The 90s Pinoy Rock book is compiled by music writers Margaret R. Tadeja and LBJ Cabaluna. Tadeja is shown in photo with Nathan Azarcon, Marc Escueta, and Rico Blanco, original members of the then upcoming band, RiverMaya.The Philippine rock scene has always been relegated to a corner in the entertainment and even the music industry, at least during its early heydays in the 1970s.
The local rock scene, however, unbelievably flourished in the first half and mid-1990s like a mirage. It stormed the whole nation that even prime-time local television shows like Eat Bulaga! and ‘Sang Linggo nAPO Sila featured rogue bands like The Youth, Teeth, Siakol, the Ex-Presidents Combo, and Parokya ni Edgar. 1990s Philippine rock was so mainstream one band RiverMaya was branded as corporate just because one of the country’s nobility icon Lisa G. Nakpil assembled and managed them.
The book pieced together more than a hundred pieces of a puzzle with stories of the bands and individuals like Rizal Underground’s (of