Years ago, I had every Juan Dela Cruz Band record ever made. I was fortunate enough to collect them as a kid and I even got Joey Pepe Smith to sign Kahit Anong Mangyari during the album's launch in 1981. Four years ago, I lost almost my entire vinyl collection (I lost about 2,500 records while my dad lost his collection of 15,000) to a fire that gutted my home. I took three years before I decided to return to vinyl (I actually stayed away since 1993) and in doing so, got back many of the records I loved and enjoyed as a kid. And that included new old copies of Himig Natin, Super Hits, and Kahit Anong Mangyari.
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| Pepe was the first to sign the record again and this was during the benefit show for Maria Cafra drummer Rolly Averilla's son at Handlebar. |
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| And a month later, Pepe signed my copy of Shinki, Speed & Glue while interviewing him and Mike Hanopol for a Full Blast Pinoy Super Bands article at McDonald's Katipunan. They were headed for a show out of town. |
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| Mike signed not only my copy of Kahit Anong Mangyari but also his debut solo album, Awiting Pilipino. |
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As a youngster, my dad would take me to a studio in Greenhills to watch Wally Gonzalez record an album. My father was the president of the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI) for 27 years. I went to that studio twice. One time, Wally played his copy of Foreigner's Head Games. I will not forget that. I was rummaging through his records and he came over and asked if I liked music. I nodded. He picked out Foreigner and played it loud. We even played alongside one of the tracks. It was an amazing afternoon.
Now I need to get him to sign my CDs. |
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