One of my favorite guitar players is Takeshi Terauchi, one of the many Japanese guitarists inspired by The Ventures 1962 Japanese tour. Takeshi had a whammy bar, and boy, did he know how to use it. The '62 Ventures tour inspired an entire musical movement in Japan, the Eleki scene. (Eleki is short for Eleki Boom, or Electric Boom.) Here's the mp3s for the album This is Terauchi Bushi, by Takeshi Terauchi with his first band, Bunnys.
UPDATE: Thanks to Cecile-Anne for the song titles!
Kanjinncyou | Sado Okwsa | Musume Doujyouji | Mamurogawa Ondo | Komuro Oiwake | Cyakiri Bushi | Genroku Hanami Odori | Noue Bushi | Hanagasa Ondo | Oedo Nihonbashi | Kazoe Uta | Tukuba Mountain
I'm not sure, but this page may contain the correct track listing:
http://msato.net/Music/Cd/trbanilp2.html
Posted by: Cecile-Anne Sison | June 24, 2005 at 11:33 AM
awesome! Now can we get the japanese and/or spanish versions of Jesus Christ Superstar up...Billy Graham'll like that!
No just kidding. I don't care what BG likes.
Posted by: squinchy | June 24, 2005 at 12:03 PM
Fantastic! Great album, perfect for the summer time.
Posted by: Jeff T | June 24, 2005 at 09:14 PM
YES!
I love rockabilly!
I love Japanese rockabilly!
Posted by: Tyler Rae | June 25, 2005 at 06:40 PM
The Takeshi Terauchi has been spinning over and over ever since I downloaded it -- I can't stop making copies for friends -- YES, the perfect SUMMER music, wonderful wonderful... Surf with that sad flute and the kooky electric organ.
Posted by: Ed | July 15, 2005 at 02:05 AM
The songtitles are wrong. I have the lp with the songtitles you mention (called let's go terry), and every song is totally different.
Posted by: gerardusch fantasusch | August 04, 2005 at 04:55 PM
So if you had the right titles, why didn't you post them?
Posted by: pus lumpus | September 20, 2005 at 12:42 PM
The one called "dream in ocean" is a classic "surf" cover, but I cannot for the life of me either recognize it or find another version - the riff is referenced in Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Multiplies" (but then so are five or six other surf tunes). More evidence for the bad title translation theory.
Posted by: burt ward | September 20, 2005 at 04:37 PM
The Bunnys were not Terri's first band. Blues Jeans was his Eleki band , and left to form Bunnys in 1967. Please visit http://fancymag.com/bunnys.html to learn more about Bunnys, and other bands of Terri's.
Raremeat
Posted by: raremeat | October 11, 2005 at 12:12 AM
This stuff is just great. I've been listening to it over and over and over again, and that's exactly what my friends say whom I've given it to -- they just keep on constant rotation. Thank you, thank you, thank you...
Posted by: blog responder | October 17, 2005 at 11:55 PM
Thank You.. I love The Bunnys music ever since I heard them back in 1990 when I heard Test Driver blasting out of the radio (which is not the tune listed here) it blew me away, totally cool since then I've been on look out for anything Takeshi Terauchi related I got to hear "Moanin'" on a Pebbles compliation but its hard to find his music in the U.K . So tonights been a real treat listening to this album:)
Posted by: John | December 04, 2005 at 03:47 PM
I actually think the songs are labeled incorrectly. The linked website that provided the lyrics in question actually contains the entire discography of Terry and the Bunnys. A few albums have 12 songs, and one of them actually has a total album length. It is only a few seconds off from the length I calculated when I played the songs on my computer. Additionally, this album on the website (found here: http://msato.net/Music/Cd/tbmin2.html) has "Japanese Folk" listed as a genre. And listening to the songs, I could definitely pick up Japanese folk motifs. Do people agree?
