00:01Well, my memories of playing in Cebu have always been fantastic crowds, fantastic reaction, really appreciative.
00:11And, you know, I mean, the first time I came to Manila was in 2000, right?
00:16Played Aranata and, you know, played that several times.
00:21And then you start playing the big casinos and such.
00:25And, you know, K-pop comes in and starts taking over Aranata.
00:29But there is, it's unique, the Philippines in my career, of how much they kind of adore some of the songs.
00:45And Simply Jesse is a song that I had no idea the impact of it.
00:52And I'll just tell you all the Simply Jesse thing.
00:54When I was flying down Philippine air, I'm in first class.
00:58Thank you very much.
00:59And I'm, you know, I don't know where I'm heading to because I'm going, okay, let's go to the Philippines.
01:05And about two, three hours into the flight, the flight attendant took the microphone and started going, and I don't know how I knew it.
01:15And the whole plane started, I started seeing it.
01:19And I stood up and I looked all the way down that 747 and everybody had their hands in the air and was doing it.
01:25And I was like, where am I heading to?
01:29Well, I was heading to the Philippines.
01:31That was a great adventure.
01:32And I've had, I think, between me and Air Supply, I've probably played, we've played more places than anybody.
01:39We've played up and down, east, west, north, and south.
01:43And don't ask me all the places I've been in because the names don't stick in my head that well.
01:47You know, I got Cebu and Manila.
01:49But, you know, some of them, but I've, it's been, if I'm talking too much about answers, let me know.
01:58I don't want to hold up other people asking a question.
02:01I tend to ramble on.
02:03But it itself is, I'll tell you this about the Philippines, it's the most musical nation on earth.
02:09And you can go into the most, just, the poorest bar and you hear a band playing better than the original in it.
02:20You know, so I'm excited.
02:21I've got new musicians.
02:22I've got nine pieces I'm playing with.
02:25And I'm excited to get into Cebu and start crafting a great show.
02:32All right.
02:33Thank you so much.
02:35Oh, my pleasure.
02:35Thank you, Genwar.
02:36If you have any other questions, probably later.
02:39Let's go with Kaiser.
02:41Hello.
02:41Good morning from Herex.
02:44I'd just like to ask, like, projects like this don't happen overnight.
02:47So can you walk us through how this 2D concert came about?
02:53Who started the conversation?
02:55And what steps had to fall into place before this Cebu concert finally become a reality?
03:00That's good.
03:01There's a lot of work behind this.
03:03It is not, there's a lot of moving parts.
03:06It's, you know, I have a show that I tour in America and stuff called Confessions of a Teen Idol.
03:13And it's just me and all the media behind me that I created from my rock and roll to teen idol to superheroes and everything in my life story.
03:23And it's, you know, I show up, I've got an external hard drive, and we, you know, it's a 15-minute soundtrack and set some lights and we're good to go, right?
03:32So this is nine pieces, backup singers, and I'm in conference.
03:40I've been in conference for the past over a week with the musical director, sending charts, discussing charts, making a list.
03:48He's working furiously to put, the charts are not all easy charts, but luckily there's some really good quality charts I have with, you know, I've got two horns.
04:00So I've got sax and trumpet, and somebody plays through, you know, doubles down for different songs.
04:08But it's complicated.
04:10It's complicated, but, you know, it's exciting.
04:15I've had two different musical directors in my career in the Philippines.
04:20And mostly the players, they just carried on, you know, I've worked with everybody.
04:26This is a clean slate.
04:27So I'm going to hit the ground running, which I'm coming in on, like, the 9th or something.
04:33I leave it on the 7th, which is the 8th for you.
04:36So I get there on the 9th, and we're going to hit it and get the band, you know, to know me and to have my energy kind of seep into it,
04:47because that's one of the things I like to bring to the bands when I come, because, you know, I like for the band to be part of the show, too.
04:59I mean.
05:29So I'm going to hit it and I'm going to hit it.
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