I found a polka-dot guitar strap, so I put it on my Les Paul.
That's pretty good.
2021/04/10
2021/04/08
Video uploaded to Instagram
I uploaded a new video to Instagram.
The background music is "Where's the Black?" by Kanashibari.
2021/04/06
Murakami Ryu's Dishes Stories
I love this short story.
I've read it dozens of times and it's become very ragged.
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2021/04/05
2021/04/04
I want to make a video like SIN CITY
I uploaded a video to Instagram.
This is a guitar solo for Five IQ.
How can I create a video with a texture like Sin City?
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2021/04/01
When the seven colors shine
Finger Ease.
One squirt on the strings of your guitar or bass and the strings instantly start to glow seven different colors, your hands start to glow seven different colors, the volume coming out of the guitar doubles, the neck splits in two, the head of course splits in two, and your left hand moves over the strings as fast as a red comet (meaning three times faster than normal). Your left hand will move over the strings as fast as a red comet (meaning three times as fast as normal, if you're right-handed), your right hand will pluck down the strings as fast as a machine gun (if you're right-handed), right-handers will become left-handers, left-handers will become right-handers, you'll be able to play any song you know and any song you don't know, punks' mohawks will stand upside down like hedgehogs, rock 'n' rollers' regalia will be a thing of the past, and you'll be able to play any song you want. A punk's mohawk stands upside down like a hedgehog, a rock 'n' roller's regent gets caught in an automatic door, heavy metal spews hellfire from its mouth, the end of the year is a busy time, CDs are made to order on disc-on-demand, it's summer all year round, drums are played in space, people drink canned chuhai and despair about their tongues, the band survives despite a change in vocalists, and a novel with a cool title is written. A novel with a cool title is made into a movie, and analog records overtake CDs...
In short, it's a magic spray.
I found it when I was cleaning out my room. I have no idea when I bought it. It's probably the only Finger Ease I've ever bought in my life. The number of times I've used it is probably in the single digits.
I've often seen guitarists and bassists spraying the neck (or rather, the fingerboard) of their guitars and basses at live music venues, but I just found out that spraying directly on the fingerboard is a bad idea. I just found out that it's not good to spray directly on the fingerboard, because it damages the fingerboard and neck. Well, I guess it depends on how much you spray.
I wonder if anyone needs this finger-ease.
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2021/03/31
It's the end of the fiscal year
Today is the 31st of March. I'm sure everyone is busy with this and that.
March 31st is the day when the Eiffel Tower, the symbol of the French capital Paris, was completed. The tower itself was completed on March 15, 1889, but since it opened on March 31, the official date of completion is March 31, 1889. That means that March 31 is a busy day for everyone.
Speaking of March 31, the Ministry of Justice announced that the total population of Japan surpassed 100 million on March 31, 1966. It's a good thing. The population is expected to drop below 100 million by 2048 and to 86 million by 2060. The number is expected to drop again below 100 million by 2048, to around 86 million by 2060. That means that March 31 will be a busy day for all of you.
By the way, it has nothing to do with March 31st, but it seems that the KISS Ukiyoe that I introduced in the Pop Art Showdown has appeared in Japanese textbooks.
KISS Ukiyoe "Kissing Four Great Heads" published in a Japanese junior high school art textbook
It seems to be an introduction to the "print" technique, but is this KISS Ukiyo-e a real print? I thought they were just designed to look like that, but I guess not.
Oh, and I heard that March 31st is Mr. Santayo Viper's birthday. Happy birthday to him!
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2021/03/30
From 1 CD
If you've ever tried to sell something with inventory, you know that you don't want to be carrying inventory.
When a CD label or a band or a musician produces a CD, of course the parties involved are going to have inventory. No matter how huge a warehouse you have, space is finite, and you can't hold an infinite amount of inventory. This is why CDs of bands that have broken up are sometimes discontinued. Of course, even if a band doesn't break up, they often discontinue their CDs due to various reasons.
This is why there is a service called "Disc on Demand". It's a service where you can order a single copy and have it produced to order. Of course, the profit margin that is returned to the artist or label is lower, but the best part is that you don't have to carry inventory, which is a benefit that can turn your whole world upside down.
I haven't used such a service yet, and I don't have any plans to make anything new at the moment, but just the other day I was vaguely thinking that if I were to make another CD, I might as well use Disc On Demand.
Then, today, I heard the news that Amazon's "Amazon Disc on Demand" will be discontinued.
I thought, "Oh, maybe there weren't enough users," so I looked into it, but I wondered if Amazon had made such an announcement. I couldn't find any such announcement from Amazon, but I did see a few companies other than Amazon withdrawing their services. I didn't see any such announcement from Amazon, but I did see a few companies other than Amazon withdrawing from the market, so I guess it's not that popular.
