| Ayub Bachchu AB | |
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Winter Garden Concert |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | BACHCHU |
| Born | Chittagong, Bangladesh |
| Genres | hard rock,[blues ], psychedelic rock, soft rock |
| Occupations | Guitarist, Singer, Musician, Songwriter, Composer |
| Instruments | Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboard, Drums |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Labels | AB Kitchen |
| Website | ablrb.net |
| Notable instruments | |
| Ibanez, ESP | |
Ayub Bachchu (born 16 August 1962) (Bengali: আইয়ুব বাচ্চু) is a famous Bangladeshi rock musician and a guitarist in the country. During 1980 - 1990 he was a member of Souls as lead guitarist. Finally he formed his own band AT 1991 titled LRB (the acronym originally came from Little River Band, but since another Australian band already had that name, Bachchu changed it to Love Runs Blind). LRB is the first band in Bangladeshi Band history to release two double albums and surprisingly enough, boldly of course their 1st album was a double album. The type was hard rock based like Madhobi, Dhakar Sondha etc.The public were not acquainted with that kind of music in Bangla before; the album was a huge success. Even though he started out as a Rock musician he eventually branched out to the more mainstream music of Bangladesh. He composed and played guitar in many songs for other artists; as a result, has gained a respectable fame among the musicians of Bangladesh. Nevertheless, Ayub Bachchu has contributed heavily to the development of Bangladeshi Rock Music. He is popular equally as a Singer as well as a Guitarist and Composer. He dedicated himself to promote all instrument players of Bangladesh and make instrument playing more popular here. His first instrumental album 'Sound of Silence' is a breakthrough in instrumental music in Bangladesh. Jimi Hendrix & Joe Satriani are his inspirations as a guitarist. He is well known for his distinctive headgear and guitars. Widely known for his technical efficiency on guitar, Ayub Bachchu is regularly cited as one of the best guitarists in the sub-continent and the best in his country. He is extremely popular for his blues influenced guitar playing which contains many of the high-skilled techniques along with melodic approach. With his band LRB, he has popularized the blues-rock genre in his own language and gained the crowd attention for the live acts. Despite Satriani and Hendrix, LRB draw inspirations from many other rock bands like Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Dire Straits, Guns N'Roses, Led Zeppelin, Queen, and Nirvana. Still Bachchu prefers to play covers of these bands in the live acts along with LRB and his own songs. Ayub Bachchu's musical contributions made LRB as the top band in his country which has popularity in overseas also. He once mentioned to have 28 guitars in his collection. He is generally seen with Ibanez and ESP guitars, though he prefers PRS, Carvin and Fender Stratocaster also. He has his own recording Studio at Mogbazar, Dhaka named, AB Kitchen.
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Ayub Bachchu mostly known as AB is the legendary name in the history of Bangladeshi Band Music. With tremendous fan acceptance AB is famous for his fabulous guitar playing. AB has started his music career from his birth place Chittagong with the band Feelings in 1978. Then he has joined the band Souls in 1980, one of the pioneers in the band movement of Bangladesh.
In 1991 AB left Souls after 10 long years of practice for perfection and formed LRB (Love Runs Blind). AB brought up LRB from the deepest of his impulse, its something beyond high devotion for music. LRB started to play live gigs on the following years and their history of proceeding began. Millions of music loving people accepted their music with love. With the eagerness to create something revolutionary LRB released their first debut in 1992, which was a double album of Bangladeshi music history and entirely a new concept in Bangladeshi music and to the listeners as well.
AB had a great gig with Richard At Legang (France), Remo Fernandez Nandon Bugchi & Bikmar Gosh of India, Azam Khan, Miles & Black of Bangladesh. AB was honored in IIM Joka 'Rock Fest' (India), Benson & Hedges Star Search 1 & 2, DRockstar 1 & many other local competitions as a Judge.
AB is renowned for his musical scoring in TVC. Moreover He has worked as a music director for late Khalid Hasn Milu, late Shaikh Ishtiaqe, Nasim Ali Khan, Topon Chowdhury, Hasan Abedur Reza Jewel, Alam Ara Minu, Kaniz Suborna, Rupom etc. AB & LRB wish to play more concerts and to spread Bangladeshi Music in the each and every corner of the earth