I am happily married to my wonderful wife, Angel-Baby Angelina Okuyama. Baby, I LOVE YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guitar player / Singer / Song Writer / Bass player
Mac “The Knife” Okuyama was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971. In 1990, he went to Vancouver, Canada as an exchange student, where he fell in love with live music and started playing blues/rock guitar. His influences include: Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Faces, The Rolling Stones, Tim Hearsey and the Powder Blues to name a few. After playing with several bands in Vancouver, he returned to Tokyo in late 1997. Since then, he has been a regular on the Tokyo music scene performing at several venues and festivals including the “Year of the Blues Celebration” at Roppongi Hills where he performed with Guitar Shorty and Melvin Taylor.
In April of 2006, he organized memorial concerts in memory of Eddie “ The Ed-man “ Stauffer, his former manager and friend who founded “Blues Alive”; a music production company that brought over foreign acts, such as Harmonica Shah and Matt Corcoran, to Japan. Eddie was also the man responsible for naming Mac “The Knife”. Participants in the memorial included L.A. Jones and Steve Gardner.
Mac is currently lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the blues/rock band Max Blues. He is also in Messin' With The Blues, Tarantula sound and The Good Buzz. He can also be seen making guest appearances with Rude Boys, Inc. ( R. B. I. ), the J.J. Vicars band, SUPERFUNKTION and T.K. and the Blues Blasters and many other bands.
He also hosts the acoustic jam / open mic night at Ben's Cafe in Takadanobaba every 3rd thursday.
http://www.benscafe.com
He also hosts the Max Blues jam night at Dogs Bollox in Ikebukuro every 2nd and 4th thursday of the month.
MAX BLUES launched three new CDs in August 2007. They are available at gigs.
Tarantula Sound just launched their 1st CD, " BLUE POP ROCK " in February, 2008 and it's available at gigs.
http://www.myspace.com/tarasolheim
Keep the BLUES ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who I'd like to meet: I am so in love with Angelina. I can't live without her. Baby-Angel, I will love you till the end of time.
Thanx for the add! Peace & prosperity! Feel free to check out my blog. I write a 'blook' (blog+book) there! I'm also at Youtube and Reverbnation where my friends can download work in progress. http://www.reverbnation.com/janvernerc jvc
Mackenzie and Ricky are getting married in May. How have you been doing? We are going Saturday and start looking at dresses. They didn't give me much notice but thats Mackenzie, right? LOL Oh hey! I already took the pics to be printed lol! Some of them were soo freakin hilarious! And i loved the picture of us ... it was sooo cute..so yah, guess what? 'member those surveys i was doing online? well, i got 2 checks so far! told ya it was real!! it aint like a ton of money, just like 175 so far, but its good coin to start with, right? you should really do it, now that i've gotten paid ..i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:
Thanks for the add! Rufus Huff debut CD coming April 14th on ZOHO Roots in US & Europe!
Who's Rufus Huff? Named after two obscure Blues men Whistlin' Rufus and Luther Huff, the Glasgow, Kentucky-based Blues Rock quartet is made up of Dean Smith, Chris Hardesty, Jarrod England and Greg Martin, known for his raucous, incendiary electric guitar playing in the South's hardest country rockers, The Kentucky HeadHunters.
Rufus Huff, steeped in the tradition of Cream, Jeff Beck, Free, Led Zeppelin, Mountain, Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsies, Cactus, and ZZ Top!!!!
