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Tokyo Record Style Day Vol. 1 – Shimokitazawa – Thank You!
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Tokyo Record Style Day Vol. 1 – Shimokitazawa – Thank You!

Posted on: January 29, 2023July 24, 2023

Record shop-hopping with fellow music-lovers/makers/appreciators = new friends and new music! Thanks, homies for coming to the first edition of Tokyo Record Style Day – Vol. 1 – Shimokitazawa! Try Best Offer Score On Instagram

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1/5 There have only been a couple of records that have really caught me off guard on this project: Leon Russel’s self-titled debut, Shane MacGowan’s (R.I.P.) “The Snake” and now the Grateful Dead’s “Workingman’s Dead” - WOW! When I asked Nozomi san what record she had scored from HMV in Shibuya, I did NOT expect her to bust out Workingman’s Dead, a deeeeeeply formative record from my youth. Arguably the Dead’s best studio attempt, Workingman’s is to the equally beloved American Beauty maybe what Rubber Soul was to Revolver, a companion masterpiece, and my favorite of the two. As you may know, it features just 8 songs, Uncle John’s Band, High Time, Dire Wolf, New Speedway Boogie, Cumberland Blues, Black Peter, Easy Wind, and Casey Jones. GOOD GRIEF! What a collection of pure Americana! Plus, this record heavily features the endearing wildcard Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, the short-lived harmonica-playing frontman whose contribution to the Dead I adored, especially on the rambler “Easy Wind” which I must have listened and played harmonica along to a thousand times or more as a teenager. To this day it remains one of my all-time favorite songs. This song transfixed me on the Dead for many years to come after the very first time I heard it and I still consider myself VERY lucky to have essentially run off with the circus at about 16 or 17 in my VW Bus and to have seen the Dead about a dozen times. To say that this record changed my life is not an overstatement at all. Say hello to Keigo, bass player of Tokyo indie rockers “Tomato Ketchup Boys”, who I ran across in Shimokitazawa a few weeks back while record-shopping with his bandmates, frontman and guitarist Haruki, and drummer Shunsuke (from the previous post). Shunsuke pictured here was part of a trio of friends I caught up with a couple of weeks back in Shimokitazawa. He was with his pals, Keigo, (who had also scored a record and who I will feature in the following post) and Haruki, who together make up “The Tomato Ketchup Boys” a band that the three have kept together since for some 7 years after forming in highschool (if I remember correctly.) With Shunsuke on drums, Keigo on bass, and Haruki on lead guitar and vocal, these three had some pretty good brotherly chemistry, and the fact that they were out record-shopping together in Shimokitazawa really spoke so loudly to that. Wow, another TRS first …we’ll at least first since my very first post. This is a bit of a Tokyo Record Style first. The backlog of music… a great problem to have, or a sign that you are spread too thin. “I’m getting closer! I can feel it!” ..a thought I was having to myself. 1/5
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