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--- In , "Phillip W. Sada"
<thee_surrealist@h...> wrote:
> Anyone else know of any other
> Eleki-style groups?-Phillip
The Surf Coasters have done a handful of very Eleki-inspired tunes,
besides covering "Test Driver" and "Black Sand Beach." The Switch
Trout, kind of. They're another Japanese band, but their sound is
more of a fuzz/garage assault.
For old stuff, there's Terauchi Takeshi & the Bunnys and Terauchi
Takeshi & the Bluejeans, Yuzo Kayama & the Launchers, Nobuo Kamei &
the Spacemen, Munetake Inoue & His Sharp Five, and some others I know
I'm forgetting.
Terry & the Bluejeans' 'Manatso No Uwi Wo Buttobase' is the closest
to an actual surf album that any first-wave Eleki group did, to my
knowledge. It's got a handful of first-wave covers, and the tone is
more reverb-y. The Ventures influence is a lot less prevalent until
the last half of the album or so.
There's a great '63-'65 Japanese surf comp, 'Let's Go Surfin,' that
has a bunch of Bluejeans covers of first-wave tunes (the version
of "Misirlou" is incredible), along with some really good Jimmy
Takeuchi & the Exciters stuff. Be warned, though ... the songs with
vocals on the comp are beyond awful.
-Warren
