aceghd
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| 09 Aug 2012 04:34 PM |
this band is special, so i'm gonna write a bit about them. the gerogerigegege was founded in 1985 as a punk/noise band by juntaro yamanouchi, the son of a classically trained japanese pianist with a fondness for cross-dressing and live ramones albums. besides making music, juntaro also sometimes performed in s&m shows at g.a.y clubs, which is where he met fellow s&m performer tetsuya endoh, aka gero 30 or gero 56. i'll let juntaro himself, in a badly translated interview, pick up the story from here:
"The contents of the show was nothing but to eat each other the s**t of GERO 30 and mine and twist about in our pee and s**t. While we played such performances, the audience, mainly middle-aged people, was j.a.c.king off. Anyway, all we could hear in the darkened space was panting voices of such men and excited snorts. Such experiences, beyond all description I could give, has been made most of the time in the pieces and lives of THE GEROGERIGEGEGE."
so with gero 30 and a rotating cast of additional bandmates in tow, juntaro and the gerogerigegege began playing at japanese punk clubs, where they soon became famous for shows that sometimes included p***ing, s***ting and vomiting onstage, and nearly always included the spectacle of gero 30 j.e.r.k.ing off. and when i say he was j.e.r.king off, i don't mean he was just quietly rubbing one out behind the drum riser. he was more likely to be standing on top of an amp with a vacuum cleaner hose attached to his naughty bits. in fact, the most notorious gero video in circulation (v=-lG9gm4a9rk) depicts just that. (don't worry, the naughty bits are scrambled)
juntaro and co. churned out a ton of material during the 15-odd years of the band's existence.. everything from full-on industrial noise to more abstract, ambient stuff to ramones-inspired proto-punk. (juntaro counts off the start of nearly every gero song with a dee dee ramone-like "1, 2, 3, 4!") their most famous album, 1990's tokyo a.n.a.l dynamite featured 75 songs delivered in just over 30 minutes - although pretty much the only way you can tell when one song ends and the next begins is when juntaro yells "1, 2, 3, 4!!"
in addition to traditional album and single releases, the gerogeri were also famous for pulling prank releases like art is over, which consisted of an octopus tentacle glued to the inside of a cassette case, and "ai-jin", a flexi-disc single that was presented at a "release memorial performance" at which all 2000 copies were burned. (about 25 copies allegedly survived and are now worth a lot of money, if you're into that sort of thing.)
there's probably no way to age gracefully after j.a.c.k.ing off onstage for 15 years, so it's no surprise really that both juntaro and gero 30 mysteriously disappeared shortly after the release of the band's last album, 2001's saturday night big c.o.c.k salaryman. rumors abound as to what became of them, but no one really knows for sure. many have pointed out that gero 30 would be pushing 70 by now, so he's probably spanking his monkey to abercrombie & fitch catalogs in some old folks' home. as for juntaro, he's either dead, in a mental institution, or living under an assumed name somewhere.
tl;dr: to save you the trouble of reading all of this, here's their cover of the cure's "boys don't cry", to give you a good idea of their general sound: v=09glmnLsnKU |
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AusRotten
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| 09 Aug 2012 04:38 PM |
I'd love to have seen those guys wow |
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AusRotten
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| 09 Aug 2012 04:41 PM |
I'm listening to the Yellow Trash Bazooka EP It touches my soul <3 |
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Bodomfan
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| 09 Aug 2012 04:57 PM |
| This group name sounds pretty weird.. |
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AusRotten
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| 09 Aug 2012 04:58 PM |
| Listen to "Get In". It's... beautiful... <3 |
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| 09 Aug 2012 04:59 PM |
"This group name sounds pretty weird.."
"gerogerigegege" roughly translates to "vomitdiarrheackackack" <333 |
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