At this time, Akira Jimbo had been a member of Cassiopeia for less than a year and had drummed for less than five years. He is nothing short of a genius.
My favorite Casiopea song. That 79' debut album of theirs is constant in my playlist. Akira Jimbo's drumming really gives that fairly strong vibe in contrast to the studio version which had Takashi Sasaki on drums.
These musicians didn’t just master their instrument, they knew how to arrange and write a song. Young people today are more easily satisfied and want to sound cool, but don’t know the specifics. There are amazing lead and rhythm guitarists, but how many know how to write an amazing song?
there's a good handful of videos of casiopea performing in 1979! my favourite would have to be their performance of 'time limit' at the roppongi inn, check it out :)
Pretty much once or twice a week I come back to this, so raw and powerful. Their sound here is so untamed, if I had to pick a favourite era for Casiopea, I'd pick from their debut to Thunder Live, it's just such a classic Funk Fusion sound that I adore too well. God would I love to cover this with a band or play it live :D
@@fatheroftwo852 true but when you compare this live rendition of ‘Black Joke’ (not the Thunder Live one) and Time Limit live (with sasaki on drums) it gets difficult to choose the better drummer.
The final chord!!!!!! Listening to the Eyes of the Mind version it always bugs me off that they didn't play the final chord, but here it shines in all of its glory and then some :D
There's no way this is made by humans; this is a Funk Elemenal made manifest and imbued with the power of whirlwinds! This is unreal funk! How is Japanese Funk so many orders of magnitude better than Western Funk!? HOW!?
Do you think at different points in the performance they fuck with the mix a little bit? Like at certain points they turn the bass up or the lead guitar when it needs to be more prominent?
A very, very similar version to this on Spotify (it might just be this video with bit of mixing and overdubbing it's that close), it's off their live album "Thunder Live" if you're looking to add it to your playlist :D
@@fatheroftwo852 This performance is actually Thunder Live. Its been tweaked in studio, with the bass , guitar and drum solos being the most notable changes.
@@mcbcy8420 Yeah, I thought it might've been, the same thing happened with the Domino Line video for Mint Jams, the most notable cut that made the album being during the bass solo.
