MARCH 24, 2017 – FRIDAY JAM UPDATE & PHOTOS

Fresh from last weekend’s successful “on-location” jam at Matuod Beach, we are back at our very own humble abode. It was good to be back home. Still in euphoria from last week’s phenomenal out-of-town event, i can still feel the fun experience crisp in my memory that I wanted to rekindle the feeling as quickly, if it was possible.

The evening started to elicit signs of promise when childhood friends from Nichols Air Base began to show up. Ret. Army General Henry Zabarre and San Miguel Corp. honcho Lucas Diano were the very first to show up. Rico Tayko, Julius de Leon and Ed Diano caught up hours later. Old friends Alex Joseph, Girrard Jison, Ferdie Barroso and Ozzy Lopez were around too.

With just this small group alone, our beer stocks were no match to supply this bunch of thirsty merrymakers. I had no choice but to make a beer run before it gets completely consumed. Thanks to my kumpadre Monchie Henares’ concern and his (mom’s) trusty Honda City, I had found company to make a fast purchase. God bless his kindness.

When we got back, the room was already laden with the other guests who had already arrived. The jam had started and was ongoing with professional guitarist Larby dela Cruz at the forefront.

Sweet couple Michael and Amar Puyat who came straight from their maiden gig at The Flask High Bar in Alabang arrived along with bandmates Larby dela Cruz and fellow music room house band percussionist Vincent Garrucho.

From the bar (after replenishing the cooler with beer), I hurriedly ran and got to position on stage to join in. No one was playing drums and so was time for some drum duties for me. Finding myself mostly behind the drum kit at the start, I finally had my chance playing bass later on towards the end. It was all good. As the saying goes…”better late than never”.

Among the other band mates that joined were guitarist Joaco Marco, guitar legend Nitoy Adriano, bassist Rick Trinidad, keyboardist Ralph Lauren Gulapa, guitarist Mark Longos, my beloved batchmate and drummer Jun Bediones, vocalist Monchie Henares, percussionist Vincent Garrucho and keyboard lord Kiko Montecillo.

Kiko arrived at past 2am coming from another place, caught up and quickly got on board to join us. It was totally weird and hilarious to find ourselves completely at a total loss for what songs to play, now that Kiko was around. Our minds suddenly became totally blank. Eventually, we did end up playing quite a number of songs but we would’ve wanted to do a lot more had we not choked on song choices.

Finally, the music stopped at about 5am offically ending the jam. And yes, no one complained and stopped us from playing..hahaha! God forbid.

An so another night of fun, friends and frolic comes to an end. We already look forward to the next one.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE! GOD BLESS US ALL!