About Rock of Manila

Rock of Manila attempts to revive a pulse of a generation. We all heard stories, seen photos, played music from this era. But what has not been described was the consciousness of this generation. A feeling of love and compassion with a bizarre backdrop of a major shift in Filipino political history.

Sidebar Menu

Wise Words

"Pagkain ng baboy...da rack."

- Joey Smith

Support Rock of Manila Archives

If you are interested in supporting Rock of Manila and would like to contribute, you are welcome to make a a difference in any form by sending us an email at pinoy rock archives on my website - it will be a great help and will surely be appreciated.

Search Box

Antipolo Rock Fest Photos

Grand Heights Subdivision

Antipolo Rock Fest featured awesome music from Tito Tinio Band and Cholo's Band doing amazing covers of Santana. Non stop music, nature, cool tents, sharing........

Antipolo Rock scene. Photo with permission from therockofmanila.com

Antipolo Rock scene with BPM. Photo by BPM.

BPM Underground

Music Unknown

Rock of Manila exposes an underground group of music lovers dedicated to share and spread their music discoveries of the counter culture of the late 60's and early 70's. When the city was limited to listening pop music on the air, another sound was spreading along the walls of party venues. A band of kids armed with imported lp's, (not guns) would take over party sound systems and change the music.....the rest is BPM.

For more on BPM, you can visit the BPM website.

Good luck and I hope you find this site lots of fun!

Rock of Manila Favorites

BPM Music Archives

The Record Collectors Association of the Philippines was founded in 1978 by BPM members and quickly spread across the globe with branches in Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and Helsinki ....

Is It Love?

T.Rex (occasionally spelt T Rex or T-Rex) were an English rock band fronted by guitarist and singer Marc Bolan. The band were established as a folk rock group in 1960s London, as Tyrannosaurus Rex and released their debut album in 1968 My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows which reached number 15 on the UK chart. They achieved mainstream success in the 1970s as a glam rock group with hits such as "Hot Love", "Get It On" , "Telegram Sam" and "Metal Guru". MORE

Get this widget!

Da Rack

Joey Smith (also known as Pepe) was the drummer and vocalist of the supergroup Juan Dela Cruz Band. Smith was the frontman for the cover band Jungle Cats. Not until Juan Dela Cruz was formed during the Marcos era did Filipino rock bands were influenced to write original music in Tagalog. "Ang Himig Natin", a JDC original, along with bandmates Wally Gonzalez and Mike Hanopol, became an anthem of a generation. "Mamasyal sa Pilipinas", "Rock and Roll sa Ulan" , "Beep Beep Beep" and "Balong Malalim". by Phil Rodriguez

ROCKofMANILA

the source revealed...