Music stuff..........
On this page, you will find some material which concerns music in one way or another. WATCH THIS SPACE.
My Music Videos on YouTube
Latest YouTube Vid: Blues Craziness with Hiroyuki, from Tsurumi Uni Festival 2014
Above is my latest appearance holding a guitar in public. It was at the local festival held in Isehara, where I live. This place is just one minutes away from my house. Very convenient! It's a bit mad, but with a sense of humour... well, you need one in this business....
The above clip is from my performance at the Tsurumi University Festival in 2011.
Martin's Guitar Show
Above you can see an excerpt from my 2010 comedy show (with guitar) at Tsurumi University (the only place that will have me).
otherwise, there are some other little bits and pieces on YouTube, just put in "machrijam"
Jazz Website
I created a website very recently in conjunction with my brother Jim. It's his 'garage', but we both contribute. He used to be a jazz journalist -and I used to be his sidekick photographer. It's in its infancy, but we have some interesting material on it already -an interview with legendary musician John McLaughlin, some original jazz photos I took, (like the pic of Miles Davis above) and concert reviews... Take a look, and leave some feedback if you're of a mind to:
http://jimsgarage007.weebly.com/
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Next, there's my sounds at Soundcloud. You can check them out at. I may pull the plug on these sounds very soon, though....
https://soundcloud.com/#machrijam
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http://jimsgarage007.weebly.com/
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Next, there's my sounds at Soundcloud. You can check them out at. I may pull the plug on these sounds very soon, though....
https://soundcloud.com/#machrijam
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Book on Heavy Metal by Tsurumi University Student
I also have one item to inform concerning music that comes from a
student at Tsurumi, one Shuhei Hasegawa, Master of Metal. A post-grad
student, and a researcher into the world of heavy rock music, especially from the seventies (my favourite period of music also), he has published a book -in digital form- and it is available on Amazon.co.jp and Rakuten kobo: http://rakuten.kobobooks.com/ebook/ヘヴィメタルを読む/book-YoEwu7vavEq04rB9A3Rfrw/page1.html?s=3zJAyBpHXUq7eF-vr0xgaQ&r=1
The title is: ヘヴィメタルを読む - なぜNWOBHMは反逆者の音楽と言われているのか or "Reading Heavy Metal -why do people call this the music of anarchy?" [my unofficial title] As you can see, it's written in Japanese. Well, it's for the Japanese audience, to inform them about the phenomenon of HM and to describe its universe and its many different aspects. The NWOBHM refers to 'New Wave of British Heavy Metal'. Part of this relates to the social origins of this kind of music, from the late seventies, the North of England, and the shadow of Thatcherism. A few years ago, Shuhei took my UK lit course and got into Alan Sillitoe, a writer famous for his stories about a depressed North of England, with underdog working class characters battling in some way against an oppressive and discriminatory class-driven system. We looked at Sillitoe's short story 'The Match', a little bit of the film version 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning', and later Shuhei read 'The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner.' Shuhei finds Sillitoe to be a way into seeing working class British culture and ethos. He tells me that he has discussed Sillitoe's work and impact with frontman of Motörhead, Lemmy Kilmister, who is an acquaintance of Shuhei's. Lemmy agreed that Sillitoe's characters have had a profound impact on the shaping of working class consciousness and the expression of dissent against the imbalances of the British class-system. (One might also note that the title of the Arctic Monkey's debut album in 2006 was taken directly from a quotation from the main character of 'Saturday Night, Sunday Morning', rebel Arthur Seaton: 'Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not'.)
For Amazon, just copy and paste the title below into amazon.co.jp and you will see it in all its glory:
ヘヴィメタルを“読む”―なぜNWOBHMは反逆者の音楽と言われているのか―
Congratulations, Shuhei !! Rock it Out, Man !!
student at Tsurumi, one Shuhei Hasegawa, Master of Metal. A post-grad
student, and a researcher into the world of heavy rock music, especially from the seventies (my favourite period of music also), he has published a book -in digital form- and it is available on Amazon.co.jp and Rakuten kobo: http://rakuten.kobobooks.com/ebook/ヘヴィメタルを読む/book-YoEwu7vavEq04rB9A3Rfrw/page1.html?s=3zJAyBpHXUq7eF-vr0xgaQ&r=1
The title is: ヘヴィメタルを読む - なぜNWOBHMは反逆者の音楽と言われているのか or "Reading Heavy Metal -why do people call this the music of anarchy?" [my unofficial title] As you can see, it's written in Japanese. Well, it's for the Japanese audience, to inform them about the phenomenon of HM and to describe its universe and its many different aspects. The NWOBHM refers to 'New Wave of British Heavy Metal'. Part of this relates to the social origins of this kind of music, from the late seventies, the North of England, and the shadow of Thatcherism. A few years ago, Shuhei took my UK lit course and got into Alan Sillitoe, a writer famous for his stories about a depressed North of England, with underdog working class characters battling in some way against an oppressive and discriminatory class-driven system. We looked at Sillitoe's short story 'The Match', a little bit of the film version 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning', and later Shuhei read 'The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner.' Shuhei finds Sillitoe to be a way into seeing working class British culture and ethos. He tells me that he has discussed Sillitoe's work and impact with frontman of Motörhead, Lemmy Kilmister, who is an acquaintance of Shuhei's. Lemmy agreed that Sillitoe's characters have had a profound impact on the shaping of working class consciousness and the expression of dissent against the imbalances of the British class-system. (One might also note that the title of the Arctic Monkey's debut album in 2006 was taken directly from a quotation from the main character of 'Saturday Night, Sunday Morning', rebel Arthur Seaton: 'Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not'.)
For Amazon, just copy and paste the title below into amazon.co.jp and you will see it in all its glory:
ヘヴィメタルを“読む”―なぜNWOBHMは反逆者の音楽と言われているのか―
Congratulations, Shuhei !! Rock it Out, Man !!
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and now for a photograph of my bedroom....
and now for a photograph of my bedroom....
...... well, actually....
not quite... ! This is a shot I took of the studio which is in a shop called Hyper Guitars, in Shin-Okubo. It's downstairs from a great second-hand shop (found at http://www.tcgakki.com/). I played a 1971 Les Paul through those Marshall stacks, making quite a bit of noise in the process. And this was the exact same place where ole Johnny Depp came last year. He played a variety of stuff on a few guitars, apparently a lot of his own compositions, and walked out having bought a '59 blonde Fender Strat. Anyway, check out the wee thank you note he left....
not quite... ! This is a shot I took of the studio which is in a shop called Hyper Guitars, in Shin-Okubo. It's downstairs from a great second-hand shop (found at http://www.tcgakki.com/). I played a 1971 Les Paul through those Marshall stacks, making quite a bit of noise in the process. And this was the exact same place where ole Johnny Depp came last year. He played a variety of stuff on a few guitars, apparently a lot of his own compositions, and walked out having bought a '59 blonde Fender Strat. Anyway, check out the wee thank you note he left....
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YouTube Music Video by Tsurumi Student
Please check out the YouTube video below by former Tsurumi student Kota. It is his cover of (the John Mayer version of) the Stevie Ray Vaughan blues ballad entitled 'Lenny'.
Cooooool !!!!