Pinoy rock icons
70's Pinoy Rock and Beyond:
Lolita Carbon, Pepe Smith, Jun Lopito, Banyuhay ni Heber
Metro Bar, 23 July 2007
Four Pinoy Rock icons in one show, yeah! Hindi ko palalampasin ito! It's a great opportunity to document these artists who rarely perform na. But I wanted to go just because Lolita Carbon was singing--I have never seen her perform live. :) A friend of mine told me, if I want to watch Lolita I have to go catch her in rallies, dun daw siya kumakanta haha. I grew up listening to their music--I had cassette tapes of Heber and Asin back in high school, and my jeproks na Dad let me listen to his Juan De La Cruz LPs nung elementary pa ako.
I was there at 8 hoping to get a good seat up front but all dem seats were taken/reserved. A lot of fans in my age group and beyond haha. Like me marami ring sabik na mapanood sila. :)
Lolita was the first one to sing and my goolay, I was a mess haha, i was in awe. I wanted to just sit there and watch and listen to her pero siyempre i kept shooting. :) Ang galeng niya po sobra. (I was able to meet her backstage later for a photo op hehe.) Heber's set brought back memories of high school, he sang my favorite, that sad song "Nena." Heber and Banyuhay used to sing in Pisay in secret concerts at the school auditorium with a lot of other artists singing protest music... panahon pa ng martial law nun. Sayang, sana i was a rock photographer na nun!
And finally Pepe and Jun played a full straight set, straight as in they really did some serious rockin', man! Aside from a few JDLC songs, Pepe sang songs from "Idiosyncracies," an album he made in collaboration with Jun Lopito and Dondi Ledesma (too bad he wasn't there). I should have brought my CD para napa-autograph, next time na lang. :)
Please check out the whole set here.
Labels: Heber bartolome, Jun Lopito, Lolita Carbon, my shoot, Pepe Smith
posted by redsago at 12:19 AM
2 Comments:
Hi Mari,
Appreciate the updates in the music scene and, more so, your great photos -- against a black screen, they really come out alive.
I once entered a Perfect Pitch store just to browse around and found Pepe Smith jamming with a drummer/sales personnel. Had never seen him perform live but that was a free show for me. I must have stood there in awe by myself for half an hour.
After the drummer left him, Pepe kept on playing without even looking up to see if anyone was watching. And when he played this blues tune (on a different guitar), man!, I was all ears and eyes! The man is great; just wanted to cry at my own puny guitar scratches. Don't know if he bought the guitar but I bought his legendary abilities.
Wish I had a camera then.
Btw, tuloy na ang Pisay Concert sa Aug. 30, 6:30 PM, AFP Theater: Pisay@43.com2gether (I Am What I Jam). The first 8 batches, '69 to '75, will perform old hits of the years they entered Pisay.
Tickets are now available, at 500 (Major Sponsors), 350 (Minor Sponsors) and 200 (GP). Sponsored by PSHS Alum Assoc. for the benefit of PSHS.
Let me know if you want to watch. :)
vince
Great Photography. You know what your are doing lol. Keep it up.
Cheers to this blogsite.
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