The legendary Carabao rock band, which has been entertaining Thai fans with its hugely popular songs for more than four decades, has decided to disband next March, with their last concert scheduled on April 1st next year, according to Yuenyong Opakul, aka “Add Carabao”, the band’s leader and lead singer.

 

“It is about time for us to let go and accept the truth that all of us are old, although we are still cool,” said Yuenyong, adding that, if anyone in the band wants to join other bands, they can do so.

 

He said he will continue to compose and produce songs for fans, with the help of his nephews “which will help me sleep well and in happiness, not for the sake of money.”

 

Caption: Photo by Carabao Official Facebook page

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2023-10-11

 

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Awesome career

Good on them. Excellent band. Alot of Thais love them. Very cool how alot of the younger people here love the classic bands. Not the same in the West. A very small percentage there like the older music. 

I like Sek Loso too.

 

while the music does not diminish, they have become the corporate evil they were protesting 40 years ago

5 minutes ago, digbeth said:

while the music does not diminish, they have become the corporate evil they were protesting 40 years ago

Dont they all? Springsteen, U2 etc worth $300m plus. I read Bono was worth $700m.

OFF TOPIC. Please do not mention CARABAO, the only Cup which Man City did not win last season.   5555

Thanks goodness, a fake phua cheewit, songs for life band if ever there was one. Started off well but then played the same style for the next 40 years. Almost no real protest songs or material about social injustice. Ad was a yellow shirt and an admirer of Prayuth. Posing as working class for the image while being a multi millionaire has always looked incongruous. Saw him once that was enough, not that he's all bad, very generous donations to singer musician charities and then there is the football, he never gets played in our house though.

Surely if their last concert is on April 1st they're disbanding in April not March.

12 minutes ago, edwinchester said:

Surely if their last concert is on April 1st they're disbanding in April not March.

April fools

3 hours ago, digbeth said:

while the music does not diminish, they have become the corporate evil they were protesting 40 years ago

True. First saw them in a demonstration concert in Sanam Luang, 1992. 

 

 Might watch in Pranburi  this month.

 

Lung Kee Mao one of my favourite all time songs. 

 

29 minutes ago, edwinchester said:

Surely if their last concert is on April 1st they're disbanding in April not March.

Last chance for a punch up, his concerts are notorious for fights. He got cancelled at our local Wat, not worth the trouble from rival hooligans. 

4 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

“which will help me sleep well and in happiness, not for the sake of money.”

Yea I'm sure with 1.3 billion Baht profit from the energy drink just last year, money aint what will keep them awake ????

3 minutes ago, eisfeld said:

Yea I'm sure with 1.3 billion Baht profit from the energy drink just last year, money aint what will keep them awake ????

He's a very generous guy. When me and a mate saw them in Khon Kaen, my mate asked if he'd like to donate to Khon Kaen Cricket club, which was foreigners and local kids. He gave 10,000 baht. 

13 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

He's a very generous guy. When me and a mate saw them in Khon Kaen, my mate asked if he'd like to donate to Khon Kaen Cricket club, which was foreigners and local kids. He gave 10,000 baht. 

Depends on how you see it. It's like a normal person donating 20 Baht ????

Wait. The band is going to "disband"? Funny!

like so much this song

 

Edited October 11, 20232 yr by Funthai

Love this song  Banned from the radio back in 1992, if I remember right, because the lyrics demand the PM must come from an election ( hello General Suchinda), they subtly changed the Thai wording of PM , Nai Yok นาย ยก to Nai Kor นายกอ by removing the second ย 

Everyone knew the fictitious word, Nai Kor, meant the PM 

 

When I was stationed in the Phillipines, 1977-79, they were pretty popular there.  I don't know when they moved to Thailand.

5 minutes ago, rwill said:

When I was stationed in the Phillipines, 1977-79, they were pretty popular there.  I don't know when they moved to Thailand.

Carabao means buffalo in Filipino language, I believe. Aed studied there, perhaps they all met there?

9 hours ago, Neeranam said:

True. First saw them in a demonstration concert in Sanam Luang, 1992. 

 

 Might watch in Pranburi  this month.

 

Lung Kee Mao one of my favourite all time songs. 

 

Seen them 3 times live, never had to leave my city to see them. Issaan people love Carabao. I have always enjoyed their concerts 

43 minutes ago, bannork said:

Carabao means buffalo in Filipino language, I believe. Aed studied there, perhaps they all met there?

Water Buffalo more specifically.  Which is Carabao in Tagalog.  In Thai they would be Kwai.  Which is also sort of a swear word here.

 

Carabao (band) - Wikipedia

 

10 hours ago, proton said:

Last chance for a punch up, his concerts are notorious for fights. He got cancelled at our local Wat, not worth the trouble from rival hooligans. 

That's for sure. Several years ago my wife and I were at one of their concerts in a nearby village when one of her friends came running over and said that I should leave right now as a few of the locals were planning to beat up the farang in the audience. I made a hasty retreat and got home unscathed.

10 hours ago, bignok said:

April fools

That thought did cross my mind 555

i love music, i also play some music, enough to recognize that what these guys are doing is not music. quite frankly they suck

11 minutes ago, Pouatchee said:

i love music, i also play some music, enough to recognize that what these guys are doing is not music. quite frankly they suck

Made millions from fake music then

13 minutes ago, bignok said:

Made millions from fake music then

Just like those rap 'stars' if they live long enough.

36 minutes ago, bignok said:

Made millions from fake music then

a comment from you is like DUST IN THE WIND

one of the least serious posters on AN why dont you go start some kind of boring topic?

2 minutes ago, Pouatchee said:

a comment from you is like DUST IN THE WIND

one of the least serious posters on AN why dont you go start some kind of boring topic?

Ok pou thing. Real music. You made zero. They made millions 555555