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Georgie Pie
12+ albums
bluesguitarblues rock
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Georgie Pie Bio What sort of name is Georgie Pie for a foot-stomping ass-kicking Japanese power trio anyhow? Once upon a time, Georgie Pie was New Zealand's "homegrown alternative to the global fast food industry giants" serving up one dollar minced meat pies to starving musicians like Masashi Hara, high school dropout and guitar prodigy. The year was 1992, Hara was 17, knocking about New Zealand with nothing but the clothes on his back, a ragged straw cowboy hat and a '62 strat. Resettled in Tokyo and finally finished with the evils of school, Masashi Hara gathered his co-conspiritors. Offering authoritative covers of American blues tunes and soulful originals, their free-form jams paying loving tribute to Buddy Guy, Albert King, Johnny Winter and other guitar greats, Hara's power trio set out to kick sand in the tired face of the Japanese blues scene. Georgie Pie, the restaurant, has been squashed under the greasy clownshoe of McDonald's, but the name lives on in Tokyo's premier electric blues band, a homegrown alternative to fastfood music, still serving up hot and spicy high-energy delicacies. Read some flowery words about the CDs, listen to some music, or watch a video clip. GEORGIE PIE ON HIATUS Masashi Hara is a singer, a songwriter, a bandleader, but mostly he is a guitarist. Music moves effortlessly from his heart to his fretboard. Some people call him a guitar prodigy. The rest of us just call him fuckin' awesome. Back in '94, Masashi (pronounced like "mus