So, when I took a closer look at the contents of the "Disc on Demand" service, I realized that it's not for "CDs" but for "CD-Rs". It's natural to think of it as a "one copy minimum" service, but I guess that might be a point of resistance for the general public.
It doesn't matter if it's a CD or CD-R, the music inside is the same.
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2021/03/29
Is it included?
I was thrown into despair when I heard that today was supposed to be a "summer day," meaning that the maximum temperature would be 25 degrees Celsius, but in reality, it only got up to about 23 degrees Celsius. In fact, it only got up to about 23 degrees Celsius around me.
Even so, I've been lambasted for calling it a "summer day" when it's over 25 degrees Celsius. In the real summer, it's supposed to be around 40 degrees Celsius. Around me.
Come to think of it, the highest temperature above 25 degrees Celsius is called a summer day, above 30 degrees Celsius is called a midsummer day, and above 35 degrees Celsius is called a heat wave day. I used to think that summer days, midsummer days, and heat wave days were separate things, but according to this definition, midsummer days are included in summer days, and heat wave days are included in summer days and midsummer days. Highball and chuhai are not separate, but chuhai is a substitute for highball whisky with shochu (so chuhai is included in highball).
I wondered how much hotter it had gotten in recent years, and found this article.
Annual number of summer days, midsummer days, extremely hot days, and tropical nights in the district
This PDF came up in a direct search, but from the URL, it looks like "in the ward" means "Chiyoda Ward. I don't live in Chiyoda Ward, but I'm sure it's the same everywhere in the 23 wards.
This is only up to 2019, but in 2019, there were 126 summer days, 55 midsummer days, and 12 extremely hot days.
That's 126 summer days!
Over 1/3 of the year is summer? One out of every three days is summer?
That's amazing...
By the way, in 1920, there were 95 summer days, 38 midsummer days, and 0 extremely hot days. Japan has a beautiful climate.
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2021/03/28
Cosmic Sound
I wonder how sound sounds in zero gravity.
Gravity is not supposed to have anything to do with the propagation of sound, but what does it really mean? It is said that gravity has nothing to do with the way we hear sound, because sound is a vibration of air. Well, I don't know if people can actually tell the difference by listening to the sound.
This is because I've been reminded of the importance of reverb for the past few days.
Reverb is "an effect that adds reverberation and reflections to sound to create a sense of spatial depth and breadth" in general.
To tell you the truth, I didn't really know what reverb was. I didn't realize how important a role it plays.
Especially in the old days, bands would say, "I like the sound of this place, so let's record here! I wondered what kind of albums have been recorded in unusual places, and when I looked it up, I found an album recorded in space.
Space Sessions: Songs From A Tin Can" was recorded on board the International Space Station by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, but he didn't record all the parts in space. It seems to be just songs and guitars. I'm really interested to hear how the drums sound in zero gravity.
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2021/03/27
A Can of Chuhai Named Despair
Highball = Whiskey with carbonation
Chuhai = shochu with carbonation
I thought it was "highball". Until now. But it's not.
Highball" is indeed "whiskey with carbonation," but the substitute for it with shochu is "shochu highball," or "chuhai. Originally, "chuhai" was born as a substitute for "highball," so rather than "highball" and "chuhai" being juxtaposed, "chuhai" is positioned as a backward-compatible version of "highball. I've only recently started drinking chuhai, so I didn't know that at all.
The picture above is the "lemon" one, but I tried the "dry" one yesterday, and I was surprised to find that it tasted like whiskey.
I think it tastes like a highball, or "whiskey with carbonation," but the can says "shochu highball" in big letters. It clearly says "The base is shochu.
I thought it tasted like whiskey, but is that shochu? I don't know if it's the preconceived notion of the word "highball," but my taste buds have reached that point. I feel a little hopeless.
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2021/03/26
Stone Temple Pilots
Scott Weiland, the vocalist of Stone Temple Pilots, died a long time ago, but I didn't know they were still going.
Stone Temple Pilots "Tiny Music" 25th Anniversary Edition on sale with a sample of one unreleased track
As I wrote in the article "Blind Melon and Dokken", I think there are a lot of foreign bands that change their vocalists and survive.
Blind Melon, Dokken...
Stone Temple Pilots will be added to the list of bands that I wrote about in this article that have changed their vocalists.
In addition to Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden, the three main grunge bands, Blind Melon and Stone Temple Pilots, which are not grunge bands but just bands from the same era, have all lost their vocalists. But among them, Alice in Chains Soundgarden seems to be still going.
