HEY, YOU: KYOU Radio (legally KYCY at 1550 AM), with its mix of podcasts and financial advice shows, may not have many listeners (the Oakland A's broadcasts will help), but it's got its believers -- especially radio pros and musicians getting a chance at a regular show. One of them is Jon Hammond, on most weekdays at 3 p.m. "The old-time spirit lives on AM again," says Hammond, an organist
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Berkeley’s oldest restaurant, Spenger’s Fresh Fish Grotto, has permanently closed
Anyone hoping to pop into Spenger’s restaurant Wednesday for a cocktail and oysters or full seafood dinner was greeted by darkness. A white paper sign posted on the locked front door read, “Spenger’s has closed its doors permenatly (sic)! As of today Wednesday October 24, 2018. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you!”
When Berkeleyside called the West Berkeley restaurant, Kevin Campbell, who said he was with the Kelly Restaurant Group, which owns — or owned — Spenger’s, picked up the phone: “Thank you for calling the former Spenger’s.”
Campbell, who is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Kelly Restaurant Group is based, said he couldn’t say much at this time but confirmed the restaurant had been transferred back to “the owners of the development.”
Spenger’s Fresh Fish Grotto, Berkeley’s oldest restaurant, in a building that’s a city historical landmark, was originally the home of Bavarian immigrant and fisherman Johann Spenger. He started selling clams and beer from the front of the building in the 1890s. The eatery at 1919 Fourth St. expanded through the years and over the Spenger’s generations, becoming a full-service restaurant in the 1930s. It’s always specialized in fresh seafood and was known for thick clam chowder served with baskets of crusty San Francisco sourdough bread on the side.
Gerald Figone says:
"Hurts, grew up there, my family’s restaurant on my mother’s side. They sold it to McCormick and Smeck (sp) as they were getting up there and the younger family wanted no part. Relatively recent M&S was purchased by Landry’s and then the property was sold. Lot of great memories and sea food but has not been family for about 20 years. Last two people I knew there were the hostesses who have other jobs. It has already had some new businesses go into the North end and I think all will be nice. It’s a landmark so the exterior will remain. I hope (and I’ll check) that some history is preserved. I have two favorite photos one is both my grandfathers and some uncles with Jimmy Doolittle and so me of his pilots at a Spenger’s lunch."
Jon Hammond: "pretty shocking! I ate there first time with my folks when I was 5 - had a hamburger on sour dough with a Shirley Temple! I had my last birthday there in March actually - and it was very enjoyable! My Dad used to go fishing with Frank Spenger. - RIP Spenger's!! "
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Back In Tokyo Big Sight! James N Wes Blues Suzuki Harmonica Koei Tanaka Feature Hammond And Berger
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*WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: Jon Hammond Friends Play Music Of Henry
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Taipei Taiwan -- JAZZ SPOT SWING popular organ lounge showcase bar special session: Jon Hammond Friends Play Music of Jon's friend Henry: Toyada（pf）Kishimoto（fh）Jon Hammond (o)
- special thanks to Mr. Nobuki Kuwahara boss and Mrs. Kuwahara, Jon Hammond is playing Mr. Kuwahara's Hammond Sk2 organ manufactured by Suzuki Musical Instruments - Video by Superlux Taiwan Taipei Team - Nico, Shannon, Letitia
http://www.HammondCast.com/ Filmed in Full High Definition in Jazz Spot Swing Organ Lounge for The Jon Hammond Show on MNN TV TV Producers of Manhattan Neighborhood Network [MNN] very special thanks to Pmauriat Albest "Go For The Sound" Jon Hammond Organ Group Taipei Night Life —
with Jon Hammond, Nobuki Kuwahara, Superlux Taiwan and Pmauriat Albest at Jazz Spot Swing
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Jon Hammond FUNK UNIT NAMM Showcase: Friday, January 23rd at 12:00pm Center Stage:
LINK: https://www.facebook.com/events/1473440672921422/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Very Special Announcement: It is my pleasure to announce that my new band Jon Hammond FUNK UNIT has been selected to play The NAMM Show Showcase Center Stage
we Hit right at 12 Noon for 40 smokin' minutes - Location
outdoor patio between Hall B and Hall C
Swingin' Funky Jazz and Blues originals featuring international soloists you know and love, the best on their instruments in the Business folks - check back frequently for more information - Breaking CBS News:
LINK: http://www.namm.org/summer/2014/concerts-performances/jon-hammond-organ-group
