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Celebrating a century
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The 100th Thunderin' Tuesday Show was DJ Black Jack's ode to classic rock
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FINE TUNE Black Jack spins some anthems
If you'd rather rock, break free! Exactly the mood at Ten Downing Street where Guns `n' Roses, Pink Floyd and The Rasmus buffs trooped in donning the fineries befitting the occasion — bandanas, crucifixes, and tees screaming Def Leppard. The event was DJ Black Jack's 100th Thunderin' Tuesday Show. Riders in the Storm did a back to back with the My Fair Lady OST. More to follow were anthems Sweet child of Mine and Hotel California. Post-its flew around with requests pouring in, as the rock deejay rummaged through his core collection of over 800 discs. "It has been fulfilling and gives a fabulous sense of achievement. We started Thunderin' Tuesdays in 2002, when someone in Ten Downing asked for jazz and the blues," recollects David Masilamani a.k.a Black Jack. "Hyderabad has been awake to the genre. Now I am also playing jazz at Touch," he adds. An Albert Collins and Alan Parsons Project buff, he is not your tattoo sporting and gelled hair DJ. "It is all in the mind," he says biting into the cold cut sandwich and orange juice. A teetotaller, he prefers getting high on music that includes the interactive classic dos he hosts, which he sums up as a "mix of FM experience I had abroad with kind of radio-ish experience here and a hope of one day being a part of FM." Almost there, he did a top ten countdown of the most requested songs on his earlier shows. Including Summer of `69 which he feels doesn't qualify. As the night wrapped up, folks at 10D addicted to his classic rock and pitcher of beer wished him many more rocking years and with that more covers of staple rock coming their way.
SYEDA FARIDA
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