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February 11, 2009
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NEWS OF THE WEEK!!!
The Eraserheads!
Peace-ing It All Together!
Jazz recounts his close encounters during last year's Eraserheads Reunion Show!
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The Truth about Ely and Dianne
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Sonic Boom's The Horror Show!!!
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Kerplunk Night at Saguijo!
Part 2:
I don’t know what time we woke up but I remember screaming off our balcony “Gooooood Mooorning
We each napped and woke up in time for sound check. We must’ve played 2 to 3 songs to get our sound the way we wanted to with the amplifiers and vocal tones, niko had the problem of a revolving drum kit but was able to deal with it by simply moving his stool a bit to the right after each song. I had a quick beer with Rupert while packing up then it was time to head out. Deciding that we needed a bite to eat I suggested Lily’s Café down the street where the love is strong and the police are nowhere to be found! We got settled, ordered a bite to eat, waited for the food, ate, then went home, all in under an hour. Meanwhile, Rupert was out looking for CD cases. We were all hell bent on selling some CD’s and making some money since we didn’t really have a lot to begin with.
I can no longer remember what time we had to be ready for Rupert to pick us up but as usual, we weren’t quite ready when he arrived but we were awake and slowly moving. The next thing I do remember is arriving at Vasco’s and loving that there were already a number of people there having some cocktails and that I started feeling the energy of the night. It was good energy. Hot! Exciting! Comfortable and almost spiritual in its ethereal presence. Niko and I sat at the bar while Nino talked to some old friends from
Febuary 4, 2009
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Chillitees Launches New Video over a bar tour of 3 nights!
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Eraserheads Rehearsals for the "Final Set"
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I think it all began the week before New Years Eve. Carla Laus, a close friend of mine was visiting for the holidays and wanted to hook up. Being that I don’t entire go out that much unless its work related, I simply invited her to our pre-Give A Damn gig at Capones where we were played a few songs. She liked what she saw and had pretty much right then and there decided that she wanted us to play in Saigon, Vietnam. She said, “Send me a video of you guys playing a song so I can show it to my good friend who’s a concert producer/promoter”! I was a bit drunk and couldn’t quite believe it to be realistic so I shrugged it off, although produced the video via facebook. Rupert, the producer, saw the video and gave the go signal! I couldn’t believe it! New Years had just passed and it was 2009 and we were going to
There’s a long story with how we got off work for 7 days and how our drummer who also plays in another band had to explain that he was leaving the country on such short notice and problems with passports and it being Chinese new years but lets skip all that and just say that we got what we needed to get done, done!
And so on January 21, the Blue Jean Junkies were at the Ninoy Aquino Airport Terminal 3 waiting for our midnight flight to
We got there at about 130am, Carla and Rupert were there to pick us up and though we were invited to a French Party we opted to get a bite to eat instead and chill for the long week ahead. We each had some Pho and was shown how to eat it and how this leaf does that and that leaf does this and tasted chili sauce Vietnamese style! After eating our Pho over a few beers we decide “Alright lets head out and check into our hotel and put our guitars down”. We checked in and were shown a few nearby bars where we could easily get to without needing to be shown around. We said our goodbye’s to Carla and Rupert and minutes later decide to drink some beer at Go To Bar which was a minutes walk away from our hotel.
Getting Started
It was fun sitting in that bar, loads of people but everyone taking it slow, I sat at the bar and ordered us 3 beers. In no time a Vietnamese local was sitting next to me asking me if she could crash at our hotel for the night, hooker. I shooed her off and carried on with the band. Nino ended up convincing the bar to let him use facebook while Niko and I decide to have a look upstairs! HOLY FUCK! Go To Bar’s upstairs was happening!!! For lack of a better word that is. It was pumping with white guys and girls, dancing to fucking Eminem while everyone sang along but it was fun to see everyone being so into it and in a great mood! We stayed awhile, maybe 2 to 3 rounds. I spilt some guys beer all over the floor by accident and he didn’t like it much. After a few Eminem tracks I couldn’t take it and asked Niko if he was ready to head out. Down we went, Nino was just about done, and we called it a night.
Rupert and I
The following day was Thursday the 22nd, first day of our series of gigs. We woke up a bit early and took to the streets! The 3 of us got ourselves together and made our way out for a Vietnamese lunch. We went up the street and took a left, saw a series of shops and café’s and made our way into this one place that didn’t have too many tourists. We had a look at the menu and ordered beef and chicken. After eating another delicious meal, Niko and I thought to go for a walk just to see what was around while Nino went ahead to the room. Being a bit off our heads and tired plus having a long day ahead, we went back to the hotel. Rupert had come to get us at about 4pm for sound check. He decided to walk to the venue since it wasn’t too far away. 20+ minutes later I wished we had taken a cab because my bass is not light and walking around wasn’t that easy, especially in fucking
Carla Nino me and Niko
First set was good. Nothing explosive and very unusual for the Blue Jean Junkies but it was good fun all the same. We played mostly covers and the set felt longer than I thought it was. I’d asked Rupert how we were doing with time and he said that we’d been playing for about 35 minutes when we’d finished our set list of 8 songs so we needed to come up with a list on the spot to fill in the remaining 25 minutes. We did, then took a break, had more beer, and met some people. Mike told us that he felt we were holding back and to just do our thing and not worry about making too much noise, even though we were in this fairly small pub. We say ok, drink more beer, meet more people, say hi to some people we’d already met, and had a few laughs. Suddenly it was time to start the 2nd set, we were ready. Tanked up we hit the stage without a set list and began. It must have taken about a song or two for us to start getting really into it. Without warning we were rocking and feeling the heat! Carla sang a song or 2 with us, the audience requested songs by singing song lyrics’ in between songs, and people were now standing directly in front of us giving us less room than from what we already hardly had, but we loved it! The connection we reached with them was beautiful and we were all on the same boat, a bunch of people out having a good time while getting tanked up! Only difference was that we had instruments with us, but we were all rocking! It was a great night and in the end Mike even gave us
The Blue Jean Junkies Tanking Up!
Us with Mike Rupert and Carla
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