Tromols

Last night, my good friend Alfie posted a lot of photos in Facebook, and all these photos were of my old gang back in my teens. Our faces looked different. Younger, innocent (probably) and full of energy. The photos were memories of days before our bellies start growing bigger, before wrinkles started forming on our faces. Life was less complicated then. “Tromols” was the name of our group. We didn’t come up with it intentionally, a classmate back in DWU high, Wabert Garcia, coined the term as the name of our group. It was derived from the phrase “State of Turmoil” which was the name of a band me and Jeffrey was in. The other guys of Tromols were actually in another band called Feedback. I remember leaving Feedback and joining State of Turmoil because, Jean Paul started learning the guitar and he was getting better than me. Well he eventually did up till now. I got so childishly jealous of being demoted to rhythms so I joined State of Turmoil and we would play Ehead songs as covers. I was so into the band that I even managed to stage a mini-concert for our band in Abuyog with little funds and little help. I made a lot of trips back and forth to Abuyog, and Chip came along a couple times. Even now, I can’t imagine how I was able to put it together.

So our group, the “Tromols,” had lots of fun back then. We would always go to Alfie’s place (cuz he wasn’t permitted to go out sometimes hehe) and hang out, play Playstation, watch movies, play with water bombs, and other silly stuff I can’t remember. There was always food at Alfie’s place. Sometimes, we would be at Jean Paul’s place too when we wanted to jam. I eventually left the State of Turmoil because after the mini-concert stint, the other guys began to have other things to do. So rejoined Feedback and the rest of the Tromols as bassist. We had great fun.