augustmoon Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Hheheh! I just had a stroke of good luck last weekened. Tyring to go over some audio CDs in one of the Metrowalk stores last Saturday, I could not believe my eyes when a rare album by a band from long ago almost seemed to jump up from the pile. Yup.. indeed! It was a "LIVE" recording of no less than the Circus Band! I guess someone digitized an old viny and removed all the hiss as the CD sounded very fresh. Nice to hear Pabs, Basil, Richard Tan singing along with Tillie Moreno, Ceres Jacinto and Pat Castillo. I'm pretty sure Jacqui Magno is in the record as well as it seemed this was their big Araneta conert sometime 73 or 74. Man.. Basil really sang his heart out in their version of "wildflower"! while Tillie Moreno and Pat Castillo exchanged duests in Sergio Mendes' "Waiting For love! Darn.. that Richard Tan has a cool set of pipes as well!Cheers! Which of the Stores in Metrowalk ???.... I want to get one too.Info will be much appreciated. :thumbsupsmiley: Quote Link to comment
16track Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 (edited) Which of the Stores in Metrowalk ???.... I want to get one too.Info will be much appreciated. :thumbsupsmiley: Hi There! The shop is right along the lane behind the shop that sells all the Golfing attire --on your left as soon as you enter the main entrance. There's 3-4 shops selling not just some MP3 but also audio discs in CD format as well. Three for PhP 100 ang price. From that pile, I was able to get the following: 1. Best of the Tempattions2. Best of the WHO3. Maria Cafra4. Best of Pinoy Swing music ( ayos ba? heheh -- couldn't help it! )5. Circus Band6. 70's Jazz compilation If you can not locate the shop, just let me know and I'll burn one for you. I hold office at Tektite lang. Cheers! Edited March 20, 2007 by 16track Quote Link to comment
16track Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 (edited) Remember in the 70's how Channel 9 will show some concerts or Musical specials? I remember watching the Temptations on TV and really dug their moves and delivery of the songs. The movements were precise and the vocals just so full with soul! After getting my copy of the Best of the Temptations CD, I got re-aquainted with: 1. My Girl2. I Can't Get Next To You 3. Papa Was A Rolling Stone4. Just My Imagination5. Cloud 96. I heard It Through the Grape Vine ( their version )7. The Way You Do The Things You Do Artist: The Temptations LyricsSong: I Can't Get Next To You Lyrics Dennis: I Can turn a gray sky blue.Melvin: I can make it rain, whenever I wanted to.Oh, IEddie: I can build a castle from a single grain of sand.Paul: I can make a ship sail, uh, on dry land. Dennis: But my life is incomplete and I'm so blue. 'Cause I can't get next to you. I can't get next to you, babe. (Next to you)I can't get next to you. (I just can't get next you)I can't get next to you, babe.I can't get next to you. IDennis: I Can fly like a bird in the sky.Eddie: Hey, and I can buy anything that money can buy.Oh, IPaul: I can turn a river into a raging fire.Melvin: I can live forever if I so desired. Eddie: Unimportant are all the things I can do. 'Cause I can't get next to you. I can't get next to you, babe. (No matter what I do)I can't get next to you.Uh-ya [instrumental] Ooo-OooOoo-OooChica boom, chica boomChica boom, boom, boom Dennis: I can turn back the hands of time, you better believe I can.IOtis: I can make the seasons change, just by waving my hand.Oh, IEddie: I can change anything from old to new.Paul: The things I want to do the most, I'm unable to do. Dennis: Unhappy am I with all the powers I possess. 'Cause girl you're the key to my happiness.Eddie: And I Can't get next to you. Dennis:Girl, you're blowing my mind 'cause I can't get...(Next to you)Can't you see these tears I'm crying? I can't get... (Next to you)Girl, it's you that I need. I gotta get...(Next to you)Can't you see these tears I'm crying? I can't get... (Next to you)I, I, I, I... I can't get...(Next to you)I, I, I, I... I can't get...(Next to you)Girl, you're blowing my mind... Edited March 20, 2007 by 16track Quote Link to comment
bods1000 Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Hheheh! I just had a stroke of good luck last weekened. Tyring to go over some audio CDs in one of the Metrowalk stores last Saturday, I could not believe my eyes when a rare album by a band from long ago almost seemed to jump up from the pile. Yup.. indeed! It was a "LIVE" recording of no less than the Circus Band! I guess someone digitized an old viny and removed all the hiss as the CD sounded very fresh. Nice to hear Pabs, Basil, Richard Tan singing along with Tillie Moreno, Ceres Jacinto and Pat Castillo. I'm pretty sure Jacqui Magno is in the record as well as it seemed this was their big Araneta conert sometime 73 or 74. Man.. Basil really sang his heart out in their version of "wildflower"! while Tillie Moreno and Pat Castillo exchanged duests in Sergio Mendes' "Waiting For love! Darn.. that Richard Tan has a cool set of pipes as well!Cheers! pare you are one lucky dude!I was at MCS just last week and I didn't see any Circus CD there. Sayang....Did they do that version of Gimme Shelter in that CD? Ang galing nun - heard it in 70's radio pa... What I got at Mcs was a Lynyrd Skynyrd Greatest Hits and another Blues compilation Quote Link to comment
