Pinoy Rock, or Filipino Rock, is Rock music – Pinoy style, Made in the Philippines, Original Filipino Rock Music. The words may be in English or whatever language, but the sound is pure Pinoy.
Timeline of Pinoy Rock
Pre-Rock Age (The Stone Age)
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- “Combos” roamed the scene, bagging nontraditional instruments like floor-bass bongos, maracas, and gas tanks
- Bobby Gonzales – One of the first Filipino proto-rockers, major hit was “Hahabul-Habol”
- Eddie Mesa – the “Elvis Presley of the Philippines”
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The 1960s
Swingers’ Scene
 Maria Cafra logo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
- Instrumental bands like The Deltas, The Celtics, RJ & the Riots, The Technicolors, The Downbeats, The Hi-Jacks, and The Electromaniacs cropped up, spawning the first Filipino singer-songwriters
- The British Music Invasion influenced a new breed of acts like Downbeats, Tilt Down Men, The Moonstrucks, The Dynasouls, and Bits & Pieces.
- Rock culture arose in the wake of Woodstock producing acts like Circus Band, Maria Cafra, Anakbayan, Isang Kilo Band, Psyclones, Makati Avenue Blues Band and Juan De La Cruz Band
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The 1970s
Classic & Psychedelic
 - Apo Hiking Society (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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- Nationalism drove the rise in songs composed in Tagalog. Socio-political issues were hot topics for all artists.
- Freddie Aguilar, Asin and Florante fused Folk with Rock.
- Freddie’s debut single, “Anak,” became the most commercially successful Filipino recording in history
- Apo Hiking Society, Anakbayan, Juan de la Cruz Band, and Banyuhay also came to the fore.
- The term OPM (Original Pilipino Music) was touted.
- Hotdog gave birth to the Manila sound.
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The 1980s
Punks and Protests
 Freddie Aguilar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)  Enveloped Ideas (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
- Protestors used song lyrics to vent socially relevant themes, like in the music of Gary Granada and the band Buklod
- Freddie Aguilar’s Bayan Ko (My Country) was the unofficial anthem of the 1986 EDSA Revolution.
- Joey Ayala at ang Bagong Lumad popularized Ethno-rock
- Pinoy punk rockers like Betrayed, G.I. & the Idiots, The Jerks, Urban Bandits, and WUDS could care less about politics, it was all about the attitude
- With The Dawn’s independently released single “Enveloped Ideas”, a New Wave of music dawned over the scene. Unsigned struggling local bands like Deans December, Ethnic Faces, Identity Crisis, and Violent Playground gained cult status
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The 1990s
Pop and Postmodernism
 - The rise of NU 107. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
 - Parokya ni Edgar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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- Introvoys and After Image ruled over the early 1990s
- Then in 1993 the Eraserheads released their first commercial album, Ultraelectromagneticpop and the decade was defined.
- Rivermaya emerged as a worthy challenger while Yano persisted in mining the sociopolitical schtick.
- The NU Rock Awards gained cred as the awards to pursue
- Wolfgang and Razorback muscled into the Metal sceneOn their heels followed Nu Metal mutineers Greyhoundz, Cheese, and Slapshock.
- Novelty rockers Parokya ni Edgar began to hit it big
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The 2000s
Pretty and Pogi
 - Barbie’s Cradle’s Barbie Almalbis, Wendell Garcia, and Kakoi Legaspi (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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- The upsurge in popularity of Hip-hop, R&B and covers saw hard rock go dormant at the start of this decade.
- The commercial success of Bamboo and Orange and Lemons got labels interested in bands and song-craft again.
- Cute singer-songwriters such as Barbie Almalbis and Kitchie Nadal gained fans of all persuasions while the “good-looking” front-men of Cueshe and Hale broke out as the new breed of matinee idol.
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More stuff at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinoy_rock
-compiled, adapted and edited by Jude Defensor, some rights reserved. first published under music column Crash Chords in Manual magazine, 2006
Posted by Jude Defensor on May 16, 2012
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