Do you know what a dhol is?

Casey

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#1
So the latest member to join Swami is Bobby, he is our dhol player and has been playing regularly with us for about a year now.

A dhol (pronounced, dorl) is basically a two-sided Indian drum that you strap round your shoulders to play, it has a bass-side and a treble-side. It is a traditional Indian instrument used in a lot of bhangra, and as such Bobby plays it live on a lot of our songs.

But anyway, to give me and the other vocalist a quick breather, halfway through our live set, Bobby does a solo. And when I say his solo is sick as hell, believe me, it blows me away every time.

So I was just searching on YouTube, and evidently someone at one of our gigs (judging by what I'm wearing, I recall this gig being last year) has recorded Bobby's solo on a camera phone, and put it up on YouTube. If you watch you'll see me bouncing around on the right in a white shirt and green Makaveli top and our other vocalist is on the left.

Here ya go:

[YOUTUBE]http://youtube.com/watch?v=38t2RnXr7bA[/YOUTUBE]


EDIT - Embedding has been disabled on this video, here's the link:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=38t2RnXr7bA
 

Casey

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#4
lmao Gotti, which part? i havent watched the whole thing yet to remember since I'm at work right now. Fuck knows, sometimes I hump the floor, Prince styleee. Sometimes I jump on the speakers. lol. I've been known to do some crazy shit on stage, I just flip out, dunno why. LMAO, here's a picture of me mid-jump from last summer.
 

Prize Gotti

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#5
^^ Around 2:30 - You jumping up and down, then you turn around and start humping something.

Also, you know those flightcases you got your equiptment in? If any are made by Packhorse, I probly made it :D

EDIT: Is he any relation to Monty Panesar?
 

Casey

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#6
LMAO. I have no fucking idea what I was doing there.

You make flight cases man? That's sick! I don't know what brands we use to be honest. A bunch of different ones most likely, I'll have a look next time!

Bobby is no relation to Monty as far as I know.
 

Casey

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#10
LMAO I watched it without sound earlier cos I was at work and I saw a comment saying "That MC needs to wash his mouth out" and I was wondering what they meant.

Watched it again now, and that's me at the start saying "Bobby is the best dhol player in the whole fuckin world" and then our other vocalist repeats it. lol.

I'd forgotten I'd said that. Hahahahaha. Camera Phones, eh. I bet between all of us in the band we've talked some proper shit in between songs before. I remember at one gig we were about to play DesiRock and my cousin said something like "you might recognise this one from the new fifa world cup game......so.........enjoy football"

i remember cracking up on stage at "enjoy football". LOL.
 
#12
I can play the dhol...just probably not as good as your dholi lol. Do you by any chance know Johnny Sahota a.k.a Johnny Dholi, from Smethwick, Birmingham? He has preformed with a vast amount of British artist, he's my cousin:D.
 

Casey

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#13
I can play the dhol...just probably not as good as your dholi lol. Do you by any chance know Johnny Sahota a.k.a Johnny Dholi, from Smethwick, Birmingham? He has preformed with a vast amount of British artist, he's my cousin:D.
Who has he performed with? The name does ring a bell.

Anyway I've watched myself again, Sicc and Gotti, and if you look closely, you'll see I'm not humping anything lol.

It looks like I'm facing away but actually I'm crouching down and headbanging.
 

Prize Gotti

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#14
Who has he performed with? The name does ring a bell.

Anyway I've watched myself again, Sicc and Gotti, and if you look closely, you'll see I'm not humping anything lol.

It looks like I'm facing away but actually I'm crouching down and headbanging.
lol, yeah I just noticed, but it does look like you turned around and started humping something.
 

Helena

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#15
wooooooo that was wicked!! i love asian music esp bhangra, the beat jus makes me wanna jump around and dance! although the videos are veryyy cheesy, lol!
 

SicC

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#16
Who has he performed with? The name does ring a bell.

Anyway I've watched myself again, Sicc and Gotti, and if you look closely, you'll see I'm not humping anything lol.

It looks like I'm facing away but actually I'm crouching down and headbanging.
Ya just the air.....u fucking beast!

pz
 

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