Bringing to light smashing punk rock bands from Japan!
I'll try to provide mp3, videos and infos bout bands i love. i did this blog cause i was fed up with the visual crap, idols shit known overseas as "japanese rock". All the band i'll present are singing in japanese, which can be repelling at first. Make an effort and start taking japanese lessons! Worth it!
Time to deal with The 5,6,7,8's! Early Tokyo rock'n'roll scene again. This early footage is awesome. That was just before Eddie (now guitarist of MAD3, i'll talk bout that on day) joined. Those two sister are awesome! Ronnie (guitar and vocals) and Sachiko (Drums) perpetrate the living soul of rock'n'roll since 1986! They distilled their garage sound for more than 12years, so you can say it, that's vintage! Ronnie much cutter now than in that video.
And if you click on this artwork (designed by their friend, Rockin' Jelly Bean, also responsible of the "Bomb the Rocks" compilation album artwork, and numerous awesome flyers) you'll get a link to download their first album from 92' Contains numerous hits, including the killer song "I was a Teenage Cavewoman" (their second single, with Eddie on guitar).
This song is absolutly not characteristic of Guitar Wolf (well, in fact, in a way, it is) style, it's their only ballad (a cover of Eikichi Yazawa, japanese Johnny Halliday..), Seiji alone with his guitar. This song turned to be considered as an ode to Billy, but as the PV attests, it was done before Billy's death. I'll talk about Guitar Wolf, they're enough well known overseas so I won't have to present them. (early 90's, Tokyo rock'n'roll scene, first recording in Memphis, first american tour, "wow japan still have kamikaze", japanese garage craze, that kind of crap). I love you Ok, then:
Oh, and i decided to translate something something Seiji wrote on his blog when Michae Jackson died: It's about the 30cm long slide opening in his left brain when he thinks about the people he considers as tensai (genius, prodigy). So here's the list, for the first time avaible to non japanese readers! Not only musicians, but actors, athlets...I find this list somehow touching, as the others post on his blog. His blog is great, you're somehow getting the impression of reading a secret diary.. So, he're the list: -Steve MacQueen -Alain Delon -Antonio Inoki (former japanese wrestler) -Shigeo Nagashimaa (baseball player) -Mohammed Ali -Lupin the 3rd -Johnny Thunders -Mike Jaggers -Rockin Enoki (from Jacky and The Cedrics) -The Cramps -The Ramones -Angus Young -Elvis Presley -Onochin (from the Jet Boys) -Kyoshiro Imawano -Sid Vicious -Brian Setzer -Link Wray -Yoshiko from the 5,6,7,8's (drums) -Bad Brains -Tina Turner -Ichiro (baseball player) -a young black waitress he saw in New Orleans a long time ago -Shoken (japanese actor & singer) -Yuusaku Matsuda (japanese actor) -Joan Jett -Cherie & Marie -Martina Navrátilová (tennis player) -Hideki Saijo when he was young (actor and singer) -Jin from "Maboroshi" (gang in the movie "Crazy Thunder Road Battle") -Iggy Pop -Nadia Comaneci -Usain Bolt -Teengenerate -Kiss -Jimmy Hendrix -etc... Edifying right?
Contains numerous hits, including the killer song "I was a Teenage Cavewoman" (their second single, with Eddie on guitar).