bods1000 Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 The control of the media was 100% during the early days of Martial Law. There was even a time when all TV channels were showing one program entitled "Pulong-pulong sa Kaunlaran". We Forum was the first opposition newspaper published by Joe Burgos, then Malaya came afterwards. Inquirer came after the assination of Aquino. Pulong-pulong sa Kaunlaran...is this the show hosted by Gerry Geronimo? In fairness, though madami akong natutunan dito about agriculture and growing plants hehehe....Gerry Geronimo is still around, I believe... Quote Link to comment
16track Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 pare you are one lucky dude!I was at MCS just last week and I didn't see any Circus CD there. Sayang....Did they do that version of Gimme Shelter in that CD? Ang galing nun - heard it in 70's radio pa... What I got at Mcs was a Lynyrd Skynyrd Greatest Hits and another Blues compilation Bods: This is what is is: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f119/georgerev/Circus.jpg Quote Link to comment
bods1000 Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Bods: This is what is is: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f119/georgerev/Circus.jpg makapunta nga ng Metrowalk hehehe....cool cover ha....looking at the get-up of those guys parang na-time travel tayo sa 70's... there's also some Bong Penera at Music One - albeit not pirated hehehe. Loves listening to Sa Dako Pa Roon. Bong Penera is a reminder of how boring, classless, and middling are all those so-called bossa-bossa creatures sprouting nowadays... Quote Link to comment
sally bogna mathay Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 has anyone got a copy of Bong Penera's Samba Chicago? Baka pwedeng mag pa burn? You're right Bods, these bossa nova pretenders really sound like amateurs. Nobody beats the jazz samba series featuring Stan Getz, Jobim, Charlie Burd, Luiz Bonfa and Joao Gilberto. Quote Link to comment
Mandrake Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 (edited) Did Bong Penera had a band called CICADA BAND?. :cool:i remember another Latin jazz band - BATUCADA. Edited March 21, 2007 by Mandrake Quote Link to comment
sally bogna mathay Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 I remember Bong Penera playing at a small club on Araneta Avenue; I think the club's name was Bacchus. This was in the early 70s. When he started playing at the Intercon's Calesa Bar during the same decade, he had a group; collectively they were known as Bong Penera and the Batucada. Thus, the song Batucada sa Calesa. The first album is now a collector's item. I just don't know if he had anything to do with the Cicada band...makes me remember the Passionata band thatused to play at the Manila Hotel. Posting an article on Bong Penera from PDI published in 2004 >Looking for Mr. Pinoy Bossa Nova >''WHY HIM?" > >This was a friend demanding to know why I was working on a film about Bong Peñera. The friend used to edit Jingle Magazine, the Philippines' prime music and chord book publication. "I don't remember much about him that is significant," she added, rolling up her eyes. Suddenly, a spark! "Is he the Bong chosen by the readers of Jingle Magazine as Best Pinoy Jazz Pianist sometime in the 1980s? The same Bong whose Batucada Band was also picked Best Jazz Band?" > >Nothing significant? > >Among fellow filmmakers working with me, no one knew "Bong Who?" either. Luckily, some of the members of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts' Committee on Cinema were fans of Peñera's music. > >Peñera is the Filipino musician-composer who wrote, performed and recorded original bossa nova numbers in the '70s. When I applied for an NCCA grant, all I had in mind was a film that would discuss his distinctive achievement. > >But first - how to locate him. Initially, even those who recognized the name didn't have a clue as to where the man might be. At this point, the project looked bigger than I cared to believe. > >The idea of a Peñera film sprang from a casual late-night talk with radio jock Joey P, whom I visited at Citylite 88.3 FM in January 2003. It was about 11 p.m. on a weekend. A woman called up while Joey P was on board and thanked him for playing "Samba Song." The woman said Peñera songs were hardly played on radio anymore. In the course of the conversation, we asked the questions back and forth every five minutes or so: "Whatever happened to him? Where is he?" > >That night, the