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They met only about 10 times before they shocked the audience with their talents!!!!! Believe it or not. But that's the fact. They guys from local outfit 'strange brew' & vercitiled flautist "Bapu Padmanabha" from Karnataka on flute . And not to forget Uday Deshpande on Tabla had an amazing night at jazz garden. An ideal line up to play fusion music...they played a gig in Karnataka where they had a great response from the crowd.
This led them to go for another one this time in Pune.
The show started at about 9:30, when Bapu & Uday started their run on their instruments with birthday boy Michael on keyboards¦ a rather quiter role than he normally is used to¦.hehe. after that chris, jakie & sanjeev joined in after the intro. They started with either a flute was playing solo or a guitar¦ which was good¦ well not just good¦ but awesome. Then comes an interesting part, where jakie got a kick n provoked uday to respond him n to start a bass-tabla jugalbandi ¦. That really got the audience on their feet¦.. The response was pretty good, only the difference was that this time there were not many typical 'I want metallica' crowd ¦ but genuine music lovers ¦ with no age bar¦.. overall a good beginning to a new musical venture ¦. Hope they come up with something more brilliant¦which they will¦ I'm sure.

Chinmaya