Friday, February 01, 2008

juan de la cruz

thisun's for rat and calvin.

see, there's this filipino rockband called juan de la cruz.



singing drummer joey smith and bassplayer mike hanopol were in the notorious '70s japanese band speed, glue & shinki (chronicled in cope's japrocksampler). coincidentally, "joe smith" is also one of rat's asian media crew pseudonyms. go fig.


anyhoo, wa-a-ay back in the early '70s, smith, hanopol, and gtrist wally gonzalez played together in a band called zero history, performing r&b covers in japanese shopping malls. after the wheels came off speed, glue & shinki, they regrouped in manila as juan de la cruz and have been filipino superstars ever since.



beyond that, wally is apparently a badass rekkid reviewer -- see examples of his scrawl here (gotta scroll down) and here.

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