00:18I think it really starts with loving the music and loving playing music first of
00:26all. Most of the people who've lasted in the band have that curiosity and that drive to try and create
00:36something fresh, I guess. Even if the result might not seem that fresh to outside ears, internally yung
00:45trying to get there, trying to cover new ground, I guess.
00:58That we're a disbanded group reuniting. I still get that, man. To this day, there would be a gig or
01:12there would be someone...
01:13So we have a reunion concert. Yeah, it's a reunion concert, guys. We got back. I mean, I've gotten tired
01:22of explaining.
01:23No, dude, we're back. We never left. No, we did leave. I mean, from 94 to... We got back in
01:321999. And from that time,
01:35we never really left. We kept on. And I guess even with social media and such, it's still hard to
01:45let
01:45everybody know the same thing. We're not reuniting. We're here, man. We're just doing a 40th
01:54anniversary concert. This time, it's to celebrate 40 years of the band. So yeah, it's funny in some ways.
02:10I don't know, because I won't be here.
02:13I think age qualification pa lang medyo. Hindi na kami papasa.
02:20Wala na papansin sa atin. Tatandaan mo kaya. And plus, may kanya-kanya ng, you know, may more
02:30responsibilities na. Parang hindi na... Kung hindi ko naging full-time job ito, hindi ko isipin na gawin ito this
02:38late.
02:39Diba?
02:40Very passionate pa lang.
02:41But yeah, kong passionate din lang, of course. But, you know...
02:45If you guys were as young then, as you are, you know, when did you start now?
02:50It would be different. The songs would be different.
02:54Maybe I'd be approaching it with a little bit more trepidation, because I always see this as a challenge now
03:01for young musicians.
03:02That's why I admire them actually more, because grabe yung competition for eyeballs and ears now eh.
03:12Dati eh, pwede ka pa talagang mag-stand out eh.
03:14Um, but now with Facebook and YouTube and everything, vying for attention, I don't know, I probably wouldn't.
03:25Honestly.
03:26Andami mga galing na banda ngayon. Andami kong naririnig.
03:30But, you know, the tito in me would ask,
03:34Oh, galing. Asikat ba yan? And then, yun pala, hindi. Hindi sila kilala. Pero ang galing-galing nila.
03:38You know, and then you realize, common sense takes over.
03:42Oo nga pala, kasi when you release a new material now, there's probably 10,000 others releasing at the same
03:48time as you.
03:56Ayan, daming changes eh. How do I answer that?
03:59So, uh, we had to adjust to the internet, the download thing, because of course our era, 1980s, 80s, uh,
04:08there's a physical product, there's a single.
04:11There's one song on one side, and another song on side B.
04:15Is that minus one on side B?
04:16Oh, side, correct, my minus, yes, yes, minus one.
04:21So, we had to adjust, we had to, we had to move forward.
04:26Um, uh, canina, Bimbo mentioned, well, in another interview, the technology has caught up, it, technology has made things a
04:34bit, not a bit, a lot.
04:36Like recording, you can record with your laptop.
04:40Yeah, dati, you need a studio, the size of, grabe.
04:43So, there, there are pros and cons on, on, on, on, on technology today, the internet.
04:51I miss the physical product
04:52The album
04:54The artwork
04:55You're holding something
04:58It's not just a download
04:59You download one song
05:01It's not the whole story
05:03You didn't see the whole movie
05:05You saw one scene only
05:17Well, for starters
05:18We still play a lot of the songs
05:20That Teddy co-wrote
05:22And co-arranged
05:23From the time that he was alive
05:25And with us
05:27The energy
05:28That became known
05:32With the band
05:33From 1986 to now
05:36It's become
05:39Part of the band's DNA already
05:49If there's one thing
05:50I guess they can all agree
05:52If there's one thing
05:53We don't want to be
05:54Is to be a nostalgia band
05:55I think any senior band
05:59Doesn't want to be a nostalgia band
06:00But of course
06:01There would be gigs
06:03Where we would be hired
06:04Because the theme is 80s
06:07The theme is 90s
06:08Okay lang yun
06:08But
06:09Of course
06:10Who are you kidding?
06:11We came from that era
06:12And we'd most certainly
06:14Love to be a part of that
06:15But
06:15We're not doing cover versions
06:17Of ourselves
06:18Definitely
06:20In fact
06:21A lot of our songs
06:24Have had iterations
06:26When you play them live
06:27They don't quite sound like
06:30How it was
06:31Except for the legacy songs
06:33I say
06:33Enroved Ideas
06:34I stand with you
06:35More or less
06:36Ganun yung areglo
06:36But
06:36A lot of our other songs
06:38Have
06:39You know
06:40Have
06:40What do you call this?
