espiritista

the customary eheads blog

seems everybody in his twenties has a blog entry, or is in the process of writing, or has vowed to write something, anything about the most famous band of the alternative boom of the nineties, the eraserheads.

i am writing this entry just because some former student of mine was so freaking burned out he posted the song "torpedo" in his blog, but with the sacrilege of mistyping several important words in the ending verse of that song, which, i was spurred to inform him, just happened to be one of our anthems in college. but i have a class in an hour and i still don't have an idea what to tell my smart students about the art of fiction writing blah blah. thus, i am doing this entry with the clock speed of a pentium 4, without any allowance for editing aside from the typos, just so the principal wont have anything bad to say about me when it comes to goodbye time in january (will write about that some other time).

so here. i am surprised to find out that of the four, only ely buendia's and raymund marasigan's names have stuck to my mind, probably due to the fact that ely was only the most famous among the four, and raymund formed sandwich, a side band which became so fucking famous he just had to get it from ely. or ely just had to get it from raymund. and ely ditched eheads and the world was never the same again.

who knows, ill maybe remember the names of the bassist and the leadista later. but really, the leadista surely must be the most pathetic part of the band. his riffs didnt amount to much, in such songs as "huling el bimbo". in torpedo, ely's rhythm would even knock off some lines from the lead guitarist, making him you know, redundant, and reducing him to nothing more than a grand piece of grunge decor on stage. the parokya have a better term for it: kantatero sa likod.

sino nga siya ulit? im beginning to lose hope.

but then the bassist was easily the most technically gifted of the lot, second only perhaps to raymund. i remember "ligaya" and the catchy bass line. or my all-time favorite masturbation of an eraserheads song, "combo on the run." but still, ely the megalomaniac, would occasionally steal lines from him. or compose a song such that the bassist's lines are basically just repetitions of ely's rhythm. imagine "alapaap." pag gumagawa si ely ng riff, laging bida ang rhythm guitar. kaya nga type na type ko ang mga kanta nila kasi pwedeng tugtugin ng isa ang tinutugtog ng tatlo, hehehe. pwedeng pwede mong tugtugin sa inuman at mag tunog album ka rin. get it?

i used to know someone who claims to have been a part of ely's first attempts at forming a band college-time in UP and he totally scoffs at his ability as a musician. but who the fuck cares?

just look at "combo on the run". only true eheads fanatics would know this song. as i said, i am writing this straight from my head. so i am immediately posting an apology on any and all deformities.

COMBO ON THE RUN, ebuendia, "ultraelectromagneticpop"

we took the trip by boat
into the promised land
to sing a different note
man, i don't understand
we wanted their attention
our balls went up so high
they wanted too much poison
and warrant's cherry pie
it's a crying, crying, crying shame
we didn't have no dough
we didn't have no clue
we lived the life of kings
and [] some royals too
we looke like cheesy rock stars
our pictures on the wall
with robin's peckaloids
[ahsglkja]
i wanna go home now
back to my old home town
where i'll be singing the blues
let's stop this running around
i miss the people there im just saying this but baby you can bet your puwet that i'll do it again some time for the money, combo on the run!

sarap ng huling linyang yun. in the words of almost famous, incendiary. indeed, bet your puwet, starstruck!!!!!!

posted by dyeproks @ 10:34 PM