The Jerks

If any music group has paid its dues, it is the Jerks. Among the Philippines’ most thrilling live works, it got 15 years for the protest-oriented music group release a its first record in 1994, the generally unidentified, The Jerks Live!!!, accompanied by, The Jerks, for a more substantial label in past due 1997. Though an excellent record, The Jerks marketed poorly, as well as the music group continues as possibly the country’s most well-known “underground tale.” The music group shaped in 1979 with guitarist/vocalist Chikoy Pura and guitarist Ninoy Adriano, both of whom stay in the music group, and four other people who possess since still left. Famous guitarist Jun Lopito became a member of later in the entire year and still left in the first ’90s. The Jerks possess gone through many personnel changes over time, often because members discovered better-paying jobs abroad. Though rock and roll music does not have a wide pursuing in the Philippines, the Jerks created a reputation being a skilled, most interesting live act, executing passionate addresses of material from the Moving Rocks, the Who, the Doorways, and other rings now considered traditional, though several rings are Jerks’ contemporaries, as well as the Rocks still rock and roll. Pura also writes tunes, a lot of which cope with inequities in Philippine culture, on topics which range from food cravings and homelessness to societal apathy and authorities inefficiency. A number of these tunes have made an appearance on numerous protest-oriented compilation albums. The Jerks released their debut recording, The Jerks Live!!! in 1994 on a little, newly formed self-employed label, Backdoor Information, founded partly by another protest-oriented musician, Gary Granada. The recording received limited distribution and wasn’t very much recognized to the record-buying general public. The staff for the recording was Pura on acoustic guitar/vocals, Adriano on acoustic guitar, Benjie Santos on drums, and Pino Fernandez on bass. In 1997, the music group signed to Celebrity Documenting, a subsidiary of press powerhouse ABS-CBN Broadcasting Company. The Jerks experienced previously declined label contracts because of record businesses’ insistence the music group firmness down its protest materials. Star Recording, nevertheless, was even more amenable, as well as the band’s first recording for the label, The Jerks, premiered in past due 1997. Performing within the recording was Pura on acoustic guitar/vocals, Adriano on acoustic guitar, and Edwin Alvaro Aguilar on bass. Drums had been handled by program music artists. The Jerks continues to be called one of the better albums available with a Filipino music group. A song in the record, “Trend,” was called “Rock and roll Song of the entire year” at a 1998 honours present sponsored by Katha, a link of Filipino songwriters. The record had taken honors for “Record of the entire year” on the NU107 Rock and roll Awards, earning over platinum steel/hard rock action Wolfgang and its own acclaimed established, Wurm. Regardless of the accolades, nevertheless, The Jerks marketed poorly. Irrespective, the Jerks stay among the country’s best rings, both in the studio room and on-stage.