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Sept. 24,2008

Local Bands Need Professional Coaching
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.

Maasin City, Southern Leyte-Local bands in Maasin,Baybay,Ormoc,Tacloban and other cities in region 8(Leyte and Samar)and even in Cebu and perhaps in Mindanao really need coaching from professional musicians. My years of observations on how some bands here were playing during live concerts have led me to this kind of suggestion and admonition.
Bands in Maasin and from Cebu that performed during the previous years here thru sponsorships and invitations have the habit of playing too loud their musical accompaniments during live concerts on stage. The overwhelming voluminous sounds of guitars and drums from each 4 or 5-member bands as they rendered their successive delivery of songs have drowned the singers’ voices. The audience could no longer hear clearly the lyrics of each song rendition, making them unable to understand the message or the meaning of each song, whether rock, love song or ballad.
I wonder if a technician or the members of the band themselves can properly adjust the volume of each guitar and the half-beating of drum of each performing band. This is in such a way that both the voice of the soloist and the musical accompaniment of each song can equally be heard by the entire audience during the live concert.
Recently Urbandub, a homegrown 4-member band from Cebu City, had performed in Maasin.Their live performance was principally sponsored by the Philippine National Red Cross-Southern Leyte Chapter, Ads Pacific Unlimited, Floi Quinne, Southern Leyte Times together with several other co-sponsors. Part of the proceeds will go to the Red Cross for its programs. Prior to their schedule at the city gymnasium,3 invited local bands have served as the opening numbers. Each band was also composed of 4 members who rendered 4 songs each. I was to expect a good delivery of their stage presentations. The vocalist’s voice quality was also alright and could have been a pleasure and entertaining to listen to.
However, as what I’ve observed in the past concerts of local bands and that from Cebu, their respective musical accompaniments of songs have caused a displeasure to both young and adult music lovers who were there to watch and see. Yet what could have been a general consensus of bad performance was switched to mute as the crowd may have avoided shouting their grievances.. When Urbandub finally appeared on the stage there were whistles and cheers from the audience, mostly in their 10s,20s and 30s.Comparing its audience to the previous concerts here, theirs however, was sparse. Their newly-acquired popularity is not yet heavily felt here by the young breed of music lovers. After rendering the first song Urbandub’s vocalist/guitarist Gabby Alipe beckoned to the young audience to come close to the stage. Some responded. They moved and rushed on closer to the singer’s location and danced with abandon.Neverhteless, akin to the local bands’ performances, Urbanbdub’s songs were incomprehensiveable since the singer’s voices were drowned by the very loud musical accompaniment.
I asked an acquaintance about what I have observed in a series of local concerts which he also has similar observations. HE said one of the main reasons why the singer’s voice will always be drowned during a concert is because band members always have the tendency of readjusting what the technician has already done with the adjustments in the volume of sounds for the balance delivery of songs and the musical accompaniments.
He disclosed that mostly, these young organizations of local bands always want to make their own way in adjusting the volumes of sounds during a concert, apparently rejecting what a technician has done more appropriately.
Because of this kind of stage performances from the current breed of young bands, I still miss the point of getting a pleasure and entertainment from hearing the lyrics of each of Urbandub’s 12 rock songs. Like the other bisrock bands that performed here, there will always these “uncured” voluminous sounds of guitars and drums, again drowning the singers’ voices. Concert enthusiasts can no longer comprehend and perceived what each song means, -with that kind of lashing uncontrolled sounds. Would it not be a pleasure and entertaining if each person in the audience, young and adult, can hear a balance delivery of each song and its musical accompaniment? Is this not what concertgoers and music lovers are up to in watching a concert? Cannot young band members perceive this important aspect in all of their concerts everywhere? Are our local bands composed mostly of teenagers and young men too callous and too insensitive to perceive this unwritten law in all of concert performances? Are our bisrock bands in the Visayas and Mindanao not watching live concerts of popular international bands on cable TVs or at their homes’ videos? If they are indeed watching, are they not aware on how these performing bands deliver a balance sound of the vocalist voice and t heir musical accompaniments so that the lyrics of their songs can be heard clearly by listeners and the audience?
