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We had a Back to the 70s mini Wine Savvy eb with Bods, Liberty, Masi and my wife last Friday night. We had a great time reminiscing about the days of our innocence kuno.

 

We also had a mini EB at the gallery with SBM. We talked about music, movies and nice places.

 

:cool: :thumbsupsmiley:

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hey pareng storm - I missed the gang last night!

 

well anyway, the Beatles are properly 60's but I'll share anyway. I got to watch their anthology and the Manila segment there sure mesmerized me, to say the least. I'm sure this anthology has been seen worldwide and I can't imagine the reaction of those who have seen it when Ringo and some of the other Beatles said, "I hate the Philippines" or "I'm never going back there." The anthology documented in great detail their mishap here in 1968 (?) and me as a Pinoy sure felt a touch of kahihiyan when I watched it. The Marcoses and the promoters or whoever sure flubbed that Beatles visit here....

 

It got me to thinking - maybe that bad experience had an impact on future musicians vis-a-vis their prospects of playing here. I mean if the musicians or the tour promoters or band managers saw what happened to the Beatles, maybe they continue to have second thoughts about coming here. Maybe that's the reason why some superacts fail to include Manila in their Asian tours. We don't have a lack of sponsors here, I guess, but I think they just don't want to end up in misery like what happened to the Beatles. U2 has gone on several Asian tours but never was Manila included in the itinerary. The Eagles have gone a Farewell Tour that included Bangkok, Melbourne and I'm sure some other Asian cities but they did not stop here...

Just my two-cents worth...

 

Have a nice weekend, folks!

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It got me to thinking - maybe that bad experience had an impact on future musicians vis-a-vis their prospects of playing here. I mean if the musicians or the tour promoters or band managers saw what happened to the Beatles, maybe they continue to have second thoughts about coming here. Maybe that's the reason why some superacts fail to include Manila in their Asian tours. We don't have a lack of sponsors here, I guess, but I think they just don't want to end up in misery like what happened to the Beatles. U2 has gone on several Asian tours but never was Manila included in the itinerary. The Eagles have gone a Farewell Tour that included Bangkok, Melbourne and I'm sure some other Asian cities but they did not stop here...

Just my two-cents worth...

 

I think economics coupled with our natural tendency to attract bad press (if you're a foreigner overseas and CNN is your only source of info about RP, you might think the country is going through a civil war!) would have a far greater bearing.

 

When Singapore made a bid for the Rolling Stones to include the city-state as part of their farewell tour, the promoters were asked to dish 8 million dollars (USD not SGD) up front. I understand even Singapore had to balk. Imagine if it were here in Manila, very few (if any) could afford to buy the tickets to recoup those stagerring talent fees. I would imagine the talent fees of the likes of U2 might be a little cheaper but still easily worth a couple of million dollars.

 

And the bad publicity we always get don't help any.

 

Of late, we seem to be hosting remnants of 70s acts like Spiral Staircase, The Lettermen, etc. which brings me to my next question: May nanood ba nung Sergio Mendez? My wife wanted to watch but we didn't manage to.

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