BAND
THEM
CLONES
…Them Who?
Seven years and this question continue to threaten our existence. We were
formed in July 2000… and realized soon after the importance of a
name that that would reveal just the very basic idea of a band …
not too much not too little. We let the music do the talking.
What started off as a dictionary toting McDonald's session at Ansal's Plaza, 5 ambitious minds came together with names like Heaven's Melons, Polka Dot Machine Guns, Temperheads, Lemon Grass, Pentabra, DemiGodz … Blah Blah … and the like.
Serious debates followed each personal interpretation until Abeer… in a state of emotional entanglement and pussy euphoria simply stated … THEM CLONES
…"We
just thought it would be interesting as our clones and not ourselves.
Also the name is adapted from one of our favorite tracks "Them Bones"
by "Alice In Chains".
Bandspeak
Them
Clones came about because we were looking to forge an identity as a fun
loving, left-of-the-middle, sort of band. The name reflects the general
attitude of the band. We have covered songs from the classic Pakistani band Junoon
to louder all American pure breeds like
Aerosmith, Rage Against the Machine.et al.
Here's some of the bands that have inspired us.and continue to do so...
Influences
Alice
In Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Creed, Soul Coughing, Stone Temple
Pilots, Dave Matthews Band, Counting Crowes, U2, Del Amitri, Limp Bizkit,
Incubus, Korn, Rage Against The Machine, The Black Crowes, Aerosmith,
Bryan Adams, Pantera, Megadeth...Everythingbutthegirl, Underworld, Moby,
Chemical Brothers, Marilyn Manson, Mr. Big.... Queen, The Doors, Led Zeppelin,
Pink Floyd... Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma, Talvin Singh, Malkit Singh, Bally
Sagoo...the underground race.
All the guys in the Indian circuit:
Pentagram, PDV, HFT, Advaita, Orange Street, Parikrama..
How we got cloned!
Them
Clones were created sometime in July 2000.
That year Abeer & Dev were on the look out for like-minded individuals
who could play definitive roles in laying the foundations of a new band.
It was during Eid, Abeer fortuitously met one Romit Ranjan Gupta at a
party with lots of women...(were telling you its always about the women)
at Sajid Akbar's (of Killer Tomatoes' fame) house. The two got talking
& as it turned out Abeer had been jamming with drummer Dev & Romit
knew of a guitar player a school mate...Gucci. An appropriate venue for
jam was set up at Dev's house ... what was lacking was a vocalist. Ashish
"The-Midget" David filled the exhaustive role of a vocalist.
Hence the boat was flagged off…and we headed for the horizon. After
a series of gigs in our first year Ashish left for greener pastures.
RJ joined the ranks soon after and things got rolling... Coupled with
the tremendous joint rolling capabilities of brother Gucci...we roared
full speed ahead Abeer, our original guitar player left for a broad...to
hone and sharpen his skills...a lasting influence. Raghav followed...and
Neha joined in on keyboards...New songs happening all the while ...
Two years… and plenty of shows later... Ravi departed for more fruitful
ventures...which brings us to the present case scenario.
The vacancies were filled in by Joseph on guitars and Prithwish...who
committed himself to vocal duties.
At the end of a period with definitive moments of what Them Clones terms
ego bashing, they decided to realize a dream of selling their own songs.
Things started rolling with Neha making a zillion copies of CDs and printing
their case covers. The news was put up in this site as well as www.rsjonline.com…
the EP was released…aptly titled "Them Clones EP"…
for the people who made the music feel as big as it is. From June '03
till today…10000 sales…and still rolling… The EP contains:
i) In the name of God
ii) Awaken
iii) Black, white and gray
iv) Zoopertrip
v) Wait for me
After many years of being together and bagging a zillion smashing gigs under his belt, bassist Romit married his long time sweetheart and shifted to Bombay in search of greener avenues. Almost as if it were meant to be, Prithwish and Joseph’s school time bassist Ben, after standing in for Romit for many a gig in the past, joined the clones to fill up the low ends in April 2007
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