WDRS - TALK! Wolfs Den Radio Show TALK!

Jett Pangan is the lead singer of Filipino rock band The Dawn.  We talk about my early experiences with watching The Dawn at the Ultra Storm concerts back in the mid-80's.  We also talk about how he joined the band and how he used to play with Michael Jackson as a kid when they Jackson 5 visited Manila back in the 70's.  It's a great conversation!  ENJOY!

Vernon Go is the founder and of Pulp Magazine and Pulp Summer Slam.  We talk about metal music, travel, how he took over the production of Pulp Summer Slam which is now a world-renowned rock music festival.  We also share some stories about rock stars that we've met.  ENJOY! 

Buddy Trinidad is the guitarist of the Filipino punk rock band, The Betrayed.  They were active during the early 80's and were part of a small but passionate punk rock scene in Manila.  This era bridged the original Pinoy Rock era of the 1970's heading towards the new decade and subsequent local rock scenes that followed.  We talk about how the underground scene of that time and how punk rock was imported to the Philippines.  He also talks about meeting all his punk rock heroes when he was a successful pastry chef.  We also talk about our love of futbol.  ENJOY!

Tanya Yuson is a good friend who I’ve known since high school. She is now the Executive Producer and one of the writers of TRESÉ, a Filipino-produced animated series on Netflix. We talk about our high school days and how the graphic novel was transformed into an animated series that is now playing on Netflix.

Francis Reyes is the guitarist of The Dawn.  We talk about his origins with After Image and how he got the job to replace the late Teddy Diaz as The Dawn's new guitarist.  He has since written massive hits with the band and is considered one the best and most notable electric guitarists in the Philippines.  ENJOY!

Wally Chamsay was the Managing Director of Sony Music Philippines during the mid-90’s to the 00’s. He was responsible for signing Wolfgang, Razorback, Barbie’s Cradle, South Border and Greyhoundz. He was also responsible for giving WG total artistic control to produce the “Semenelin” album. He and Sony Music developed a marketing strategy to successfully promote the band to the whole country and beyond that had never been seen before or since. We talk about how he got the Sony Music job and how he discovered Wolfgang. ENJOY!

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Wolfgang’s second album, Semenelin, I interview WG (presently Razorback) guitarist Manuel Legarda and sound engineer and Elektrikoolaid guitarist, Diego Garrido. We go track-by-track and share our thoughts and perspectives on each song on the album. We do some reminiscing about the glory days and talk about future plans. ENJOY!

Nides Aranzamendez was the drummer of Juan Dela Cruz on the Super Session live album that came out in 1974.  An unsung hero who was one of the best drummers of the 1970's Pinoy Rock era.  He was a huge musical influence on myself along with the rest of the Wolfgang/Razorback crew in our early underground days.  Listen to the intro of the song, "Kagatan", and the drumming on "Sarap Ng Buhay" on Super Session and you'll know.  Now living in the east coast United States, we talk about his journey involving the early origins of Juan Dela Cruz and lifelong friendships with those stalwart musicians.  ENJOY!

Bo Razon is a multi-instrumentalist who formed the Filipino afro-Cuban group called Puro Ritmo in the mid-90’s. He also happens to be the actual first guitarist of Juan Dela Cruz. We talk about latin music and his early jam days with the young Pinoy rock heroes and his musical life during the 70’s and 80’s in the US. Aside from his memories of the 1970 Antipolo Music Festival, he also narrates how he watched Led Zeppelin opening for The Who in 1969. Enjoy!

Raymond Red is an award-winning, independent film director. He has directed critically-acclaimed independent Filipino films such as “Bayani”, “Sakay”, “Kamera Obskura” and “Himpapawid” (which was released in the US in 2009). He also directed the music video for Wolfgang’s song, “Meckam” in 2001. Red has also earned the distinction of being one of the first Filipinos to receive a Rotterdam Hubert Bals Memorial grant, one of only two Filipino filmmakers mentioned in the Oxford History of World Cinema, and the first and so far only Filipino to have won the prestigious Palme d'Or award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for his short film "Anino". We talk about our favorite films and why “Citizen Kane” is arguably the best film ever made. ENJOY!