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Hassan Shirazi  3rd dec 1979 Birth Place, Karachi, Pakistan.
Worked with: Perfect Strangers, Black Ash, Hollow Bodies
Mag4you.com: Name?.
Hassan: Hassan Shirazi
Mag4you.com: Age?
Hassan: 24
Mag4you.com: Location?
Hassan: Karachi, Pakistan.
Mag4you.com: Date of Birth?
Hassan: 3rd Dec, 1979
Mag4you.com: Profession?
Hassan: Managing Director In a freight forwarding company. Member of Karachi custom agents group.
Mag4you.com: Hobbies?
Hassan: Playing guitar, writing songs and making music.
Mag4you.com: Future plans?
Hassan: Got acceptance for bachelor in music so I'll be going abroad as soon as I get my visa.
Mag4you.com: How long you have been involved in media?
Hassan: Almost one year, though I've been in underground since three years.
Mag4you.com: What had inspired you in making music?
Hassan: Nature, darkness and loneliness
Mag4you.com: How has your experience with Pakistani media been so far?
Hassan: Not good, cause music is not acceptable in our society yet, I mean to say when a person ask you what is your profession and you told them I am a guitarist, "Son don't you have anything better to do?", that will be the question of your profession.
Mag4you.com: Your debut video "Satanic Dreams" is now being aired on music channels rather frequently. What's concept behind this video?
Hassan: I all honest I don't want to give that video in a TV channels cause that an underground thing and it should be remain underground. The video is about a guy dreaming that satan is controlling him from his own place where he live and from there he is controlling the whole world, and the candle in the end is about he will be with us till the end of the judgment day.
Mag4you.com: A media revolution seems to be in session in Pakistan, Mostly through music. Would you say this applies to other fields of media as well?
Hassan: well I want to tell one thing to all of you, we can't trust our media, cause sometimes music is banned and sometimes channels are banned, so what you going to do if music or cables will banned again in our country?
Mag4you.com: How far do you see Pakistani media extend itself?
Hassan: Its doing a great job until the government is supporting it, I don't know what will happen when the other government will come and take charge of everything.
Mag4you.com: How importance a role does play in terms of national outlook? Do you see our media meeting all criteria?
Hassan: I think the media is forgetting our culture they are copying our neighbor's culture, I think we got a good chance to show our culture through the media and to improve our image in abroad by showing and promoting our own culture, I really feel very bad that the media is not showing qawalis and folk songs, I love listening to quails cause most of the quails are about our religion and you can learn many things from that.
Mag4you.com: What flaws do you see in Pakistani media today?
Hassan: Many. it will be a long list.
Mag4you.com: What about your music education?
Hassan: None, I learned everything from websites.
Mag4you.com: Tell us about your music equipments?
Hassan: I got phantom fly guitar, 2 acoustic guitar (power beat and Kay pock, boss effects processor.
Mag4you.com: Tell us about your recordings (describe your style and every recording)?
Hassan: well... I don't make any plans and don't jam, my all tracks were composed and recorded live, means no jams no practice I just start playing while the recording was going on at the same time and after that I do the editing stuff. and the most interesting thing I forgotten most of the solo's in my track cause I don't listen to them after I complete my editing.
Mag4you.com: What we can expect from "Hassan Shirazi" in the future? Have you chalked out an entire plan? If so please to share it with us.
Hassan: well...I don't want to do any more music in here cause its not a good profession in here and it will going to take 3-4 years for the listeners to grow up and start listening to mature stuff, I can give a good example of Pakistan's best guitarist "Faraz Anwer", he's been playing more than 10 years and people still don't know him, just give me a break man, he's still an unknown person, just go out on the streets and ask anyone you know Faraz Anwer? the answer will be who the hell is he? and then ask you know jawad ahmed? the answer will be yes man off course he is the coolest singer Of Pakistan. so what you think about me? I am nothing as compared to faraz, sometimes I think don't know how to play guitar when I listen to his instrumentals. SO my plan is to go abroad to study music and form a band there.
Mag4you.com: Source of inspiration?
Hassan: I never tried to copy anyone but I love listening to anything from the 60's - 70's.
Mag4you.com: Other Occupations?
Hassan: Music, graphic designing, video and audio editing.
Mag4you.com: Have you ever fall in love?
Hassan: Yes, I am in love with music, its just like a girl friend, whenever I feel depressed it really help me to cheer up and whenever I feel tired, it helps me to relax, my guitar knows me very well cause I share my all feelings with it.
Mag4you.com: What do you do to earn for living?
Hassan: I already mentioned above in occupations.
Mag4you.com: Type of music you like?
Hassan: Rock, blues rock, classic rock and heavy metal.
Mag4you.com: Type of music you hate?
Hassan: I hate music with cheap and nasty lyrics, I really hate when I heard the sound of Indian music at my home cause I feel that I am sitting in a Phatan ki chai ki dukan.
Mag4you.com: Have you ever played live?
Hassan: Yes, many time.
Mag4you.com: What inspires you when composing a song?
Hassan: Hamm, don't have the exact words for it.
Mag4you.com: What comes deeper from your soul, Music or Lyrics?
Hassan: From my soul, cause I play what ever coming to my soul at the moment.
Mag4you.com: What do you think about other Pakistani artists?
Hassan: Thanks god they stop copying English tunes.
Mag4you.com: How would you like to remembered?
Hassan: People here don't remember rockers, people don't remember Fawad Balouch, the best guitarist Pakistan ever produced, to mein kuch bhee nahee hoo.
Mag4you.com: Favorite musicians?
Hassan: Many.
Mag4you.com: Favorite songs?
Hassan: sir ki yeh pahar by strings (old version), in English many.
Mag4you.com: Favorite actor?
Hassan: None.
Mag4you.com: Favorite actress?
Hassan: None
Mag4you.com: What do you think about Mag4you.com?
Hassan: In all honest its a good site for people like us, I really thanks from the bottom of my heart to all the Mag4you.com crew for all their hard work, promoting underground artist and making it all happen.
Mag4you.com: Final comments?
Hassan: Do what you want, cause you only live once, let people make fun of you and let them criticize, I want to tell you that Elvis is still the most criticize person but he is still the king. Legend leads and the rest follows.
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