My Hobby is Music!

I’ve loved Soul and Funk Music since junior high school.

Hello, my name is Yomogita, I am the operator of this Website.

My hobby is music!

Instead of a profile, I would like to write a history of my relationship with my hobby of music, starting when I was a teenager.

It was during my junior high school days that I developed a strong interest in music.

At that time, there were a lot of Music Programs broadcast on the radio and TV, and I listened to (watched) them a lot.

Around that time, I became obsessed with something called “Air Check”, which recorded FM broadcast programs. (Nostalgic!)

I loved listening to pop chart hit songs.

Queen, John Denver, Olivia Newton-John, and others were regulars on the charts.

I started listening to the Beatles right after I entered junior high school.

I was most passionate about soul and funk music.

Songs like Earth, Wind and Fire and Three Degrees were popular at the time, so I listened to them a lot.

Black music has a unique rolling groove that Japanese popular songs and pop music don’t have, and I absolutely loved it.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music these days, but the R&B music I was listening to around this time might be my favorite.

When I was in high school, I used to performed live shows.

When I entered high school, fusion music became my favorite music genre.

Foreign musicians such as the Crusaders, Lee Ritenour, and Weather Report were at their peak, and Japanese musicians such as Kazumi Watanabe, Masayoshi Takanaka, Native Son, and Cassiopeia were at their peak.

When I was in high school, I formed a band with my classmates and performed several times. (I was a keyboardist)

The stage is about an hour and a half long and consists of two parts. The first half is rock numbers such as Pink Floyd and the Doobie Brothers.

In the second half, we played Masayoshi Takanaka’s tunes, and the encore was Char’s “Shine You Shine Day”.

I think the ticket price was cheap, maybey around 300 yen, since most of the people who came to see our live performances were high school students.

I remember making the tickets by hand.

A lot of people came, and we were able to make a profit.

At one live show, just before the encore at the end, an old man I didn’t know who was in the audience suddenly ran up to the stage while holding up a 10,000 yen bill and gave it to us as a favor.

After the live performance, we rented out a coffee shop near the live performance venue and held the party.

After paying the hall rental fee and the after-show party, we still had some money left over, so we bought food and drinks, and all the band members went to the house of the mixer of the live show and had fun until late at night.

(To Be Continued)