And so here we are with another issue of batchmate spotlight.
This time around we have, not one, not two, but four interviewees!
Here is the long standing quartet of Bogart Quitain, Paolo Claudio,
James Tan, and Wardy Puyod.
95: Aside from maintaining your long-standing band, what have you guys been up to?
Bogart: I'm studying Law, so is Paolo. James will be taking the Engineering board anytime soon, and wardy is an Entrepreneur in his own right. We love to play billiards, basketball, swimming and snorkling sa paradise, joke time, watergun, gawa ng mga MTV's ng Guns n Roses...jet ski rin daw..kahadlok! I think that's the reason kung bakit hanggang ngayon banda pa rin kami..barkada kase eh, kahit tanggalin mo music, lingaw pa rin.
Paolo: Billiards, basketball, paradise island, colasas, libak sa isa't-isa.
James: …
Wardy: Isda, Manok, Saging.
95: Any chance we'll see ICBJ albums in our favorite record stores soon?
Bogart: hmmm, we have...on my last count....48
original songs na hindi na re release and we have been approaching
record producers..sa sobrang desperado namin na magka album ..nagqawa
si Wardy and Paolo ng sariling recording studio..called Paolofusion
and recording label...Kalapati Records.Those who have friends
in the recording business, lakarin niyo naman kami.hehehe
Paolo: Yeah bakit hindi, pero siguro under a different name and tanggalin sa wardy kasi may superstar complex.
James: …
Wardy: Naghihintay lang kami ng
break, marami kaming songs pero wala pang matinong producer.
Kung may kakilala kayong nasa industry, ipakilala niyo
kami and maybe we can work something out.
95: Would you accept a million pesos in exchange for "converting" ICBJ to a boy band?
Bogart: Yes, they say Image is nothing compared to a million pesos..hahaha
Paolo: Actually boy band talaga kami. Pa cool effect lang yang rock n roll.
James: Yes, but ill still be the drummer. ill leave the dancing and singing to them.
Wardy: Kung naga-videoke kami ang mga request
ni Bogart and ni Paolo mga kanta ng Backstreet Boys
at magaling sila magre-enact ng sayaw.
95: Anyone married yet?
Bogart: Well, mukhang married lang kami pero wala pa naman..hirap nga pag magpa kasal ang isa sa amin, tatlo ang best man nya.
Paolo: Si Wardy. Pero secret lang dapat yun.
James: No.
Editor's note: Uy, ba't parang defensive?
Wardy: Wala pang pera.
95: Kids?
Bogart: Si wardy...maraming panganay!
Paolo: Hindered ng protection
James: No.
Editor's note: Ayan na naman!
Wardy: Nobody I know of. hehehe.
95: How do you manage your studies and your rock 'n roll lifestyle?
Bogart: Ngek, meron ba akong rock n roll
lifestyle?The only vacant time that I have is during Saturday
evenings, paolo and I hangout sa mga rock bars here in Manila.
In Law school silence is mandatory, when you're in rock bars...sus...pakawala
gyud!We go to Mayrics to watch real good hardrocking underground
bands like ourselves, sa 70'sBistro and freedom bar naman more
of the mainstream rock bands like Razorback and the Dawn.Nung
pumunta si wardy dito, we took him to Mayrics para matanggal ang
kanyang showband influence, sa harap talaga siya ng speakers pinaupo!Weekends
talaga pang relax..inom, kinig music and jam, kahit dalawa lang
kami ni pao. I also practice with the other band that I have here
in Manila, we mostly play alternative and new wave songs, unlike
Pao's band,they play hard hitting origs.Maniwala kayo sa hindi,
natutulog na ako around 7 am ng umaga...bagsak pa rin sa exams!hay
Dios koh!
Wardy: Dapat marinig niyo yung isang original song namin, ang title "Ayoko nang Mag-aral...Gusto ko nang-_______"
95: How did your classmates react when they realized that a
rockstar like you is now their classmate?
Bogart: Di man ako rockstar, Kuya nga image
ko sa klase kase ako ang pinakamatanda na lalake sa class, and
the four of us never went the distance unlike other bands who
really had a recording contract or played gigs in large stadiums.
Pero upon knowing na I have a band,parang feeling ng classmates
ko cool daw kase they never expected that their "kuya"
so to speak, is a hard rocking dude, ang ayoko lang naging jukebox
ako nila agad, pag may gimik they let me play the guitar so much
na mapilitan ako tugtog ng mga showband songs, yung tipong may.."C'mon
people!" na songs..kainis..ok lang basta amats na. 
95: Do you hate it when people, especially beautiful girls
fail to recognize your rockstar qualities?
Bogart: Gageee!Never thought of that..what
they see is what they get, kung ano ako or kaming apat sa stage
ganun kami sa real life, tsaka tingin ko di talaga ako mapagkamalang
rockstar kay kataba ko na...way angay na ba..hay naku, that's
my dilemma!
95: We have read the article in PULP magazine about you, your music and your band. Why, oh why did you guys ever name yourselves the rubberdickies? Are you real-life dickheads to shout such moniker to the world?
Paolo: It's rubberduckies. We decided to
go with that band name to piss off Sesame Street. Might someday
change it to ice cold buko ducks or maybe rubberbuko. Yeah sometimes
we can be dickheads. But most of the time we are well-mannered.
95: We'll definitely see you in the December 2002 Reunion, right?
Bogart: Alangan! Core group gud tatlo sa amin..
Paolo: <no comment>
James: likely
Wardy: Of course.
<End of interview>
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