I see that mention of my reviews briefly revived this thread. I'm proud of them, but at the same time I think they need improvement. Maybe I'll keep rewriting them, while hoping some news arrives from Juntaro or another release surfaces. There are many things I could talk about but currently I'm most interested in all kinds of info about The Gerogerigege. Stories, rumors, correspondence, mail order catalogues, magazines, etc. You can find many things on the internet, but the rest is in people's minds, shelves, old dusty hard drives, lost chats/forums, in a box in the attic, etc.
To kick things off I'll throw in something I don't think I've heard anyone talk about. Apparently Juntaro had a short-lived marriage in the 90s. I found about this when looking through the blog of Hironari Iwata (RIP) of Toukaseibunshi. He has written liner notes for Senzuri Champion, die hard edition of Moenai Hai, and >(decrescendo) is 100% dedicated to him. You can find quite a few posts on his Twitter where he hangs out with JY. Clearly was good friends with him, so it's safe to say that he isn't pulling this out of his ass. Here's the relevant excerpt (machine translated).
QuoteWe were best friends when we were teenagers.
Around the time I was 20 and about to quit music, I apparently said to him on the phone, "How long are you going to keep doing something so boring? No matter how many boring things you pile up, in the end, it's just boring," spitting it out at him.
I think what a terrible thing to say, but I guess I was trying to break away from music in my own way.
Then, a few years later, he called me to say he was getting married. While congratulating him, I apparently advised him, "You're an artist, so don't have children."
Apparently, due to circumstances around them, they divorced after a year and a half, so maybe my advice wasn't entirely wrong.
(I say the 90s because Iwata disappeared in 1988.)
Source:
http://blog.livedoor.jp/aqua9803/archives/2014-08.html
