{"id":1267,"date":"2013-01-19T17:30:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T01:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2013-02-04T13:06:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T21:06:14","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s3e5-a-decent-banger-with-josh-parkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S3E5: A Decent Banger with Josh Parkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1316\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"joshparkinnew\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/joshparkinnew.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Nakatsu, Osaka, Japan with guitarmaker Josh Parkin proprietor of <a href=\"http:\/\/josh-parkin-guitars.com\/\">Josh Parkin Guitars<\/a>. They discuss how the intensity of Japanese enthusiasm extends to guitar-playing; how Japanese friends in London urged him not to set up shop in Tokyo, but in Osaka; his early life in Yorkshire, &#8220;the English Kansai,&#8221; where he made his first attempts to build and modify guitars; the importance of finding the best handmade pickups and of learning to see the difference between .2 and .3 millimeters; the excellence of Japanese manufacturing, and its somewhat less impressive mastery of anthropometrics; his working life on Denmark Street, the center of London guitarmaking, and why he decided not to open his own business there; his travels through Asia before moving to Japan, which began in India and eventually found him homeless in Beijing; what it takes for a foreigner to open a business in Osaka (besides a few years off that foreigner&#8217;s life); the impossibility of finding a decent banger in Japan; his dissatisfaction with the usual foreigner&#8217;s job of teaching English, because it wasn&#8217;t making guitars; his work with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1245\">Tim Olive<\/a> and experience of the Japanese noise scene, which seems to spring from within the culture rather than interpreting traditions outside it; the way everything in Japan gets easier after six months, except perhaps dealing with the ward office; Japanese-style obsessive drive as a necessity of guitarmaking, no matter where you do it; and his dream job of building a guitar according only to the player&#8217;s musical style.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from <a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e5-a-decent-banger-with-josh-parkin\"><em>Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/em>\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Nakatsu, Osaka, Japan with guitarmaker Josh Parkin proprietor of Josh Parkin Guitars. They discuss how the intensity of Japanese enthusiasm extends to guitar-playing; how Japanese friends in London urged him not to set up shop in Tokyo, but in Osaka; his early life in Yorkshire, &#8220;the English Kansai,&#8221; where he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}