JAL BAND - WHAT THEY ARE??

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Hi I am an artist manager in India and have done a couple of shows with jal.
I shall tell you about them since day one they landed here..

26th January
The band landed in Delhi with a relative alongwith and so did strings in Mumbai.
Strings however stayed on the airport for 5 hours because the show was in ahmedabad the following day.
Howevwer for Jal the flight was to leave in 4 hours and they created this huge scene that we need to be booked in a bote for those 4 hours.

27th January
Finally after all the the chaos that happened last day we were finally in Ahmedabad. The sound check was to start at 4 o clock and jal was to start playing at 6. Jal artrived only at the venue at 6 o clock and did a 15 minute sound check. And after that they blame the sound guy for the sound to be screwed up. What kind of a band can complete there sound check in 15 minutes?

anyhow’s the show went on … Jumshaid the so called manager is treated like a dog by the band. In india a manager’s role is to manage and get shows for the band. Whereas Jamsheid’s role is that of carrying the bands stuff from the airport to taxis to hotels that’s all. It was told to us that the following day the band will be going off to a friends place and all arrangements were done by them. But since we get air tickets from the organisers and the band says we dont want to leave right now as we want to see the city. Anyhows somehwow there were no tickets available for a later flight so they had no choice but to leave.

28th January
Like told to us earlier that the band will leave for some of there friends house. we said bye to the band and left. Moments later we start getting calls from goher for having theyre stay arranged. It appeared theyre so called friend had backed out.Anyhows nothing from my side could have been done since i had already left for mumbai.

3rd February
The band alongwith their relative reached bangalore. Moments before they came outside the airport I got a call from a friend that who was amongst the band who was smoking nside the flight. I said i have no clue apparently the relative that was travelling was flirting with the air hostess and smoking inside the flight & the air hostess turned out to be my friends girl friend. And my friend happens to be one of the big event managers.

4th February

The same problem … sound check scheduled at 5 o clock but the band reaches at 7 o clock…

5th February
http://youthcurry.blogspot.com/2006…in-concert.html

6th February
Band was to leave for an early morning flight from Calcutta to delhi and they created this huge chaos that they wont leave so early get us booked on te evening flights and huge tantrums as if they are blood Pink floyd or something.

7th February
Band has to leave by road for chandigarh and last moment they say that they will fly and not go by road. The poor organiser pleaded them, fell on his knees asking them to leave by road and they were laughing on that guys face.

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This is just part of what they did I have worked with other pakistani bands including rahat fateh ali khan, atif, strings ad fuzon. But i have never come across such immature people ever. Frankly speaking they dont deserve more than 10,000 bucks and they are getting 2 lakhs. apart from whatever type of musicians they as humans are the worst people i know off. The reason i wanted to post this that atleast the people in Pakistan also comes to know about how the band has been in India and how they treat other people and take everyone for granted.

Trust me after having worked with them i realise how good Strings and Fuzon are . Really amazing people and so was atif he is a genuine person and I am sure it is goher who actually stole the songs.

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Let me guess, you are an indian :ahaa:

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JAL :love:

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jal kay raakh ho gaey

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ouch!

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say whatever you wanna say man
but in the end what matters is how they perform on the stage...how good their songs are
and Jal absolutely rocks !!
Thankyou for all the details. Please enlighten us with the stories of some of the indian stars...

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oh and I just realized, you registered on this site only to tell us this? Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww shoooo shweeettt :kiss:

Gizzy Salgirah Mubarak [Merged]
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:nono: aesa nahin kehte

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chooRoo yar bachhay hain - Main samjhaa dooN gaa :hug:
Tum dill pay mat loo :kiss:

:chai:

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i think yeh Strings/Fuzon ka fan hai and Jal ko badnaam kar raha hai :ahaa:

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Daagho uncle dekhien na kitnii ghalat baat hai ye :frowning: … :halo:

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I was in pune a cpla weeks back and was really bored since there were no rock shows happening. my friends somehow managed to persuade me to attend Jal's concert for the ISBM annual fest at Elysium.

There were close to 4k-5k people inside and many more outside queing to get in. I was surprised to find out that it was a sellout show and there were no tickets left. My friends managed to get me backstage through some guy who was in the organising committee.

