Thursday, December 27, 2007

Medicus Band Part 2

Medicus Band suddenly appears in the College of Medicine at Manila Central University in the middle of the 1980's. Students specially those in the Bachelor of Science Colleges become a fan (and mostly girls). If MEDICUS Band suddenly appears from nowhere, they slowly fade away. During the time that some of the members of Medicus band went to their clerkship. It becomes harder to see each other more so to set up a practice date. Medicus band performs less, despite invitations to do so in school functions. For the members who were on their clerkship it was a very busy period. They were scattered all over Metro Manila within their respective hospital assignments. The third years were now busy with more loads in their studies. There was no new member that joined the band. There was also not enough members left, who knew how to play instruments except for Archie, Gilbert and Ronald (dollar). Since then, the band seldom performs. Still, invitations to perform were abundant and in this regard members who can say no to them, decides to perform by themselves or whoever member they can scrounge. In one occasion Archie decides to perform and go solo on the guitar. It just doesn't sound right with only an instrument, so Manny decides to do the vocals. In this video of their performance in one of the many parties where Medicus band performs ( I do not know if this is a Medicus party or not), Manny did the vocals that adds spice to the performance and Archie on the guitar (which he loves doing anyway, guess how many guitars he have?) looking like a Spandau Ballet. This is a little bit of Spandau admixed with a little bit of a tribal appearance (that's how flexible medicus members were).

(video courtesy of Archie L.)

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