Indus Creed

Indus Creed
Indus Creed live at Purana Qila, Delhi
Background information
Origin	Bombay, India.
Genres	Rock, Album-oriented rock (early), Alternative rock (later)
Years active	1984–1999; 2010–present
Website	induscreed.net
Members	Uday Benegal Mahesh Tinaikar Zubin Balaporia Krishna Jhaveri Jai Row Kavi
Past members	Mark Menezes Mark Selwyn Jayesh Gandhi Rushad Mistry

Indus Creed is a rock group based in Mumbai, India. It was founded in 1984 as Rock Machine and renamed in 1993, and included Uday Benegal (vocals), Mark Selwyn (bass), Mahesh Tinaikar (guitars), Zubin Balaporia (keyboards), Mark Menezes (Drums) and Jayesh Gandhi (guitars). It disbanded in 1997, only to regroup in 2010 with some new members.

In its 2014 listing of "25 Greatest Indian Rock Songs of the last 25 Years", "Rolling Stone India" featured Pretty Child (The Second Coming, 1990) and Top Of The Rock (Rock N Roll Renegade, 1988) .

Indus Creed was originally called Rock Machine, which was created in 1984 and featured Mahesh Tinaikar, Mark Selwyn, Ian Santamaria (vocals), Aftab Currim (rhythm guitar) and Suresh Bhadricha (drums). After playing just a few concerts in 1984, the line-up went though some changes. Jayesh Gandhi replaced Currim, Mark Menezes took Bhadricha's chair and Uday Benegal took over from Santamaria as lead vocalist. A few months later, Zubin Balaporia joined the band, adding keyboards to the line-up. Tinaikar, Selwyn, Gandhi, Benegal and Balaporia were to remain the core members of the band for a major portion of its existence.

Rock Machine started out as a "cover" band, playing a mix of straight-ahead rock and hard rock by such bands as Thin Lizzy, UFO, The Who, Deep Purple, Van Halen and Rush. Based in Mumbai, Rock Machine were one of the earliest bands in India to tour the country extensively, performing at college and independently promoted rock festivals. Bucking the country's covers-only trend, Rock Machine soon began to write and perform their own songs. The band's original tunes soon began to gain increasing popularity.

In 1988, Rock Machine released their first album, Rock'n'Roll Renegade. Hailed as India's first all-original rock album, it was a huge success and was widely pirated in regions where distribution was scarce, as in the northeastern Indian states of Assam, Nagaland and Meghalaya. Rock Machine's well-rehearsed and high-voltage stage performances made them very popular among rock audiences all across India. Their follow-up album, The Second Coming, was released in 1990 and featured a more slickly produced sound than their debut album. The Second Coming also contained "Pretty Child", a song that went relatively unnoticed at the time, but which was to catapult the band to supergroup status a few years later.