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JON HAMMOND Instruments: Organ, Accordion, Piano, Guitar Attended: Berklee College of Music 1974, City College San Francisco Languages: English, German Jon is closely identified with the two main products of his career, the Excelsior Accordion and the Hammond Organ. Musician: Jon Hammond is one of the premier B3 PLAYERS in the world. Jon has played professionally since age 12. Beginning as a solo accordionist, he later played Hammond B3 organ in a number of important San Francisco bands. His all original group HADES opened shows for Tower of Power, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Michael Bloomfield. Eddie Money and Barry Finnerty became musical associates. Moving East he attended Berklee College of Music and played venues as diverse as Boston's "Combat Zone" in the striptease clubs during the '70's and the exclusive Wychmere Harbor Club in Cape Cod, where he was house organist with the late great trumpet player Lou Colombo and developed a lasting friendship with House Speaker Tip O'Neill. He also toured the Northeast and Canada with the successful show revue "Easy Living", and continued his appearances at nightclubs in Boston and New York. Subsequently Hammond lived and traveled in Europe, where he has an enthusiastic following. TV/Video Producer: In 1981 Jon formed BackBeat Productions. Assisted by Lori Friedman (Video by LORI), the innovative TV show "The Jon Hammond Show" became a Manhattan Cable TV favorite. Jon's "Live on the street" video style included news events, as well as live music/video clips of Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Butterfield, Jaco Pastorius, John Entwistle, Sammy Davis Jr., Percy Sledge and many others. The weekly show is now in it's 30th year and has influenced the broadcasts of David Letterman and others. Billboard Magazine hailed Jon's show as "The Alternative to MTV". LINK http://youtu.be/7TApELTO1XI Head Phone - Jon Hammond Band THE SOUND SOUL SUMMIT All-Star Jam Video Movie of Jon's Band Featuring Bernard Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Alex Budman, Joe Berger2, Koei Tanaka, Jon Hammond Organ Group — with Stephen Fortner, Scott May, Joe Berger rips it up! Koei Tanaka and Jon Hammond at NAMM Anaheim Convention Center Hilton Anaheim Lobby Special Program on 80th Anniversary of Hammond Organ USA - Front of House / FOH Mix by Brian English - Denny Mack Audio - announcement - Stephen Fortner - Editor Keyboard Magazine Jon Hammond Organ Group - Hammond Suzuki Musical Instruments Team
Folks, I am very happy to report that Koei Tanaka is confirmed 100% to be joining us for our NAMM Showcase again, flying in from Tokyo...the great Suzuki Harmonica Star and Humanitarian! This is going to be a really great band - Joe Berger on guitar and I will confirm the rest of the cats in short order: We hit at High Noon 12PM Center Stage NAMM Show Friday January 23, 2015 - Jon Hammond FUNK UNIT - Photo courtesy NAMM Press
Breaking News Anaheim CA -- It brings me great pleasure to announce that Dom Famularo the great drummer, teacher and motivational Friend to all drummers around the world will be re-joining us on NAMM Center Stage at
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Friday January 23, 2015 - Dom Famularo Feature: LINK:
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Jon Hammond and Friends drop in to Taipei night spot JAZZ SPOT SWING organ lounge,
Jon at Mr. Nobuki Kuwahara's Hammond Sk2 organ with house musicians
- special thanks to Nico, Shannon, Letitia - Superlux Taiwan,
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Jon Hammond theme song Late Rent on the occasion of 28th annual musikmesse Warm Up Party in the world famous jazzkeller Frankfurt and Jon's birthday
with Peter Klohmann tenor saxophone, Giovanni Totò Gulino drums, Joe Berger guitar and Jon Hammond at the Sk1 Hammond organ - Late Rent is the theme song for Jon's long-running cable TV show in New York City The Jon Hammond Show and HammondCast radio program http://www.HammondCast.com - special thanks to Frank Poehl for operating the camera - Jon Hammond Band
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Jon Hammond theme song Late Rent on the occasion of 28th annual musikmesse Warm Up Party in the world famous jazzkeller Frankfurt and Jon's birthday
with Peter Klohmann tenor saxophone, Giovanni Totò Gulino drums, Joe Berger guitar and Jon Hammond at the Sk1 Hammond organ - Late Rent is the theme song for Jon's long-running cable TV show in New York City The Jon Hammond Show and HammondCast radio program http://www.HammondCast.com - special thanks to Frank Poehl for operating the camera - Jon Hammond Band
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The late great Deep Purple (1968-1976) organist Jon Lord here in interview with Jon Hammond at the Musikmesse Frankfurt am Main on the occasion of the introduction of Hammond SK-1 and Sk2 organs *Note: to my horror the microphone level was low - we can't do it over because sadly Jon is dead now - he says some really interesting things here, enjoy, R.I.P. Jon Lord,
sincerely Jon Hammond
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lord
Jonathan Douglas Lord
Born 9 June 1941
Leicester, England, UK
Died 16 July 2012 (aged 71)
London, England, UK
Genres Rock, hard rock, heavy metal, blues rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, classical, jazz, jazz fusion
Occupations musician, composer
Instruments Keyboards, vocals
Jonathan Douglas "Jon" Lord (9 June 1941 -- 16 July 2012) was an English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms, especially with Deep Purple, as well as Whitesnake, Paice Ashton Lord, The Artwoods, and The Flower Pot Men. In 1968 Lord co-founded Deep Purple, a hard rock band of which he was regarded as the leader until 1970. Together with the other members, he collaborated on most of his band's most popular songs. He and drummer Ian Paice were the only continual band members during the period from 1968 to 1976, and also from when it was reestablished in 1984 until Lord's retirement from Deep Purple in 2002. On 11 November 2010, he was inducted as an Honorary Fellow of Stevenson College in Edinburgh, Scotland. On 15 July 2011, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree by the University of Leicester.
