I saw him first at an open-air concert at RAOWA Club, New DOHS in 1992. He was playing bass guitar with the band Feelings. In one of the songs he started playing the bass above his head. For a regular school going kid like me, it was too much to absorb. I knew then and there that this man is something. Later, the existence of melodic and extreme heavy metal songs in a single album got me blown away when Aurthohin released their ‘Trimatric’ album in 1999. I was moved by all the songs of that album. Social networking then meant meeting in person. Virtual networking meant emailing. The band provided an email id at the cover of Trimatric. I mailed them expressing my likings for the songs and admiration for the band. To my surprise, I got reply that very night. Being beset, I exchanged few emails. In one of the emails, the bassist and vocal of the band, Sumon, also known as Bassbaba, invited me to one of their gigs. The gig however got cancelled but Bassbaba, trough a friend who was ac...
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