Mickey Yoshino talks about the 70 -year -old album with him
We spot one set of artists who have become the cornerstone of Japanese music each month, drawing out stories deeply from them and those involved at the time.The special feature in February 2022 is "Mickey Yoshino 70 years old".On February 2, KEEP ON KICKIN IT, which covers various artists as the Golden Cups, Solo activities, and composers and Mickey Yoshino, were released on February 2.With Mickey Yoshino himself, he talks about his activities, mainly the original song, as well as the story of the album "KEEP ON KICKIN it".
Hideki Taya: Good evening.FM COCOLO "J-POP LEGEND FORUM" guide, Hideki Taya.What is flowing now is "The Birth of the Odyssey ~ Monkey Magic feat.JUJU ".Needless to say, Gotaigo's 1978 hit song.It was the first song of the album "Saiyuki".
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You can listen to the album "KEEP ON KICKIN IT" released on February 2.This song is this song this week.The special feature in February 2022 this month is "Mickey Yoshino 70 years old".Mickey's 70th birthday is December 13th.On December 22, the commemorative album "KEEP ON KICIKIN it" was released.And the other day, it was released on the CD on February 2.Not only Godigo, but also the Golden Cups, solo activities, representative songs as composers, and various artists are covered.Anniversary album focusing on the whole picture as a musician.This month we are introducing the album over 4 weeks.The producer is Seiji Kameda, and last week and last week, we will introduce all songs with Kameda.This week and next week.We are welcoming Mickey Yoshino.good evening
Mickey Yoshino: Good evening.Thank you for your cooperation!
Tanie: I'm thrilled.I'm wondering why I'm so excited (laughs).What did you think again after the album came out?
Mickey: I'm really happy to be able to make such an album because I didn't think I could do it until this age.
Taie: When was the 70 -year -old number conscious?
Mickey: The feeling is easier than during the 60th birthday.
Taie: There were words that Mickey and I were younger in the 70s, when they were young.
Mickey: That's right.But I was 7 years old from Dave Hirao, which was so fast and in the same band.So I seemed to be very older and always had an old age.
Taie: What kind of adult did you want to be at that time?
Mickey: I was most conscious of music, but when I was 19 to 20, I had a lot of hope.Even if you write a song.You can't express it.I think it would be possible when I was 40 years old, and I remember that I wanted to be about 46 years old.
Taie: So, I'm 70 years old.
Mickey: Isn't Tamaya's well -known friends dying?At the same time, my heart goes down, or my heart goes down, as I fall more and more.First of all, you have to get well.I want to make music and break the obstruction.I decided to make an album from that feeling.So I thought there was Kame -chan and called."Can you help me a little. If you're busy, you can give anything with advice?" (Laughs).
Taie: Yes, Kameda was saying "advice" and said, "Mickey is a shy person."
Mickey: Looking at him, I thought that I could see what I couldn't see all the time when I did it together, and played together at the Hibiya Music Festival.I know when you play together, but I think it's best to talk to him.As expected, it seems like I was thinking about where to land with a producer.It was a story to make sure you choose an old hit song.
Taie: This "The Birth of the Odyssey" and "Monkey Magic" are suite, so Mickey said, "I want to do this as a suite."This week and next week, I would like to send it while introducing the original, but I will ask you what the song this song was for Mickey after the song.The album Singh Mix is out and it's wonderful, so please listen to this."The Birth of the Odyssey ~ Monkey Magic".
Taie: The first song "THE BIRTH OFE ODYSSEY ~ Monkey Magic" of the third original album "Saiyuki" released in October 1978.We have heard from Shin Mix last November.This Shin mix is amazing!It is a scale from the eyes.
Mickey: I just found a multi -tape, so I digitized it, but the tape wasn't cool and it wasn't bad.When you say a mix, you add or change it, but instead, only the sounds that are included are one rule to make a sin mix.Now that the times are different, you can use effects properly.In the past, I used the same reverb and the sound was messed up, but now I can hear it clearly, and even if I raise the back, I can hear the song.
Taie: It's easy to hear what kind of band Godigo is."Oh, it's a rock band."
Mickey: That's right.The basics are energy, high -energy rock bands, and they are popping in pop.I wanted to make that kind of thing.
