Back To The 70's

[bods1000]

pag ka-alam ko, jeproks referred to someone who was a hippie, or appeared to look like one based on attire, and especially if you listened to rock...it became jepoy (jepay for female, na na-uso when sampaguita first came out on the pinoy rock scene during her new moon concerts)...may nagsabi sa akin jeproks came somewhat from project...there was a penchant in the 70s for inverting the syllables of words (gabo-boga, chibog-bogchi...etc)...how about the word yosi (from SI-garil-YO)

yeah they say that jeproks came from someone or was coined by someone who lived in Project 4 or 7 ba yon? kaya nung binaligatad - jeproks.

 

other common baligtad words then - tipar, tsikot and a term na I think nauso lang dun sa amin sa UP dati - tserti - for teacher

[bods1000]

Yo Bro!

Kamusta na?

 

Yep, I still play gigs outside my 9-5. Recently played in a private party in QC. It was kind of cool as I got to play the heavier side of the 60's and 70's. No Dancing Queen or Le Freak that night for me! heheheh!

 

It was fun because the crowd wanted Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Queen, Clapton. It felt good to let go with the Dsitortion pedal! heheh!

 

You are right. Hendrix was one of a kind. Though he was officially a 60's kid, Hendrix revolutionized the electric guitar and showed everybody what can be done.

After his death, many in the 70's continued to walk the path blazed by Jimi Hendrix and proceded to create some of the most magical techniques ever in guitar. Vernon Reid of Living Colours, Eric Gailes, Larry Mitchell all gave it a good try but never came close to the popularity level Hendrix had. Tyey were very talented but the fact they are unknown is a sign nobody has really topped Hendrix.

 

In the 70's, Jeff Beck came out with the several milestone albums--among them, TRUTH, BLOW by BLOW and WIRED. The song "Freeway Jam" had every guitar player running to music stores trying to buy whatever effect Beck used to get the weird and bizarre sounds he recorded. Turns out, the sounds he got were mostly from sheer talent and not effects as he used only a ProCo distortion pedal for most of the album. Listening to the song now gives people a feeling of disbelief that this was recorded sometime 1974 as it still sounds fresh!

 

Among the other 70's albums and performers that were most memorable--Outside of Disco --- were:

 

1. Steely Dan

2. Stevie Wonder- Songs in the Key Of Life

3. Paul McCartney and Wings -- Wings over America Tour/ Concert

4. COncert for BanglaDesh by George Harrison

5. Pink Floyd - The Wall and Dark side of the Moon

6. KISS - Destroyer

7. Led Zeppelin

8. Eagles

9. Blondie

10. Boston - More than a Feeling, Amanda [Remember this Band? ]

11. Fleetwood Mac-- Dreams

12. Deep Purple

13. Bruce Sprinsteen

14.Doobie Bros

15. Police

16. The Sex Pistols

17. Carole King- Tapestry

I'm fine, pare, nice to see you back!

 

i would have loved to see you play, if only to listen to those old rockers!

I wonder what happened to those BTO guys?

 

What do you have to say about Eddie Van halen? When I first heard his ERUPTION instumental in their first album it really blew me out - I still got that LP and his playing still freaks me out hehe...Siya daw ang nagpauso nung guitar technique called shredding but I really don't know what that means...sumunod na dun sina Joe Satriani and Steve Vai using the technique and I think they're quite damn good - good compositions too.

 

Yung Freeway Jam dun yun sa Blow by Blow right? but my favorite on that album is his instrumental ballad Cause We've Ended As Lovers - so memorable hehe...

 

Steely Dan remains a great favorite - timeless 'ika nga....what I liked about them is they used a lot of great guitarists in all of their albums - from jeff "skunk" Baxter to Rick Derringer to Larry Carlton to Mark Knopfler. Larry Carlton's intro to Don't Take Me Alive was one great solo - you'd never imagine he was into jazz. Also what kind of effect did he use on his solo in Haitian Divorce? Iba tunog, eh.

 

Pare you forgot about those great albums by Grand funk Railroad, Foghat, Jethro Tull - all memorable 70's staples....

[sally bogna mathay]

Pare you forgot about those great albums by Grand funk Railroad, Foghat, Jethro Tull - all memorable 70's staples....

right on bods, jethro tull is one of my alltime favorites (aqualung, thick as a brick, too young to die, too old to rock and rool, a passion play)

 

up ka rin pala...diliman ba or manila...ako lb

[storm]

yeah they say that jeproks came from someone or was coined by someone who lived in Project 4 or 7 ba yon? kaya nung binaligatad - jeproks.

