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Yup. I really don't think young people (at least the ones I'm surrounded by) don't give a shit about guitar music beyond buying a Nirvana shirt. Even then I think that is just code for "I do drugs because DRUGS ARE COOL" 

Almost lost all my albums this week. Was actually in the process of moving them from underneath the plumbing when the vinyl gods spoke quietly but surely through the toilet overflowing above me leaving the basement with pools of water, piss, and e coli bacteria. Saved the albums, which are now right beside the stereo far away from any plumbing the strange woman who lives with me likes to destroy. Was so happy that I asked the plumber to speak to the strange woman who lives with me about how not to use 800 pounds of toilet paper and how not to pretend to plunge a toilet while blaming some guy (me) for not being right outside the bathroom watching her destroy the only house she has ever half-liked so that I could maintain my forty days and forty nights of silence. The young plumber was spectacular in his role. I would have tipped him had he let me. 

Wonder if you could milk this for some sort of house and contents insurance scam?

Early on Termbo lifted a Registrators interview I did and posted it with no credit so I emailed and said hey.... thanks? But you should either take that down or credit me. They went with option 1, so I missed the glory years of what seems like a really cool board.

That would have been 2003. I can remember certain years because of specific ties to location. We moved when I was 5 so anything from the "old neighborhood" means I was 4. I visited Tokyo in 2003 and moved there in 2004.

One cool benefit of playing in a very obscure Japanese punk band was relatively early access to the likes of Inu. As of this writing I would say there aren't many late 70's Japanese punk bands, and we're on the lower end of single digits in terms of ones who made good records at that time.

One good one is Inu, which you may know translates to "Dog." The singer went on to become a very famous writer, so very normal Japanese people will know "Ah, yes, Machida Kou, famous writer, used to be in weird band." That's kind of his by-line, but that's kind of the extent of standard knowledge.

The band is really cool. There's an LP, a couple, but the good one IMO is Meishi Kuu-na. Once upon a time it would have been easier for me to write that in Japanese than in English but that time has passed. I'm pretty sure the meishi is in katakana and the kuu-na is kanji to hirigana.

My bandmate sat me down in regards to this album and said "You have to think about opposites."

Okay. I don't know what you're on about but I'm willing to listen.

Meishi of course is rice or in a functional Japanese sentence, food. Kuu-na is the negative command form of "eat."

Don't eat rice. Don't eat.

Ok, opposites.

Well of course the opposite of rice is bread. I think this is like an outdated WWII era stereotype that is much more important to Japan than to any other country. Japanese eat rice. Foreigners eat bread.

Ok.

Bread of course is "pan." Japan is an island country, so what's the difference between French and English, who cares, all same, we went with "pan" for bread. There are pan-yas everywhere, figure it out.

The opposite of kuu-na would just be kuu -- eat.

So in an extremely elaborate fashion that only works if you understand Japanese, cultural stereotypes, the unwritten clue to "use opposites," and the Japanese conception of foreign words you would arrive at a sound-joke "pan-ku."

Yes, the album is named the genre "punk."

Didn't know MC Hammer was graph-worthy. Fucken made me laugh that graph, though. The woman who lives with me has suggested that Machida Kou may be nearly as good a writer as Flotsam. How she came to think about any of this stuff is beyond my comprehension. The woman who lives with me surprised me today by correcting my pronunciation of "Elon", which I assumed was an homage to "Elton John" made by a slightly drunk set of parents. My assumption was a bit off. I had read his name in connection to some boring website/social media wall of crap. Spent billions on it I had read. I thought that things were just a bit weird, but when Ukrainian flags are flying all around me and somebody is buying walls of crap for 44 billion you know the woman who lives with me is going to focus on my pronunciation. Yep, no need to be concerned about the world around us. It's my pronunciation of some guy's name that is going make the house self-destruct. MC Hammer, now make it hammer time and start destroying this house before the woman who lives with me does it purely by ignoring plumbing, lighting, flooring, and everything else while my horrible pronunciation of some guy's name that does not matter at all consumes all aspects of living and breathing. Back to the thread.

 パンクの駄洒落　（ダジャレ） I was just digging into some late-70s early 80s Jappunk while in Japan. Can't find a link but my friend at DUMB Records got a new book with a few hundred pages of fliers for Japanese punk/post-punk/nuevo huevo etc. of that period. Lot's of known names pop up but of course there is really a lot of digging to be done. This channel has a handful of excellent comps...



Inu shows up in some of the other Youtube comps of the genre... Next time through this plane, it would be fun to be a young expat in Tokyo or Osaka circa 1978...
I actually saw the two-man lineup of Friction in the mid to late naughts ~ just saw the button back in Japan but maybe I chucked it!

Thought it was in with these but not! Guess the band's for those set lists!

I remember my mind being blown at a show in the early 90s where the band was selling their CD for $5. "The Secret!" They only cost $2 to make! Amazing.

My parents of course took all our home videos to costco and dumped them onto DVDs, chucked the originals. Not like I was gonna sit around and watch them one way or the other but... I'd probably have an easier time playing VHS than DVD. Frankly I have access to neither.

I did rescue the Super 8 film from the trash heap. That's sitting in the basement. Realistically that'll just sit there til it rots and is no longer playable... death comes for us all.

Was looking through a few boxes of my remaining physical paraphernalia - fliers, letters, badges, calendars...going back to the mid-80s, including 35-mm still camera roll- I think I have all the prints, but fuggit, back in the box. CDs though, all the CDRs gone- wotta fuggin waste of money, and a ton of regular CDs to be, er donated somewhere. At least the CDs are in vinyl slip covers and not the boxes!
Again, by force of circumstance, I have to go digital, but I do lament the insanely bald-assed scam of going CD in the late 80s! Alas, just another grape on the table of materialist declinez...



P.S. My IRL name is the same as Mr. Ginn, but I'm more a fan of Chuck, especially his 40-oz spiel...and shirt! throbzzzz

Dude are you into Slint, or wot?

Did this come up before?

holy shit, that clip of the practice in their mums basement at 51 minute mark. Just little kids. TOTAL lightning in a bottle moment.