Taie: Mickey's keyboard and synthesizer have used it that has never been used at the time?
Mickey: That's right.This era is still an era where synthesizers are only two sounds.It was not a poly panic like now, but an era of monoofanic.And because it's analog, the pitch shifts.I need fine adjustments, in short, I can't play it, so I enter all with numbers.So, it is not very possible to do it alone, but if you are tired of the guitar and two people, one person reads the value and one person drives it."The Birth of the Odyssey" was open for 60 seconds, but it took overnight to enter.
Taie: The story of "Saiyuki" will come out this week and next week, but before the TV program started, I wanted to do something in the image of "Saiyuki" in Mickey's head.
Mickey: When I was in the United States, I imagined that there were many gagaku and single sounds.Harmony is only in Gagaku, and whatever is a Japanese folk song, isn't it a single note?It is very difficult to express this.When expressing Asia, my Chinese image was natural, and I thought that there was a story.So I wanted to make music from that time.
Taie: There was that image before Godigo.
Mickey: That's right.So, in 1977, I made an album called "DEAD END", but when I decided to go to which one, I chose "DEAD END", and while doing so, this project was lifted.
Taie: The second song on the album is "You are more beautiful than a rose..EXILE SHOKICHI ".
Mickey: "You are more beautiful than a rose" is the biggest hit song for my composition.
Taie: Akira Fuse.Please listen after this (laughs).
Mickey: That's right.I talked a lot about who to sing, and at first I was good at women, but I couldn't find the idea.I had the opportunity to talk to EXILE's Hiro.
Taie: The official book of the 45th anniversary of Godigo.This is amazing!
Mickey: When the dialogue was almost over, I was surprised, "Actually, I have a song that says" You are more beautiful than a rose ", but is there anyone who sings?I immediately said, "It's good to show SHOKICHI."It's like it's decided there.
Taie: Junior high school junior said (laughs).
Mickey: That's right (laughs).
Taie: HIRO bought records for "Gandala", "Monkey Magic" and "Galaxy Railway 999"!I was a person.
Mickey: Thank you, really.
Taie: The arrangement is handled by Mr. Kameda and starts with rust without an intro.
It was said that I wanted to make a song that was easy to play on the radio.
Mickey: Is that so?He is interesting.The hit song is a hit song and there is a commitment.I have a desire to make the nuance arrangement as close to the original as possible, or to make the original so that it does not impair the original.When I do something different, "No, no," (laughs).
Taie: I look at it (laughs).
Mickey: Yes, there is no good."Let's make it a little closer to the original."That would be a good place as Kameda's producer.He also brought this song, "This is the arrangement."
Taie: Godaigo is a band that has a decisive effect on his life, and there is a lot of relationships, such as Steve Fox's teacher in Kameda's bass.But as a producer, he says he says.
Mickey: That's right.That's a very clear part.So I'm a producer.It was easy to understand because it was a person who talked well with the answer.
Taie: SHOKICHI listened to "You are more beautiful than a rose" and said, "You can see the caribbean blue sky."
Mickey: Hey.I wasn't there on the spot, but I thought it would be so.
Taie: I'm going to listen to the original songs that came out in the story, but in 1979, it was a commercial song for Kanebo cosmetics at Nobu Seimei."You are more beautiful than roses."
Taie: 300,000 sheets with the top 10 hits.What did you think when you were asked?
