JAD FAIR Everyone Knew...But Me ORIGINAL 1984 US LP SEALED Signed
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JAD FAIR <> Everyone Knew...But Me <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <>
SEALED...SIGNED BY JAD FAIR, FROM HIS PERSONAL COLLECTION...
THIS IS ONE of THE ALL-TIME subterranean great rockers!
LP is far out of print...and ain't likely to be back!
ORIGINAL 1982 US FIRST PRESSING STEREO LP on PRESS
RECORDS, Catalog # P4005 Love Research Girl Trouble I'm Going To Go Out Jumbalaya I'm Going To Come Back To You Amy Walking with Candy Everyone Knew... But Me Fish Can Talk All My Love I Got You Another Silent Night Things with Eyes Oh Amy You Went Away Mil Mascaras I Want to be Loved Monster Island Sex Machine I Will You Go With Me? Snake on my Head Want Roses for Karen You It Saw Me Lonely Week-ends Back AgainHalf Japanese is a rock band formed by brothers Jad and David Fair in their Uniontown, Maryland bedroom around 1975. Their original instrumentation included a small drum set, which they took turns playing; vocals; and an out of tune (but quite distorted) guitar. Both Fair brothers sang, although over time Jad moved into the frontman role.
Jad is well-known for playing an untuned electric guitar. After 30 years, he still does not play in any traditional manner; in the documentary Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King he states that "the only chord I know is the one that connects the guitar to the amp."
Their lyrics often deal with monsters and the supernatural (especially as influenced by campy "creature feature" and scifi movies), in addition to more conventional themes, such as young love. They have stated that all their songs are either "love songs or monster songs."
The band played and recorded as a duo until the early '80s when they began incorporating additional members into the group: Mark Jickling (guitar and vocals) and brothers Ricky and John Dreyfuss (drums and saxophone). Since that time, dozens of musicians have come and gone under the Half Japanese banner, including Howard Wuelfing, Don Fleming, Jay Spiegel, and many, many others. Jad is the only member who has been with Half Japanese from the beginning. David Fair eventually left the band in the early 1980s to focus on his family. He has continued to make guest appearances with the band from time to time.
The next line-up of Half Japanese came together in the late 1980s. This incarnation featured guitarist/multi-instrumentalist John Sluggett (also a longtime member of Moe Tucker's band), multi-instrumentalist Jason Willett, and drummer Gilles Reider. Since then, the group has worked with Moe Tucker from the Velvet Underground, who produced Fire In the Sky (1993), Fred Frith, and John Zorn, among others.
Fans of Half Japanese include NRBQ, Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth, Daniel Johnston and Kurt Cobain, who had them open for Nirvana on the group's 1993 tour. According to reports, Cobain was wearing a Half Japanese t-shirt when he died. [1]
COVER and RECORD ARE SEALED...one tear in the cellophane where Jad signed all...YOU'LL NOT FIND FINER!
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