LOVE ROCKS...Arnel Pineda

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AP's latest interview in Dubai before his Dubai concert (Feb.14, 2010)

http://www.dubaieye1038.com/Podcasts...reentID=2920#1

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Love rocks Arnel Pineda
BACKBEAT By Ma. Eleanor Valeros (The Freeman) Updated February 15, 2010 12:00 AM
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?ar ... egoryId=51

The pre-Valentine show of Arnel Pineda at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel during the weekend somehow helped me understand why the crowd loves him... so much!

He loves what he is doing and he loves to be loved by the people he loves to entertain.

Arnel knows how to toe the line. He understands how some rockers stick to “conventional rockism”. He sings the songs rockers crave. These are songs that suit his voice type — and vocal range – well: the raspy thingy. Rough but tough. Grating but beating. Aside from the fact that he has already come this far to prove he isn’t just the ordinary YouTube recruit, people adore him for responding well to the demands of the journey itself.

Now he swims in a sea of adulation for every time he owns the stage.

He is too honest to live up the dream of making it big by zeroing in on work: that to replace Steve Perry is the job, but to never allow the Perry shadow to overcast just because they sound the same; and to yield – but not succumbing — to the judgment of hardcore Journey fans who first served a platter of slurs against his race and color.

He has learned much, or rather too much, from being a street urchin as young as 12 to being an urban nomad hopping from one entertainment joint to another; surviving on the forming and dissolving of bands.

His recent concert here in the city serves as an affirmation that Arnel is indeed “the voice.” For one, I have come to terms with my own biases after witnessing how he has won the admiration of this community’s “hard to please” lot after giving his heart out to Europe’s “Alone” and how he has personified kinetic energy through Bryan Adam’s “Summer of 69”.

After losing his voice twice – to drug dependence and alcoholism in 1995, and to exhaustion and TMJ dysfunction (temporomandibular joint or the part where the lower jaw links with the temporal bone of the head, which allows you to open your mouth, talk and chew food), he decided to move back in Manila in 2006 from a 15-year singing stint in Hong Kong. He after all had this little dream of making it big in the Philippines, just “alone” in the Philippines, he said.

It would be redundant now to discuss how the Internet…erm, World Wide Web paved the way for that dream to take tangible form.

Let me just mention that Rachelle Ann Go was with him in the “Love Rocks Arnel Pineda!” concert, but because I really haven’t much to say about her performance, let me just skip that part to save my throat from being slit by the fanatics. Peace!

I would be very honest to say that I would rather listen to more of Arnel’s band Ammo over Rachelle. “Honestly” is one song on her repertoire last Friday that makes me regret I’ve first heard it from “Harem Scarem”. I could have been fair with my assessment, at least!

Suffice it to say that songs, like dresses to bods: “may binabagayang boses.” Such makes Arnel Pineda rock. He is fit for the journey.

So, after Friday’s banging like a doghead-perched-on-spring atop a dashboard, watch out for the screening sometime this year of “Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey.” A film by Ramona Diaz of CineDiaz & Defining Entertainment, it stars the journeymen themselves — Neal Schon, Jonathan Cain, Ross Valory, Deen Castro and (introducing) Arnel Pineda.

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Serna: MMK, looking for true stories | Sun.Star Network Online

Serna: MMK, looking for true stories
02/17/2010 - 14:56Thursday, February 18, 2010
Roger Serna

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No less than the country’s Concert King Martin Nievera and Mr. Pure Energy Gary Valenciano acknowledged the fact that the Cebuano crowd is hard to please, adding that if the crowd doesn’t like the performer for whatever reason, they would just sit there, stare at the performers and keep silent. In the worst scenario, they would simply walk out of the venue.

But if the viewers love the performer, they will not hesitate to show appreciation in whatever way they can. Gauging from the way the Cebuano crowd received international group Journey’s vocalist Arnel Pineda—in his recent pre-Valentine show dubbed “Love Rocks… Arnel Pineda”—Cebu did love Arnel. The people went out of their way to stand and dance, something that is a rarity in this part of the country.

Aside from interpreting high-pitched songs, as if it were an ordinary thing to do, Arnel carefully selected his repertoire. He came up with a varied list of well-loved, mellow rock songs from as far back as the 80s (or even earlier) to the present.

With the crowd’s display of appreciation, Arnel could not help but exclaim: “Cebu, you’re hot!” Aptly put.

Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on February 19, 2010.

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Love Rocks…Arnel Pineda (SETLIST)

VTR intro YouTube - LOVE ROCKS... intro

1. BEATLES MEDLEY YouTube - Arnel Pineda LIVE - Carry that Weight / Alone
-Golden Slumbers
-Carry that weight
-You never give me your money
-The end
2. Alone YouTube - Alone
3. Rosanna YouTube - Rosanna
4. Walk this way YouTube - Walk This Way
5. Summer of 69 YouTube - Summer of 69
6. Jump YouTube - Jump pt. 1
7. First time YouTube - Arnel Pineda LIVE - First Time
8. have you ever really love a woman (duet w/ shin) YouTube - Have You Ever Love A Woman
9. honestly (shin solo)
10. Just died in your arms tonight (AMMO band) YouTube - Just Died In Your Arms Tonight - Kamlon
11. BON JOVI MEDLEY YouTube - Bon Jovi Medley
-You give love a bad name
-Its my life
-Living on a prayer
12. Heartache tonight YouTube - Heartache Tonight
13. Oh darling YouTube - Oh Darling
14. For the first time YouTube - Arnel Pineda LIVE - For the First Time
15. Hard to say im sorry
16. Roxanne YouTube - Roxanne
17. Footloose
18. My Sharona
19. Come on feel the noise
20. I love rock and roll
21. sweet child of mine YouTube - Arnel Pineda LIVE - Sweet Child O' Mine
22. crying (shin solo) YouTube - Rachelle Ann Go & Arnel Pineda LIVE - Crying / The Search is Over
23. the search is over YouTube - Rachelle Ann Go & Arnel Pineda LIVE - Crying / The Search is Over
24. Bohemian Rhapsody (duet w/ shin) YouTube - Arnel Pineda and Rachelle Ann Go LIVE - Bohemian Rhapsody
24. QUEEN MEDLEY
-Radio gaga
-Crazy little thing
-We will rock you
26. surprise JOURNEY MEDLEY
-Open Arms
-Faithfully
-Don’t Stop Believin’

Encore:

27. Foolish heart YouTube - Encore! Foolish Heart
28. Don’t stop me now


*** all in all, AP sang 34 various song titles.. wohoooo!!!! ***

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wow so nice

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i lyk arnel pineda go go go!Ü

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catch Arnel Pineda tomorrow on PROBE PROFILES right after bandila..
interviewed by Ms. Pinky Webb..

here's the teaser of the show..

ProbeTV


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AP on PROBE PROFILES... full episode..
(FEB. 24, 2010)


part 1:
YouTube - The Arnel Pineda Profile P1

part 2:
YouTube - The Arnel Pineda Profile P3

part 3:
YouTube - The Arnel Pineda Profile P4

part 4:
YouTube - The Arnel Pineda Profile P5

part 5:
YouTube - The Arnel Pineda Profile P6

part 6:
YouTube - The Arnel Pineda Profile P7 END





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