Scott Weiland, the singer of Stone Temple Pilots, used to be in Velvet Revolver with Slash and Duff from Guns. I thought it was pretty good...but not that great. Probably the biggest reason is that the drummer is Matt Sorum. I don't like his drumming because it doesn't have any push or pull, it just flows. I think the main reason why Izzy left Guns was because the drummer was replaced by Matt Sorum from Steven Adler, but I'm not sure about that.
But I think Steven Adler is going to be hard to work with. He's too uneven. When I listened to a pirated copy of Guns' pre-debut live performance, the tempo slowed down so much that I thought it was going to stop, and in a way, I was blown away. In that sense, Matt Sorum seems to be very stable and easy to work with. I can't think of any other selling point other than his stability. But from what I've heard, he seems like a really nice guy. I wonder if that's why his performance is not interesting...
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2021/03/25
Almost Transparent Blue
In search of cool "titles" from all over the world, I set out for a phantom continent that has been passed down since ancient times, traversed mountains, valleys, and storms, was hit by rain, waterfalls, and even lightning, listened to birds chirping, admired flowers, ate sweet bread, and dozed off with my eyes dripping, and sure enough, there it was. This is what I found.
Almost Transparent Blue
That's right. I think it's a title that no one will ever forget, because it's so impactful without using difficult words. It's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of "cool titles.
Needless to say, "Blue is Nearly Transparent" is Ryu Murakami's debut novel, which won the Akutagawa Prize. I have read the novel many times. I like "Fascism of Love and Illusion" among his works, but now I feel like reading "Coin Locker Babies" for the first time in a long time.
This novel is being made into a movie, isn't it? I wondered how they made it into a movie, so I looked it up, but it was not available on DVD, only on VHS. Not even a fragment of the video is available on Youtube. To be honest, my expectations are not that high, but I would like to see it. I'd like to feel the atmosphere of that time period rather than the perfection of the film.
The movie was not available, but the soundtrack was uploaded. It's good. I can't get enough of the "that era" feeling. One of the songs on the soundtrack was Carmen Maki's "Pale White Sunset," and I had never heard of her before. I've known her name for a very long time, but this is probably the first time I've heard her music. Her voice in this song reminds me a lot of Mayumi Gorawa's, doesn't it? I don't feel that way when I listen to other songs, though. The singers of that era were unbelievably good.
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2021/03/24
Analog vinyl records will overtake CDs...almost
I've written about the trend of analog records several times in this note, and it seems that analog record sales are finally overtaking CD sales. In the UK.
It's hard to say whether 33 years is long or short, but I looked it up and found that Edison invented the record in 1877. I don't know how it spread to the general public after that, but from that point of view, the record was in the ascendancy for 110 years until 1987. CDs are still fleeting.
I'm sure that vinyl records will continue to thrive, cassette tapes will still be around, and delivery will continue to improve in sound quality.
By the way, Lou Ottens, the inventor of the cassette tape, passed away a while ago.
When Ottens (or rather, the Philips company where Ottens worked) opened up the patent for the cassette tape to the public, the cassette tape quickly spread around the world. Nowadays, open source is quite common, but it was a bold decision in 1965. I wonder if that was the norm. But if they hadn't released the patent for free, there is a possibility that something else would have become popular instead. If that had been the case, the world would have been a different place.
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2021/03/23
Dr. Strangelove
It's not a song title, but I'm thinking of a title for something.
So I was looking up titles from all over the world, from such and such to such and such, to see if there were any good ones called "titles" that I could use as a reference, and I discovered a shocking fact.
There's "The Abnormal Love of Dr. Seuss," isn't there? It's a black comedy film directed by Stanley Kubrick. I've never seen it, but I know the title very well because it has a strong impact on me.
The original title of "Dr. Strangelove" is "Dr. Strangelove". The literal translation is "Dr. Strangelove". The director, Kubrick, specified that the title of the film should be either the original title or a literal translation, and forbade the use of alternate titles.
It's hard to understand what the movie is about if it's still called "Dr. Strangelove," but he forbade anything other than the original title or a literal translation. So, the people in charge of giving Japanese titles to foreign films that came to Japan narrowed down the original title "Dr. Strangelove" is separated into "Dr.", "Strange" and "love". Then, they directly translated "Dr. = Dr.", "Strange = abnormal", and "love = affection". They connected them together and called it "Dr. Strangelove's Abnormal Love".
Isn't this a great way to make a point? I didn't know what "Dr. Strangelove" was about, but now it's got a really great atmosphere, doesn't it?
I was seriously impressed. It's so cool to use your brain like that. I just took a cool title and did a little research to see if I could use it as a reference. I'm going to try to use it as a reference.
By the way, when I said I was going to use it as a reference, I remembered that at the end of the guitar solo in "Welcome Dead," the music video I released yesterday, I played a phrase from a very famous song.