 

other common baligtad words then - tipar, tsikot and a term na I think nauso lang dun sa amin sa UP dati - tserti - for teacher

Meron ding kaming mga binaligtad na words noon para sa barkada namin na nauso rin sa HS namin hanggang sa UP.

 

batsi - sibat meaning alis na.

Tasyo - syota

spilotspil - lips to lips

regnif - finger

os-os - boobs

olats - talo

halmits- mahal meaning syota

tebats, koljak - mariang palad

 

Tapos uso rin sa amin yung words na naks, haneps at hayop at hinaliyupak at heavigat.

 

 

Pero nung 70s din nauso yung kolehiyala language.

 

Kaya make kwento na lang while we're making tusok-tusok the fishballs.

Edited September 28, 2004 by storm

[16track]

What do you have to say about Eddie Van halen? When I first heard his ERUPTION instumental in their first album it really blew me out - I still got that LP and his playing still freaks me out hehe...Siya daw ang nagpauso nung guitar technique called shredding but I really don't know what that means...sumunod na dun sina Joe Satriani and Steve Vai using the technique and I think they're quite damn good - good compositions too.

 

Yung Freeway Jam dun yun sa Blow by Blow right? but my favorite on that album is his instrumental ballad Cause We've Ended As Lovers - so memorable hehe...

 

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Eddie Van Halen was definitely 70's material. That was the beauty of the 70's. It was so diverse.

 

Van Halen- the band- was actually discovered by Gene Simmons of KISS in one fo the Clubs in LA during in the period when Kiss popularity was starting to wane.

 

There are very few guitar players who are instantly recognizeable by their sound and their technique. Van Halen is one of them and this sound - generally referred to as the "Brown Sound" was developed in the 70's. I believe it was around 1978 when Van Halen came out and Eruption exploded in the music scene. It was a sound never heard of before and Eddie Van Halen claims he had pioneered the technique now known as "Finger Tapping" where notes were tapped by the right hand fingers in a manner closley resembling playing the piano. That was the technique he used on "Eruption" It was incredible! Now almost every other player uses the style.

 

Van Halen is a very important icon of the 70's as he represented the end of the 70's while ushering a new one. Van Halen had exploded from out of the 70's classic rock format where 25 minte solos wer prevalent and ushered in the neo-rock of the 80's which became known as "Glam Rock".

 

Shredding means ripping up the fretboard with as many notes that can be crammed in one bar. This means playing with Speed--- and with taste. Almost like shredding it to bits. IN the 70's the players who initially laid down the road for 80's shredders were:

 

1. Frank Marino of the band Mahogany Rush,

2. Alvin Lee of the band Ten Years After

3. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

4. Al Di Meola but he was more of a Jazzer

5. Larry Carlton who was known as Mr. 335 and Mr. Session

 

CHeers!

As you mentioned, the best ones were Vai and Satriani. Proof of that statement is that they are still around when most of their comrades are now gone and forgotten.

 

You're right, bro--Jeff Beck's "Cause we Ended Up As Lovers" is a true classic.

 

BTW, George Benson also came around in the 1970's with hit song.. "Breezin"

Edited September 28, 2004 by 16track

[bods1000]

right on bods, jethro tull is one of my alltime favorites (aqualung, thick as a brick, too young to die, too old to rock and rool, a passion play)

 

up ka rin pala...diliman ba or manila...ako lb

diliman, pare - sinuwerte lang hehehe...

 

Cross-eyed Mary was also good....

[bods1000]

Meron ding kaming mga binaligtad na words noon para sa barkada namin na nauso rin sa HS namin hanggang sa UP.

 

batsi - sibat meaning alis na.

Tasyo - syota

spilotspil - lips to lips

regnif - finger

os-os - boobs

olats - talo

halmits- mahal meaning syota

tebats, koljak - mariang palad

 

Tapos uso rin sa amin yung words na naks, haneps at hayop at hinaliyupak at heavigat.

 

 

Pero nung 70s din nauso yung kolehiyala language.

 

Kaya make kwento na lang while we're making tusok-tusok the fishballs.

yeah pare I remember tasyo and batsi

pero nung sa Pasig dati sa amin, yung kotse ginawa nilang estok..

meron pa nung kadiri to death dati, di ba

[bods1000]

Eddie Van Halen was definitely 70's material. That was the beauty of the 70's. It was so diverse.

