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I think Klas and Zak need to start an Eleki band so I can download their music.

I was trying to be humorous here, it was not a comment on downloading. I think it is funny that 2 of the 3 biggest Eleki fans on the site are going at it like this. But seriously, you guys really should start an Eleki band.

Anyway, sorry to see this thread end like this. I've learned a lot from it. Or can it be put back on track?

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If you wanted to recommend an eleki album to the forum members, you could just have linked to online store sound samples (which should be enough for anyone to base a purchase on)

As I said before, that is not enough for me to spend my money on and that includes the Surfites samples. An exception would be Kahuna Kawentzmann's Tike & Guitar, I just couldn't find a free download for it. Most of the stuff that I like immediately I quickly grow tired of. When I was younger, we had this thing called radio where you could hear entire songs for free. That sent millions of us to the store to buy our own copies. That enabled my friend who worked for Warner Bros. to buy a Gregory Ain house in Los Feliz, none of his neighbors are musicians.

In an attempt to steer this somewhat back on course, I just won Terry's Seicho Terauchi Bushi on eBay:

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and his Let's Go Classics should be arriving any day now:

I've only heard a few songs from the first one - "Musume Dojojoi" rules - but I'll post reviews when they get here.

-Warren

That was excessively violent and completely unnecessary. I loved it.

That streaming audio link somebody posted, that was so stuffed full with google ads. I doubt any of the ad money will go to the content creators. Unlike on radio f.e.

Anyway, Klas (I think) said that Eleki releases depend heavily on sale numbers. And I can confirm, having worked for the biggest record major in the world, that any product manager working on special interest items such as these we are arguing about here, they have really hot seats. Often nobody else in the company knows about the history of these releases (MTV didn’t educate about this stuff). So when the guys who are still pushing these out are gone, the catalogue is lost.

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Here's an interesting 1994 clip of Yuzo Kayama and The Ventures, sharing stage again and taking turns on the same songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jFYJH_Dalc

And I've never heard the Ventures use anything near the massive amount of reverb coming from Don Wilson in this clip!

T H E ✠ S U R F I T E S

I just got back from three weeks in Japan. Quite frankly when I first saw this thread I thought it was about a guitar brand, you know something like a Teisco. I didn't read the thread, but as I later posted in a separate posting there was a story in the local paper about The Ventures and a side article on Takeshi Terauchi. It made mention of Eleki and I remembered this thread.

Anyway, went to two different stores and the only thing I could find was this:

No luck finding anything else, but the direct prices are no better than what has been posted by others here using sites like Amazon and cdjapan. I think I paid around 2450 yen, about $22.00.

Link to the CD: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=TECH-25149

The bad news, there are no instrumentals on it. Oh well, a shot in the dark. I do kind of like it, I've only listened to it once and it reminds of cheesy 60's spy flick soundtracks, not necessarily a bad thing. One track has the singer imitating the surf-guitar glissando vocally.

Cool Ivan! I thought I had won the Sharp Five Young Guitar Vol 1. on ebay, but the seller became "amazingly" out of stock and withdrew (oh well, that's ebay) so I'm looking to pick it up on cdJapan. I may also pick up Vol. 3 because I'm hearing some really good things about it. I have their Haru No Umi and it is simply incredible!

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That's what I forgot about reviewing this time around.

Terauchi Takeshi - Seicho Terauchi Bushi

If this is Terry's best-selling album, it's not hard at all to see why. The songs - all instro - really cover a lot of ground, and it has some of Terry's most unhinged guitar playing. (Especially on "Kajincho.") My one complaint is it's front-loaded with the fastest songs, so side two feels a bit downbeat. But the songs are great, and it's definitely edged out Manatso No Umi Wo Buttobase to become my favorite album of his.

Terauchi Takeshi - Let's Go Classics

If you're a real classical music purist, this might make your head explode. "Fur Elise" is unreal - it's just an all-out assault on Beethoven, led by one of the coolest fuzztones I've ever heard. On a few of the songs Terry completely abandons the melody about halfway through and just starts soloing, but that's definitely not a complaint. A couple of the songs aren't quite as good as other bands' versions - especially "Sabre Dance" and "Flight of the Bumblebee," though at least the latter has great fuzz on it. Still, it's a really solid album, and pretty easy to find both in LP form and also as one of the 40th anniversary CD reissues.

I also just won the self-titled Sharp Five LP:

A few years back I ordered the CD from Jack Diamond Music, and received a CD-R with artwork, so it's nice to actually have a legit copy. And I'm also waiting for these to arrive:

That Terry LP is supposedly all country western covers and the CD is a collection of mostly surf covers, though I don't know if they're 60s or 90s recordings. (I'd hope it's the former, but the crappy cover art leads me to think that won't be the case.) According to the item description, the GS LP is Group Sounds songs done instro-style by the All-Stars Wagon and Sharp Five, among others. Should be interesting.

And now, thanks to Ivan, I gotta track down those other Young Guitar volumes. (Apparently "Japanese Classics" is volume 3, if the OBI strip is to be believed.)

-Warren

That was excessively violent and completely unnecessary. I loved it.

It's not the Rick Griffin art I was referring to - it's the font used above and below it.

-Warren

That was excessively violent and completely unnecessary. I loved it.