Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[Jeff Scott]

I found a modern-day version of what the Supremes may have been like if they were Japanese, and in today's world.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Here's another, this one, a wierd cross between heavy metal and power pop in a way only the Japanese can pull off.



Japanese Kabuki metal pop!



This band is certainly pretty wacky!

 

[GwenOnBass]

Japanese pop is kind of hard for me to take

 

[StereoPlayer]

Japanese pop is kind of hard for me to take

So I guess this is not your style either! But I gotta say the guy can play the bass! Still entertaining for a bit!

 

[StereoPlayer]

I saw a group of 7 kids singing yesterday on tv. They were all using auto tune. Gotta say, they all sounded the same...

I don’t care for singing with auto tune.

I wonder what auto tune would sound like on my fretless bass...

 

[GwenOnBass]

So I guess this is not your style either! But I gotta say the guy can play the bass! Still entertaining for a bit!

ahhh that's kind of hard to take too

 

[StereoPlayer]

ahhh that's kind of hard to take too

Yup, not my style either!

Struggling after my second cataract eye surgery. Need new reading glasses... after healing.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I've seen all sorts of things in this life, and that is definitely one of them.

 

[Splash7]

I have learned, which was easy, through my many years, that weird isn't necessarily cool. (Yoko Ono, anyone?)

 

[GwenOnBass]

I always kind of thought the inside of a Japanese schoolgirl's rucksack probably looks like a frozen yogurt shop.

 

[StereoPlayer]

I always kind of thought the inside of a Japanese schoolgirl's rucksack probably looks like a frozen yogurt shop.

Like this?

 

[StereoPlayer]

I’m having a J body built using walnut and using my specs. Also a fretless Bubinga neck built from a different builder. Kinda excited about it but it’s way too early at this stage...

Just telling someone...

 

[GwenOnBass]

Sourced from fine Millinocket wood, I trust.

Verah naice!

 

[StereoPlayer]

Sourced from fine Millinocket wood, I trust.

Verah naice!

As far as I’m concerned...it’s coming from California.

A fellow TB’er is building it for me. Maybe a name later...

 

[beans-on-toast]

Here's another, this one, a wierd cross between heavy metal and power pop in a way only the Japanese can pull off.Japanese Kabuki metal pop! .....
This band is certainly pretty wacky! ....

There’s a huge music market in Japan. There are a lot of pop manufactured bands with marketing behind them. Like the Mickey Mouse Club initiated in the 50’s. Nothing wrong with that. Not to be undone, American record companies even issue special recordings of albums just for the Japanese market. Collectors lap it up.

I knew a guy that used to go to Tokyo once a month to sell Beatle bootleg CD’s, American made guitars and basses and amps, and other related collectables such as gold records. He could name any price and they gladly paid. He did very, very well. At one point he graduated from flying with goods to filling shipping containers. Of course, buying up all he could here drove up the prices for everyone else. The market was hot. Japanese collectors’ thirst for anything American drove up the price of vintage instruments in the 80’s. Prices that people paid in Japan dictated prices in North America. It ruined the vintage market. Bankers and rich people that didn’t even play were buying instruments and putting them in their vaults. They lost out when the market fell out.

It look a long time for manufacturers like Fender to smarten up and figure out how to produce quality instruments and amps again. Now, they are so good that vintage is a lot less attractive for many. Custom made instruments are also better than they’ve ever been. We live in a great time.

 

[Deleted member 268085]

There’s a huge music market in Japan. There are a lot of pop manufactured bands with marketing behind them. Like the Mickey Mouse Club initiated in the 50’s. Nothing wrong with that. Not to be undone, American record companies even issue special recordings of albums just for the Japanese market. Collectors lap it up.

I knew a guy that used to go to Tokyo once a month to sell Beatle bootleg CD’s, American made guitars and basses and amps, and other related collectables such as gold records. He could name any price and they gladly paid. He did very, very well. At one point he graduated from flying with goods to filling shipping containers. Of course, buying up all he could here drove up the prices for everyone else. The market was hot. Japanese collectors’ thirst for anything American drove up the price of vintage instruments in the 80’s. Prices that people paid in Japan dictated prices in North America. It ruined the vintage market. Bankers and rich people that didn’t even play were buying instruments and putting them in their vaults. They lost out when the market fell out.

It look a long time for manufacturers like Fender to smarten up and figure out how to produce quality instruments and amps again. Now, they are so good that vintage is a lot less attractive for many. Custom made instruments are also better than they’ve ever been. We live in a great time.

Truth!

 

[Al Kraft]

There’s a huge music market in Japan. There are a lot of pop manufactured bands with marketing behind them. Like the Mickey Mouse Club initiated in the 50’s. Nothing wrong with that. Not to be undone, American record companies even issue special recordings of albums just for the Japanese market. Collectors lap it up.

I knew a guy that used to go to Tokyo once a month to sell Beatle bootleg CD’s, American made guitars and basses and amps, and other related collectables such as gold records. He could name any price and they gladly paid. He did very, very well. At one point he graduated from flying with goods to filling shipping containers. Of course, buying up all he could here drove up the prices for everyone else. The market was hot. Japanese collectors’ thirst for anything American drove up the price of vintage instruments in the 80’s. Prices that people paid in Japan dictated prices in North America. It ruined the vintage market. Bankers and rich people that didn’t even play were buying instruments and putting them in their vaults. They lost out when the market fell out.

It look a long time for manufacturers like Fender to smarten up and figure out how to produce quality instruments and amps again. Now, they are so good that vintage is a lot less attractive for many. Custom made instruments are also better than they’ve ever been. We live in a great time.

Interesting perspective. It's amazing how easy it is to artificially create high value in things that have nowhere near that level of intrinsic value from a utility standpoint. It's also amazing how quickly fads can change and those artificial values a can instantly evaporate.

 

[GwenOnBass]

An army cannot exist without speculation, to hear tell.

 

[Passinwind]

I've seen all sorts of things in this life, and that is definitely one of them.

Not me. My YouTube boycott seems to be working after all.

 

[Jeff Scott]

There’s a huge music market in Japan. There are a lot of pop manufactured bands with marketing behind them. Like the Mickey Mouse Club initiated in the 50’s. Nothing wrong with that. Not to be undone, American record companies even issue special recordings of albums just for the Japanese market. Collectors lap it up.

I knew a guy that used to go to Tokyo once a month to sell Beatle bootleg CD’s, American made guitars and basses and amps, and other related collectables such as gold records. He could name any price and they gladly paid. He did very, very well. At one point he graduated from flying with goods to filling shipping containers. Of course, buying up all he could here drove up the prices for everyone else. The market was hot. Japanese collectors’ thirst for anything American drove up the price of vintage instruments in the 80’s. Prices that people paid in Japan dictated prices in North America. It ruined the vintage market. Bankers and rich people that didn’t even play were buying instruments and putting them in their vaults. They lost out when the market fell out.

It look a long time for manufacturers like Fender to smarten up and figure out how to produce quality instruments and amps again. Now, they are so good that vintage is a lot less attractive for many. Custom made instruments are also better than they’ve ever been. We live in a great time.

Back in the glorious '90s, there were the Photorama swap meets that I'd go to a couple times a year. At one table there was a very nicely dressed (black suit and tie), somewhat older Japanese fellow. He had no cameras, darkroom gear, vintage brochures and instructions, etc. to sell, like there were at all the other 100 or so tables all around him. Nada. Just an empty table with his arms spread out wide on it. Behind him was a large sign that said, very subliminally, "Sell Us All Your Camera Gear - Top ¥ Paid".