Rad Jet #3 Release. The Politics of Guns.

Rad Jet's FULL ARTIST BIO

Hawaiian-born Kaju is the founder of the original retro rock band Rad Jet, and is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, arranger, filmmaker, and an award-winning producer.

According to the artists’ full bio, “Rad Jet delivers a fresh organic brand of high energy hard rock, retro rock, and old-school irresistible pop melodies to a New Generation of listeners without loops, samples, or gimmicks. Great songs 100% humanly played.”

Kaju further writes on Rad Jet’s Instagram, “Together we can bring back classic organic rock devoid of loops, samples, and auto tune to a New Generation – a visceral quality that I feel is missing in today’s homogeneous musical lexicon. Follow Rad Jet on this journey and become a part of this growing movement.” 

“96 Guns” is Rad Jet’s debut single and full-length music video which was released on schedule on July 8, 2022. Their eponymous self-titled debut album with ten new original recordings all composed by Kaju is scheduled to be released in Fall 2023.

Rad Jet will release 10 new songs worldwide beginning on July 8. 2022, with a new song release slated for every month or two thru the last quarter of 2023. Only after releasing all 10 singles, will the full LP be released for sale in Fall 2023.

Rad Jet's follow-up 2nd Release, "Celebrate the Change" - a melodic pop anthem with heavy guitar and pretty melodies reminiscent of early Foo Fighters and Squeeze - was released everywhere on August 12, 2022.

Here's an update:  Rad Jet followed up these first (2) releases with his next three releases: "The Politics of Guns" (released 10.7.22), an anti-guns call out for change with the current gun legislation,  "Burst" (released 12.9.22) perhaps Rad Jet's catchiest pop song, and "Silent Storms", Rad Jet's dark and haunting ballad about one's personal tale of isolation and tragedy (scheduled release on 2.10.23). 

Kaju played all 18 instruments on Rad Jet’s debut album, as well as being the producer, arranger, and lead vocalist for all tracks except one. Chandler Mogel was the Featured Vocalist on Rad Jet’s debut single release “96 Guns.” This album is comprised of his unfinished and unrecorded material spanning over 30 years.

On December 21, 2021, Kaju became an award-winning producer when he and partner Felicia Lin’s podcast “Talking Taiwan” won the Golden Crane Award for the Best Special Interest Podcast of 2021.

Previously on September 3, 2021, his short film “Chaos in NYC” which captured the frenzy during the lockdown curfew of the pandemic became an official selection of the 2021 Hollywood First Time Filmmakers Festival.

Kaju has performed as a musician in 15 different countries on four different continents all over the world at various well-known venues in North America, Asia, Australia, and Central America. For 15 years, he was the former band leader and founding member of OFF THE HOOK, one of the premiere dance party bands in the New York Tri-State Area.

As the guitarist for the 50 + member Don’t Give Up Gospel Choir of Japan in June 2011, Kaju participated in an electrifying performance in front of a stadium crowd of 20,000 joyous gospel fans for Gospel Fest at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, sharing the stage with gospel legends Donny McClurkin, and Kirk Franklin.

His appearances on television include competing as a finalist in 2011 on the ABC-TV reality game show “Karaoke Battle USA” hosted by former N’Sync star Joey Fatone, with guest star judge Carnie Wilson, an interview on the Emmy-award winning News Program “ABC Nightline” during the segment “Talent is Overrated” by news correspondent John Berman, and a special guitar performance as “Rob the Guitar Player” with Sal the Stockbroker on the WCBS prime time television and E-Network “Howard Stern Radio Show.”

"The Politics of Guns" 

Words and Music by Kaju 

Copyright 2022

Publisher: Rad Jet Music

Verse 1:                                                                                            

I’m not feeling well

Uvalde 22 shot dead

I feel like raisin’ hell

Thinking of Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virg. Tech

Rally hard

Raise your glass

Pray to God

Gun reform will pass

Chorus 1:

Tearin’ down the walls

Mass killing sprees through campus halls

Like Rome we’re gonna fall

Unless the Gun Lobby heeds our call

Tearin’ down the walls

Calling our daughters and sons

To the Politics of Guns

(And Stop these Senseless Guns)

Verse 2:

The Supreme Court jury’s hung

Set killers free, overturned Roe Wade

Any kid can buy a gun

As long as lobbyists get paid

Campaign hard

No time to rest

The night has come

Bring legislators to the test

To the test

Chorus 2:

Tearin’ hallowed walls

From the Vegas Strip to Buffalo

It’s time to heed the Call

Stop these killing sprees change pro-gun laws

Pray the blood laid on these walls

Teach our daughters and sons

The Politics of Guns

(To Stop these Senseless Guns)

Bridge:

What a mess he made

Appointed judges not your friends

While the NRA’s bold lies never end

Chorus 3 | 4:

Tearin’ down the walls                                   

My Mind is Gonna Crash and Fall

I think I’ll Lose it All

Unless a Court Supreme change pro-gun laws

Tear these bloody walls

For your daughters and sons

(To Stop the Senseless guns)

Tearin’ down the walls

My Mind is Gonna Crash and Fall

Congress hear them all

200 Million Voices call

Tear these bloody walls

For our daughters and sons

For your daughters and sons

We gotta run run run

The Politics of Guns

Outro

We’re gonna run……the Politics of Guns

The Politics of Guns

The Politics of Guns