfmpage.com/my/spb/

This page now contains the complete interview transcript. Please refresh if you don't see the last part.

Read on to find out what SPB thought about the songs that we gave him, about his prolific singing, about his experiences with MSV, etc and what he thought about this interview itself!
From: Saravanan (@ 195.229.241.169) on: Fri Oct 1 02:32:06 EDT 2004

bb, finished reading it just now. Great, great effort! Thanks a lot, rajaG for making this possible.
From: vengayam (@ 210.212.80.18) on: Fri Oct 1 04:12:38 EDT 2004

this is the third or fourth intereview with SPB in recent times. (Vijay, podihai? etc )
it is amazing . the man's friendly nature.His ability to connect with the listener be it singing or replying.
so next time SPB sings a Shyam, sathyam, Dakshinamurthi composition in a concert bb neenga collarai thooki vitukalaam.
bb,
next time you happen to meet him pls ask him if he ever studied in Anantapur Engg college. That he enrolled for AMIE and IIET kodambakam is well chronicled. but did he ever study at Anantapur. there was persistant rumours in our campus that he studied there and was residing in K block ?
also remind him about the katcheri.
From: KITKAT (@ 216.58.44.2) on: Fri Oct 1 07:35:30 EDT 2004

Thank you bb, for bringing SPB's inner beauty to light. Excellant compilation, a feather in the cap of TFM. TFPpage innum neraiya indha maadhiri konduvaranum. Pannuvingala?
From: KITKAT (@ 216.58.44.2) on: Fri Oct 1 07:35:48 EDT 2004

newtfmpage
From: IR (@ 67.81.137.157) on: Fri Oct 1 09:27:06 EDT 2004

RajaG, bb, srikanth and Udhaya - excellent interview and the questions were awesome and so well thought out. Great work/effort on not making it " yet another interview" asking him the same questions over and over again".

What a great master and a wonderful human being... Something to learn in life...
From: eden (@ 136.2.1.153) on: Fri Oct 1 09:36:31 EDT 2004

Great finish to an excellent interview...His gesture toward MSV is really commendable. It was interesting to read his opinion about the one who `outdone' him:-))
From: rajaG (@ 208.24.179.29) on: Fri Oct 1 09:37:51 EDT 2004

umm...It needs an SPB to drag IR back to newtfmpage I guess :-) :-)
From: IR (@ 170.153.206.144) on: Fri Oct 1 10:01:58 EDT 2004

:-) G - I am sure you would cherish this interview for a lifetime!!

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