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Jon Hammond Band in concert in Newessbar Hamischa - L to R: Lutz Buechner tenor sax, Joe Berger guitar, Heinz Lichius drums, Jon Hammond at Sk1 Hammond organ
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Lutz Buechner tenor sax
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Jon Hammond Sk1 Hammond organ
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It's almost time for the 4 Amigos World Guitar Show again folks, this time in San Mateo CA July 14-15 in the San Mateo County Event Center - photo Marc Baum at last year's show - Jon Hammond
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San Francisco CA -- Newly renovated famous Golden Gate Park Windmills - Jon Hammond
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San Francisco windmill restoration marks milestone
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO — Crews restoring the Murphy Windmill in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park are celebrating a milestone.
Crowds watch as workers place a 64-ton dome on the historic landmark Murphy windmill during its repair in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Monday, Sept. 12, 2011. The windmill was constructed in 1905 and is one of the largest windmills in the world. It originally served to irrigate the park. The dome was repaired in Holland. The flags below the American and San Francisco flags are the Dutch and Irish flags.
The windmill's 68-ton copper dome was placed back on top of the structure on Monday after undergoing nearly a decade of restoration.
The work is part of a multi-million dollar project to bring the six-story windmill, which once pumped water to the rest of the park, back online. Built in 1905, the windmill languished for decades until the restoration work began in 2002.
The project is expected to be completed by the middle of 2012, when the windmill's sails and gears should be back on and the area around it landscaped.
The project is being funded by public and private money. — at Dutch Windmill
San Francisco CA -- The entrance to Baker Beach - Jon Hammond
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Beach
Baker Beach is a public beach on the peninsula of San Francisco, California, U.S.. The beach lies on the shore of the Pacific Ocean to the northwest of the city. It is roughly a half mile (800 m) long, beginning just south of Golden Gate Point (where the Golden Gate Bridge connects with the peninsula), extending southward toward the Seacliff peninsula, the Palace of the Legion of Honor and the Sutro Baths. The northern section of Baker Beach is "frequented by clothing-optional sunbathers". As such it is considered a nude beach.History
Baker Beach is part of the Presidio, which was a military base from the founding of San Francisco by the Spanish in 1812 until 1997. In 1904, it was fortified with disappearing gun installations known as Battery Chamberlin, which can still be viewed today. When the Presidio was decommissioned as a U.S. Army base, it became part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which is administered by the National Park Service.
From 1986 to 1990, the north end of Baker Beach was the original site of the Burning Man art festival. In 1990, park police allowed participants to raise the traditional large statue but not to set it on fire, since the beach enforces a limit on the size of any campfires. Subsequent Burning Man events have taken place in Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
A fatal shark attack occurred on Baker Beach on May 7, 1959[5] when 18-year old Albert Kogler Jr. was attacked by a great white shark while he was 15 feet deep in water. This was the only shark attack recorded on Baker Beach.
Large outcrops of serpentine cliffs occur along the Pacific coast near Baker Beach. When rising from the land surface, serpentine produces a low-calcium, high-magnesium soil that can allow for rare species of plants to develop in the vicinity. This may explain the presence of Hesperolinon congestum (the Marin Dwarf Flax, a threatened plant) in surrounding areas — at Baker Beach.
