‘4- Entertainment’ Archives
TULIP, a POP music band of 70′s to 80′s
There used to be a Japanese POP music group called TULIP. This band is no longer in live act, and the boom time of them are from 70's to 80's of Japan. Their main fans are teenage girls at the time, however, some boys also liked them for the beautiful melody of TULIP. They named Tulip because they thought the sound of the name resembled [...]
Off Course,an old POP music lives on
When I was a student in Tokyo, a very popular music group, Off Course, was active both in producing new numbers and in giving concerts. I myself didn't like it very much, as opposed to a lot of fans around me. One of my close friends, one day, brought me an album called WE ARE. As I wasn't interested, I left it on the shelf for a long [...]
Esophageal Cancer attacked 2 music icons of Japan
Esophageal cancer is not an unusual disease in the recent times of Japan. We often hear an strange name of a disease called Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease on TVor at hospitals in Japan, however, it had been a strange illness for some recent years. By the upsurge of oily Western food consumption in Japan, this strange disease has been on [...]
King Crimson Moon Child ?
Recently I often listen to a CM song on TV. But it reminds me of a song called Moon Child by King Crimson, which was released in their first album back in 1970 or 1969. Actually this CM song is partly quoted from a full version, so the total image of this song is not like Moon Child but this part is really similar to Moon Child. Many of [...]
KABUKIZA to close for reconstruction
In Japan, there is a very traditional entertainment called Kabuki, which started about 600 years ago. Kabukiza means Kabuki Theater, and it's located in central Tokyo, Ginza. Kabukiza is not that old because the present one was built about 60 years ago, but probably something got old for today's play style, I suppose. It's going to be [...]
X JAPAN returns
X Japan got re-union ( or should I say, they once agin started ) some years ago. But now Yoshiki is sick with his neck so the band activity is stopped again. Maybe X Japan will not disappear from Japanese music scene soon because their fans stay with them still. Yoshiki's neck seems really bad. When he plays drums, he rolls his neck and it [...]
Favourite Jazz Pianist, Bill Evans
There was a vote for favourite Jazz pianists on the internet in Japan. The top popular pianist was Bill Evans. As opposed to our expectation, recent popular pianists like Kieth Jarret or Chick Corea were not in to top 5 group. Bud Powell, Winton Kelly, Oscar Peterson, and Herbbie Hancock were liked by Japanese next to Bill Evans although Bill [...]
Far Sighted Rock Fans !
Recently a lot of magazines in Japan fade away with the reason of losing readers. In this internet informative society, magazines or papers have more or less have fatal ending. Onlylimited target magazines could be alive probably. Otherwise, we don't want to pay charge to information because we can get it by internet. Today, a rock music [...]
Spirited Away’s songs
I like an animation movie, Spirited Away. In this movie, there are 2 songs that I really love. First one is called " A name of life ", Inochino Namae in Japanese. This movie has the record of the box office of Japan. It's said that total viewers are more than 1000 people in Japan, so 1 out of 10 went to the theaters to see this [...]
PropagandaBuster, Texas Daddy Tony will be published in Japan
There is a popular YOUTUBE site called PropagandaBuster. This site is run by a Gentleman called Tony and he is getting a little popular in Japan now, it' s maybe because he often talks about problems concerned with Japan and it often goes for Japan. The speech he makes is really interesting in the sense that we can know how one of the [...]
