Pink Floyd to TNS

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 12 Jan 2008, 12:18

Here's an article that took me on a heart-warming trip down memory lane...happy to note TNS is still having the same effect on rock fans!

http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/01/12/stor ... 650600.htm

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 12 Jan 2008, 14:49

as a diehard tns fan,i relished every word of the article . gobilalitha

vasanthabhairavi · Post by **vasanthabhairavi** » 12 Jan 2008, 15:52

It's a nice one.The legend that he is, he would surely have such an effect.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 13 Jan 2008, 00:14

Nice article. Her appreciative experience sounds genuine.

(This is not relevant to what the author experienced, but It is interesting that a young person appropriates Beattles, Pink Floyd and even Bach as the music of her generation.

I know, I know.. it is just an idiomatic expression to refer to the proclivity of the younger generation to listen to "western" music. I wonder if even that is true of a vast majority, may be true of the expanding indian urban Bourgeois)

saveri · Post by **saveri** » 13 Jan 2008, 22:23

The article is well written with no pronouncements or presumptions. It seems straight from the heart, whatever be the motivation of the writer then.

I believe that it is a tibute to Carnatic Music and that a stalwart like TNS is one of the musicains in this generation to be able to bring more of the Floydians to Karnatakam ! Speaks volumes of his music !!

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 14 Jan 2008, 00:48

Well, I was once a Pink Floyd fan too, and a Grateful Dead fan even.

Thing is, even when it came to rock, I preferred the more heavy-going stuff; music that I could get my teeth into. I had no objection to improvisation too, not even to long improvised percussion solos.

It's not such a bad background from which to arrive at Indian music, and then carnatic music.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 14 Jan 2008, 02:06

Nick, I think I understand what you mean. I also sense the so called 'heavy and deep' stuff in Rock if the rock is more Blues based rock of the 60s-70s ( and not the 80's punk rock or heavy metal where it can be perceived as just noise

) By that I mean Jeff Beck'ish idiom and also Elvis, Hendrix, Rolling Stones, Greateful Dead, Eric Clapton and the like. To my ears, those are basically great music wrapped in heavy beat and a lot of amplified volume. Given their roots in Blues, I can see how one can transition to Carnatic music with that background ( it is still a stretch but a plausible stretch ).

sureshvv · Post by **sureshvv** » 14 Jan 2008, 14:59

Of course Floyd esp. Roger Waters is equally about lyrics, so we can give Preeti Mohan a few more years to come up to speed there

But if she had heard the vigorous and brash TNS twenty years ago it might have blown her mind to apocalyptic levels.

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 14 Jan 2008, 21:40

I was hearing some blues on worldspace sometime back, no idea about band etc....I heard it for a while and then switched to the Rajarathnams on my comp....I felt the mood it created was very similar!

musicquest · Post by **musicquest** » 03 Mar 2008, 10:05

If you listen to TNS with an open mind and forgive his shruti lapses and are ready to bear his medicore days. He is one of the greatest . Sings from the heart...what creativity........outstanding music. I heard his Mylapore concert during the Season where he received a standing ovation....outstanding music.

Das · Post by **Das** » 04 Mar 2008, 07:21

I wasn't blessed to hear the rich music of Ariyakudi Ramanuja Aiyengar,Musiri Subramanya Iyer,Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer or even MS amma. But even so,i am filled with gratitude to have experienced the music of Sangeetha Kalanidhi Madurai TN Seshagopalan. It was many years ago that i was drawn to his music,however i had gone astray. The music season in 2007 was some-what an awakening to me. I landed on the 15th on December in Chennai. That very evening i attended the concert of this Maestro at the Mylapore Fine Arts Club. My thanks would go to Delhi Muthukumar,an uncompromising classicist and the friend whom i bunked with during my stay in India who rushed me to the concert. Sir was a little late,but only because he was held back at the Music Academy during the ceremony where Palagat Raghu was awarded the Sangeetha Kalanidhi. He seated himself on the dais and started almost immediately with a Begada. This was followed by a majestic Shanmugapriya. The raga alapanam was full and lenghty,you would almost expect a niraval and kalpanaswarams. Like we all know its TNS we're talking about and as unpredictable as he is, he went on to the next song right after. The Ragam Tanam Pallavi was the highlight (Sruti Laya Bava Sangeetham,Athai En Vasan-ta,Bhairavi Paavani) The ragas were Vasanta, Bhairavi and Vasanta bhairavi. What more could i possibly expect to hear in music after such a concert. TNS as he is affectionately called is a Maharaj in his own kingdom.He conquers the stage and battles with the maybe cynical,maybe amatuer crowd that has gathered to watch him. But he knows that at the end of the battle the Maharaj,he himself,has conquered once again.

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 04 Mar 2008, 08:40

brilliant way to post your appreciation of TNS. it is nectar to me, a diehard fan of TNS,one ofthe greatest musicians. excels in shruthi bedham.give any two raagas. he will connect them. gobilalitha

Sathej · Post by **Sathej** » 04 Mar 2008, 12:47

A pity that I had to miss the MFAC concert. Heard a touching Anandabhairavi that day at the Academy by Shri Nedunuri.
Sathej

Das · Post by **Das** » 04 Mar 2008, 16:59

That was a decision i had to make myself.. Between Nendunuri and TNS.. I guess i'm happy with my choice.. haha