'Gig' - Gin Satoh (book)
Gin Satoh can be called without question one of the most legendary music photographers alive. One of just a few to truly document Japan's original underground music scene. From the 70's with Les Rallizes Denudes, through the earliest punk sounds of the Tokyo Rockers scene, experiencing the ground zero of the second wave of punk and hardcore in Japan, closely documenting bands like The Stalin, and G.I.S.M., to the underground noise scene with artists like Hanatarash and Hijokaidan, as well as being personal tour photographers to Iggy Pop, and many high profile western groups as they toured and visited Japan, Gin Satoh was able to see it all. And during that time he documented it on film better than anyone else.
In 1986 he released his own photobook entitled "GIG" a huge collection of punk, and underground music photographs from 1978-1986 which has subsequently become a collectors item fetching hundreds on the secondary market.
Now he has given us a once in a lifetime publication by superseding both the quality, and the content of the original GIG photobook with a deluxe, expanded reissue of GIG, this time adding even more unpublished photos, totaling over 640 full size (almost 12" tall) pages weighing in at over 4 lbs! It can easily be said that this is the most definitive collection of 70's and 80's Japanese punk and underground music photos that has ever been, and likely ever will be.
Photos include, among countless others: G.I.S.M., Gauze, Gastunk, The Stalin, The SS, Friction, Tsunematsu Masatoshi, The Execute, Comes, Aburadako, The Willard, Ghoul, Laughin' Nose, Zelda, Cobra, Real, The Blue hearts, The Star Club, Continental Kids, Sperma, Masturbation, Lip Cream, Sodom, Mirrors, Kyah, Madame Edwarda, The Genbaku Onanies, Allergy, G-Schmitt, Sadie Sads, Auto-Mod, Gilles De Rais, Hantarash, Les Rallizes Denudes, Keiji Haino, Alien Sex Fiend, Johnny Thunders, Suicide, Iggy Pop, Nico, Ian Dury, Lou Reed, Einsturzende Neubauten, etc.
Gin Satoh can be called without question one of the most legendary music photographers alive. One of just a few to truly document Japan's original underground music scene. From the 70's with Les Rallizes Denudes, through the earliest punk sounds of the Tokyo Rockers scene, experiencing the ground zero of the second wave of punk and hardcore in Japan, closely documenting bands like The Stalin, and G.I.S.M., to the underground noise scene with artists like Hanatarash and Hijokaidan, as well as being personal tour photographers to Iggy Pop, and many high profile western groups as they toured and visited Japan, Gin Satoh was able to see it all. And during that time he documented it on film better than anyone else.
In 1986 he released his own photobook entitled "GIG" a huge collection of punk, and underground music photographs from 1978-1986 which has subsequently become a collectors item fetching hundreds on the secondary market.
Now he has given us a once in a lifetime publication by superseding both the quality, and the content of the original GIG photobook with a deluxe, expanded reissue of GIG, this time adding even more unpublished photos, totaling over 640 full size (almost 12" tall) pages weighing in at over 4 lbs! It can easily be said that this is the most definitive collection of 70's and 80's Japanese punk and underground music photos that has ever been, and likely ever will be.
Photos include, among countless others: G.I.S.M., Gauze, Gastunk, The Stalin, The SS, Friction, Tsunematsu Masatoshi, The Execute, Comes, Aburadako, The Willard, Ghoul, Laughin' Nose, Zelda, Cobra, Real, The Blue hearts, The Star Club, Continental Kids, Sperma, Masturbation, Lip Cream, Sodom, Mirrors, Kyah, Madame Edwarda, The Genbaku Onanies, Allergy, G-Schmitt, Sadie Sads, Auto-Mod, Gilles De Rais, Hantarash, Les Rallizes Denudes, Keiji Haino, Alien Sex Fiend, Johnny Thunders, Suicide, Iggy Pop, Nico, Ian Dury, Lou Reed, Einsturzende Neubauten, etc.
Gin Satoh can be called without question one of the most legendary music photographers alive. One of just a few to truly document Japan's original underground music scene. From the 70's with Les Rallizes Denudes, through the earliest punk sounds of the Tokyo Rockers scene, experiencing the ground zero of the second wave of punk and hardcore in Japan, closely documenting bands like The Stalin, and G.I.S.M., to the underground noise scene with artists like Hanatarash and Hijokaidan, as well as being personal tour photographers to Iggy Pop, and many high profile western groups as they toured and visited Japan, Gin Satoh was able to see it all. And during that time he documented it on film better than anyone else.
In 1986 he released his own photobook entitled "GIG" a huge collection of punk, and underground music photographs from 1978-1986 which has subsequently become a collectors item fetching hundreds on the secondary market.
Now he has given us a once in a lifetime publication by superseding both the quality, and the content of the original GIG photobook with a deluxe, expanded reissue of GIG, this time adding even more unpublished photos, totaling over 640 full size (almost 12" tall) pages weighing in at over 4 lbs! It can easily be said that this is the most definitive collection of 70's and 80's Japanese punk and underground music photos that has ever been, and likely ever will be.
Photos include, among countless others: G.I.S.M., Gauze, Gastunk, The Stalin, The SS, Friction, Tsunematsu Masatoshi, The Execute, Comes, Aburadako, The Willard, Ghoul, Laughin' Nose, Zelda, Cobra, Real, The Blue hearts, The Star Club, Continental Kids, Sperma, Masturbation, Lip Cream, Sodom, Mirrors, Kyah, Madame Edwarda, The Genbaku Onanies, Allergy, G-Schmitt, Sadie Sads, Auto-Mod, Gilles De Rais, Hantarash, Les Rallizes Denudes, Keiji Haino, Alien Sex Fiend, Johnny Thunders, Suicide, Iggy Pop, Nico, Ian Dury, Lou Reed, Einsturzende Neubauten, etc.