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Saturday, June 23, 2018

JUNE 22, 2018 - FRIDAY JAM UPDATE & PHOTOS

Living up to the old adage “calm after the storm”, the familiar Friday jam night phenomenon was exemplified again at last night’s outcome. Fresh from last weekend’s blockbuster, it was a common expectation that the following week will most likely be a subtle one. Sure enough it did turn out to be so. If not only for the ever dependable and ever present Rick Trinidad and Vincent Garrucho (who actually did contemplate on just staying home to rest), all the guests who showed up last night were absent at last week’s anniversary party. Though lean comparatively in head count and concluded way earlier than the usual cut off, the evening was nonetheless generally productive.

The festivity started early at around 8pm with a group of six guys from Rudolf Lietz Co. arriving first. Air Asia Flyboy Capt. Loren Orendain, who was busy last week, showed up with a vengeance along with his band “Flightskool”. Comprising of awesome musicians in the likes of frontman/guitarist/vocalist and PAL Capt. Winford Martillano , phenomenal bassist Empi Martinez and drummer Dani Pajarillo, the band who had finally found time to be together after a while took center stage and was the main entertainment for the evening.
As always a thrill to watch, Flightskool ended up doing two sets of their familiar repertoire of covers to the delight of a few audience around. After they were finished, it was time for us to jam.
It was great to see house band honcho and guitarist Joaco Marco back in the room. Joaco had actually been missing the weekly jams lately due to his tight workload. Untimely feeling under the weather and still under medication, he unfortunately wasn’t able to make it to the celebration last week, as well. Good thing he had already completed his antibiotic medication in time and was fit to come.
With just Joaco, Rick, Vincent and myself around, we just barely established a decent roster to play, but we managed. The jam was short-lived but sweet. We just had to enjoy and make the most of it. Better than none at all.
The jam was finally over and the stage quiet and empty at a record time of 1:45am. Much too early compared to our usual cut-off of 5am. Nevertheless, we still got our much anticipated jam fix to speak off. No reason to complain but instead grateful to still have the opportunity to do so. Praise God.
Our thanks to Nikki Segundo and SAF ret. Col. John Ablan for their presence and to Dudeus de los Santos of the Lietz Co. group for the pizzas.
And so another weekend completed. Tranquil but still satisfying. Short but still enjoyable. Early but still enough. It’s all just a matter of perspective. Whatever the story was, it was all good. And as always, I thank God for the opportunity.
Till the next time.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE! GOD BLESS US ALL!

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