After the mega successful 50th birthday celebration jam at the Valle Verde Country Club last Friday, we are back at our home base. Still reveling from last week’s epic jam and actually having no opportunity to play an instrument while rendering just a solitary song at the party, i was totally itching to play at the music room last night. Even if i finally had the chance to do so much later in the evening, just to allow the guest musicians first crack on stage, it was enjoyable and fulfilling, nonetheless. An abundance of great live music, food and friends galore was the menu for the day.
Earlier on, consistent early bird and house band guitarist Capt. Loren Orendain, surprisingly got himself dethroned by a group of young musician guests who arrived much earlier than him. The young guys from the rock band “Diesel”( minus the drummer), was back in the room for three consecutive weekends since the first time they visited and performed. With Loren already set up and reinforced in man power, it was time for the jam to start. It was purely classic rock and some chord progression jamming vibe courtesy of the flyboy and the young blood.
Soon, house band drummer Bubui Colico arrived beefing up the roster even more. He showed up with 4 boxes of my favorite pizza flavor, as he promised he would. Siblings Mayette Clemente and Nando Alberto, on the other hand, were present and brought 3 boxes of similar pizzas along with them, as well (…and more). Praise and thank God for these generous souls. I must have consumed 2 boxes of these goodies all by myself. Maraming salamat po!
Mayette finally had her chance to jam after a long time, doing some nifty vocals with Loren and Joko Reantaso on guitars, Bubui Colico on drums and myself on bass. We ended up doing some jazzy tunes and Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”. As always, the most ever requested song for me to sing, i had to do “Spain” (Oh Lord, spare me next time please! ) all over again, this time undermanned with just Rick on bass, Joko on guitar and Bubui on drums. Surprisingly we pulled it off despite being short on key musicians. All’s well.
At past 2am, just when everyone had left the stage thinking that the jam was finally over, it turned out to be the opposite. The youthful and talented guitarist/composer Pau Villanueva and her musician friends suddenly caught up just in time, quickly setting up their gear and proceeded to jam. The jam was quite lengthy till closing time with myself volunteering to play the bass most of the time. It was an awesome jam of fun progressions lasting till about 4:30am. Great jam guys!
And so concludes another recharging and fulfilling night of music friends and family, not to mention the overly abundant gastronomic delight to last us for a long time. Truly another wonderful evening for all. We look forward to next week’s jam night. Thank you one and all!
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE! GOD BLES US ALL!
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