When singer-composer Jose Mari Chan,Apo Hiking Society, The Aegis, Donna Cruz and a Cebuano duo called MYMP from Cebu held a separate concert here in various venues, their respective audiences in all walks of life have had very much enjoyed their shows. Music lovers young and old alike could hear clearly the lyrics of their songs and have appreciated it because these were presented in balance sounds of songs and musical accompaniments to the delight of their respective audiences. I believe that our bisrock and other bands in the Visayas, Mindanao and Luzon can exactly do what the professional bands, both local and foreign, have been doing.
Furthermore, as I have listened to Urbandub’s 2 recorded songs shared by an internet user, the wordings of their songs can be heard clearly.Apparentlly because of the proper and correct adjustments of the volume for both the singer’s voice and the musical accompaniment delivered in balance. If this can be done inside a recording studio, why not in a stage during live concerts as well?
This seemingly complicated problem in the prevalence of uncontrolled voluminous sounds of guitars and drum that perennially drowns the singer’s voice in every concert performed by young b reed of band members in most of the V isayas and Mindanao areas, is in closed analysis is so simple a problem that needs only a simple solution. How can this be done effectively for the pleasure and entertainment of all kinds of audiences? Young men/women members of bands must listen and learn from the professional musicians’ coaching and to cooperate/accept an expert technician’s advice, who most of the time is the one who make the necessary adjustments prior to the start of the concert. Nonetheless, professional band members are doing themselves the adjustments of the volumes on sounds of their guitars and drums without the assistance of a technician. Another important thing is that the members of the different bands must also learn how to make proper and correct adjustments of their guitars and drums’ sounds before the start and during the performance of their concert. This is in such a way that when they start singing, their voices will not be drowned by the sounds of the guitars and the beating of drums. It is also important that all drummers themselves must learn to effectively control the beatings of the drums that will spice, enhance and add beauty to the songs’ melodies and tones.(copyright 2008 by Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)

The Real Causes Of Guinsaugon Mudslides According To Geoscientists
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.

Maasin City, Southern Leyte-What are the real causes of massive landslides in brgy. Guinsaugon which “unexpectedly” occurred on Feb 17,2006 at past eleven a.m. burying less than 2,000 people alive coincidentally during a Women’s Day celebration? At that time elementary schoolchildren, teachers, some barangay health workers, some town employees and some visitors from nearby barangays were gathered at the auditorium for the aforesaid celebration.
The several causes that the geoscientists were discussing and revealing one by one during a conference on Guinsaugon mudslides were also attended by scientists from Canada, United Kingdom, Japan,Sir Lanka,Nepal and the Philippines. Richard Guthrie, a landslide expert and a research assistant of Dr. Stephen Evans, both from the University of Waterloo in Canada visited Guinsaugon after the great catastrophe, as part of the Canadian government’s aid to the Philippines following the landslide.
The weeklong international conference that were held in 3 places of Tacloban City, Palo town and in St.
Bernard recently were also attended by Prof.Mark Albert Zarco of the Dept. of Engineering Science, University of the Philippines,Diliman,Quezon City and St.Bernard Mayor Rico Rentuza. On the other hand, Guinsaugon is one of St.Bernard’s barangay which is less than 10 kilometers away from the town proper. While St.Bernard is about 124 kilometers away from Maasin City, the capital city of Southern Leyte
Prior to the great disaster, there was a continual heavy rains as early as October 2005 up to February 2006 according to the residents in the area. The continual 4 months heavy rains have caused a gradual saturation of Mt. Kan-abag’s “soft soil”. The condition of its soil compounds was aggravated with the scarcity of forest plants with very less population of huge trees that could hold large volume of soil.
