Saturday, September 6, 2008

THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT

Perhaps the first band to make news everywhere,this band was the longest standing band in Darjeeling.The had the biggest impact on the Western Music in Darjeeling.Their musical journey began out of personal interests and actually started in 1970 with the original line-up of Paulgose on guitars and vocals,Jivan Pradhan on bass guitar,Robert Wilson on drums and Viveka Wilson on piano.
Western music and playing guitars were a taboo while Eastern Music was accepted those days.It was a forbidden fruit So they had to take a bite by all means and cared less about being thrown out of their homes and their grades going down in school.
The band released the first rock album "The First Bite" in their later years.It was a home recording with no proper equipments.Nevertheless the album did make history as the first Rock Album in Darjeeling.
Courtesy: www.exploredarjeeling.com

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