A crazy and unfortunate thing had just happened while I was copying the photo files straight from the camera to my computer. As I was pressing the control key and right clicking the photo files from the camera to drag to a designated folder on my desktop (which I normally do), instead of the files being transferred to that folder, it all suddenly and strangely vanished into thin air. No prompt on the screen whatsoever if you are to agree to continue with the delete process or not. It just vanished..period! Tried everything to locate where it could have possibly transferred to but to no avail. Totally unforgiving and frustrating to lose images from last night’s happenings to share, to say the least…ugggghh! The positive thing though is that i was able to spare and preserve the videos we took. Thank God for that.
Going back to our Friday update, unexpectedly, despite being a special non-working holiday for most, the evening turned out to be tame and uneventful in contrast to the previous weekends. Although there were still a handful of interesting personalities who made it over, the jam was not really quite as explosive and interesting at the start. With guitarist Loren Orendain, teen sensation and youngest Fender endorser Joko Reantaso, acoustic guitarist Nicky Hidalgo (who had his jam time as well), houseband bassist Rick Trinidad, percussionist & flutist Vincent Garrucho, vocalists Monchie Henares, Tony Tirol and Mark Ronquillo and a surprise visit of an old friend, fellow Air Force brat and music room pioneer Red Aquino plus myself to add to the list, there was indeed a respectable line-up to boast off.
The jam was mostly “free willy” and unorganized, seemingly strutting along just to while away the time, so to speak. There were even instances that the singers where just doing their thing where they were at without even making an effort to go upstage to use the microphones. It was a “backyard/ kanto inuman jam” sort of vibe. Totally crazy.
At the magic hour, the mood apparently shifted to high gear timely at the time when most of the other guest musicians had already left. It was just Rick Trinidad, Vincent Garrucho, Monchie Henares, Red Aquino and myself on stage. Rick played the guitar, drums and vocals, Vincent on percussions, flute, guitar and vocals, Red on drums, Monchie on vocals and drums, Tony on vocals and myself on bass, drums and vocals.
Immediately our moods changed from lethargic to pure bliss. We found ourselves having so much fun welcoming the “ber” months arranging mash-up Christmas carols with popular tunes and putting it together as tediously and meticulously as can be to make it sound fairly acceptable to our taste. I do hope the viewers will enjoy watching the end result as much as we enjoyed doing it as we intend to include it in our repertoire till the end of the Christmas season…hehe!
Well, what seemed like an early night at the onset ended eventually at our usual time at 5:30am. All’s well that ends well.
Thanks so much to everyone who dropped by. Special mention to Gab Villanueva’s contribution and effort. He did his share as our pseudo musical director and videographer while we were doing the mash-up thingy and to Mark Ronquillo for delivering the goodies straight from Vigan.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE! GOD BLESS US ALL!
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