I was in Tokyo in the autumn of 96´ doing
heavy promotion for the Freak Kitchen album "Spanking Hour".
While being there I met a very nice man
called Tak Yonemochi who wrote the liner notes for the
Japanese version of our first record "Appetizer".
Now, Tak was quite upset when he heard that
I hadn´t got any kind of guitar endorsement.
He immediately got up from his seat in a cosy place
called "The Ritchie Blackmore Pub" and called another
very nice man by the name of Itaru Kanno.
Itaru is a designer/painter working at the fine
Japanese guitar company Caparison Guitars.
Before I could say "Saké" I was having a meeting in
the lobby of my hotel the next morning with Tak, Itaru
and another guy whose name I don´t remember.
(I actually drank my first glass of Saké at The Ritchie Blackmore Pub in Tokyo.
A couple of weeks later we
opened for Rainbow in our home town Gothenburg. Strange… )
Anyway, Itaru and his friend brought a bunch of
guitars to my room and I instantly fell in love with a
beautiful, purple instrument named after the Egyptian
sun god Horus, complete with some 27
frets and a falcon painted at the head and all!
A truly great guitar, yet not that expensive.
Typical me, when I finally get a chance to get a
guitar for free I pick one of the cheaper models,
damn… Actually, by my standards the Horus
model is pretty expensive as I´m used to play on cheap,
crappy guitars. Tak and Itaru almost insisted that should pick one
of the more luxurious guitars but the smoothness of the 27
frets amazed me and gentle as they are, they let me have my way,
stubborn Swede as I am.
