Video duration: 69 seconds
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Vodka Collins perform their song "Scratchin'" from their "Tokyo -New York" LP from 1973. Alan Merrill/guitar and vocals, Monsieur Kamayatsu/guitar and vocals, Hiroshi Oguchi/drums, Mabo/bass guitar.
This live clip was filmed in 1997.
Video duration: 123 seconds
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Monsieur Kamayatsu on a tour of Japan with his band Vodka Collins in the late 1990s. Monsieur is shaking hands and entertaining the travellers. He is singing a melody over and over in this clip which sounds very like the "twilight zone" theme.
Monsieur was a founding member of the Japanese Group Sounds The Spiders, who were a very popular band.
Video duration: 177 seconds
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Legendary Japan scene band Vodka Collins being interviewed (in Japanese) by Mr. Vocal Booth of the famed 60s-70s band Garo. Taped on 5-21-97.
Vodka Collins GS members- Alan Merrill, Hiroshi Oguchi(ex-Tempters), Mabo "Louis-Louis" Kabe (ex-Golden-Cups)and Monsieur Kamayatsu (formerly of The Spiders).
Video duration: 43 seconds
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Monsieur Kamayatsu performs his Spiders (Group Sounds) 1960s mega-hit "Bang! Bang! Bang!" at BB King's in New York City in 2007. On blues harmonica Alan Merrill, guitar Jon Paris, bass Amy Madden, drums Andy Bigan.
Video duration: 383 seconds
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Footage from a Jazz Festival held at Budokan in Japan, 1982.
Osamu Kitajima rare interview by Hiroshi Kamayatsu.
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Video duration: 64 seconds
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Vodka Collins perform a loose jam ending of "Let's get drunk" from their Chemical Reaction album of 1996.
They seem to have segued into Lennon's "Cold Turkey."
Clip ends with Alan Merrill introduces the next song "Roppongi Roppongi."
Video duration: 188 seconds
Global video hits: 2943
Vodka Collins bassist Mabo does a bass overdub on the song "Roppongi, Roppongi" from their Pink Soup album. Some studio banter preceeds this clip. One of the world's most disturbing and unusual bands, follow Vodka Collins and their Fellini-esque studio adventures.