At the foot of Mt. Kan-abag, six barangays were established where hundreds and hundreds of folks have inhabited and earned their living by farming. But only Guinsaugon was hit and even sparing a nearby brgy. of Magatas. A resident of Magatas who is now a teacher and teaches here said.” If you look at the situation of Brgy.Magatas,it is also highly vulnerable and a potential hit by the mudslide, but we were thankful that it was spared.” The said teacher had lost a cousin, a UCCP pastor who was assigned in Guinsaugon.A close family friend of my late mother had also lost 2 siblings living in Guinsaugon and 5 cousins. Indeed, the great unforgettable tragedy has brought sudden orphans to many children and students, lost of loved ones and hundreds of relatives grieving in anguish, sorrow and agony.
Former St.Benard Mayor Erlinda Lim, who was supposed to be with the group of town hall’s employees as the speaker on a Women’s Day Celebration in Guinsaugon including a municipal nurse, was luckily spared from the mudslide.Instead,she went to San Juan, the next town which is 7 kilometers away, to attend to another appointment. Another town hall employee w ho was instructed to go back to their office to get the forgotten camera for taking pictures, was also luckily save. As he left Guinsaugon in haste by walking towards brgy. Tambis located along the road, he said, he heard a roaring sound like an airplane. When he turned his back, he said, he was engulfed with fear and ran as fast as he could to save himself.
When the shocking news reached her in San Juan via cellphone, Mayor Lim who was obviously shock of the unexpected tragedy, and somewhat controlling some injured emotion,said:”Maybe it is not yet my time..But I could not believe that Guinsaugon would be hit by the mudslide and be buried entirely, because it is located one kilometer away from the foot of the mountain…”Until now I could not l believe what happened to Guinsaugon”she said during her speech before some barrio folks, visitors, dignitaries, donors and the press at Ground Zero.
According to the geologists, the less than 900 meters High Mountain is also located within the Philippine fault line that’s responsible for the yearly movements of pyroclastic deposits estimated at 2.5cm./year.Guthrie study had also confirmed to this claim by saying “that tectonic weakening of the failed rock mass had resulted from active strike-slip movements estimated at 2.5 cm/year”. “Within that, the rocks have been stretched and strained”, he said “As time moves on, the rock began to age and die and finally it collapses”.
Zarco said that there were many existing evidences within the area prior to the landslide but people (the residents) were not aware of these. Among the things were cracks on the grounds, muddy water coming out from the holes and irregular water flow from the mountain.
Another contributory factor to the landslide was small magnitude earthquakes which happened the night before the massive landslide and another tremor the following morning prior to the actual mudslide.
In a report Mayor Rentuza said that many of their questions were clarified by the visiting geoscientists, just like how it did happen and how come it’s very devastating. “While there were studies conducted by the national government”, the Mayor said, “the researchers from the academe and foreign geoscientists are more comprehensive considering their vast experiences in working in different calamity-striken areas of the world”.
On the other hand, Zarco further said, there are many existing evidences within the area confirming that Mt. Kan-abag is very prone to landslide. He said: “The calamity happened already. What is important is that we all agreed that this area is highly vulnerable to landslide. If the people have been more careful, noticing that the signs are already there, many lives were spared…There should have to be ways to get people report their information to authorities. That’s very good early warning system. For landslide, we don’t have a warning system. We can only warn people by way of monitoring”.
This report from the geoscientists and experts should also served as a lesson to all residents in other areas of the country and other nations with similar geological make-up to that of Guinsaugon.One of the ways to detect a potential landslide is to be aware of the signs of an incoming massive landslide that were revealed in this article. (Copyright 2008 by Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.)

The Revival Of Traditional Raffle Draws Needed
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr

A government agency like the Bureau of Internal Revenue(BIR),or any other government agency that want to change its respective promotions which would help activate their tasks for development, must see to it that the changes would still beneficial to all classes of people. Like the traditionally raffle draws of Official Receipts (ORs) that tend to encourage buyers/taxpayers to ask for ORs each time they would buy manufactured products at groceries and big stores.
