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My first band

The group was founded during our high school years when we joined a song writing contest. I formed the group. I taught most of the band members from drums, guitars and bass. I played the keyboards that time and was using CASIO tonebank, I forgot the number. Our name was Music Legacy and we won first place during the song writing contest. Our drums was an improvised drumset… just a snare drums on one side and a 14" tomtom on the other side with a cymbal at the center and the rest of the instruments were just borrowed from Dolores' brothers, except for the keyboards I'm using.

Original members were Louie on guitar, Dolores on bass, John2x on drums, Anelyn on vocals and I was the keyboardist. It was a blessing in disguise that we shared our talent and skills. Anelyn got a very good voice, Louie got a gene poll of musicians from singing to playing guitar, John2x got a strong arm that can hit drums as loud as Sepultura, Dolores got a family of musicians from the late Dad who’s a guitarist, a brother who’s bassist and another brother who is a drummer…. So, that's where we’ve borrowed most of our instruments when we first started.

We’ve been invited to play in school activities and even during student programs outside our school, like Science Camp, school campaigns and programs. Then, we added a male vocalist, Ven Ian, a balladeer. We were invited during JS Prom and we’re playing ballad OPMs like Ariel Rivera, Gary V. and even Folk and Country music like “Perhaps Love" by John Denver and "Aubrey” by Bread. Suddenly,

Philippine Local Bands became famous like Introvoys, which Louie our guitarist started singing and that change our group and our genre of music. Louie became our vocalist and his first song was Will I Survive by Introvoys. And then, we continued that kind of genre because the crowd started loving this new hype. We then performed Line To Heaven by Introvoys, Next In Line by After Image and bands like Alamid, Teeth, The Youth, Siakol, Yano, Rivermaya and last but not the least... the band that influenced us most is the Eraserheads. Gigs then continued from battle of the bands, prom night, SK victory party, a rock serenade during pageant, intermission during seminars and even had our own Concert at school, two in a row. Then, later, we got a regular schedule in a pub during Saturday nights at Mariano’s Grill and Restaurant and that’s our ultimate goal that time.

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