ボウイはグラムロック。
デビッドボウイは最近 といっても、4年前ぐらいになくなった。
ボウイはやっぱ、イギリス系でグラムロックの代表者的なミュージシャンで、
■ブライアンフェリー
■マークボラン
ビートルズとかの終盤の頃に ボウイももてはやされていた感じで その頃は中性的な感じで なんとなくサイケデリックな服装。顔は化粧で決めていて そのへんのカッコウよさが 今時のビジュアル系に大きな影響を与えてるに違いないっていうか・・・、多分そうなんだろう。
■若いころ
音も昔とずいぶん変わった。
だけど、ルックスもいいし、声も変わってていい感じで 歌もブリティッシュロックでフインキあるし 世界的にも なかなか出てこないというか
エンターテイメント的にもすごくいいし、初めのころの スターマンの頃とかが最高にいい感じではあるが、若いので顔がよすぎて 少し怖い感じがするが、バブルの頃の”チャイナガール”とかが流行った頃には
ビジュアル系メイクがはやる。
なんかでも、バブルの頃にはめちゃめちゃ 売れたって感じがしますが、
■ミックジャガー
マイケルもポールマッカートニーとやってたし、ポップス全盛期って感じでしたが・・・、また、彼らが来ている服とかも ”世界の一流品”とかを見てると 何気に着てる ポールのシャツが
それでも、バブルの頃にはボウイも落ち着いていて そんなケバケバしくなかったので そんなしないとは思いますが でもハデハデであることには間違いないっていうか・・・、それもにあってる。
その後にビジュアル系バンドでイギリスの”ジャパン”とか出てきましたが それよりずっと後のほうで
■土屋昌巳
■坂本龍一
その頃にはもうボウイはあまり メイクしてませんでしたが、地で勝負しても カッコウいいので たまりませんが・・・。
コードが面白い
音を聞いてると やっぱ、
■バブル期ぐらいかな～
そこへ持ってきて カナダ系のギターは変則チューニングでオープンコードが違ったりするので もっと、聞きづらかったように思いますが。今でこそ みんな理解していろんなコードや 進行で曲を作ってますが
伊藤博文が当時のイギリスの街を見たみたいな・・・、勝海舟がアメリカの街並みを初めて見たみたいな そんな感じです。そっからすると日本はすごく進化しましたが。
ボウイの影響は大きい
結局、
■X-JPAN
■ボウイ（BOOWY）
で 最後にボウイの曲は やっぱ、死ぬことがわかってて、突然出て来て 曲を書いて
■最近までのデビッドボウイ
今後も有名人が亡くなっていく
なんとなく、計算できますが、まさか有名とはいえ ミュージシャンが80歳までって事はないと思いますが、そうなんだったら
If you say “glam rock”, it’s probably “David Bowie”.
Bowie is glam rock.
David Bowie passed away about four years ago, even though it was recently.
Bowie is, after all, a British musician who represents glam rock. Isn’t it about a while ago?
Around the end of The Beatles, Bowie was also touted, and at that time he wore somewhat psychedelic clothes with an androgynous feel. His face is decided by makeup, and his coolness must have had a great influence on today’s visual kei.
The sound is also very different from before.
However, his looks are good, his voice has changed and it feels good, and his songs are British rock, and he has a lot of fun.
It’s really good entertainment-wise, and although Starman’s early days are the best, but he’s young and his face is too good-looking, so it’s a little scary, but the “China Girl” of the Bubble era. By the time it became popular, flashy make-up had gradually subsided, and overall it felt like it was becoming easier to see.I think the sound would still be the same, but the sound of the music world as a whole was changing, so there was After all, it’s become a sound that incorporates synths, or rather, until then, it felt like electronic music, but it was refined, and pop music is pop music overall, but it’s cohesive. I feel like the sounds from the bubble era have become much easier to hear, but…
Visual kei makeup is popular.
Anyway, I get the feeling that it sold really well around the time of the bubble economy, but was it around the time of “Let’s Dance” or “China Girl”? I also put out a duo of.
Michael also worked with Paul McCartney, so it felt like pop music was in its heyday. I’m surprised that a shirt costs 300,000 or 400,000 yen, so I wonder if Bowie’s costume is about double that.
Still, Bowie was calm during the bubble era, and he wasn’t that flashy, so I don’t think he would do that, but he’s definitely a bad guy… Teru. After all, he is a pioneer of visual kei.
After that, the British visual kei band “Japan” came out, but he came out much later, and he was related to Japan, Masami Tsuchiya from Japan, and Ryuichi Sakamoto, who was once working with David Sylvian. For some reason he was all put on make-up. Long ago in Japan, when folk music was popular, even in Japan, it was like Bowie was known to him. do not have. Bowie has been making up since that time, and the influence of that will come to his heyday after YMO just came out during the bubble period. Shinji Harada was also wearing makeup, and he was a bit of a jerk. The root is the influence of Bowie.
By that time, Bowie didn’t wear much make-up anymore, but even if he competed on the ground, he looked cool, so I couldn’t get enough of it…
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When I listen to the sound, it feels like the guitar is basically making the sound, but isn’t it nice to have a slightly different chord progression? In Japan, folk songs were in their heyday, and the chord progression was full of straight minor chords such as Am and Em.I think it was a simple chord progression with a flow of frequencies around 145, but Bowie was around that time. It must have been difficult to hear the sado in Japan because of the heavy use of major seventh chords and diminished chord progressions in such unfamiliar chord progressions.
Bringing it there, I think it was harder to hear because Canadian guitars have different tunings and different open chords. Now she understands everyone and makes songs with various chords and progressions, but at that time he was a light “culture shock”.
It’s like Hirobumi Ito saw the streets of England at the time… Kaishu Katsu saw the streets of America for the first time. Since then, Japan has evolved a lot.
Bowie’s big influence
In the end, Bowie passed away when he was about 68, but when I saw a visual kei band that had an enviable presence and influenced people who were doing various kinds of music and made up, it was like “David Bowie”. There was a band called “Bowie”, and if you look at Koji Kikkawa, you’ll see “David Bowie” in various places.
And finally, Bowie’s song, knowing that he was going to die, came out of the blue, wrote a song, left a promotional video, and conveyed that tragic feeling. It doesn’t come out like that, leaving a sound that conveys the fact that he’s a musician, and the last sound is quite slow, and it’s age-appropriate. That kind of sound creation… I really respect you.
Celebrities keep dying
Somehow, it’s possible to calculate, but I don’t think musicians reach the age of 80, even if they’re famous, but if that’s the case, the time will come when there will be no more famous musicians in the world. There are a lot of people who think that coming to Japan will be the last time they come to Japan, and from now on, when they come to Japan, I want to go see them as much as possible, but is it sad to think that way?
