{"id":8627,"date":"2021-08-14T07:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T11:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bordercityrocktalk.ca\/?p=8627"},"modified":"2021-10-11T23:47:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T03:47:12","slug":"tokyo-road-bon-jovi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bordercityrocktalk.ca\/2021\/08\/14\/tokyo-road-bon-jovi\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Road&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Bon Jovi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Album <strong>7800\u00ba Fahrenheit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Released <strong>1985<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Label <strong>Mercury Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">BandCampers <strong>Jon Bon Jovi<\/strong>\/Vocals <strong>Richie Sambora<\/strong> Guitars <strong>Alec John Such<\/strong> Bass<strong> Tico Torres<\/strong> Drums <strong>David Bryan<\/strong> Keyboards<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Tokyo Road\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sAO0r5CEoL0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Sakura Sakura Yayoi No Sora Wa Mi-Watasu Kagiri&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yes, I too have always wondered what that mumbo jumbo was at the beginning of this song was?, so after 40 years or so of steady research, I finally figured it out. My friend Joseppie Google tells me that this is a popular <strong>Japanese traditional song<\/strong> called Cherry <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8662 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bordercityrocktalk.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cherry-blossom-150x150.jpg?crop=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bordercityrocktalk.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cherry-blossom-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bordercityrocktalk.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cherry-blossom-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bordercityrocktalk.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cherry-blossom-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bordercityrocktalk.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cherry-blossom-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bordercityrocktalk.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cherry-blossom.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Blossom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The lyrics translated are <strong>cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms, across the spring sky, As far as the eye can see<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I remember listening to this tune in my friend **** Nogalos&#8217; basement while we were kids.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We would crank it while were were playing whatever on his miniature pool\/ping pong table.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcelectronics.ca\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8661\" src=\"https:\/\/bordercityrocktalk.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TC-Electronics-300x137.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bordercityrocktalk.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TC-Electronics-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/bordercityrocktalk.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TC-Electronics.png 367w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I do mean miniature, as I remember the billiards were no bigger than an actuall <strong>ping pong<\/strong> balls, and when we put the ping pong table cover on to play PP, the ping pong ball was no bigger than the a <strong>Boulder<\/strong> (a large marble).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He had the tape (yes kids&#8230;tape&#8230;.cassette&#8230;.) playing in his <strong>Fisher<\/strong> brand ghetto blaster that I believe he bought at Moore&#8217;s Audio Visual here in the Soo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The <strong>Japanese<\/strong> build state of the art products and I remember my ghetto at the time was a really really great sounding <strong>Akai<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Speaking of Japanese, ?<strong>I think I&#8217;m turning Japanese, I think I&#8217;m Japanese, I really think so<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The quick ones will get the above reference<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Thanks 4 Reading \/\u00a0<span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"ja\"> ???????????<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"tw-target-text-container\" class=\"tw-ta-container F0azHf tw-lfl\" style=\"text-align: center;\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large XcVN5d tw-ta\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"remoji_bar\"><div class=\"remoji_add_container\" data-remoji-id=\"8627\" data-remoji-type=\"post\"><div class=\"remoji_add_icon\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"remoji_error_bar\" data-remoji-id=\"8627\" data-remoji-type=\"post\" style=\"display: none;\">Error happened.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Album 7800\u00ba Fahrenheit Released 1985 Label Mercury Records BandCampers Jon Bon Jovi\/Vocals Richie Sambora Guitars Alec John Such Bass Tico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196614246,"featured_media":8591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17484],"tags":[17621,17620,17612,17614,17617,17613,17615,17619,17618,17616],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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