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I was really thrilled the first time I heard about this band Franco, their album was released last May 2010. I was captivated by their reggae rock music, and surely lot of us will dig in the lyrics.
Franco is composed of individuals affiliated with established acts - Franco Reyes (Inyo), Gabby Alipe (Urbandub), Paolo Toleran (Queso), Buwi Meneses (Parokya ni Edgar), and JanJan Mendoza (Urbandub), that's why they call them super band. That's also why I'm kind of jumped by excitement, it was days of getting high to their music and I loved it. Eventually while searching for some details about their album, I came across a debated forum about Franco Reyes' former band InYo and the newly launch super band Franco where they argue on who plays best. Then I was really disappointed to found out that most of the songs released by Franco was already out internationally in InYo's album and was also played by Frank (Franco Reyes' original Cebu based band).
Now here's the catch, I know that Franco Reyes wrote this songs and it is his music, and has the right to play these songs even if Frank and InYo disbanded because of the royalty but, releasing this songs again as their debut album as Franco come on!, well I never heard a disbanded group re-released their songs again under another band name, usually they release an album with new singles and sings their previous bands hit songs. I understand now why the other side in the forum proclaim Franco as a Super Cover Band. Well don't get me wrong, I really like that Franco was formed, because it's a great band but a band was suppose to make new songs not to play songs that was released before. I think the original band Frank deserves the credit for these songs, they are the ones behind that music when it was being crafted anyway.
I have nothing against Franco, this is just my opinion you know. I like Franco band because of it's super band title and I'm looking forward for their next album and I hope it will be surprisingly good,. I salute Frank for bringing the music to life, Inyo for making it international and Franco for popularizing it to our country. They are all great bands, and to you Sir Franco for a good strategy to keep your own music alive. So Kudos! More Power.
