Love One Another is a really really good studio. I feel like it is a wonderful environment to record an album. There is
nurturing involved, like the songs (and band members) could grow in that small space.
I just came from there with Selena, we tried to do vocal tracks for
Habulan but my lousy voice showed up instead of the power balladeer voice I sometimes channel for gigs, and thus not much was accomplished, but I realized how great a studio the studio we record at is, because even though we didn't accomplish much, we didn't feel like we wasted time! I love not doing anything and not wasting time while not doing anything. I think it is an art.
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Last night Shirley played at a the despedida party for Annette Ortiz, the drummer of the wonderful girl-band Fatal Posporos. The set was alright, but what made me want to post about last night was how i felt while watching Fatal.
I don't know if everybody feels that way while watching Fatal, but I'm sure everybody knows the feeling, when you used to like something but you forget about it, or it just isn't as prominent as before because you've moved on to more important things, or you outgrew something, or for whatever reason things change, band members leave, ganun, then you watch the gig and it all comes back and you're a 15-year-old starstruck fan again. I love that feeling.
Top 5 starstruck-fan gigs:
1) Last night. Wow.
2) Cambio/Pan at the UP College of Mass Comm parking lot a couple of years ago. Halos walang tao, they played
Huwag Mo Nang Itanong/
Senti, I heard it for the first time. I almost cried. Wow.
3) Free-era Rivermaya at the Ateneo softball field siguro year 2000. Channel V event. Rico Nathan Mark Jjohn lineup. Ian Tayao of Cheese and Reg Rubio of Greyhoundz jammed on stage to an improv kupaw version of
Sunog. Wow.
4) Pepe Smith at Mag:Net Katipunan with parts of Snakecharmer, Jing Gaddi, and the late Weslu. Lee's night yun, December last year. Impromptu standards set, with Mr Pepe Smith lecturing the rhythm section sometimes, and other times praising their TIGHTNESS. like i said in a previous blog update about that gig, "parang nag-simba ako tapos imbes na pari, si Jesus yung nagmimisa" haha. Wow.
5) A tie, between the reunion gig of Sugar hiccup with Melody on vocals at the 4 Calendar Cafe I dunno when haha. And the Rock U event held at Tower Records Makati. That was Sept 11 2001. I remember the date I dunno why haha. Me and Ean cut class to watch it with our good friend Jean Navarro, standing in one spot for a very long time. Kathy G was also there but we did not know each other yet. That was a fun gig. Wow.
Haha
That is all I love you all
-Owel
