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Frying Nemo Band: Live studio performance at Dumaguete's
Killer Bee 95.1 FM - November 2005 & July 2006
We packed up all our music
equipment and piled into Kerwin's car to go over to
the Killer Bee radio station for our on air performance.
It was a little cramped, especially for Ramon in the
back seat with the kick drum in his lap.
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Here's the Killer Bee
radio tower only an hour before it was due to start
broadcasting our music for the first time on the radio.
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DJ Geoff was just finishing
up his reggae request hour in the radio booth when
we arrived to start setting up our instruments.
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Kerwin wanted to hear
what the DJ hears in the on air headphones.
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I think Kerwin looks like
he could have a second career as a dee-jay.
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Raul warmed up his saxophone
in the small sound room just outside the dee-jay booth.
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Kerwin set up his drums
between the couch and the dee-jay desk--it was a little
cramped but it worked.
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Kekerdz set up Kerwin's
videoke machine in the corner so we could plug his
bass and my guitar into it, but when I plugged in
my guitar the pickup was intercepting the strong radio
station antenna signal and playing it through the
speakers so we had to amplify my guitar with a microphone.
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I was just getting the
microphone set up for our radio debut.
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I couldn't tell what was
going on in the studio booth since the room is somewhat
soundproofed, but I think the dudes were figuring
out some last minute details about the Frying Nemo
radio show.
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Once the instruments were
set up we had a little down time in the Killer Bee
recording booth before we started to play on the air.
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Here's a shot of Frying
Nemo live on the air at Killer Bee 95.1 in Dumaguete.
Photo by DJ Akhmed
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Sometimes Raul stood on
the couch behind Kerwin so that he would have room
for his sax solos. Photo by DJ Akhmed
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I broke my "D"
string during "Under
Pressure", though luckily I had also brought
along the 12
string jumbo guitar that Jun Reputana built for
me and Ramon was able to duck out the studio door
and bring it to me so it didn't derail the song too
badly. We do need to practice that song a few more
times though, I really don't know the lyrics very
well. Photo by DJ Akhmed
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Here's a group photo with
DJ Akhmed and DJ Geoff in the Killer Bee 95.1 radio
station booth.
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To celebrate the first
Frying Nemo radio performance, we bought a roasted
chicken to eat for dinner at Kerwin's house.
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Frying Nemo in the kitchen.
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| This is just a sample of one of local songs on Killer Bee |
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| This is another song on Killer Bee's playlist |
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| Friendly introduction from Killer Bee DJ
Akhmed |
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| Just chatting with our friend DJ Akhmed |
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| Written
by Raul Limbaga on sax, it's our three-chord
punk song |
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| The studio
performance began with an interview by DJ
Akhmed |
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| Written
by Raul Limbaga on sax, it's our three-chord
punk song |
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| Written
by Kerwin Elman on drums; it's also an original
song |
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| Six
songs in we needed a break, I also
had to repair two strings |
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| By
Queen;
I need to learn this one better, forgive
the falsetto! |
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| By Jack
Johnson; it's a fun song to play,
forgive the falsetto again |
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| Written
by Raul Limbaga on sax, it's one of our
best originals |
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| By
Bob
Marley; but Kekerdz and Kerwin
added a new beat to it |
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One of the many highlights of Peace
Corps training was getting my scuba certification on
Panglao Beach. Our instructor was a ex-military, taekwon-do
grandmaster, and extremely dedicated environmentalist
named Holger Horn. People told me I should have gotten
my certification before I left the U.S., but I must
say I'm lucky I didn't! (Click
here to see the photo essay--24 photos) |
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