In the past when state-of-the-art communication facilities and gadgets were not yet invented, the BIR-sponsored raffle draws have participants from the rich and the poor. Both classes have the big chance to win a price or jackpot every time they drop their ORs at designated stores or offices for the scheduled raffle draws.However,with the availability of cell phones in all the provinces nationwide, the conducting of BIR raffle draws is being changed that would benefit only one class of people. This one class of people are the only ones who can participate and benefit from it, because BIR’s manually-drawn raffle draws is now abolished.
Instead of dropping the ORs in the tambiolo.now buyers/taxpayers have to send their OR numbers via texting to the BIR office. Because of this change, the chances to win a price or jackpot are only those who have cell phones. This kind of change has left the millions of poor Filipinos unable to participate in and have no chance to win any prices or even consolation prices. Yet the poor have also ORs because they also ask for it with the purpose that it will help the Government improve its tax collection campaign. The B IR is encouraging and urging the consumers to ask for officials receipts every time they buy goods at the stores or groceries. According to the predecessor of the current BIR Commissioner Lelian B. Hefti, the tax collections will be used for the development of the Philippines. And this is good objective that the Filipinos hope, particularly the millions of poor that no taxpayers’ money will go to the pockets of corrupt officials.
Nevertheless, the current change in the conduct of raffle draws is unfair to the poor who are also buyers of consumer goods and therefore equally are taxpayers. They cannot afford to buy cell phones due to meager income. Our government should think more for the welfare of its millions and millions of poor Filipinos in any kind of services intended for the promotion of general health and well-being.-not only for a one class of people in our society. This measure is one of the ways to achieve a seemingly fair play distribution of potential wealth.
The continual high cost of crude oil in the international market has pushed every Filipino to the brink
of miseries and hopelessness. It seems that the situation for the majority of our population has becoming too difficult to bear with no right solution seen by our leaders and the leaders of other nations. Ironically, the more people have become modernized, enjoying the amenities of modern technology and communication facilities, the more the poor have suffered brought about by the rising prices of all prime commodities and other consumable goods in the market.
The poor of us have many things we need, which we could not buy because of our financial situation and lack of good income nowadays. With the rising prices of gasoline and other fossil fuels millions of poor Filipinos have suffered more, than in the past decades when gasoline and other oil products were not in high-peak prices.
Every analytical and thinking Filipinos have pointed to the gasoline and other fuel products as Number One culprit in our present economic miseries due to its uncontrollable and unabated rising of its prices. The influential power of spiraling costs of these indispensable commodities have created in itself a chain reaction of high prices with the rest of all manufactured products and goods, including some other services that businesses can offer. While some of the consumable items at the stores can be brought by low income Filipinos during the past decades, now they find it difficult to cope with the increases and have to forego buying some of it. That’s why the enumerable poor need something to cushion and to console their pecuniary hardships and sufferings. One of them is the revival of BIR’s raffle draws throughout the country where every Filipino regardless of his status in life can participate again and has the chance to win one of the million prices in the local, regional and the national level.
The millions of poor are also hoping that big multi-national companies will continually sponsor its own style of raffle draws where rich and poor can participate and both have the chance to win a price. On the other hand, the current modern raffle draws nationwide can be retained by the BIR exclusively for those who have cellphones.While the style of promotions that the communication companies have been conducting and still doing to increase the sales of their products have to sustain that. Their respective gimmicks to attract buyers and to win prices later on for them have greatly helped the majority of the people. The 2 TV networks ABS-CBN and GMA are likewise greatly helping many poor Filipinos with their various programs thru their respective sponsors. We are also hoping that the current BIR Commissioner Ms. Lillian B. Hefti will seriously consider this idea and will approve it as soon as possible.. Making the manually-operated raffle draws revival effective immediately upon its approval.(Copyright 2008 byQuirico M. Gorpido, Jr.)
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