My band involvement began when, just for fun, I accepted an invite to join a band being organized by an acquintance's executive friend in Makati, Phil. This was in addtion to my regular daytime computer programmer analyst job in the same area.
The band at the start, was to perform exclusively for the company's events and exec. private parties, probono or for free. Initially nameless, the band was eventually named Hustle Blood.
...Here performing at a company's event, at a hotel restaurant patio in Makati, Philippines.
Seen here at a practice goofin' jamming around session at the company's Makati warehouse, Hustle Blood started rapidly building its reportoire of mainly easy rock, instrumentals, contemporary dance, ballroom and pop variety of the early 70s.
Eventually, through a friend of a friend of a friend's invitation, the band perform at mall pubs at night, this time with compensation. The pub's audience preferences worked well with our personal likings and our repertoire started to build towards heavier type of rock genre, especially metal fusion, than variety and easy genre.
