Saturday, January 14, 2006

What's in a Name, Knonie...???

I must say "Knonie" is my real name.

A name is a word, used to identify a person. I'm known by this name on internet as well as in my real life. This is real ME who's behind this word. But if you are asking about "insaanoN waala naam" [human-like name], the name that my parents chose for me, that is Ahmed, but everyone's been calling me Knonie since I was a kid.

I assume it was actually inspired by a puppet/muppet character from Pakistan Television [PTV] named "Kaliyan" by Farooq Qaiser. That character was a round faced innocent looking, named "Noni Paa". Perhaps, I used to look like that in my childhood.

P.S: Knonie is pronounced as no-nee 

My Music Choice

I prefer old music but I don't compare old and new. My definition of old music is those Artists and bands that produced something creative and stood the test of time. I PREFER them. Then
new, although I don't listen much to that but still, I do listen, but give more time on old ones.

Another point of preferring old is that they were like source of inspirations for the people who are into music now. Just take an example of Junoon. It's a Modern band, original style of music, but what Salman Ahmed liked to listen when he was young and learning guitar? That must be Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and many more of that 60s and 70s days. Why not listen to them as well?! Then they have sung some tracks inspired by Nusrat Fateh Ali, Abida Parven, Pathanay Khan - the creative artists, so why not listen to them as well?!

So I take old music as a source from which all of the new bands are inspired, that's why I prefer them. Then another thing is that I like Listening to long-lost artists, then those who marked their names in music history.

Thursday, January 12, 2006