Acoustic->Electric Compositions

Here’s a compilation of my favourtie songs that start with an Acoustic Intro gradually moving up to a electric middle section and ending with a faster hard rock section :

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Josiah Wedgwood…

  • Campaigned for Social Reform and was a prominent slavery abolitionist.
  • Manufacturer of High Quality Potter ( The company he setup in 1759 that exists till today !)
  • ( Credited ) as the inventor of Marketing ( direct mail, money-back guarantees, traveling salesmen, self-service, free delivery, buy one get one free, and illustrated catalogs et al )
  • Invented Pyrometer for measuring Oven temperatures
  • Built the first factory in the world ( made pottery )
  • Invented Quality Control
  • Started the first retail showroom

Src : Google , Seth Godin’s talk on Business of Software 2008 conf

Trivia : Josiah is the grandfather of Charles Darwin

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Future Shock by Alvin Toffler ? No.

Apple’s former CEO John Scully had described a concept called “Knowledge Navigator” . It describes a device that can access a large networked database of hypertext information, and use software agents to assist searching for information.
The video shows the view of Apple Scientists in 1987 about how people would use computers in 2010. Though some of the concepts still look like that in a scifi movie, the User Experience of today has many elements that they anticipated : Video Chat, mashups, E-learning, Touchscreen et al.

Now that’s a Future Shock!

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Lead Guitarists and their exits…

Lead Guitarists(alsong with Singers and Drummers) are one of the more audible members of a band. Just to note that most of the well known Classic Rock/Rock bands had a Lead Guitarist exiting prematurely. Any reasons?

Below is a  complied list of Lead Guitarists who left their bands (bands that I usually listen to) :

  1. Jeff Beck from  ”The Yardbirds”
  2. Rado ‘Bob’ Klose & later Syd Baret from Pink Floyd
  3. Michael Schenker from Scorpions
  4. Slash from GnR
  5. Don Felder from Eagles

Did I miss out anyone ?

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Do you know who I am ?


In the movie “Hyderabad Blues“, when the protaganist & his friend are caught by a cop for breaking a traffic signal , his instant reply was :

Do you know who I am ?

I am the nephew of DGP Reddy…..

No, This is not a post about movie dialogues . But how often do we see the the high-profile cases actually being convicted for their wrong doings? Inspite of the recurring BMW cases or the news items about reel heroes thinking they are real heroes, the law enforcer hears this line more often than not.

Yesterday watched Punk’d on VH1 where Ashton Kuther plays pranks on some of his friends and other celebrities. In that episode Rihanna & Hugh Jackman were Punk’d . Inspite of their clout and celebrity status, they were real obedient to the law (I am sure they were unaware that it was a setup).

Now the question is : Why is it that in our country, we are so unable to follow the decorum ?

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