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Never forget your first band

My first band back home in the Philippines was and is Frozbyte. As the saying goes, "Never forget your first band" because that's where you first experience the hype, the thrill and the endless energy and effort of doing something from one sacrifices to another especially money and time.  Most of us were Nursing Students when we started to re-group and make Frozbyte a serious band and booked gigs from one after the other i.e. School gigs, special occasions, birthday parties, etc. and that’s why members keep changing and adding up coz after we graduated most of the original members worked abroad.

Louie, a nurse, our lead vocals and is now in New York. John2x, a nurse, our drummer and is now in Florida. Dolores, accountancy graduate, former bassist that became our second female lead singer after Anelyn... and is in Roxas City, Capiz happily married with two kids. Jingle, a marketing graduate, is our famous lead guitarist that sounded like Steve Vai and/or Joe Satriani is now in Manila, a call center agent. Shane, electrical communications engineer, is the youngest in the band and is our very best bassist by far who plays like Flea and even sounds like Flea. He loves RHCP (Red Hot Chili Pepper) and RATM (Rage Against The Machine) and is in Roxas City, Capiz. We had two additional vocals when Louie went abroad and Dolores got married. They are Ruby and Rommelle. Ruby, a nurse is now in the Middle East while Rommelle is a nautical graduate who concentrated more on his band and is doing well in the Philippines as a singer, guitarist and keyboardist. Derrick Ray, a Management Accountancy graduate, our sessionist keyboardist and also sessionist bassist. As for me, I’m a nurse myself who still loves music, plays the guitar, keyboards, drums and a little bit of this and that, and now working in England as a Senior Health Care Assistant. Lastly, a special member of the group named Blue does the research for our songs and is also our critic in our performance and sound.

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