Blasts from the past
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Kaleidoscope, Mr Team and Soul After Six rock fans at last weekend's charity concert
EVERYONE faces a period in his or her life when nothing goes right. It’s easy to lose hope in these times of despair, as Attapon “Eddie” Makranon, a former member of ’90s pop-jazz outfit Autobahn found out last year when a fire razed his home to the ground and destroyed all his belongings.
Eddie, though, has found consolation and hope thanks to his friends, both musicians and artists, who last Saturday got together under the name Life Goes On and organised a free charity concert, “Music for Friend”, in the space between the Thailand Cultural Centre’s small and main auditoriums.
Fans turned out in large numbers to take in the music shows by musicians past and present, shop at the various booths set up in the area and watch the demonstrations by artist Vasan Sitthiket and photographer Sopirat Ngamkam.
The show started at 3.30pm with father and son emcees, Roj “Muek” Kwantham and “Map” Wongsathorn, coming out on stage to talk about the background to the concert and thank the musicians and artists for uniting in action and spirit.
Kirati Promsaka Na Sakolnakorn, who is better known as Khiew Carabao, was the first to perform an acoustic set and was quickly followed by Nuvo who played a selection of their hits including “Luek Sud Jai”. As ever, Saharat “Kong” Sangkapricha won the loudest cheers.
The music continued with sets by Manote Puttan, Pongprom Snitwong na Ayuthaya, Arak "Pae" Amornsupasiri, The Beatlenuts and Eddie’s bandmate Pom Autobahn.
Bangkok Connection & Somlek took the stage for a funky set as darkness fell and were joined for a jam by Koh Mr Saxman.
Disco artist Burin Boonvisut, Groove Rider’s vocalist, got the audience up and dancing with his performance of “Yud”.
In a rare appearance as a complete outfit, Soul After Six played a medley of songs that had everyone singing along. Spicy Disc’s new band Nap A Lean entertained the younger members and also jammed with Thanakrit "Wan" Panichawit. The front of the stage was packed with the AF singer’s fans.
Mr Team also took the crowd back to the good old days with such hits as “Chao Chor Malee”, “Mai Tong Mee Kham Banyai” and a medley of disco oldies bringing the 50-something fans back to their feet.
Kaleidoscope, Thailand’s much loved hard rockers of the late ’80s and early ’90s, opened with Rod Stewart’s “Sailing” before blasting fans with “Proh Rao Nan … Khoo Kan”, a hit from their debut album, “Krachak Jai”. Singer Edward Vanzo also invited Surasee Ithikul to join the band on stage.
The charity concert ended with a bang as all the musicians and artists, Eddie Autobahn among them, gathered on stage a rousing rendition of “Let It Be”.
ROCK ON
n Catch Kaleidoscope’s show at www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2wKDOPptEk
