Preparations for the Party

Tuloy ang saya kahit bumabagyo! Rock en Roll Sa Ulan !

Today is my son's fifth bday. And I am holding a big party in my garage. In the past we had parties were we normally jam on acoustic guitar all night. Tonight it will be different.

The party will have the normal perks of a childrens party. Kiddie games, Pabitin, Trip to Jerusalem, Bring Me, and all those stuff. I prepared a lot of prizes for the kids. Also a lot of food that I am sure kids would enjoy. A nice cake with 5 candles will be shared after the celebrant blow off the fire. Hopefully this year the cake will be whole before the blowing of the candles.

After the childrens party will be the adults party. It was my wife's bday last jun16 so we are celebrating it also today. I borrowed some studio equiptment from my bandmate. We will be using a Fender Passport PA system which has four mic inputs and two stereo line inputs. I borrowed a set of bass and guitar Boston engineering combo amps. And we will be using a modified drum set which our drummer custom made out of a design from a drum magazine. The keyboard will have the biggest speaker in the "stage". I made a speaker set for my old "raon" bass amp with two 15" daichi pro instrumental speakers. The cabinet hieght I think is 4 feet. Since I broke my old "raon" bass amp head. we will be using a modified component for the keyboard instead.

I have two guitars to use, a red fender/squier blues strat which I borrowed from our drummer, and my old RJ custom made guitar from all original parts taken off several damaged original guitars from the RJ repair shop. The neck is a samick which the guy at RJ custom built a matching body. All the hardware are all parts. And one pick-up is an old beaten up seymour single coil (neck). The bridge pick up is a SKC humbucker - the cheap alternative wonder.


I will not be using any of my recording gear. Not even my old multitracker which I use as a 12/4 mixer. Everything will be live as it is a simple jamming. The mix will be made by whoever is holding whatever instrument. It will be the old mayrics style. Crank up your amp so the people at the back can hear you. Or in other's point of view, crank down your guitarist or bassist amp so the people at the back can hear your voice. Its the old mano-mano way.

I have a lot of musician friends who will be coming. Some people I havent communicated with for quite some time now. A lot of them have made it big in the music industry. Others made it on other fields. It would be exciting to hear what jamming we could make as our music, ears and skills have matured . . . not to mention the tastes and preferences in music.

Hope the afternoon party and the night will rock.... despite the bagyo. Hopefully, no brownouts please.