Backstage i got intro'd to the guys from Vertigo. It was a pleasant surprise since no one had mentioned they would be opening. I found out that they had been roped in just a few hours earlier and hadnt practiced a lot after I-Rock XX. Nevertheless, I was gonna get my dose of rock afterall. They were already done with their soundcheck, and get this, they completed their soundcheck in 15 minutes ! Just as a reminder Vertigo have won Independence-Rock 2005 ! So to answer vk, any decent band which knows how to handle their own equipment and the stage gear CAN take their soundcheck in 15 minutes.

Vertigo were made to start at 6:30 pm inspite of them tellin the orgs tht it would be too soon, that Jal would not be here before 8, and that Vertigo would be playing for only an hour. But the orgs said that Jal were slated to arrive at 730. Vertigo played for about an hour and they played to exceptional support from a crowd which i had expected to be as un-rock-ish as possible! I wasnt expecting the crowd which had turned up for Jal to know songs by RATM, Ozzy, maybe Iron Maiden and Metallica but definitely not Believe - Vertigo's original. The crowd chanted and cheered all the way. Vertigo were tight and i like many others thoroughly enjoyed their set.

When they were about ot step down though, the orgs started pleading them to play for another half an hour, to which Vertigo declined. They had informed the orgs beforehand that they were gonna play a fixed setlist and that they were done. One wannabe org asked them to play stuff like wonderwall and That thing you do (after havin played ratm, rammstein, metallica, maiden, ozzy, etc) and got duely and thoroughly owned by Prithvi the vocalist.

Anyhow Jal landed up at 8:15 and started their soundcheck, which they should have conducted at around 3pm to 6pm but they were busy binging at their hotel rooms. What was worse was that they could not handle standard stage gear comprising of Marshall Amps. They realised they couldnt work them and started blaming the sound guy and were almost ready to throw tantrums on stage. They were almost ready to abuse when Fali said that they should have been takin a soundcheck 5 hrs earlier.
Somehow they started playin and obviously did not get a good sound(even after having a go at it for about half an hour). By the way, at the sound console were Koko(Agni's guitarist with well over 25 yrs of experience), Fali(AFS's guitarist with over 10 yrs exp) and Marzbaan(one of the best sound techs in India).

They played very few songs. Get this - they played Aadat and Woh Lamhe 4 times.... each !!! Jal had a fabulous drummer and an excellent bassist, though even he had to ask a stage hand to set the stage amp settings for him. The guitarist is their only for show... though i heard he writes most of the songs... maybe thats the reason he's in the band. The vocalist is only a poster boy for the chics and sings horribly live. The only good thing he did in the show was tell Fali to increase the reverb on his vocals to hide his off-scale vocals. The guitarist and vocalist have some major attitude but no skills.

When they were done at 10, as vk mentioned their manager had to carry their stuff down from the stage to the dressing room.

When they got off they demanded to see the sound techs. Since Koko had not been feelin well he had apparently left at 7pm. So Fali, Marzbaan and his wife went to see them. To which the vocalist started abusing and throwing bottles at them. Fali wasnt gonna take it and rightly abused them right back. From outside i heard him say "******** tumko bajaane ko aata nahin hai".

I learnt later that half of the crowd were dissappointed and left when Jal started playing. Most of the crowd i met later said they enjoyed Vertigo a lot better than Jal. Me too !

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u sound quite serious an i dont think u might be lying

but ooh i **LOV **JAL DER FAB-ALTHOUGH U MAYBE RITE PPL ESP FEMALES CANT HELP IT .

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okay..you do not come on to a pakistani forum and start bashin’ Jal - one of the greatest pakistani bands that there is. you just don’t do it. :no:

and like shikra said - you must be indian..not that there’s anything wrong with that of course..

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Yaar tum tou free hi ho gaye ho, ab choro na. Yeh zindagi bohat choti hai, make love, not war :hug:

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im sorry i dint have tha time to read all that…but i just wanted to say i hate jal:jhanda:

though strings on tha other hand rule:dhimpak:

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i dont really like jal.. but i like couple of their songs…
i really luv strings and fuzon they ROCK!:k:

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THOSE GUYZ ARE WICKED!!!!!!!!!!! ROCK ON!!!!!!!!

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[quote=smilestar]
okay..you do not come on to a pakistani forum and start bashin’ Jal - one of the greatest pakistani bands that there is. you just don’t do it. :no:

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This statement is so cute..!

**Well,umm..i dont care how the band is in personal..i just like their songZ! **

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I agree with SmileStar