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By Eric
S. Caruncho
Someone
should build a shrine.
Or put up a plaque.
Or something.
People ought to know the exact spot where, a third of a century ago, the
Juan dela Cruz Band invented Pinoy rock.
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"I
wrote it in the toilet," recalls Joey "Pepe" Smith. "Twenty
minutes before going onstage. I was on acid at the time - Pink
Elephants."
"It" is, of course, "Himig Natin," the unofficial
anthem and harbinger of an entire genre of popular music that would only
much later become known as "Pinoy rock."
On December 5, 1972, rock impresario Dodie Gonzalez put up a concert at
the Rizal Park Observatory. Headlining was the Juan dela Cruz Band, which
had been whittled down from a five-piece to a lean-and-mean power trio,
in the manner of Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience - not to mention
Blue Cheer - with Dodie's brother Wally on lead guitar, Joey Smith on
drums and Mike Hanopol on bass. Presciently, the concert was billed
"Himig Natin."
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- Handle Bar,
- Polaris St., Makati
- June 27,
Friday
- Handle Bar,
- Polaris St., Makati
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