zerobridge featured in The Indypendent

The Indypendent has just featured an article on us last week. Stephen Nessen was the reporter and a very cool guy with a keen interest on South Asia, especially with the Kashmir issue. Mo had been talking with him last fall and invited him out to our show the last time we played at the defunct Club Rehab (sad. very few rock clubs left in Manhattan.). After the show I remember talking with him for a while and I saw him again at the Kashmir panel discussion Mo organized at NYU late last year. The article turned out pretty well but there are of course some corrections and shout outs I have to note:

1) E-C-K-E-L-M-A-N!!!! Greg Eckelman has been and is our esteemed bass player, colleague, and road dog since we started taking the stage in NYC back in '04. We would be in serious trouble without him. Paolo Arao has just joined us on keys. Jay Barclay has lent us his guitar hero virtuosity (and I'm not talking about the video game!) since 2007.

2) Mo's very impressive and emotionally charged photo documentary was done in the Spring of 2003 , a year and a half or so after our trip in December 2001 that inspired many of the songs off our first record. I was working on the album in NYC while our kid was doing his thing in Srinagar.

3)Anayatuallah Bhatt was the name of the Kashmiri musician, son of a local baker, who was shot and killed by Indian Security forces outside his home. He was 26 years old and is survived by his mother, father, younger brother and sister. We were in Kashmir again during the summer of 2006 and protests were going on over Anayatuallah's death. I had read the article and immediately asked that my brother and I visit the family and get their story. To this day there has been no inquiry about the incident or against the Indian army who carried out such a heinous act with impunity. In January of 2007, two weeks after my brother and I got back from Mecca for Hajj, we organized a benefit concert with a bunch of NYC bands that we knew. It was a great success and we played to a packed house. All the proceeds went to the non-profit, CHINAR, in Anayatullah Bhatt's name.

Despite those points, it's a fine article that represents us very well and pretty accurately. We're totally psyched to be in the Indypendent! If you get a second let us know what you think.

Peace.

Din