Squadcar "Misses" cover photo..

A while back I was desperately scrambling through my hard drives trying to find the original photo that we used as the basis for Squadcar's Misses album cover, and last night (by chance) I finally did! As I mentioned in a previous Misses post, this shoot involved my hairdresser Chiho as our model, and five of my friends throwing ideas around and shooting her in all sorts of poses around my apartment. We eventually went through them all and chose this shot of her laying on the bed, and then let our label guy Deguchi-san (Garage) do his thing..

Misses

Misses was the mini-album that squadcar made with Christopher McGuire. The drama that surrounded this recording would most certainly make it eligable for inclusion in the musical Encyclopedia Dramatica, if there was one anyways.. On the one hand we had a fairly major J-pop celebrity going through the process of implosion, and on the other, well.. In any case, we managed to get a decent pre-order throughout Japan and actually thought we had a shot at doing something for a bit. But alas..

Nonetheless, the album came out great, as did the cover. We invited my hairdresser Chiho to come be our model, threw her on a bed and let 5 guys have their photographic way with her. We then chose a shot and let Deguchi-san work his magic!

Christopher McGuire

Former squadcar producer (and Quruli drummer) Christopher McGuire can sure hit dem skins..

Squadcar: Making Misses (Glenn version)

Misses was a mini-album that squadcar recorded with Christopher McGuire, who was at the time drummer for uber-cool Japanese band Quruli. The sessions became stuff of legend, though not always for good reasons. Ryan Skelton made a mini-doco about the sessions (that I will post later) from footage that I took throughout, but I wasn't really happy with it, and Christopher DEFINITELY wasn't happy with it. I made this one kind of as a reaction to that, it contains footage also of a video that students from the Tokyo College of Creative Arts made of the title song..

In Ryan's defence, he didn't think much of my version either, and he's now making a million dollar movie!