Posted by: YoYo | December 07, 2005 at 07:41 PM
OK, I changed the song titles to what I saw on this link:
http://msato.net/Music/Cd/tbmin2.html
-ken
Posted by: Station Manager Ken | December 08, 2005 at 04:14 PM
If you find any more Takeshi Terauchi songs, please share! I'm a big surf music fan, and these songs hold up as good, if not better than most surf guitar music, and nearly as good as Dick Dale's best work. Very very cool stuff. BTW, the first song listed (Kanjinncyou) doesn't download.
Posted by: hutter | March 19, 2006 at 12:54 AM
well, hell. somebody from SST records played the bunnys for us on the first tours camper van beethoven ever did heading all the way south to los angeles, and i've been lookign for that damn record ever since. all i ever found was one single and a couple cuts on compilations i dug up in tokyo. thanks. delayed gratification at its best.
Posted by: jonathan segel | April 19, 2006 at 03:01 AM
This is really sweet stuff. The howling in Japanese is great.
Posted by: Wyndham | May 05, 2006 at 09:26 AM
Hey, I love the Bunnys, but know a little about them. (I know more after having been on Fancymag).
Anyway, I had the chance to get a rare single of the band sometimes in my hands, and to get a song on a k7. Now it's on my blog, but i can't find the name of this terrible song with lot of fuzz. (it was written in japanese signs). Could you help me ?
go to : http://action-time.blogspot.com
Thank you.
Posted by: Hector | August 21, 2006 at 12:51 PM
I am the SST Records guy referenced by Jonathan Segel on this blog. I stumbled upon "This is Terauchi Bushi" in the international section of a used records store in the early 80's. I found Takeshi playing im a group performing at a New Orleans Worlds Fair. Since then I have found a number of curios including a Russian album where Takeshi re-records Bunnys tracks as fusion instrumentals! I found this blog after discovering that Other Music website has a bunch of Blue Jeans/Bunnys titles for sale right now!
Posted by: Ray Farrell | November 10, 2006 at 11:11 AM
Larger album art for this album can be found at the Amazon.co.jp link below:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005F7Z3/ex-music-22
Posted by: AFD | November 13, 2006 at 11:09 PM
The correct name of this album is "Seichô Takeuchi-Bushi".
The correct track titles are:
Kanjincho
Sado okake
Musume Dôseiji
Mamuro-gawa Ondo
Shôsho Oiwake
Chakkiri-bushi
Genroku Hanami Odori
Nôe-bushi
Hana-gasa Ondo
O-edo Nihon-bashi
Kazoe Uta
Tsukuba-san
Whoever romanized the titles before wasn't using a standard Japanese-English system.
Posted by: Carl | November 14, 2006 at 02:00 AM
Does anyone know of Takeshi is still alive? And if so, where he might be found?
Posted by: Phofo | January 27, 2007 at 04:22 PM
This album went on sale March First, 1967. It is their second album. More info in Japanese on this page: http://www.pp.iij4u.or.jp/~marukazu/homepage/bunnys.htm
Posted by: Tokyo Rabbit | February 26, 2007 at 09:04 AM
Hi,
I read your post on Takeshi Terauchi and Bunnys album "Seichô Takeuchi-Bushi," and I was wondering if you would be interested in one of their albums called "Takeshi Terauchi & his Blue Jeans - Early Times 1964-65." It has 30 tracks - the first 15 have English titles, but the last 15 are Japanese characters only (so I don't know the track names). The songs include "Pipeline, "Diamond Head," and "Out Of Limits." Let me know if you would be interested in them. Also, please don't post my email address :>}, but you can contact me there.
Eek!
Posted by: Eek! The Cat | March 03, 2007 at 02:10 PM
so, we're learning these songs, we're gonna play a show of bunnys covers in berrkeley at the starry plough on oct. 20th 2007...
Posted by: jonathan segel | October 10, 2007 at 05:14 PM
We learned the songs, played on oct 20th, and there is video on youtube.
Heres a good one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwTsXM6mwAU
-Enjoy
Simon Hanes of Tukuba mountain
Posted by: Simon Hanes | October 24, 2007 at 09:33 PM