Mickey: The commercial was decided from the beginning, so it flows from the big rust.First, I decided to make it. Taie: There is a place that seems to be made because it is a commercial. Mickey: That's right.The most happy thing about this is that Nave Pro, Susumu Watanabe, is very happy.This arrangement can be made as a single, and there is a rather gorgeous glue. Taie: At that time, Nabepro was an empire, so did you have such a way of preparing? Mickey: I didn't have much.In the Cups era, it was an independent form, so I was getting along well.Hori -san too.At the time of the cups, jazz cafes are the center, so there are various things, such as Horipro, Nave Pro, and Oriental Planning.The Golden Cups were all out.That was the Japanese drama. Tanie: In the so -called 70's, there was no one that was said like this side. Mickey: That's right. Taie: Such a free stance may still be connected. Taie: This is cool. Mickey: Actually, when I wanted to make an album, I first entered this song.I thought I needed this power to break the obstruction, so I really wanted to do it. Taie: The original was the title song of the 1977 Godigo's second album "DEAD END".Godigo's first album, "New Century," was originally made as a second album by Yukihide Takakawa Hide, and was not a band from 1 as Godigo.This "DEAD END" is the first album with five people who joined Tommy Snider. Mickey: That's right.I guess it's the beginning of Godigo's real original album. Taie: Did "DEAD END" be as a word at that time? Mickey: At that time, there was a sense of social pressure in a different way, and there was a sense of obstruction.At that time, choose "Saiyuki" or a social group?At this time, it is "DEAD END" because it is a socialist. Taie: Mickey said that he wanted to put a wrap on this album. Mickey: That's right.Isn't the word important after all?This song is singing with Godaigo, but at first I decided to go with a complete instrument.But that alone is not enough as a message.I thought it would be nice to wrap the "DEAD END" part in the middle.I told Kameda, "Isn't there a good rapper?" So, Sutus recommended Campanella.Because it was Corona's evil, I wonder if all your decisions are needed in the wrap. Taie: You said that. Mickey: Yes.You asked CAMPANELLA to see if you could express it in words first. Taie: Stuts seemed to say that Mickey was "an original that brought groove to Japanese music." Mickey: Really?I often talk about this, but when I started the band, bands that customers couldn't dance were fired.Even if you go to a go -go club or something like that.So, isn't it basic to dance?That's about getting people, and it's already a groove. Taie: Yokohama was amazing. Mickey: I can't help it anymore. Taie: This was Kameda -san, but it was made by exchanging data. Mickey: Most of this time, all of my parts are home recording.I exchange data, put it in, return it, listen to it when someone puts it in, play everything I don't like, and do it several times in each song. Taie: It's such an album that I really made in how it was made in 2021.I would like to listen to the original song while thinking about that. DEAD END ~ LOVE FLOWERS PROPHECY / GODIEGO Mickey: At this time, I haven't used Donkama yet in Godigo's recording.You're always clicking now.I use "Saiyuki" or not to use it, so most of it is done without clicking. Taie: That's good. Mickey: That's right.It's like running, getting back, or raidback. Taie: Looking at KADOKAWA's "Godigo Official Book", Tommy Snider participated in 1977, but when I met him, I thought it was like this.There is one party.Commune of Massachusetts State Turners Halls.Mickey and Steve visited Renaissance Charch.What was it? Mickey: I went to the town in a band.Commune people come to see them.So when I was told to come to play, I had an airplane, had a musical instrument store, and had a theater.In short, the commune on the west coast is the center of Great Full Dead.In the east, there was a person called Lap Azel, but it was a famous commune of Turners Holes.There were various people, such as artists and lawyers, and I wondered if there was such a thing. Taie: There is also a proper urban function.At that time, there were movies like "Easy Rider", and American commune often introduced hippies in places like tent villages.I wondered what kind of commune, Church was like. Mickey: More than half of the town has the commune.However, since it's already in the 70's, it's more organized than a hippie, it's more like having everything.Anyway, isn't it different just to have a lawyer?That kind of atmosphere.Thinking for everything, the economy is a commune, so we collect money from everyone and increase it. Taie: The Apple founder, Steve Jobs, came out of the commune in San Francisco.It was a town with a function properly. Mickey: It was a band there.Tommy is in the main band called Lap Azel. Taie: Mickey went to Boston in Boston in 1971.It was 1972 that I set up a band with Steve, and was that the United States from that time? Mickey: No, at that time, the commune didn't matter much. The hippie culture was so down, so it didn't look like "Easy Rider". I went to Boston, so Turners Holes is a mountain near New York. Anyway, all the overwhelmingly