 

Van Halen- the band- was actually discovered by Gene Simmons of KISS in one fo the Clubs in LA during in the period when Kiss popularity was starting to wane.

 

There are very few guitar players who are instantly recognizeable by their sound and their technique. Van Halen is one of them and this sound - generally referred to as the "Brown Sound" was developed in the 70's. I believe it was around 1978 when Van Halen came out and Eruption exploded in the music scene. It was a sound never heard of before and Eddie Van Halen claims he had pioneered the technique now known as "Finger Tapping" where notes were tapped by the right hand fingers in a manner closley resembling playing the piano. That was the technique he used on "Eruption" It was incredible! Now almost every other player uses the style.

 

Van Halen is a very important icon of the 70's as he represented the end of the 70's while ushering a new one. Van Halen had exploded from out of the 70's classic rock format where 25 minte solos wer prevalent and ushered in the neo-rock of the 80's which became known as "Glam Rock".

 

Shredding means ripping up the fretboard with as many notes that can be crammed in one bar. This means playing with Speed--- and with taste. Almost like shredding it to bits. IN the 70's the players who initially laid down the road for 80's shredders were:

 

1. Frank Marino of the band Mahogany Rush,

2. Alvin Lee of the band Ten Years After

3. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

4. Al Di Meola but he was more of a Jazzer

5. Larry Carlton who was known as Mr. 335 and Mr. Session

 

CHeers!

As you mentioned, the best ones were Vai and Satriani. Proof of that statement is that they are still around when most of their comrades are now gone and forgotten.

 

You're right, bro--Jeff Beck's "Cause we Ended Up As Lovers" is a true classic.

 

BTW, George Benson also came around in the 1970's with hit song.. "Breezin"

I still have the LP where that came out - InFlight - Breezin I think won a grammy for George Benson. But I prefer him when he was just a pure guitarist before he came out with all these vocals. I'm planning to buy a CD of his where all of his guitar pieces are on display - playing White Rabbit, Take Five, GoodKingBad, California Dreamin'.....but his version of This Masquerade with vocals was a great one....

 

Van Halen the group went through so many lead singers - David Lee Roth to Sammy Hagar - ngayon di ko na alam kung sino. Last I heard Eddie was planning to come out with a pure instrumental album - about time, really...

 

Pare can you play a la Eddie Van halen or do shredding?

 

Cheers!

[sally bogna mathay]

I still have the LP where that came out - InFlight - Breezin I think won a grammy for George Benson. But I prefer him when he was just a pure guitarist

bods, have you heard the original version of breezin?...this was a song composed by r&b artist bobby womack for guitarist gabor szabo...it was included in the album high contrast released in 1970 or 1971 ata...another great cut from this album is the song titled if you don't want my love...used to have the album although i've never seen a cd...fyi lang, pare...yes, i agree, benson showed promise before he became pop-oriented...

[bods1000]

bods, have you heard the original version of breezin?...this was a song composed by r&b artist bobby womack for guitarist gabor szabo...it was included in the album high contrast released in 1970 or 1971 ata...another great cut from this album is the song titled if you don't want my love...used to have the album although i've never seen a cd...fyi lang, pare...yes, i agree, benson showed promise before he became pop-oriented...

I didn't know that there was an original version of it but speaking of Gabor Szabo, I just got a CD of his last Sunday titled Macho, originally released 1975 - maganda pala ito. I remember him from the 70's parang George benson ang tunog ng gitara nya - very nice. Dun ko lang nalaman sa liner notes ng CD na patay na pala itong si Gabor Szabo way back '82 pa yata at the young age of 46. Sayang din siya. I gotta check out that album you said - baka merong LP nito dun kina Bobby. Thanks for the info, pare...

[16track]

I still have the LP where that came out - InFlight - Breezin I think won a grammy for George Benson. But I prefer him when he was just a pure guitarist before he came out with all these vocals. I'm planning to buy a CD of his where all of his guitar pieces are on display - playing White Rabbit, Take Five, GoodKingBad, California Dreamin'.....but his version of This Masquerade with vocals was a great one....

 

Van Halen the group went through so many lead singers - David Lee Roth to Sammy Hagar - ngayon di ko na alam kung sino. Last I heard Eddie was planning to come out with a pure instrumental album - about time, really...

