Saturday, November 01, 2008
I was asked to play guitars for RJ Jacinto's Supersession concert held last Oct 25 at the A venue in Makati which was a stones throw away from my old workplace.
Apparently they wanted me to play guitars on a song i recorded in the nineties... It's a song done by one of my mentors... Sampaguita on a song called " Nosi Balasi ". I actually recorded and mixed that song and as an added bonus i got to play guitars on it as well.
It was after all a portion dedicated to Sampaguita in celebration of the 45th anniversary of DZRJ.
I also learned that two of my old co workers had moved on... namely Howlin Dave and Emil Quinto aka as Charlie Brown. Old rockers don't really die they just sort of fade away.
It was quite a nostalgic night since Pepe Smith was there as well as Chikoy Pura of the Jerks... Joey Puyat and Johnny Alegre whom i really admire as guitar players. The youngbloods were also there Cowboy Santos who happens to be Sampaguitas son was there and we got to play together on the Sampaguita set. Daniel Crisologo was there, another amazing guitar player who reminds me of Joe Satriani. Tirso Ripoll, Kakoy Legaspi were some of the younger guitar players there.... Bassists like Louie Talan and Dondi Ledesma and Simon Tan were there... drummers Zach Lucero and Wendell of Pupil was there. It really was a fun evening, more so for me since i hardly go out to do live work. I'm always in the studio either recording or doing arrangements for artists on their respective albums. I have gone a long way since the time i was starting out as a recording engineer on RJ's studios in Makati. I never did dream about being famous since all i wanted was to be able to work on songs that will be remembered long after i am gone. I've done quite a few really... but i still think i can do a couple of songs more... before i too join my other rocker friends in that great rock concert in Heaven. I'll be posting more pics from the concert on my next post since most of the pics were taken with someone else's cam. Really hard to take pictures when you're on stage. I hear the show is going to be shown on Jack Tv on cable. Hope someone tapes it and post it on youtube... hahaha
--MXRR at 11:13 PM
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