same questions kept me awake. The very next day, I completed the requirements for an NCCA proposal. Thanks to the cinema committee chaired by Boots Anson Roa, we got the grant. > >Hooked on cool > >First order of business was to familiarize the crew with the most compelling evidence of the subject's existence: his music. We all went to Joey P's house to listen to vinyl copies of Peñera. first and third album. The goodness flowed like water from a mountain spring - graceful, pure, cool. > >So cool that a female crew member says she now plays the songs in her mind whenever she is stuck in traffic, to make the daily hassle "bearable." To think that this young woman was born after Peñera's peak. The rest of the crew followed suit. "Bong Who?" has become real to them. > >Since that single day of immersion, the film project has taken a life of its own. A buddy got me in touch with a friend of his who could lend cameras and lights. I called for an appointment, having made a list of the things I wished to borrow. After 15 minutes on the phone, it became apparent that the guy didn't have anything I needed. But after that initial letdown, a whole bunch of information came tumbling out of the man like butterflies out of the forest. He just happened to be Peñera 's old pal and band mate. That very first group had four members, according to this unexpected find, Bing Villegas - himself, Peñera, and two girls both named Vicki. > >Villegas laughingly recalled guesting in "Ariel con Tina," one of the most popular TV shows at the time, and hosts Ariel Ureta and Tina Revilla referring to the group as Vicki Vicki Bing Bong! > >More surprises > >One night after a shoot, while chilling out with the crew at Joel Torre's Manukan along Gilmore Avenue, I asked the waiter to play our CD, with Peñera's "Samba Song" and "Batucada sa Calesa." Midway through "Samba Song," beautifully sung in Portuguese by Maria Dulce Da Silva, we heard two middle-aged executive types ask the waiter where the CD was from. When the waiter pointed our way, the two men came over and excitedly told us stories of evenings at Hyatt's Calesa Bar where Bong Peñera and the Batucada Band reigned in the '70s. > >Another night, while we waited for Pat Castillo, who did the vocals for "Love Notes," one of Peñera's best-loved songs-at Merck's Bar in Glorietta 3, a band in the alley started playing an unmistakable bossa nova groove. I went closer. A young Pinay in miniskirt sat on a stool singing in Portuguese. Then she segued to "Batucada Sa Calesa." A new band playing Peñera was a rare treat. So we interviewed Eileen Sison, Richie Quirino and the rest of the Guarana Band right there, right after their set. > >Yet another friend confessed that she used to call radio stations during the late '70s to request for Peñera. songs. She introduced me to a writer who had earlier done a scathing review of a Peñera album. The writer told me he had completely changed his mind about that album. > >Brazilian backup > >A pleasant surprise was the reaction of the Brazilian envoy to the Philippines, Ambassador Claudio Maria Henrique Do Couto Lyra. I had written a letter requesting him for a referral; I said I wanted to meet a Brazilian national here in the country who could give a background on the samba and the bossa nova. To my surprise, the ambassador himself and First Minister Carlos Augusto Loureiro De Carvalho enthusiastically discussed their personal passion for samba music. More important, Bong Peñera was no stranger to them, and they said they appreciated his music. > >Lyra offered to contact Dulce Da Silva, a staff at the Brazilian Embassy in the '70s, now based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Da Silva had translated the English-Tagalog "Samba Song" into Portuguese and recorded it in Peñera's first album. Later, a lady diplomat, Myriam Abitam, showed us how to dance the samba. > >Needless to say, as our research progressed, we gathered more interesting details. During an interview with former Jingle staffers - editor Ces Rodriguez and members of her music patrol Eric Caruncho, Bill Huang, Mike Jamir, Edwin Sallan, and Tony Maghirang - at the UFO Gallery in San Juan, Caruncho informed us that on an Internet auction site, a record collector in Japan was offering US$10,000 for a vinyl record of Peñera. > >At the end of the interview, Jamir and Huang gave us the number of one Johnny Alegre, said to be a Pinoy jazz chronicler. > >Cosmic chart > >This Johnny person wears Barong Tagalog to work as "IT guru of one of the most prestigious malls in the country." At night he plays the guitar for the jazz band Affinity. But it blew our minds when he showed us into the conference room of his Makati office. There was a "cosmic chart" showing in painstaking detail the different incarnations of Bong Peñera's bands, including dates and landmark projects, names of band members and their tours of duty. Best of all, he had their current phone