RubberBand

6, lead vocal

Clem, guitar

Wai, bass

Kelvin, keys

Lai Maan, Drums

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Rubberband - Filipino rock group from USA. The group was actually named after The Beatles' Rubber Soul album.

Sometimes mispelled as RubberBand or Rubber Band, but Not a band called Rubber..."Rubberband" as in "round shape elastic rubberband" - that's how Rubberband describe their band name. Catchy and very user friendly.

Rubberband is an all-filipino underground rock group Since 1995. Formed in the United States in New York and has been active performing mostly in the five boroughs of NYC. Famous venues includes legendary CBGB's, Knitting Factory (NY), Kenny's Castaways, Acme Underground, The National Underground, Cutting Room, Connoly's Klub 45 Room, Trump Taj Mahal (Mark Etess Arena), El Rey Theatre, ABS-CBN International (Speak Out Show), WTC (Manila) to name a few. The band played in The Philippines, Canada, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Maryland, Virginia, DC & New Jersey.

Present and former members includes:

GlNO lNOCENTES - Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Percussions, Vox

WARREN DAYA - Lead Guitar, Back-Up Vox

MERWIN DELA CRUZ - Drums

PETER WARREN GUTIERREZ - Bass Guitar, Back-Up Vox

MARC LAMAR - Guitar, Bass, Vox

GERMAIN LOPEZ - Drums, Guitar, Back-Up Vox

ROMMEL DE LEON - Drums

RICKY TARRIELA - Bass Guitar, Vox

WENDELL G. PERALTA - Lead Guitar, Back-up Vox

ARIEL GUTIERREZ - Drums, Guitars, Back-up Vox

Session Musicians (Studio Recordings)

Bong Magaso - Lead Guitar

Ryan Paayas - Lead Guitar

Jason Baquilod - Lead Guitar

Steve Ronsen - Lead Guitar, Keyboards

Aristedes Cacanindin - Back-Up Vox

Session Musicians (Random Live Performances)

Bong Magaso - Lead Guitar

Ryan Paayas - Lead Guitar

Jason Baquilod - Lead Guitar

Cesar Abiog - Bass Guitar

Melan Barrameda - Bass Guitar

Rubberband as a session live group:

Rubberband performed as a back-up group for legendary Philippine Rock Icon, Mike Hanopol in the late 90's mostly in NY, NJ & DC.

More interesting things about Rubberband:

The group even use the name "Rubbermind" at one point (homage to Nirvana's "Nevermind") while recording their first "studio quality" EP at some studio in NYC. The sound engineer asked what name should he put on the master tapes, the group said, put "Rubbermind". The group did not use "Rubbermind" but, they named their first low budget "studio quality" EP as "Pearl Prudence and Her Rubbermind Songs".

The group also used the name "Nodisco" (homage to Depeche Mode's song) a pseudonym name that they used until the group's "changing of the line-up" was finalized. Billed as "Nodisco" followers still calls them "Rubberband" even though they released one EP and one album under that name.

After naming new members, the band moved on and got back to their first original name, "Rubberband".

The group re-issued and repackaged most of the tracks from "Nodisco" to "Rubberband". Most of the songs were included from "Puppet Monster" "Go Back To Move On" and couple of tracks from "Nanibago Ka Nung Magkapera"