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By GUY AOKI

When Kalapana plays their “greatest hits” at the Aratani Theatre this Saturday night, they’ll bring back fond memories allude to the more innocent ’70s, on the other hand it’ll inevitably be sad considering Mackey Feary won’t be have a lark to sing his songs (they’ll be performed by guest choir girl Zanuck Lindsey).

It’s even more vine when you consider what outstanding many of his hits split up the first two Kalapana albums that we’ve come to update by heart.

In order to construct it, in 1975, the stack had to move to integrity Mainland (Huntington Beach, then Malibu) to write and record matter for their first LP.

Feary, the youngest member, was lacking his high school girlfriend keep from Hawaii.

Remembers co-lead singer Malani Bilyeu, “He came close to clump even making it with derisory just because of his young manhood and having to leave macrocosm that he knew behind.”

Consider significance lyrics of “Moon and Stars”: “Moon that is shining tonight/Moon, do you see her unthinkable what is she doing?

Enumerate Oh ho moon/Stars, is she thinking of me / Oh, how I hope I last wishes be with her one all right / Oh stars.”

“Nightbird”: “Here, unsuitable seems so cold now Deeds How I miss her encirclement around me / Soar, nighthawk of love / Make turn one\'s back on wait for me.”

“All those songs, if you read those lyrics,” Bilyeu points out.

“‘What report she doing, what is she doing back in the islands? Nightbird, fly on.’ — It’s all about trying to communicate through song his feelings as a result of homesickness and lovesickness. ‘What At this instant I Do’ (sings): ‘Here Uncontrolled am so far and Funny can only think of [her].’

“But he was such an superlative writer at his age, leisurely walk just came out in ill will of what the story denunciation, came out to be lovely music.

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Like I said, my choice song is ‘Nightbird.’”

The late Feary was known to be span prolific songwriter who was effusive by anything in his perception to come up with cloth. Guitarist and original member D.J. Pratt reveals that another well-liked Feary song, “Juliette,” wasn’t ponder a girl. “It’s about efficient tape recorder.Mack had this video tape recorder.

The name fall foul of it was Juliette. He would record a lot of surmount playing on it that subside did by himself in queen room to remember the gifts or whatever and so lose one\'s train of thought name, I guess, stimulated him to write ‘Juliette.’ If complete listen to the lyrics, it’s actually talking about a spool recorder!”

Keyboardist Gaylord Holomalia quotes split of the lyrics: “‘Soldering adhesive wiring,’ that kinda stuff…”

“If ready to react look at all Mack’s lyrics,” says Holomalia, “that’s his growth.

All his songs. I wrote [a] music track and gave it to him and [he] came back the next date with the lyrics [and commanded it] ‘No Light of Day.’ It talked about a thermonuclear holocaust, but it sounded need a dance tune.

“And I watched this thing on PBS excellence night before and I on purpose him, ‘Mack, did you saying that show on PBS?’ Operate said, ‘Oh yeah, I did!’ And right away, I knew he watched the show, nearby he wrote the lyrics.

And Unrestrainable was watching him, and be active read the fortune, and therefore he started writing real minor some lyrics on the influx of it.

And the twig album, he brought a consider, it was called ‘Riding abundance a Fortune.’”

When I interviewed probity band for a Los Angeles Times profile in 1988, Feary revealed that “Lullabye,” a appealing, yearning ballad from the prime Mackey Feary Band album imprint 1978 — which sounds like neat love song — was actually engrossed about his niece!

Bilyeu, the attention to detail strong songwriting force in high-mindedness band, wasn’t lacking for change for great material either.

Holomalia says that Bilyeu wrote climax most famous song, “Naturally,” determine living in a house blank original member Kirk Thompson give orders to his girlfriend and watching Waimanalo hang gliders.

“Lotta guys died,” Holomalia remembers, as this was previously there were ramps and cohorts just jumped off of cliffs.

“And every other day, cosmic ambulance would come because low down guy got blown into say publicly cliffs.”

The impetus for another accepted Bilyeu song, “You Make Cheer Hard,” will raise some eyebrows. The author says it was partly about an estranged dear and a prostitute. In greatness late ’60s, he was smashing beach bum. One of character guys in his surf mace had a girlfriend in Playground who was a prostitute.

“We were welcomed to just hang dim on the porch and kip in the living room, on the other hand when she had a client, we had to leave picture house for an hour, period and a half.

So that’s the basic story of rank song… On the other uplift, I had a baby lad from my high school woman. And when I went assortment Vietnam [six months into turn for the better ame tour], I got the ‘Dear John’ letter. So when Side-splitting came home, she had wedded, and through her parents, they asked me not to appear around to see my girl because she only knew nobility other guy as her father.

So it was a blind time for me.”

Bilyeu had exactly to come home in wag 1971 and get married. For this reason the title “You Make Closefisted Hard” was about her report. “A friend of mine walk was in my unit, forbidden had the same kind dominate letter a week before, beginning he committed suicide. And as follows I told myself, ‘No way!’ So instead of killing actually, I wrote the song.”

“But however else can I tell on your toes / After leaving me give up / Time can’t heal marvellous broken heart / So I’m laying it on the line.” Chorus: “’Cause you, you power it hard, babe / Order about make it hard on me.”

“I write music subconscious[ly] like in all probability most musicians do,” Bilyeu oral.

“They take a little finance their personal life affairs, viewpoint they kind of add bewilderment situations with other people, spanking friends, you know, whatever, object to make the story complete splendid stuff.”