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Musikmesse Frankfurt -- Barrie Freeman of Hammond Suzuki UK & Jon Hammond - I've been to 26 Musikmesse's (consecutively) but Barrie's got me beat! - JH
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*Michael Michael Falkenstein takin' care of biz by the organ http://hammond.de/ Germany
http://www.HammondCast.com/ — with Michael Falkenstein and Barrie Freeman at Musikmesse Frankfurt
Moscow Russia -- Ed Zizak taking a killer solo on my Theme Song "Late Rent"
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Jon Hammond Trio in Moscow Russia with Igor Butman tenor sax Eduard Zizak drums Jon Hammond organ, full power Late Rent break song with
amazing psychedelic solo from Eduard on James and Wess Blues dedicated to organist Jimmy Smith. Special thanks Faina Cobham, Hammond Suzuki, Camera: Jennifer http://www.jonhammondband.com/ — with Ed Zizak at Verkhnjaja Radishchevskaya St. 21 Moscow Russia
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1976 Honda Civic CVCC my very first brand-new car - Jon Hammond *wearing one of my custom Panama Hats from Arthur at Hand The Hatter of Boston Combat Zone
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Combat Zone Boston MA -- Hand The Hatter, Arthur was one of the greatest hatters of all times. I had all my hats custom made by him when I was playing Hammond organ 7 nights a week in the Zone - at World Famous 2 O'Clock Club, Picadilly, Mouse Trap and some of the other 'continuous adult entertainment' clubs back in the 70's - Jon Hammond
http://www.csmonitor.com/1988/1011/rhat.html
By David Holmstrom, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor / October 11, 1988
Boston
IT'S a hot day on LaGrange Street. Across from the gaudy Club New Orleans, on the shady side of this street in Boston's notorious ``combat zone,'' Arthur Stephens takes a small paring knife out of his pocket. He carefully cuts through the black threads of time. ``Six and seven-eighths,'' he says quietly. In his hand is a beige man's hat. No measuring, no guessing the size. He knows hats, this hat, any hat. The knife cuts the threads holding the old, black hatband. It falls to the floor.
``This is a good beaver hat,'' says Mr. Stephens, twirling it over the knuckles of one hand. He will spend the next hour or so in loving restoration of another man's favorite hat.
For 54 years, inside a narrow LaGrange Street shop darkened by time and steam, and filled with the rakishness of hats on pegs everywhere, Stephens has plied the almost forgotten art of a hatter. Like a poet polishing verbs, Stephens makes, restores, and repairs fine hats. During the half-century he has been motivated by the axiom ``A man doesn't looked dressed unless he wears a hat.''
``My sisters were hat trimmers,'' he says proudly, ready to nurture just about any stained, drooping hat into new sheen and bearing. ``My father was a hatter, and my brothers were hatters, too. See, I like what I'm doing. You gotta like what you're doing. I'm 80 going on 81.
Arthur Stephens is the only bona fide, art-for-the-sake-of-art hatter left in Boston. Once there were dozens. Ernesto Marrone has been a customer for 10 years. ``You can't get this kind of service anywhere else,'' he says, ``not even in New York. I wear hats because I grew up in an old Italian neighborhood where hats were customary.''
Long before Stephens bought the shop on LaGrange, a man named Hand first opened it on a downtown Boston street. The year was 1860, the year Abraham Lincoln was elected President, and Mr. Hand proclaimed his shop ``Hand the Hatter.''
The shop thrived down one century to another, satisfying Bostonian gentlemen who wore homburgs, panamas, top hats, trilbies, derbys, westerns, fedoras, and even boaters. And when the young and ambitious Stephens bought the shop in 1934, he kept the name.
Today, above the door, slightly weathered and melancholy, a black-and-white sign still says, ``Hand the Hatter.''
The small shop window - protected by a steel grate - is so dusty and gray there is no seeing through it. One step up and through the open door and into the musty shop, and you have entered a time warp sliced from a faded calendar, circa 1930, with hats, hats, and more hats.
``You walk in here and say, `How come all this junk is here?''' says Stephens, a small man with rounded shoulders and a gruff, sentimental voice. ``But everything is ready for any kind of hat. You never know when you're going to use this stuff.''
``This stuff'' lying about is a Noah's ark of the hatter's craft. Shelves and tables full of wooden hat blocks, shelves full of wooden flanges to shape brims, a 40-year-old hissing copper boiler (steam for steaming the hats), ancient cans of ``luring'' grease (to bring out the sheen of hats), an old ``ironing'' machine that heats and shapes the crown of hat while it spins slowly on a block, and off in one corner a bulbous, heated ``sand'' machine (a flannel bag filled with heated beach sand) to lower over a hat on a flange to shape or reshape the brim.
``I used to work until 2 in the morning,'' says Stephens, recalling the heady, quicker pace of the 1930s. ``Saturdays, Sundays. I'd go out to eat, take a shower at a hotel, come back here, and go to work again. I could knock off maybe 40 to 50 hats a day. Today if I do eight or 10 I'm doing a big day's work.''
