show-t(Bass)

【In Japanese】

中学２年の時、バンドを組みたいがベースいないからやってくれないかというよくあるパターンにてベースを開始。当時は乗り気ではなくベースを買う気もなかったが、ハードオフで5000円の格安ジャンク品を見つけ即購入。

買ったは良いものの、店にベースケースがなかったため、ギターケースにベースを収納して自宅に持ち帰る。ベースのヘッド部分がギターケースでは当然収まりきらず、はみ出たまま帰宅。

当時は、グレイ、ルナシー、シャムシェイドのコピバンで、ベースの構える位置は低いほうがかっこいいという信念のもと、極限まで下げ、肩を壊す。さらに高１の春に部活で膝も壊し入院する。病室での退屈を支えてくれたのは、当時ラジオで流れていたコルトレーンのLove Supremeであった。せいぜい５分くらいの曲をTAB譜を見ながら演奏していた当時は、10分を余裕で超えるJAZZはいったいどうやって演奏しているのだろうか、曲の楽譜はどうなってるのか、そもそも楽譜を暗譜しているのだろうか？という純粋な疑問から始まり、どんどんジャズにはまっていく。

順調に浪人をしていた19歳の冬、Soul, Funkの帝王James Brownが亡くなり、その追悼特集で流れていたアポロシアターのライブをラジオで偶然耳にし衝撃を受ける。以後、ブラックミュージックの変遷にも興味を持ち、HIPHOPにも当然目を向けるようになる。

順調に19歳で大学に入学し、軽音楽、ジャズ等のサークルに入るものの、Funk, Soul, HIPHOPを理解してくれる友人はオーディオ研究会というDJサークルにしかおらず、途方に暮れるようになる。そんな中、当時日本で流行絶頂であったmixiにて仙台で生音HIPHOPをやっているというDirty Jokesを発見。偶然ベースを募集しているということに運命を感じ即日連絡。スタジオでの初顔合わせの日、ドアを開けると生まれて初めて見る生アフロ、それが今ではラッパー兼子どもが同じ保育園のパパ友ta:law da afromanであった。セッションは大いに盛り上がり、即日メンバーに加入。スタジオ等にて数多くの楽曲をここから２年ほどで作り上げ、１３年ほどHDDの中に温める。

大学在学時、卒業後も仙台、神奈川にて音楽活動を継続し今に至る。

【In English】

When he was in the second year of junior high school, he started playing bass guitar as a result of a common pattern that the band he was playing with didn't have a bass player. At that time, he wasn't interested in buying a bass, but he found a cheap junk for 5,000 yen at a hard sale and bought it immediately.

He bought it, but the store didn't have a bass case, so he put the bass in a guitar case and took it home. The head part of the bass didn't fit in the guitar case, so he took it home with it sticking out.

At the time, he was a Copy-Band of Glay, Lunacy and Siam-shade(Japanese famous visual bands) and he believed that the lower the position of the bass is, the cooler it is to hold it, so he lowered it to the extreme and broke his shoulder. He also breaks his knee during club activities in the spring of his first year of high school and is hospitalized.The only thing that kept him from being bored in the hospital was a song on the radio, Love Supreme by Coltrane.  In those days, he used to play songs that were at most five minutes long while looking at a TAB sheet music, but he wondered how on earth they played jazz songs that were longer than ten minutes, how the scores of the songs were written, and if they had to memorize the scores in the first place? he was getting more and more into jazz.

In the winter of 19, when he was a wandering student, he was shocked to hear the Apollo Theater's live show on the radio as part of a special tribute to James Brown, the king of Soul and Funk. After that, he became interested in the transition of black music, and naturally, he turned his attention to HIPHOP.

At the age of 19, he enrolled in a university and joined light music and jazz clubs, but the only friends who understood Funk, Soul and HIPHOP were in a DJ club called the Audio Research Group, and he was at a loss.Then, he discovered Dirty Jokes, a live sounding HIPHOP band in Sendai on mixi, a social networking service at the height of popularity in Japan at the time.  By chance, he found out that they were looking for a bass player and contacted him on the same day. On the first meeting at the studio, he opened the door to find his first ever live Afro and it was my friend ta:law da afroman, who is now a rapper and a friend of the father who shares the same nursery school. The session was a great success and he joined the band on the same day. In the next 2 years or so, he made up a lot of songs in the studio and other places, and kept them in his HDD for 13 years.

During college and after graduation, he has continued his musical activities in Sendai and Kanagawa.