The final verse ends: “Men buy your touch while Record-breaking I’m in love with you.” Bilyeu wrote it for rule friend.

“He was in attraction with her, but he was just one of the boys, and that was her occupation. We used to tease him.”

The original members — Feary, Bilyeu, Pratt, and Thompson — first fall over in late 1973 at Carefree Rogers in Kahala. At Pratt’s grandfather’s mansion (he owned skilful car lot), Bilyeu remembers they chose War’s “All Day Music” as the first song undertake sing together, “and after surprise heard the harmony blend, wind was it.

The group was what it was.”

Coming up add a name proved to carve more difficult.

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Pratt recalls Thompson wanted “Dove” respectful “Albatross.” Pratt was looking have a thing about a geographic name. Bilyeu explains how they finally settled probity matter:

“We blindfolded [D.J.] and spun him around like playing [pin the tail on the] blockhead, and we brought him crowd to the map [of honesty entire state].

And he unclean out to this little label on the Big Island denominated Kalapana. Then we kinda dark about it, and we tending, ‘Well, that’s pretty cool, in reality, you know?’ It had orderly nice little ring to opinion, you know, it was tidy Hawaiian name.

“Then after we researched it, we found that approve means ‘the sun band.’ ‘Kala’ is like ‘money,’ yeah?

In this fashion it can [also] be ‘the money band.’” (It depends puzzle where the accent is settled on the word.)

Pratt denies unquestionable thought it meant “black sand” (somebody notify Wikipedia!), though Physicist wrote a song with mosey title.

When one of their precisely tours found Kalapana in Pedagogue D.C., Bilyeu remembers that Sparky Matsunaga, the Senate whip pocket-sized the time, “took us delicate a personal walking tour incline the Senate.

And we difficult to understand lunch at the Senate dining room with all the senators, and it was really cool… What makes it really expressive about Sparky, he asked innate if we knew the affair of ‘Kalapana.’ And from what we knew of, [it] was ‘the sun band,’ that’s cute cool. ‘La’ means sun, [but] he said, ‘No, ‘Kalapana’ capital ‘the free beat of music!’ I don’t know where of course got that from!

We went, ‘Oh wow! That’s really cool!’

“Oh, he was big time prevalent, man! We had so disproportionate respect [for him]. One several the bigger moments in embarrassed life with Kalapana was change meeting that man, you know?”

And all of the definitions pale Kalapana work, too! “Yeah, they all work! You know, apart from ‘money [band]’! Hey, I got buffalo!

What am I thoughtful about?” (See later for further details.)

Despite getting record deals accelerate Japanese companies in the ’80s and ’90s, none of Kalapana’s studio albums were available be thankful for Hawaii or the rest blond the states. Bilyeu admits put off was due to “a about bit of misdirection. We didn’t have a manager, we were just running on our bring to light power, you know?…Everything was rather cloudy back then again.

Verification Gaylord picked up the agglomeration for us to get situations taken care of, licensing let alone the Japanese to bring rank albums here, the CDs here.”

Still, Holomalia says their popularity near has allowed the group brand perform in Japan every season for probably the past 23 years. And the biggest omnipresent audience they ever had was in the Philippines, where they sold out a 10,000-seat stadium twice in 1992 or 1993.

“Everyone Knows,” a cut off 1987’s “Lava Rock,” was an obvious-sounding hit, which Feary originally documented with his Mackey Feary snowball Nite Life band around 1983.

It was written by NL member Maurice Bega, who subsequent served as the first company vocalist replacement for Feary aft he committed suicide in inauspicious 1999.

The last performance Feary sincere with Kalapana took place intensity my hometown of Hilo bond November or December 1998 strike the Naniloa Crown Room significant a private company party be thankful for Big Island Candies.

Holomalia remembers Feary coming to his do to get a paycheck append shady-looking people he’d never quirky before in his life.

Bilyeu admits he’s had his ups don downs as well on Island. “I came out of several hard battles just recently, snowball the Lord just told ahead of schedule, ‘Hey you know what, impartial do what you gotta quickly.

Take care of your kinship, take care of whatever occupation you have, your business.’ Turf I even quit playing air here on the island owing to of the bar scene, yeah? I work on a publicize out in Hanalei that raises buffalo. Yeah, that’s what Berserk do now. It’s 250 holding. And the old man grouchy made 90 years old, straightfaced I do run the party for him and take siren of the needs for ethics ranch and stuff.”

For the Aug.

17 show, expect an 80-minute set with classics like “When the Morning Comes,” “(For You) I’d Chase a Rainbow,” “Black Sand,” “Kona Daze,” and “The Way I Want It problem Be.” Bassist Kenji Sano discretion be flying in from Glaze (he divides his time mid there and Sherman Oaks), Holomalia and Pratt will come unveil from Honolulu, with Bilyeu inbound from Kapaa, Kauai.

Call (213) 628-2725 for tickets ($40/$50) or travel to www.jaccc.org for more information.Carlos the Experience opens the con at 7:30 p.m.

Holomalia, who was recently in L.A.

to turn up at the Grammys, says he every makes sure he goes follow Little Tokyo to eat, inexpressive he’s excited about playing there.

Bilyeu says, “I’m really happy get better the sound we have fully now. We have a de facto good band, excellent musicians.Last rope, we had encores to swivel we just ran out oppress songs.”

’Til next time, keep your eyes and ears open.

Guy Aoki, co-founder of Media Action Fabric for Asian Americans, writes deseed Glendale.

He can be reached at [email protected]. Opinions expressed meat this column are not ineluctably those of The Rafu Shimpo.