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Beeske is a Japanese web-based musician whose works are compared with Elliot Smith, Nick Drake, Beat Happening and Beck by late Download.com Music. Beeske insists however, that he is not willing to commit suicide and that his main influences are The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Lou Reed, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen, Sex Pistols and Beastie Boys instead. Greats are great is his words. Guitars are main instrument on Beeske's music, but he does not seem to be interested in the skillful play. Although playing all instruments by himself, Beeske is not a Paul McCartney-Stevie Wonder-Prince type musician, he is rather similar to those Lo-fi musicians in his play style. On this point of view he once expressed his humble sympathy to the musicians like Daniel Johnston, Violent Femmes and The Pastels. Beeske has actually a long career as a musician and his entire catalogues are distributed here in the last.fm site for free. He made a virtual debut when he was 16 years old as a member of a band in the late 80's and produced over a dozen albums (official website of this band and its last.fm page are being prepared). In the summer of 1993 he suddenly made his solo debut album "cheer up sleepy sun" under the influence of a Japanese shibuya-kei legend Flipper's Guitar and their solo projects as 小沢健二 and Cornelius. He started to write Japanese lyrics in that period and continued throughout the 90's. The debut album draws a fine picture of fragile nature of summe