06:42Have had facelifts already
06:43If you will
06:44You know
06:45Because
06:46May botox na
06:48May collagen
06:48May gluta
06:51May gluta
06:52Parang si Bimbo
06:54Only because
06:55We evolve
06:56Naturally
06:57We progress
06:58We're not stuck
07:01Junboy stressed
07:02The importance of
07:03Looking back
07:03To move forward
07:04I believe in that
07:05Wholeheartedly
07:05100%
07:06But
07:06It doesn't mean
07:08Looking back
07:08It means getting stuck there
07:09Either
07:09You know
07:10So
07:11Botox
07:21Yes
07:22Salamat
07:26Of course
07:27I stand with you
07:28Then
07:28Papayig na
07:28Mawala
07:29Sa korel
07:30Sa
07:38Ako
07:39Ako
07:39When I first heard
07:39Autotelic
07:42And
07:43Four of Spades
07:44It's because
07:46Supposedly
07:47A Pinoy
07:48Rock
07:49Rock oriented band
07:50Or whatever you want to call it
07:51Has to sound like this
07:53I remember the first time
07:54I heard
07:55Four of Spades
07:56Hindi na
07:57Parang may
07:59New wave atmospheres
08:00And whatever
08:01And I reacted the same way
08:04That most people
08:05Reacted to the
08:06Dawn
08:06For the first time
08:07Is that a foreign band
08:10Tapos narinig ko yung
08:12Words
08:12Uy Tagalog
08:13And I ran up to
08:14My then housemate
08:16And I said
08:16Sino yan
08:17Sino yan
08:18And he said
08:19Autotelic
08:20Four of Spades
08:21Same thing
08:22Yung
08:24You're reminded of
08:26Pwede naman yun eh
08:27At pwede pala yun
08:29You know
08:30Ako
08:30Urbandab
08:31I mean
08:33Not as new
08:33But you know
08:34Urbandab
08:46Eh si Sancho kasi
08:49Sobrang galing ko kasi
08:50Gusto mo tanggalin ko na ngayon to
08:52May keyboards na tayo
08:53Ano actually
08:53Very good question
08:54No no
08:55Actually
08:56Kabatis ko na fan
08:57Alam mo naman
08:58Diba
08:58Okay
08:59Ano lang yan
09:00Kasi yun
09:02From Teddy Diaz
09:03Ano palang
09:03Guitar band talaga
09:05Ang dadong
09:05Plus
09:06Si JB does
09:07Did the keyboard parts
09:09Early days
09:09So parang
09:12Yun
09:13Ano to
09:14I saw you coming in
09:15Si JB yun
09:16So parang
09:18There really was no need
09:19In the recording
09:20I would play the keyboards
09:21But live
09:21I cannot
09:22Kaya may session
09:23But that went on
09:25With Ted's
09:26The evolution was such
09:27That
09:27Una si Teddy
09:28One guitar
09:30And then
09:31That held true
09:32With Francis
09:34And then we
09:35Decided
09:35What if we added
09:36A session keyboard
09:38Para may makatugtog
09:39Nung mga keyboard parts
09:40So it became
09:42Guitar
09:43Keyboard
09:44Bass
09:44Drums
09:46Session lang talaga
09:47And then
09:48It came to a point
09:50Where it became
09:51Two guitars
09:52And a session
09:53Keyboardist
09:55It went
09:56Like that
09:56For a while
09:58Until
09:59Until
09:59Medyo
10:00Naging
10:01Too many
10:02Too many cooks
10:04In the
10:04You know
10:05We're spoiling
10:06The broth already
10:07Parang ganun
10:08So
10:09We go back
10:11To the very essence
10:12Of the
10:12Guitar band
10:14For Quarenta
10:15We do have
10:16Special guest
10:18Keyboardists
10:20For one thing
10:21Our MD
10:23Is Gino Cruz
10:23Highly respected
10:26Music arranger
10:27And keyboardist
10:29No relation
10:29No relation
10:30To Tirso Cruz
10:30Yeah
10:30Then
10:33A couple of
10:34People that we've
10:35Worked with
10:36Will be guessing
10:37Also
10:37Dodo Fernandez
10:38We're playing
10:39A little piano
10:39Lenny Lapitan
10:41Used to be with
10:42Identity Crisis
10:43We'll be
10:45Doing a couple of
10:46Things
10:47Here and there
10:48Then
10:48I mean
10:49The thing is
10:50The name
10:51Pagminsan-minsan
10:52May keyboards
10:52Music
10:53Of The Dawn
10:54But not
10:55But not always
10:57So
10:58They're more
10:59Right now
10:59They're more
11:00Diba
11:00Parang
11:01Parang
11:03Ideas
11:03Like a riff
11:04Like Love Will Set Us Free
11:05Yung kailangan yun doon
11:06So anybody else
11:07Can play it
11:08Kiko plays keyboards
11:09Also
11:10In and out
11:11Right
11:11So
11:12More than it being
11:13A main instrument
11:14I mean for regular gigs
11:16At least
11:17You know
11:18It was not
11:19A conscious effort
11:20I did not tell
11:22Ted just worked
11:23Nagkukawang keyboard
11:23Sa ako lang yan
11:24It just happened
11:25It just happened
11:26This way
11:27Na hindi say
11:29Wala tayong
11:30Keyboard member
11:31Wala
11:31We did not
11:32Baka
11:33There's no big
11:34You might think
11:34It's that
11:35That's the reason
11:36No no no
11:38It just happened
11:40To be this way
11:41It's not a conscious
11:42Effort
11:43Pero si Sancho talaga
11:44May kasulahan
11:53How lucky
11:54We are
11:56Really
11:57I was about to say
11:57The same thing
11:58It's
12:00Like in the case
12:00Of me and Junboy
12:02We started
12:03Without any expectations
12:05Of where this was gonna go
12:08Of course
12:08In the back of your mind
12:09There's that dream
12:10Diba
12:11Uy
12:11Sana sumikat
12:12Tung bandan to
12:15But in the beginning
12:16The songs weren't really
12:18What you might call
12:19Pop
12:19Or an easy sell
12:21We were everything
12:23But that
12:23We had envelope ideas
12:25We didn't even know
12:26That was gonna be a hit
12:27Now we're here
12:29Forty years later
12:30Talking to you
12:31In the Sony Music Office
12:33I mean
12:34Yeah
12:34This is
12:36Getting old
12:37This
12:37Is cool
12:39If it's like this
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