Half Japanese is a seminal punk rock band formed by brothers Jad and David Fair in their Uniontown, Maryland bedroom around 1975 - 1977 along with Mark Jickling and the Dreyfuss brothers:Ricky and John. Like The Shaggs, the Fair brothers were self-taught and thoroughly unconventional musicians; their early raw, unvarnished sound careened between naïvely amateurish-sounding noodling, primitivism and avant-garde experimentation. Jad is most known for making a mockery of musicians by pretending to play guitar which after thirty years, he is still not playing in an orthodox way. An actual guitarist for his band even commented in their documentary that he knows "one or two" chords.
<p>Their quirky song 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 the visceral thrills of crushes and infatuations. They have stated that all their songs are either "love songs or...Automatically Created from Freebase. Please help us give it a human touch by adding some events.
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