THE MAN FROM ELEKI

After the Ventures toured Japan in 1962, the place went instro crazy. Electric guitar instrumental bands were crawling all over the place. They called these bands "eleki", which sure is a good compact way of saying "guitar based instrumental bands". Most of it wasn't really surf music because there wasn't a whole lot of dripping reverb, but there was a whole lot of great pickin', and in quite a few some comical yelps and such. Check the beginning of Takeshi Terauchi's "Kanjinncyou". Right out of the gates. "Yooo!!" is right! There's a lot of his stuff below because, in that scene, he was the man. That's him above, the man and his Mostrite.

Eleki lives on. Check the video linked at the bottom of the post. Go! Go! Tomoko!, that's the name of the woman guitarist. She's got a colorful way of interpreting some of the standards. I swear that lady has some kind of relationship with her whammy bar.

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Listen:
Takeshi Terauchi - Kanjinncyou mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Takeshi Terauchi - Genruko Hanami Odori mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Takeshi Teraushi - Sabre Dance mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Takeshi Terauchi and the Bunnys - Flying Guitar mp3 at Radio Diffusion Intl
The Sharp Five - Golden Guitar mp3 at Radio Diffusion Intl
The Spacemen - Swim Swim Swim mp3 at Radio Diffusion Intl
The Spacemen - Che Che Che mp3 at Radio Diffusion Intl
Full LPs:
Takeshi Terauchi and the Bunnys - Let's Go Classics LP (classical covers, 11 mp3s, right click song titles) at Beware of the Blog
Takeshi Terauchi and the Bunnys - This is Terauchi Bushi LP (12 mp3s, right click song titles) at Beware of the Blog
Video:
Go! Go! Tomoko w/Sapporo Chuck Berry Rock 'n' Roll Band at YouTube Assorted classics, maximum whammy bar.