Heeeeeere's Johnny!
Hey, I just thought I'd take a look on the old weblog and saw that everybody was looking back to the old hay days of Okay Samurai. Ahhh, the youth were so simple back then. Musically we were still getting developed through the various tunes that we were listening to. I think I got a lot of crap when I told 'em how much I liked the song "Sucked Out" by SuperDrag...but hey, the cd is actually pretty good, atleast me and Jeff thought so. I think at the time I was also really into ska music. I don't know why, but I just loved horns mixed with the sound of distortion and those off beats that made you wanna jump were really cool. Reel Big Fish was one of my Favorite Bands at the time. You can also tell the influence ska had on my music in some of the songs (try to guess which ones). But alas that scene is dead now, but I still think we could have used Adam Kantor in some other ways (see last entries), maybe as the official Okay Samurai Mascot. We could have dressed him up in a vintage Samurai Warrior outfit and have him yell, "I am Yosaki Yojimbo, the official mascot for Okay Samurai, now I will perform seppuku on myself, but before I do, enjoy this version, and we'd jump out and go straight into playing "seppuku" the song. Man, i have too much time on my minds. Well, now I'm into the whole Punk/Emo Scene, but even that is getting a little saturated, so I see my tastes shifting back to pop/alternative music especially Coldplay....man these guys rock.
Okay Samurai Factoid #4: All of the members of Okay Samurai were once anchor men in the first season of "Good Morning Robinson" at their High School. Dave was the producer, Andrew was the consultant, and Don and Eugene were the actual new correspondants. Jeff Chin even made a guest shot appearance replacing me for a day, trying to trick people into thinking that it was me, you know...cause we're both from Germany and all. We loved doing it, except for this one administrator guy who was in charge of it always made comments about our segments when we were trying to edit our tapes and it just made us so frustrated and we always ended up staying longer than we had to because of him. If anyone remembers his name I will send you an E-card courtesy of bluemountaincards.com.
Friday, February 21 at 2:21 PM
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