I consider myself an extremely warm person, but when you go to a compact place like Shillong where everybody knows everybody and you are never a nobody, I realised how cold I have become. Visit to Shillong was my first to north eastern part of India and the agenda was to sink in the culture and lives of people tucked in a corner of our country and experience the mountain's clean air (there isn't any inside the city).
Catching SCORPIONS live on Dec 12, drove the whole agenda. What a show. Klaus Meine still stings and stings hard with his high octave vocals at a ripe young age of 60. A banner read "SCORPIONS : Sting Our Ass". Very creative! Sting they did - and how? I have always respected Germany for their precision tools, automobiles & Scorpions. Post my visit to Shillong I have started liking all musical expressions from Germany. I just can't get enough of Rammstein's brand of industrial rock. Rock bands perform, Rammstein just burns. And their vocalist, he does not sing, I call it some kind of 'subsonic booming growl'. And yes if there is anything called the 'ideal' language for rock music, it has got to be German.
Going back to being *warmth* bit, I guess it is possible only in small cities. If I start spreading warmth here, I have serious doubts whether I will succeed in doing it for a long time to make an impact. Further, do people have time to appreciate it? Everybody is busy chasing something. Some chase money, some chase power, some chase happiness, some chase anything that moves on two legs and some don't have to chase anything as they are born with a silver spoon right up their rear and they are busy enjoying it.
In a nutshell..listen to good music, travel whenever one gets an opportunity and enjoy life. Winter chill is here and please don't tax your brain with warm thoughts.
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i wish i was there to listen to that reverberating enchanting voice of Meine....and that too in shillong you know what shillong means...i have been there once myself...its band of clouds...thats what it means or close to it...every pub and disc rocks till early morning...and the culture is a reciprocation and adaptation of US of A...very unlikely but its true...and to top that scorpions kicked ass...or as you read STING our ASS...Rammstein...well what do i have to say about them...you know i grew up listening to rock like you did...but when it came to heavy metal Albert proved to be the compatriot in making me get addicted to different genre of Industrial rock inspired by Rob Zombie, Rammstein etc...My ICH will...man thats one song which would snet your aderaline high...and running...ofcourse the all famous Du-hast is a national anthem now in Germany...i thought germany and belgium can do best in their beers but this i mean the ROCK was something unheard of...atleast they put their country on the roadmap for interesting and new kinda genre of ROCK...iam happy about it...
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