00:00Parkema is still what we call a passion.
00:03We knew that it's not possible to survive on English rock and roll in India for life.
00:15Parkema was formed to play live, you know, we want in 91, I was supposed to join my family
00:21business, which I had four months of music left in my life. Till I went and sold Mahindra
00:28motor spare parts. I did that, by the way, for the first 16 years of Parkema as well.
00:33I mean, office in the morning and rehearsals at night and the middle shows 31 years back,
00:39you know, and we had made a very clear rule in the band that Parkema is not going to be
00:44an earning source for anybody in the band. It will still be a passion. Probably that's
00:48the reason that we're still around today. For the first six years, we didn't distribute any
00:52money that came into the band. We first got everybody world class equipment because they
00:58were not available at that time. And then we started setting up people. So we set up,
01:03everybody was helped to be set up so that they get most of them were doing day jobs as well from
01:09the very beginning. So we knew that it's not possible to survive on English rock and roll in
01:14India for life. What do you do when you're 30, 35, 37, you don't have the same kind of fame.
01:19So that's probably we as a band understood and realized long, long back. And so that was it. So
01:27Parkema is still what we call a passion. And we can say a hobby that that pays us well at times.
01:34If you're playing for 30 years, you need to have that passion and you need to have you have to be
01:38a rock and roller at heart. So that is very important. If you think that you will only do,
01:42let's say 40 gigs in a year, what will you do for 325 days? My biggest advice would be please be
01:47financially secure. If you're financially secure, you can do rock and roll for your life. A lot of
01:52my people who were with me in 90s earlier called me, I give them a simple advice. I said, bro,
01:59you are at one of the biggest multinational running three lakhs a month. So don't do that
02:04thing at the moment. You have Saturday, Sunday off, spend your Saturday, Sunday, write music,
02:10do shows, do everything, no problem. The day if it comes that you have started getting
02:16half of what you're earning right now, leave your day job, no problem. You have to be practical in
02:22life. So you can still have fun, you can still live your passion. And you can still be practical
02:28in life and it works. Otherwise, you know, you'll end up doing it for a couple of years and realize
02:33that you know, I'm not getting enough money because whatever's said and done, you need that
02:37to run your house.
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