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When Jerry Felix sits behind a drum kit, people take notice. How else did he earn the nickname ‘The Animal’? A 50-year career in any given industry is nothing short of staggering, but Gerald Lawrence (or Jerry, as he’s known) Felix takes it all in his stride. And after half a century’s indulgence in the music business, it would be easy to assume that the top career highlight would either be an unforgettable gig or receiving a memorable accolade,[url=http://www.mcm-handbags.net]mcm bags[/url], but for Felix, it was simply about staying alive. “I don’t know how we did it, but it’s still unbelievable that we went to Vietnam and played there during the war,” said the veteran drummer, still reeling from that seemingly impossible mission today. The Falcons, Felix’s revered club circuit band from the 1960s, flew to Saigon during the Vietnam war in 1969 and returned the following year when its six-month contract expired. “A week after we left, the Da Nang airport was bombed,” he recalled. The Da Nang airport was a major military airbase for both the South Vietnamese and the United States Air Force during the war, making it then the busiest airport in the world. Bands and music artistes who plied their trade in Vietnam were advised to avoid travelling by land at all costs. “Many Filipino bands were massacred by the Viet Cong,” he revealed gravely. Felix reminisces on his time there rather melancholically – the good always came with the bad and ugly sides of life. “We were treated like The Beatles. Girls were chasing us all over the place ... not because we were hunks or anything, but they wanted money to buy food. They were all starving.” He also remembers the tall tales the GIs would share with them. “One guy would tell me I was better than (legendary jazz drummer) Buddy Rich. Then another would insist that his sister was dating (rock guitarist) Ted Nugent. And there was this one guy who told me his brother was (former heavy weight champion boxer) Floyd Patterson.” Today, at the ripe old age of 61, the drummer can barely fathom that he’s stuck to a craft he picked up at the tender age of 10. “My father would make me practise every day, which now, in hindsight, was what gave me that platform to excel,” he groaned, recalling how the sight of his father returning home from work invariably meant he had to hit the drums. Felix was born into a musical family. His mother, Marjorie, played the guitar and sang while his dad, Patrick, was a multi-instrumentalist who was handy with the guitar (folk and Hawaiian), violin and trumpet, among others. Music was always part of the Felix household and is something that united him with his two brothers and sisters. Although he received guitar lessons from his dad when he was nine, his interest to bash the pots and pans in his mother’s kitchen was evidence of his singular interest. “Back then, I wasn’t thinking about the future. All that mattered was the next day. I was only thinking about what drum kit my dad would buy me and where the band was going to play next. Everything else was just details,” he shared. Given the music of his generation, he was obviously weaned on the best rock music of the time and credits Ian Paice of Deep Purple for having placed him behind a drum kit. “I was also into Clive Bunker (of British progressive rock band Jethro Tull).”
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