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2021/03/22
Welcome, seared Sakhalin shishamo, dead
The "Seared Sakhalin Shishamo" sold at 100 yen Lawson is delicious. When I first tried it, I thought it was good, but it was too salty. So I didn't buy it for a while, but when I tried it the other day, the saltiness was just right, and it was good for drinking. I don't know if they secretly made minor changes or if my palate has become dull. I don't trust my own tongue at all, so the mystery only deepens.
So today, the music video for "Welcome Dead" has finally been released!
The song that I wrote about in the "Search for Mistakes" section the other day, "the song that has a lot of the word "welcome" in it," is exactly this song. Some of the subtitles for the word "welcome" in the chorus were changed to "welcame". I think it's all fixed, but I'm not sure. If you find anything that hasn't been fixed, please forget about it immediately.
Speaking of "Welcome Dead," it used to be the first song we almost always played at gigs. However, the song "Welcome Dead" released today is no longer the same as the song "Welcome Dead" that was included in the third track of the first EP "Underworld". Or rather, it is no longer a different song if it has changed so much.
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2021/03/21
Jazz Model
Once upon a time, I challenged the Flying V I was using at the time to see how far I could get it to sound like a single coil.
There are a number of differences between single-coil and humbuckers, but to put it simply, single-coil sound is thin, fast rising, and has good separation, while humbucker sound is thick, slow rising, and has poor separation, but has guts. That's a rough description.
For the pickups, I chose SEYMOUR DUNCAN SH-2 pickups, commonly known as the "Jazz Model". The pickup is a SEYMOUR DUNCAN SH-2, also known as the "Jazz Model" pickup, which has a clear tone with emphasis on the high end and a very tight low end. This pickup is usually installed in the front (neck side), but I decided to install it in the rear (bridge side).
The bridge with titanium saddles and the tailpiece made of titanium are used to boost the sound's rise and separation to the level of a red comet (meaning three times higher than normal), and the pegs are a magnum lock type for further separation.
I replaced everything from the volume pot to the wiring materials to increase the rise and separation of the sound, and finally replaced everything except the wood parts.
It didn't have the "crunch" of a single-coil guitar, but it was still a great guitar.
I was reminded of this when I saw a SEYMOUR DUNCAN SH-2 that had come out from the back of the parts shelf.
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2021/03/20
Spot the difference
What a surprise, it's been two weeks today since the release of the music video for "Where's the Black?
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2021/03/19
The thing that tourists visiting Japan from overseas buy without knowing why
I've been attacking the world with the brush strokes of Kanashibari's song titles for a while now, and here it is at last, "Bacteria". I have the impression that it's competing with "Ring the Bell to Kill Everyone" for the top spot among Kanashibari's songs.
Incidentally, the riff of this song is made up of my so-called "habits," so I'm always ashamed when people say, "I like Bacteria the best! I feel like I'm being praised for my shame every time I hear it.
This time, I tried to create various things again, but I think the impact of kanji characters is stronger than katakana. I think the impact of kanji is weaker than katakana.
So I decided to use a smaller size, and the one I felt most comfortable with was the orthodox T-shirt.
"Doh! I think it's better to use smaller letters rather than big ones like "Doh! I have a hopeless sense of balance when it comes to placement. This design is kind of like those "T-shirts with strange Japanese printed on them" that tourists from overseas buy without knowing why.
I really don't know what to think of other items such as phone cases and tote bags, so I definitely recommend the T-shirts. I can assure you that it will be like those "T-shirts with weird Japanese printed on them" that tourists visiting Japan from overseas buy without knowing why!
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2021/03/18
My old blog
A long time ago, I was writing a blog. It was way before I started Kanashibari, back when primitive people were still biting into the meat of mammoth slices.
When I was writing yesterday's article, I couldn't find a picture of my Guild X79, so I thought, "I must have posted it on my blog back then," and logged on to the service for the first time in a long time (the blog itself is now closed).
By the way, the access analysis of blog services is basically padded (although I don't know about that now), but even if you take that out of the equation, it was a blog with quite a lot of access. I was often told by people I met for the first time at live music venues that they were looking at my blog.
I don't remember what kind of things I used to write on such a popular blog, but I thought, "I remember it was something like this note," but when I took a look at it, I was surprised at how little volume there was in each article.
I was surprised to find that the volume of each article was small, though some of them were as large as this recent note. And there are a lot of articles that are clearly "written in a drunken state"... or rather, most of them can be said to be "written in a drunken state". It's true that most of my memories of those days are of drinking for bottoms up. It's horrible.
I wrote a few articles about the Guild X79, but I didn't post any pictures of the guitar, which is the most important thing, and I just used funny pictures I found on the Internet.
What the hell did I want to say at that time?
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