numbers. > >And so we soon made contact with guitarist Edgar Avenir, drummer Jun Viray, vocalist Sandra Lim-Viray and bassist Paul Candelaria, the last batch to play with Peñera before he disappeared from the local scene. Paul lives and plays in Hong Kong, while Edgar, Jun and Sandra continue to make music in the country as the trio JFK, or Just For Kicks. > >On the side, happily married couple Jun and Sandra are specialists in made-to-order furniture. Edgar, rightfully called "Kuyang," serves as big brother to younger jazz musicians. JFK still plays Batucada music. > >During a spur-of-the-moment trip to Baguio we stumbled upon Cecil Habito of Tam-Awan Artists Village, who advised us to go to St. Louis University and look for a certain Dr. Carlos Medina. She said Medina and Peñera were together at Maryhurst Seminary in Baguio in the '70s. We found Medina, an anthropologist at SLU's Cordillera Research Foundation. He writes books, produces his own music recordings and plays once a week at a popular restaurant. And yes, we found, he played the bossa nova with Peñera's group at Maryhurst. > >One visit to an optometrist yielded more than reading glasses. The luminous Dr. Nella Sarabia was business affairs manager for the late Edmond Fortuno, who played the drums in Peñera's third album and at the Calesa Bar gigs. Peñera and Fortuno, or "Bosyo" might seem an odd combination, the latter having been partial to rock. Nell argued that, on the contrary, the two were "natural playmates" because of their love for all kinds of music. Nell then pointed to Gina Montes, who sang with Hotdog and then with Batucada. Montes sang with Batucada when it opened the Hubert Laws Concert at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in '79. Now she is a marketing executive at a high-end department store. > >Young ones > >How would current musicians take to Peñera's music? We gave some of them copies of Bong's compositions, and here are their remarks: > >* Jazz pianist/singer Ria Villena of Happy People texted me, happily surprised. > >* Wajihuara's Junji Lerma described the music as "sobrang lupit [intense]." > >* Myra Ruaro of Brownbeat Allstars was challenged to work on their ska version of Peñera's "Beat Contemplation." > >* The colorful Lourd de Veyra of Radioactive Sago Project declared: "Ka-career-in ko 'to, pare [i'll build on this]!" > Quote Link to comment
bods1000 Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 that was a great article, pare. Thanks for sharing it with us. Brings back memories....Eric Caruncho, Tony Maghirang, et al were great music critics at the old Jingle mag. Together with Juaniyo Arcellana and the poet Eric Gamalinda (who's now in the States) these were the first guys I would refer to when I wanted to know if an album was good or not. Aside from knowing their music, their prose was to die for. Their pieces could stand up on their own - as literary pieces. Their writing wasexceedingly good, to put it mildly. Ngayon wala nang mga ganyang music reviewers. Baby Gil? :thumbsdownsmiley: :thumbsdownsmiley: :thumbsdownsmiley: Didn't know that Johnny Alegre now works as an executive. Good for him. But he still remains one of the finest guitarists, rock or jazz, that the country has ever produced. I make it a point to watch him whenever he has a show. Magaling pa din talaga kahit kalbo na :cool: Quote Link to comment
storm Posted March 22, 2007 Author Share Posted March 22, 2007 Hi There! The shop is right along the lane behind the shop that sells all the Golfing attire --on your left as soon as you enter the main entrance. There's 3-4 shops selling not just some MP3 but also audio discs in CD format as well. Three for PhP 100 ang price. From that pile, I was able to get the following: 1. Best of the Tempattions2. Best of the WHO3. Maria Cafra4. Best of Pinoy Swing music ( ayos ba? heheh -- couldn't help it! )5. Circus Band6. 70's Jazz compilationIf you can not locate the shop, just let me know and I'll burn one for you. I hold office at Tektite lang. Cheers! Sali ako. Trip ko rin yang mga ganyang music. How's the quality bro? To all. I hope we can have a pre-holy week EB. Quote Link to comment
sally bogna mathay Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Sali ako. Trip ko rin yang mga ganyang music. How's the quality bro? To all. I hope we can have a pre-holy week EB. Yes, we should! Outside ba, or is any member willing to be the host? We could all bring something, whether booze, food or sounds. Quote Link to comment
james16 Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 e yung ice candy na you can break in 2? wats it called na? parang hotdog ang korte tapos mdyo hard plastic ang casing Frosty Ice Candy Quote Link to comment
james16 Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 One of the most famous 70s photos.... Farrah Fawcett (once known as Farrah Fawcett-Majors) Quote Link to comment
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