different from Japan is to do statistics and such things as data. Because I was Oriental, there were some things I got, such as being called out to Motown, receiving auditions. Finally, black culture and white culture came in, but since there were still more problems, they were hardly dealt with because they were Orientals. I am discriminating, but I spent this time with the image that was distinguished. Taie: The fact that there are many stories beyond the border between Japan and the United States in Godigo is something I thought again this time. Mickey: Godaigo's name itself came up with wood stock. Taie: The soundtrack of the 2004 movie "Swing Girls".Mickey Yoshino is a youth movie in which a high school girl in the countryside in Tohoku plays a big band and plays jazz.He was awarded the Academy Best Music Award.What does this song remember? Mickey: I'm used to big bands because I went to Berkeley, but it was quite difficult to make a movie soundtrack mainly for big bands.After all, I didn't make the same thing, and the players changed from the instrument organization centered on the guitar. Taie: With acoustic guitar. Mickey: Then, I was quite struggling to make a percussion, but I wanted to make it a new big band, leaving an old bebop or big band jazz atmosphere.This soundtrack may have been the most difficult. Tanie: I struggle because I know. Mickey: That's right.I can't help making something very similar.If you can't do one music line in different places, I think the soundtrack will be one story. Taie: Do you study various music categories in Burkley in Boston? Mickey: That's right.I was a specialized instrument and instrument, but when I was there, it was still a good Berkelley, so I was a teacher of former Deujuk Ellington, count bassy, and various band members. Taie: Hey, amazing (laughs)! Mickey: So, when you're playing a slightly strange rock -like piano, you'll suddenly say, "What are you doing?"There is a private lesson, but there is a practice room.Suddenly someone is watching, that's the lead trumpet of Dehuak Ellington.I was about 19 years old, so I guess I'm playing locking with a good condition.Then, I was told, "What do you play men?" Taie: It's evil for them. Mickey: Yes, evil.I think that's all the time, but that's the time. Tanie: That's amazing.I suddenly went in the middle of the orthodox (laughs). Mickey: I remembered it in the evil way, but it was the same as "Saiyuki", and it was evil to slide into a violin string skirt.Isn't Kuhn ♪ doing in "Monkey Magic"?That is also evil, and this is almost a quarrel.It's like a classic but like this.I think it's interesting to do the guitar Kuhn ♪ with the same stringed instrument. Taie: There are "TAKE THE A TRAIN" or jazz standards in the movie, and Mickey was chosen? Mickey: That's the choice of Director Yaguchi, but this is also a parody.Because it's "take a train ride".I wonder if I have to play there. Taie: Mickey was a six -year -old who came to dream of a piano in Carmain Cavalello's "Love Story". Mickey: Yes.That was wonderful when I was taken to my parents."To Love Again". Taie: I'm going to listen to the original song again while thinking about that, but this is not a piano. Mickey: It's completely different (laughs). TAKE A TRAIN RIDE / "Swing Girls" from the original soundtrack Taie: Who seriously thought about composing? Mickey: It was natural to compose and arrange songs in me.I think the arrangement is also composed. Taie: I thought so when I went to Berkeley. Mickey: I've been composing since I was in elementary school, but I played it at the class association or played when I visited classes.While doing so, I played the piano from a small age.However, because I can always play, various things are played, and it becomes boring.Then I rebounded and bought a cymbal, and I wanted to sound like jarn ♪, or that was the case from my child. Taie: Godigo has a lot of film music, but was it conscious and moving like playing movie music? Mickey: Isao Tomita first acknowledged my play.In the 1960s, I was often called by Tomita's work.At that time, when I did a lot of film music, dramas, commercials, I thought this kind of work was interesting, so I got fire from there. Taie: The first thing I was conscious of Godigo was the movie "Youth Murderer".It was "Yellow Center Line" in that.It was the first time I thought this song was cool. Mickey: That was Kazuhiko Hasegawa and I said NHK's "Fear is gentle", he wrote a script and played music.At that time, I used a Godigo song called "ITS GOOD BE HOME AGAIN".After all, when I shoot with the director, I want to use that song.Just because Godigo also made a 1st album, I chose it from that and made a play from there. Taie: Single released in July 1979, this time, MIYAVI is arranged, guitar and vocals, and Mickey Yoshino is the keyboard. Mickey: This is still good.Until now, various people covered me, but that is completely different.I feel 999 in a new era. Taie: This also went to miyavi's only organ data. Mickey: That's right.That's Kameda's commitment.If you first put out a progressive organ solo, NG (laughs).I was told, "That's good," and handed almost an organ solo close to the original. Taie: Like this kind of 999, what do you