This week the Manila Times has a long piece on the legendary Juan de la Cruz Band. While the Philippines was still under the Marcos regime, the band began performing heavy psychedelic music and singing in their native tongue, Tagalog--neither of which was the norm in Filipino pop. An original copy of the band's Up in Arms (re-released in 2003 on Germany's Normal records) now fetches $1,000 from psych record collectors, but in a typical rags-to-rags tale, the members don't have much to show for their efforts. They've never won an award in the Philippines and their occasional reunion gigs take place in bars rather than stadums.