 

Pare can you play a la Eddie Van halen or do shredding?

 

Cheers!

I agree that the George Benson of the 70's was a better version than the Benson of the 80's and 90's where in he is being packaged more as a vocalist.

 

Benson started gaining fame as a jazz session artist and his move to being an instrumentalist was a natural one.

 

Van Halen remains a super influence on many players. Learning to play Eruption is almost like a passage for every aspiring rocker... heheh! I sometimes play "Aint Talking About Love, Panama and Dreams" from the Van Halen list.

 

Speaking of the 70's.... Anybody here ever into the "JUAN DELA CRUZ BAND"?

 

For a brief period in the early 70's JDC Band was THE band! Pepe Smith, Wally Gonzales and Mike Hanopol came out blasting from DZRJ and Pinoy Rock was never the same again.

 

""Laklakin Mo, Durugin Mo

Laklakin Mo, Hanggang sa iKaw ay maging Bato"

 

Remember that song?

[bods1000]

I agree that the George Benson of the 70's was a better version than the Benson of the 80's and 90's where in he is being packaged more as a vocalist.

 

Benson started gaining fame as a jazz session artist and his move to being an instrumentalist was a natural one.

 

Van Halen remains a super influence on many players. Learning to play Eruption is almost like a passage for every aspiring rocker... heheh! I sometimes play "Aint Talking About Love, Panama and Dreams" from the Van Halen list.

 

Speaking of the 70's.... Anybody here ever into the "JUAN DELA CRUZ BAND"?

 

For a brief period in the early 70's JDC Band was THE band! Pepe Smith, Wally Gonzales and Mike Hanopol came out blasting from DZRJ and Pinoy Rock was never the same again.

 

""Laklakin Mo, Durugin Mo

Laklakin Mo, Hanggang sa iKaw ay maging Bato"

 

Remember that song?

pare I gotta see you play those Van Halen tunes one of these days Waddaya say?

 

The LP's of Juan de la Cruz are collector's items now. I heard that their Masskara album is selling for close to a thousand dun kina Bobby - kahit wasak na daw yung cover...mga Japanese daw ang naghahanap - I dunno why....

 

yeah Balong Malalim, Himig Natin....those were classics. Back around the mid-80's nakakainuman ko si Pepe Smith and he was one hell of a drinker. He was a friend of an officemate and we used to take him along. What was memorable was during a birthday of mine back then isinama nila si Pepe sa bahay then when he got loaded up he played Billy Idol's Rebel Yell on my acoustic guitar! then he played a blues number complete with beer bottle slide on the frets. Nagpuntahan and naki-usyoso lahat nung tambay dun sa amin when they heard that the PEPE SMITH was on the house!

 

Wally Gonzales plays some gigs now in Greenbelt and Makati Av but I have a hard time catching up to when and where he plays.

 

Mike Hanopol is a regular patron at our resto - my wife has seen him several times there with his wife. Still with the same get-up. Imagine - the old jeproks mahilig pala sa Japanese food!

[orionpax]

1978 - 4 yrs old ako...my dad bought a Gibson SG in Clark Air Base...hehehe it now stands beside my Gibson P-Bass

[16track]

1978 - 4 yrs old ako...my dad bought a Gibson SG in Clark Air Base...hehehe   it now stands beside my Gibson P-Bass

OOOOWHEEE!

 

An SG and a P-BASS? Better hold on to it as those things are running in 4 digits USDollars! BTW, if its a P-Bass then it was made by Fender and not by Gibson. Although Gibson has an SG bass model known as the EB1. Does your SG come with a trem bar?

 

Funny you mentioned Clark Airbase in the 70's. I used to go there with my dad when I was younger and I really thought I was in a different country. THe 70's Dau and Angeles areas were full of those muscle cars moving about with road lined up with stores selling PX items and bars and restaurants full with GI's.

 

I mean, my very first Adidas pair--- the Vienna model with the red stripes-- was bought in one of those shops! Darn.. I miss that pair.... I followed that up with a reliable blue Puma Clyde!

Edited September 29, 2004 by 16track

[orionpax]

Ooops...err...Fender pala...it looks much like Tom Hamilton's bass which is a Gibson (Aerosmith) my SG has this thick tremolo bar... what is cool about the SG is its small relative to Strats or Teles...although a Les Paul wouldve been better ...

Edited September 29, 2004 by orionpax