Cosmic69
30/04/2017
Hi again
I 've noticed that not many people post on here, so this is the best place for me to put these musings.
I had "odd occurrences" happen during and after reading Mick's book.
Please humour me, I have bad short-term memory after my own fight with the "Big C". If I don't get this lot
written down now, I'll forget it.
1. I took myself off to Bury (Lancs), on a whim to try and find something in particular. The thing itself is immaterial, the "odd thing" that happened isn't. I don't know Bury very well, especially since they built the new centre. So I was in a bit of a spin trying to find where I was. Why was it that when I ramdomly turned my head to the right trying to find my way, I saw in white letters on blue, the name "Metis"? It was sort of on a large piece of board attached to a building site. Sure, this could have and probably was the name of a company, but if I hadn't looked that way I would never have seen it.
2. "Come Dine with me" is repeated ad nauseum on the TV. I usually end up watching the 5 episosde run on a Sunday after everyone's gone home after Sunday dinner. The "odd thing" that happened is, I was watching the end of one of the shows, and what did I hear? The opening bars of "Life in Tokyo"!
3. I was watching the TV one evening, and the "One Show" came on. I wasn't too keen on the guests they had lined up, so I switched over to Vintage TV for the half-hour before Coronation Street. The subject for the hour was something to do with the 80's. So I thought, "this will be OK for a few minutes". Blancmange was on, and then another one. My train of thought was then, "I bet I don't see any Japan on this programme". The next video was "I Second that Emotion" by, of course, Japan.
I've only just discovered Mick. I started playing my cassette tape of "Exorcising Ghosts" a few months ago, and found I was more attracted to the bass part of the music, than Mr Sylvian. I did some digging on Google to find out more. Found Mick had died.
So anyway, I'm just discovering his music on Youtube, aimimg to listen to a fresh track each day.
cosmic69
21/04/2017
I've just read Mick's book. I didn't want it to end.
My reaction when I finished it was to hug the book for ages, hug the words.
Had a bit of an odd moment, too. I had "Exorcising Ghosts" on the mp3 player. Somehow at the exact point where Mick is talking about "Life without Buildings" in the book, the track being played was the very one!
I couldn't have organised that myself, and the book is not chronologically written. I had put the book away for the afternoon because I was waiting to be picked up by my boyfriend. Then he became late so I picked it up again, then it happened.
People say that Mick was very bitter all the time about what happened in Japan, but interspersed with all that is him trying to see things from both sides, making excuses for everyone involved. I wish I had known him.
Jools
QP
05/04/2017
God bless your family! Tahnk you for your music!!
Fernando Santos
04/03/2017
Mick estejas onde estiveres serás sempre o meu baixista favorito. Soube da tua partida em 2011 e só hoje descobri este teu portal. Segui desde muito novo os Japan e posteriormente toda a obra. Lamento nunca te ter visto ao vivo. Até sempre.
YukiO
18/02/2017
Dear Mick,
How can I forget the day I lost you. It must have been so tough for your family to overcome the seventh year of your death. Forgive me to send my belated condolonces. RIP, Mick.
Andrea Pucci
05/01/2017
Sei sempre nella mia memoria, grande bassista! R.I.P.
Chris Moon
03/01/2017
Thinking of Mick and reflecting on his wonderful art, be it music or sculpture .....forever in our hearts x
leitnerjoe
14/11/2016
I did a song for Mick. Hope you like it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB15L7dMAhM
Eleonora
29/07/2016
Stanotte ti ho sognato.
Ho sognato che eri il mio insegnante di scultura e controllavi i miei lavori in creta, compreso il tuo ritratto che ho realizzato. Era strano perchè tutti pensano che tu non ci sia più tra noi.. ma nel sogno tu eri li, sorridente e stranamente tranquillo. Abbiamo chiacchierato qualche ora e poi.. mi sono svegliata.
Eleonora
25/07/2016
Quanto avrei desiderato conoscerti... vederti realmente e poter parlare con te.
Purtroppo sono molto giovane e non sono nata nei tuoi stessi anni da poter venire ad un tuo concerto..
Grazie a te trovo l'ispirazione per suonare e migliorare sempre di più con il mio sax baritono..raggiungere vette che non avrei mai pensato di varcare data la mia insicurezza.
Ti ringrazio, Eleonora.
Akiko315
24/07/2016
Happy Birthday Mick！ 大好き
Emma Brining
24/07/2016
Happy Birthday to Mick on what would have been his 58th birthday.
Last night, members of the Nightporter and Japan FB groups gathered at the Retro Club to hear an October Gallery / Penguin Cafe instrumental last heard 35 years ago kindly shared by Richard Barbieri with Paul Rymer in memory of Mick Karn.
Pascal Bougeard
01/07/2016
Bonjour, à signaler un bel hommage de METRONOMY sur son dernier album avec le titre "Mick slow".
J'ai tout de suite été attiré par le velouté inimitable de la basse de Mick KARN.
Steve O'Sullivan
26/03/2016
I went to see Japan three times and was wowed by their technical ability and beautiful songs. Mick's bass playing was truly unique - his style (I now realise) being influenced by his early childhood and his classical training.
I also went along to his sculpture exhibition at Hamilton's Gallery and was truly impressed by his work. It was a real pleasure for me to be a part of the Japan wave of popularity when I was a teenager and my favourite moment was the gig at The Lyceum in the Strand.
Steve
Elias Laurent
16/01/2016
Remembering Mick this past week and his brilliant cover of David's Ashes to Ashes.
In my dream they are somewhere finally getting to play together.
How can Mick ever leave my memory, his bass lines come to me randomly bubbling up in my
brain, making me sing them, or his songs, and dance a little private shuffle when I need a little
personal moment of arty cheering up or celebrating.
What a profound artist. Love to all lovers of Mick, and his family and tribe.
Namastes,
e
