Influential Artist
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It is said Motley Crue and Cheap Trick are influential bands for the Yellow Monkey sound.
Actually before they made debut Kazuya was said to be 'Vince Neil in Sizuoka'. They respect Aerosmith,
T-Rex, and Kiss. (Hessey's role model is Gene Simons, Emma's is Joe Perry. )
Kazuya's Role Models
Maybe because of his background Kazuya has Japanese taste for music. Kazuya was born in the family of strolling players. He grew up in the whirl of Japanese popular music, Enka, Kouta, Nagauta,and instruments like Syamisen (three strings Japanese guitar )and Wadaiko( Japanese drums) He said, ' The other members were raised surrounded by DO-YOGAKU(= jenuine Western music), but I have been certainly influenced by Japanese pop music of '70, when there were lots of copycats of Beatles , Stones and so on.
Here is Kazuya's role models.
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A jacket photo of "Slaughter on 10th Avenue"
A Magician at Stormy Night in Spring
"Once I used to be a ballerina
So the dress in my heart is still fluttering
Now I am alone and no where to go
A magician at stormy night in spring
No one can see a blue casket in my heart
Please say nothing
Just hold me
Tomorrow everything will be clear
All what you have been dreaming of
Off course I still love
you
That’s why the frill on my breast still shaking
Someday everyone would show his own trick
On spring morning everything
will fade
No one can see blue casket in my heart So I would say nothing now Please forgive me Tomorrow everything will be clear All what you have been dreaming of
So I would say nothing now I am holding your thought inside of you Tomorrow everything will be clear All what you have been dreaming of
photo of Miwa Akihiro
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Mick
Ronson 1946-1993 “Special Thanks to Mick Ronson “ are often seen in the booklet of TYM’s albums, like ‘ The Night Snails and Plastic Boogie ( ’92),’ ‘ Smile (’95). If you want to know Mick Ronson as a musician, please click http://home5.swipnet.se/~w-54404/ This site is created by a guitarist of U.K. band ,called Bombi Bitt. In the “ Memorial Page” you can find some photos of TYM in the Mick ‘s Memorial concert in August ’97. The report of TYM’S performance at the concert is also accessible. K wrote in his book (K.Y’s Sentimental Diary) : “ It’s Mick Ronson that me ,as a vocalist and musician, exists here today. I even fell in love with his gloomy, sorrowful and tender song and guitar. “ “ Our next album(= Jaguar Hard Pain) will be TYM version of“ Ziggy Stardust”. Mick’s sister, Maggie and TYM enjoy friendship, TYM organizes Mick’s memorial concert in Japan each year. In ’97 they had a tour in London and performed Mick’s numbers in his hometown Hull. In the live video of ‘Red Tape’ you can see what is the memorial concert in Hull like. Maggie gave K Mick’s shirt, which is white and Mick worn at his very last stage , and K said he would put this on only very special occasion . K concluded the essay, “ How I wish to have a little sister.” Morio Agata 1948-Jaguar is from Agata’s song “ Jaguar of Band –neon”. Mr,Agata is described as a radical romanticist. The music he creates is retrospective and full of estheticism. His style is always changing from tango to soul, from enka to techno-pops. He is popular among professional musician and critics. Agata’s influence can be seen following K’s songs : Tears of Chameleon, Pearlight Revolution, 4,ooo Tear Drops, Silk-scarf and Madam with Hat, Bara Shoufu Rena, Harukana Sekai. But two artists are different in the distance between the listeners and themselves. Mr. Agata remains aloof enjoying proud loneliness whereas K has strong will to share compassion with listeners. Agata uses classical words in his lyrics, and it may be difficult to appreciate for non-Japanese and young Japanese. I translated one of his song. Heessey cried at this song when Kazu let it listen while they were on tour in snowy country in ’92. In those days TYM was not so big and they couldn’t afford air ticket , had to use train or ferry ,sometimes even drive by themselves carrying instruments and apparatus. Akihiro Miwa 1935-
A
great chanson singer and actor. He
was born in Nagasaki and survived atomic bomb attack.
The respect to Mr.Miwa opened the door for K to some
theatrical songs and also the literature of Yukio Mishima and Shuji
Terayama. His autobiography is K’s desk-side book, from which K got a
lot of motives. These are;
almost every song in the album ‘ Experience Movie’ and ‘Jaguar
Hard Pain’, ‘ Mary ni Kuchizuke,Bon Jour Japon, Psychedelic Blue,
Arasoi no Machi, Eden no Yoru ni, “I” ‘ in the album ‘Smile’.
K learns a lot from Mr.Miwa’s art of performance on stage , how
to mesmerize the audience, how to read the audience’s mind.
I was very proud to find following sentence in one of Mr.Miwa’s
book:” In rock and roll music I can only recommend Beatles, Deo Dahd
and ballads of Kazuya Yoshii.”
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