Back in those days when SERENE SKY Rock Band was coming into being, there were quite a few hassles that the band members had to tackle. The most daunting of them was the lack of any proper sound system for their practice sessions. The members had to stay put with their acoustic instruments, practice their specific portions at home and then meet up for some rough jamming. With such scanty practice sessions, the actual stage performances were often a hard task for them. But then, fortunately Sooraj had some connections with some sound system providers and one of them was ready to provide an old amplifier and a speaker that was not of much use to the provider. As for the band members, this was the greatest moment in their practice-hungry lives.
Once the speaker and the amplifier were installed in a disheveled room in front of Thomas' house, the band was always busy practicing. Things came to such a pass that most of the times Sooraj and Thomas were missing from the nearby college where they were studying. Friends and well wishers would often visit their jamming sessions in the evenings and comment about the progress that the band was making. In those days, the band had a professional bassist and keyboardist playing for them, but only when there was a live show to be done.
Those were the hard times of SERENE SKY Rock Band. The existing members of the band can never forget the munificence of the sound system provider, which was none other than JP Sounds from Thiruvalla. Interesting fact is that JP Sounds gave the system to SERENE SKY Rock Band on just one condition that it should be returned whenever it was called for -- not much of a strain for the band, since they were not asked for any payment for the system.
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