feel when you are facing your representative song over time? Mickey: I'm not cool, but this is only thankful.There are a number of such hit songs in the past, so I'm still able to do it.I don't mean this, but if you play with thanks.Is it like that? Taie: I saw that there was an arrangement in front of the song when this song was created. Mickey: This is different.There are various things such as "Monkey Magic" and "Portopia", but there are cases where arrangements are made first.Looking at the lyrics of Yoko (Nara Bridge), I was told the image before the bamboo wrote the song.There is certainly what kind of arrangement is to express these lyrics, but this was not so much time.Takakawa also got the lyrics about the day before, wrote the song, and brought it to me in the morning.I'm in the studio and arranged from there.The rest is what comes down and SL with the image.That's why there is an interlude.It was Bach that suddenly came down. Taie: Is it the one who has been in my head since I was a child? Mickey: It was practiced on Berkeley (laughs).You're done with piano lessons.Bach is almost a practice song. Taie: I went to Berkeley in various ways. Mickey: That's right.Until then, I was doing it without permission, and I chose my favorite music.But aren't you convinced?When you learn.In that sense, it was really nice. Taie: A person who was attracted to the piano in Carmen Cavalello's "Love Story" went to The Golden Cups, and the process has been around for a long time? Mickey: I guess I liked playing. Taie: I'm going to ask you about what kind of band the Golden Cups was in that way.The last song today is Shin Mix, the original song released in 1979.It is "Galaxy Express 999". Taie: It was a time when Godagigo did not get much results at first, right? Mickey: That's right.Just when I came back to go back, Yosui Inoue, Takuro Yoshida, Komuro, etc.Isn't it the time of the fork?I don't call me a little, I wondered how I could get a hit here with a lot of gingin, and if I did a band, I had to hit it, so I used the first head. Taie: This was a bad push. Mickey: That's right.Thanks to you (laughs). Taie: This was also said by Kameda -san, but when various media introduces the "Galaxy Railway 999", there is almost no cover introduction, and everyone has an original impression.He said that strong songs were rare. Mickey: It's used last year for commercials and morning wide shows, but it's almost original.I think it's a song that can go to all ceremonial occasions.You can send a new trip at a wedding, or if you died.I think it's a really wonderful work in that sense. Taie: In this album, after "TAKE A Train Ride", "Galaxy Railway 999" is played. Mickey: This is going again.I guess it will continue from there (laughs). Taie: That's the story next week.I would also like to talk about The Golden Cups.Thank you again next week. Mickey: Yes, thank you. Taie: "J-POP LEGEND FORUM Mickey Yoshino 70 years old".Introducing the album "KEEP ON KICKIN it" released on February 2.The guests this week and next week are Mickey Yoshino himself.This week, we introduced the original songs in the first half of the album.What is flowing is the theme of this program, Mariya Takeuchi's "quiet legend". The program of such a tribute project is often composed of the original song first, and it has changed like this. I decided to do that in the form of Takashi Matsumoto last year, but after listening to what was recorded now, I played the original song and talked to myself about "How was it at that time?" ask. I will send you this week and next week in such a way, but there were a lot of things I knew again. Everyone knows that Godagigo has become popular in China and has become a national band in Japan, but while looking at the 45th anniversary of Godigo, how was the formation? If you follow, both countries, Japan and the United States, are involved. I thought again that it was only Godaigo that has been flowing all the way to the formation of the band. Mickey went to Boston after passing through the cups. Yokohama's junior Steve Fox also went to Boston to follow Boston, formed a band over there, and had already been named Gotaigo. After forming a band, we went to Communies with Tommy Snider. I knew the word commune, but I thought it was not introduced to Japan at all what kind of place it was or what kind of life was. I asked Mickey today and thought it was such a good place. I thought that it was the fact that Steve Jobs, who made Apple, was in a hippie commune in a hippie in San Francisco. It was today's interview that it led to the discovery of how the hippie movement was established in the history of the United States and how social it was. Godigo is rediscovered. Album "KEEP ON KICKIN it" jacket photo Hideki Taie Born in Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture in 1946.He is a graduate of the Department of Politics, Faculty of Law.In 1969, after the first issue of the "Shinjuku Play Map", which was in town magazine, worked as a broadcast writer such as "Say! Young", the editor -in -chief of the youth magazine, music critic, non -fiction writer, broadcast writer, music.Active as a program personal tie. 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