marc nadela, leo guevarra and JDLC


marc nadela. erstwhile classmate and good friend in elementary. he and i met again at talentfolio where i was the erstwhile resident copywriter-slash-PA. he had come in with his band to discuss the future of their band with our company.
fast forward to four years later, 2005. met him again through my wifey's colleague, who happened to be marc's guitarist. after their gig, we got around to talking about writing something about the lokal music scene. he'd be my source, i'd be the journeyman telling the tales. nice arrangement, now that i've consciously decided to write a blog about all things cebu and lokal. talked to ms mimi about my idea of featuring some lokal musicians, and got a positive on featuring them in her section at Cebu Daily News. nice. very nice.

leo guevarra. art director, old-school musician, neverending artist and dreamer. heard mainly from buddy niel quisaba about leo. i still don't know a lot about him, but i did broach the topic about this blog to him. he replied in the positive and said he'd introduce me to a few people he knew who were still active in the lokal music scene. cool.

JDLC, Juan de la Cruz. Wikipedia has a short entry about them, stating that, "After "Up In Arms", Joey "Pepe" Smith and Mike Hanopol joined the band. Along with remaining member Wally Gonzales, the trio arguably started the "Pinoy Rock" movement with the song "Himig Natin". Although it wasn't the first song to be sung in Tagalog, it was the first song of its kind that was sung in the country's native tongue." See: JDLC

in lokal music, it isn't everyday that you hear youngbloods play old tunes. in a way, playing the classics has something to do with both respecting the roots of your own music at the same time offering a rhythmic libation to the gods of music, imploring for smooth sailing throught the seas of adversity and the changing tides of trend.