Kosmik Radiation Radio - Dec 5, 2007 Playlist

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Speed Glue & Shinki "Eve" 1971 (Japan/Philippines)

In Julian Cope's recent book Japrocksampler: How The Post-War Japanese Blew Their Minds On Rock & Roll, he lists his 50 favorite Japanese albums of the psychedelic era, and tied for #1 are Flower Travellin Band's Satori (already a CAOTW on this show) and the debut record by the most notorious drug punk band of all time, Speed Glue & Shinki. This trio of halfbreeds was formed by two former members of the legendary Japanese supergroup Foodbrain (Franco-Japanese bassist Masayoshi "Louis Louis" Kabe and half-Chinese lead guitarist Shinki Chen) who joined up with singing Filipino-American drummer Joey "Pepe" Smith. Aside from the degenerate subject matter of their songs (mostly about drugs -- the group's name is even a reference to Smith's "speed" habit and Kabe's fondness for sniffing "glue"), the most notable thing about this band is their inversion of the standard power trio formula. Their lead guitarist is conventional almost to the point of being boring, whereas the bass provides uniquely atonal (anti-) melodies, and their drummer is the true leader, not only writing & singing most of the tunes, but also shifting tempos mid-song whenever he feels like it. The final weird touch is a fiendishly separated and murky mix that makes early Black Sabbath records sound like Joan Baez!
It's almost impossible to find much SG&S on the web, so instead here's a 1998 clip of the legendary Filipino power trio Juan De La Cruz, Joey "Pepe" Smith's more successful follow up group (which also features Mike Hanopol, who replaced Masayoshi Kabe as bassist on the second and final Speed Glue & Shinki album. Also note Joey is wearing a Speed Glue & Shinki T-shirt!)
As a bonus, here's a video clip of Gedo, a hard-rocking biker band that sounds like a cross between Motorhead and the Ramones, but came along a couple years before either of those bands!

Artist	Song	Album	Year	Country
People	Prologue / Shomyo	Ceremony - Buddha Meet Rock	1971	Japan
The Helpful Soul	Peace For Fools	First Album	1969	Japan
Blues Creation	Atomic Bombs Away	Demon & Eleven Children	1971	Japan
Flower Travellin' Band	Hiroshima	Made In Japan	1972	Japan

Flower Travellin' Band	Satori parts 1 & 2	Satori	1971	Japan
Flower Travellin' Band	Map	7" single (bonus track on some CD reissues of Satori)	1971	Japan

The Golden Cups (Masayoshi "Louis Louis" Kabe AKA "GLUE")	Shotgun (Junior Walker)	Volume 2	1968	Japan
D'Swooners (Joey "Pepe" Smith AKA "SPEED")	Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix Experience)	Teen Trash From Psychedelic Tokyo (Various artists compilation)	c. 1969	Philippines/Japan
Shinki Chen	Requiem Of Confusion	Shinki Chen And Friends	1970	Japan
Speed Glue & Shinki	Mr. Walking Drugstore Man	Eve CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1971	Japan/Philippines
Speed Glue & Shinki	Stoned Out Of My Mind	Eve CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1971	Japan/Philippines

Les Rallizes Denudes	Track 3 (Untitled)	Oz Days Live (Various artists compilation)	rec. 1973	Japan
Les Rallizes Denudes	Field Of Artificial Flower	Flightless Bird (Yodo-Go-A-Go-Go) (CD compilation)	rec. 70's or 80's	Japan

Gedo	Yellow Monkey	Best Gedo (CD compilation)	c. 1975	Japan
3/3	Always	Sanbun No San	1975	Japan
Datetenryu	The "Butsu" Me Which Is Broken (? song title roughly translated from Japanese)	1971 (mistakenly refered to as "Unto 1971" in Cope's book)	rec. 1971	Japan
Yonin Bayashi	Sota To Kumo	Ishoku-Sokuhatsu	1974	Japan
The Jacks	Mariannu ("Marianne")	Vacant World	1968	Japan

Love Live Life + 1	The Question Mark	Love Will Make A Better You	1971	Japan
Far East Family Band	Nipponjin	Nipponjin	1975	Japan