#228 Watching live bands at the bar

I love watching at the bars. You can sit down and have a beer, the crowd is few, and the setting is intimate and the artist is just a few feet away from you, so near that sometimes even the artist's saliva is showering on you.

Ebe Dancel singing "Tulog na.."

I am a suki at 70's bistro which is located in Anonas, in Quezon City. It is one of the remaining home of Pinoy music or shall we say rock venues that is still open today. From the era of the Eheads, to the Jerks, Tropical Depression,  to True Faith, Sandwich, Sugarfree and new bands of late. It saw the coming and going of bands, forming and disbandment.

Rico Blanco aka Fiesto Bandido during his special birthday performance at Bistro

FIESTO sa BISTRO

Together with a friend, I unexpectedly attended this mini-concert, more like spur of the moment. Rico Blanco is levelling-up. A true mark of an artist. Now he is known as Fiesto Bandido. The performance was a nonstop assault on the senses. Enjoyed it!

#227 FLAC files

What the fuck is flac? I encountered this terminology when reading and checking out audiophile forums and discussions. It means free lossless audio codec (flac). It turns out that these files are high quality song tracks, like listening straight from an audio CD. We are so used with MP3's, which are compressed music tracks, in order to get a file that is smaller yet almost similar to the original. In the process of compression some details of the song are gone.

I am grateful that there are a lot of flac files from my suking piratebay. Downloading away!

Katerno ng high quality headphones! I didn't realize there are so many details in music that exists before, like the tambourines, guitars, additional effects on the side, and breathing of the artist, and etc.

Cause life is too short to spend on crappy music. Music is life...

#226 Bang for the buck

I bought this piece of art lately.

Yup, and true enough the online reviews and feedback about this product were correct. I was choosing between the Grado and Koss, so I auditioned them both. I found out the Grado SR80's to be too bright for my ears, and that I found out that my ears are craving for them bass =) Reading from online reviews and feedbacks are so important and proved to be too valuable that you can hear from personal experience, advices and professional tips as well.

For around 2200 pesos, this is an awesome buy. I was willing to shell out 6000 bucks for the Grado's so this definitely is a good buy. Feels like listening from a car audio system that has been setup. Eargasm! And noticed there additional details that I haven't heard from the song before.

Now am downloading high quality sound files called flacs. My entry to the audiophile lifestyle, so as they say. More quality headphones soon!! Cause life is too short to spend on crappy headsets.

Music is life...

#215 Guitar solos

Ever watched the movie 'Back to the Future' starring Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly? There he played Chuck Barry's Johnny B. Goode in the Senior Prom ball cause the lead guitarist and frontman of  the band injured his hand. I soo love this scene, and you can totally relate how awesome guitar solos are. Here is the scene from the movie:

Awesome, awesome... Here below are some favorite songs with face twitching and sick guitar solos!

Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody:

Gun's and Roses' November Rain:

GNR's Sweet Child O Mine:

Eagle's Hotel California:

Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven:

Santana's Smooth

#140 Hearing your current favorite song on the radio

#137 Friday Magic madness and Wednesday Monster riot

If your are not familiar, I am referring to the radio programs of Magic 89.9 FM and Monster radio RX 93.1

All retro songs, from the 80's and 90's!