Article: BRAVO, ERASERHEADS!
Magazine: Myx
Year: April-May 2009
Volume: No.
Catalog:
Writer: Klara Iskra Añonuevo
Updated 16-Jan-2020
BRAVO,
ERASERHEADS!
Pinoy
rock’s fab four shares the stage one more time to mount one of the greatest
shows this side of earth, Klara Iskra Añonuevo reports
This time, without the drama that plagued
their last concert, the Eraserheads' Final Set pushed through on March 7
at the Mall of Asia grounds and was finished without a hitch.
Cheering ensued when they started their
first song, Magasin, and already, everyone was put in high spirits,
especially after Ely Buendia, the band's vocalist, sang a revised lyric: "Eh
medyo pangit ka pa no'n...HANGGANG NGAYON!”
After five songs, the band surprised everyone
when Marcus Adoro, the band's guitarist, after introducing the next song as, “gawa
ni Ely," started to sing Huwag Mo Nang Itanong, with
a reggae twist and punctuating each chorus with his own lyric: “Di ko
sasabihin sa 'yo!"
Right after that, it was Raymund's
turn, as he sang, very enthusiastically, Slo Mo, Alkohol (he
asked the rest of the band to start all over again, telling the audience, "Hindi kasi kayo gumagalaw, eh!''), and Insomya. Noticing
that only Buddy Zabala, the band's bassist, was the only one who had not sang lead
yet, the crowd started cheering, "BUDDY! BUDDY! BUDDY!" and at some
point in the concert, he replied by singing, "They come to me for
donuts," the first line of The Fabulous Baker Boy, a song
from the album Fruitcake, which Buddy sang.
The second set was opened with Julie
Tearjerky, and this time, the audience is given a different audio-visual
treat with the band playing acoustic and in a more laid-back
manner as they sat close to each other. And of course, the whole audience sang along to one of their
biggest hits, Pare Ko, with everyone singing extra loud to, yes, you
guessed it, "T*NG INA!" They ended the second set with Overdrive.
The band opened the third set with Superproxy,
a song that was supposed to be performed with Francis Magalona, who contributed
the rap portion of the song, which Ely rapped that night. The band even got the
crowd to cheer for the Master Rapper: "Francis! Francis! Francis!"
After two more songs, the band even played the chorus of one of Francis M's
biggest hits, Kaleidoscope World, while the crowd sang along.
Next, they performed Ang Huling El
Bimbo, which was supposed to be the last song of the night. During
the song, Ely put on fire the piano seen on the cover of Sticker Happy,
which had spent most of its life in a corner of 70's Bistro in
Quezon City. Towards the end of the song, as fireworks were being shot
just behind the Bronze section, the people from the VIP section
were showered with lots and lots of confetti.
Throughout the whole concert, at random
intervals, the audience again kept cheering for a "GROUP HUG!" (or, if
you ask Marcus, ''BRUHA!"). And while Ely asked for a condition
that was never fulfilled ("Kayo muna!"), the audience got to
witness the closest they could get to see a group hug: Ely, Raymund, Marcus and
Buddy (along with Jazz), with arms over each others’ shoulders, taking a bow.
But then, minutes after the five left the
stage, the band performed an unplanned encore, with Ely asking the audience, "Kaya
niyo pa ba? Okay, three for the road!" and the band proceeded to
play Ligaya, Sembreak (where Ely messed up the lyrics, still singing even
though the rest of the band was done, asking, "Ah, tapos na ba?") and
finally really ending the night with Toyang, where Ely went down to the
front of the VIP audience and let some of the people sing.
Ely's last words for the concert was,
"We are the Eraserheads!" even though undoubtedly nobody that night
needed to be reminded of who they were. Seven years after the foursome played
their last gig, the night of March 7, 2009 provided the closure that neither
the break-up nor the first reunion concert failed to bring.
"We are the Eraserheads."
And with that, the band whose songs became
the soundtrack of a generation of Filipinos bid farewell.
THE FINAL SET LIST
FIRST SET:
MAGASIN
WALANG NAGBAGO
MALING AKALA
MASKARA
POORMAN'S GRAVE
WAITING FOR THE BUS
HUWAG MO NANG ITANONG
SLOW MO
ALKOHOL
INSOMYA
TORPEDO
SECOND SET:
JULIE TEARJERKY
TIKMAN
WISHING WELLS
FINE TIME
PARE KO
KAILAN
BACK2ME
TRIP TO JERUSALEM
SPOLIARIUM
OVERDRIVE
THIRD SET:
SUPERPROXY
MINSAN
ALAPAAP
KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD (CHORUS)
ANG HULING EL BIMBO
ENCORE:
LIGAYA
SEMBREAK
TOYANG
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