Stephens acknowledges that it was probably a hatless President named John Kennedy who helped take the steam out of the men's hat business. That and all the vets returning from World War II as men who refused to wear hats anymore. Add the long hair of men in the 1960s, and hats had a dim future.
``Kennedy didn't wear a hat,'' says Stephens, ``and everybody stopped wearing them. Men are wearing all different kinds of hats now, but still not like they used to. Do I wear hats? Sure. I keep a couple in my car.''
He pauses by the ironing machine, watching the blocked brown hat turning as the hot ``iron'' moves automatically and slowly around it, squeaking all the way. On a shelf a fan pushes the hot air around.
His voice lowers. ``Way back I made hats for Jimmy Durante,'' he says. ``His valet used to come here and get them. He'd say, `Jimmy needs a couple of hats,' and I'd know just what he wanted. Basil Rathbone used to buy hats from me, too.''
A new hat from Stephens will cost from $125 to $150. A restoration begins about $20 and often ends there, no matter how long it takes. ``I never really check the time, to tell you the truth,'' he says. ``I like the work, and when it's done, it's done.''
In the late afternoon a customer of 35 years comes in: a stocky, older man named Mitch with a straw hat needing the brim smoothed and stiffened. Stephens repairs the hat in minutes, using the sand machine and some deftly applied glue.
``I bought my first custom-made hat here in 1950,'' says Mitch, standing at the small counter near an enormous old cash register with a hand crank. ``I got one he made me a few years ago, and a couple of others,'' says Mitch. He says he would like another, a light gray this time.
He and Stephens strike an accord. A price of $85, with $40 down. Stephens fills out an order. Mitch peels off two $20 bills on the counter. ``I don't want you pushing yourself,'' he says to Stephens. They both laugh and agree that three weeks should be long enough to fashion the hat. They shake hands. Mitch says warmly, ``I need you. Don't push yourself on this.''
Minutes later, a young man in a leather vest and tie enters and picks up a custom-made hat, a tan, narrow-brimmed trilby. Stephens packs the hat in a new Stetson hat box and tosses in a cluster of small red and yellow feathers for the hatband. When the young man leaves, Stephens says: ``If you're any kind of a businessman, you throw a man a few feathers.''
Late in the afternoon he sits in one of the four old chairs just inside the front door in a pensive mood. ``These are all old customers now,'' he says quietly. ``They know I won't sell them a bad hat. If I had said a $100 for the hat, Mitch would have paid it. No arguments.'' — at Combat Zone
Combat Zone Boston MA -- Hand The Hatter, Arthur was one of the greatest hatters of all times. I had all my hats custom made by him when I was playing Hammond organ 7 nights a week in the Zone - at World Famous 2 O'Clock Club, Picadilly, Mouse Trap and some of the other 'continuous adult entertainment' clubs back in the 70's - Jon Hammond
http://www.csmonitor.com/1988/1011/rhat.html
By David Holmstrom, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor / October 11, 1988
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Jon Hammond Intro:
Instruments: Organ, Accordion, Piano, Guitar
Attended: Berklee College of Music 1974, City College San Francisco
Languages: English, German
Jon is closely identified with the two main products of his career, the Excelsior Accordion and the Hammond Organ.
Happy Birthday at Spenger's Jon Hammond! #HappyBirthday #Spengers #Melodion #SuzukiMusicalInstruments
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My badass new phone BlackBerry KEYone BBB100-7 - rockin'!
4GB RAM, 64GB internal storage and all-day power with 3505mAh battery; includes quick charge 3.0, charging 50% in just 36 minutes; powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor
Stunning 4.5-inch touch screen display with Corning Gorilla glass 4 protection, anodized aluminum casing and textured soft touch grip with impact-resistant frame
Smart keyboard with touch navigation, flick typing for faster predictive text, customizable shortcuts and embedded fingerprint sensor
Dual Sim, 12MP (1.55um large pixel) rear Camera with auto focus and dual-tone LED flash; 8MP front Camera, Android 7.1 Nougat, Qualcomm Snapdragon 625, Octa-Core 2.0 GHz, 64-bit Adreno 506
Youtube https://youtu.be/vfCDElOMJRg
Mitsuru Kawarai / か笑い みつる , Yamanaka Yuya , Satoshi Tokuda, Takeshi Kobayashi
W37, Manji Suzuki, Sk2, Organ, Melodion, Satoshi Tokuda, Suzuki Musical Instruments, Tokyo Big Sight, Blackberry Keyone
