my personalized Jack Daniel's Telecaster

About 17 years ago, I saw this nice telecaster in a store window and I've had my eye on it since. Unfortunately, I didn't have the cash nor the capacity for pay for it at the time. My good friend Riza Villanueva paid for it initially and paid her back in installments. Two years ago, I had the tele reconstructed and personalized with the help of Ruel "Pipeg" Raymundo. This telecaster is a dream to handle but is quite heavy... which is good.










photography by jerry santos, joey dela vega and eugene barona

still got the blues for you... guitar jam

a gary moore guitar jam cover

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Another birthday, another year...

I knew they were planning something when my secretary told me I shouldn't go down unless my security officer clears it. So I asked my brother-in-law who was in the country for a business trip from Singapore to keep me company in the office. Soon later, my good police officer friend arrives and joins for a few advanced rounds of Jack.

I got cleared before ten and as I exited the MFC's main door was greeted with the first few notes of the Happy Birthday song emanating from Alamat's Mc Monderin's very familiar rift. Everyone was there... and the party commenced!



Thank you to everyone! It was one of the best Birthday celebration somebody prepared for me...


Alamat on stage at the MFC Bar


crazed


the night wasn't without additional excitement, there was a car chase with the police all over the place who apparently gave chase to a military man who did not heed a checkpoint in Manila


that show wasn't on stage


thank you all!

Sunday night with Uncle Jack

photography by Joey dela Vega

Fender Telecaster Jack Daniels Edition

I love this guitar!










photography by Joey dela Vega

experimental action video screen shots

So this one time I went trippin' with Santi about making a new video that's gonna be just a tad more difficult than the usual music videos we make, we involved the batten people and invited my choreographer to do some acting stuff as well as choreograph a simple fight scene.

It didn't turn out that bad given the time constraints and the fact that we used only natural light to capture the scenes. Here are the screen shots of the video and I'll publish it in Youtube as soon as I finish the editing.

Music Videos

Why Don't You & I (Chad Kroeger / Santana cover)

I've been crazy 'bout this song for the longest time, in fact, more than three years ago, I posted a youtube video featuring an acoustic version I did with a video experiment in my office of the chad kroeger song why don't you and i with santana. I recorded this acoustic version with eugene baroña and joseph celso.



This is the one I did with ALAMAT the other day.



Bright Lights (Matchbox 20 cover)

This one song by matchbox 20 really moves me

Jack Daniel's Guitar

My long time affair with Jack Daniel's prompted me to personalize my Fender Telecaster as a tribute to the drink. Last year, I played golf with my Boss on the first day of the year and he said that if I quit drinking (Jack Daniel's)then I would save roughly Php26,000 per month. I replied, then who was going to save me?

There was a time when I filled an entire wall of my office with empty JD bottles and boxes. I had to have them thrown away and I felt rather bad about it. It was however a good thing that I thought of personalizing my black Telecaster as a tribute to JD... because it looks better and I had fun doing the project.







Special thanks to my secretary for heating up the bottle to get the label in one piece, my driver for the errands for the strap, the costume department guys who stitched up the strap, Pipeg who re-laminated the entire guitar to a soft shiny finish, my wife who got me the CAS stickers (apparently, she didn't complete the letters to my name because that was an extra Php60), BJ of JB music store in MOA for re-attaching the wiring and Santi for the pictorial.