#Vodka Collins Japanese band

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Vodka Collins ウォッカ・コリンズ band recording their first single "Automatic Pilot" and "Sands Of Time" EMI Japan, winter 1972. Band members L-R: Hiroshi Oguchi 大口 広司, drums Alan Merrill アラン・メリル guitar lead voclals and Take Yokouchi, bass.

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Mitsuru Tsuda (drums), Takeshi Isozaka (bass). Alan Merrill (guitar), Monsieur Kamayatsu (guitar), night show at Surfers, Zushi Beach Japan May 15, 2015.

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Vodka Collins ウォッカ・コリンズ  Japan tour 1996. 

Photots by Jun Kaneko. Club Geils, Saga Japan.

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Alan Merrill  アラン・メリル Vodka Collins ウォッカ・コリンズ  Club Machina, Osaka Japan, 1997.

[sooziwoozi]

ウォッカ・コリンズ  VODKA COLLINS’ original 1973 TOKYO NEW YORK LP album is on sale for $400 on eBay Feb 2018. 

Lead vocals, all guitars, keyboards harmonica and compositions by Alan Merrill. Drums and Japanese lyrics on 2 songs by Hiroshi Oguchi, the two hit singles on the album “Sands Of Time” and “Automatic Pilot” are sung in Japanese. The rest of the album is sung in English.

Released just two years before Alan Merrill wrote and recorded the original ARROWS version of I LOVE ROCK N ROLL in 1975.

Interesting that the seller of this LP is based in Oregon, not Japan!

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Alan Merrill, Vodka Collins (Japanese band) tour of Japan 1996.

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Japanese band Vodka Collins outdoor concert in Japan 1998.

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My solo single “Everyday All Night Stand” / “Ferris Wheel” 45 rpm vinyl from 1971, upper left top of the page. In the middle my first pro band The Lead with the 1968 single “Aoi Bara” (Blue Rose). I recorded their 2nd album as lead guitarist in 1968 after their lead guitarist left Japan. Bottom row “Sands Of Time” / “Automatic Pilot” by my band Vodka Collins, 1972. 

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Vodka Collins band members Alan Merrill and Monsieur Kamayatsu with tour manager Jun Kaneko filming them backstage at the Akasaka Blitz “Atomic Busters” show 1997. Photo by Yuji Hashimoto, Tokyo Japan.

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Vodka Collins from Japan with “Timeless Lover”

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Alan Merrill recording the “Tokyo-New York” LP in Tokyo 1972 at EMI studio with his Japanese band Vodka Collins.

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ウォッカ・コリンズ  Vodka Collins

1973 Alan Merrill アラン・メリル.

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The RBP Podcast, Episode 69: Special guest Martin Colyer on Greil Marcus, Lucinda Williams & Rufus Wainwright

In this week's episode of the RBP podcast, your regular co-hosts are joined for the second time by RBP's original co-founder Martin Colyer, digitally beamed in from Leyton, to offer his invaluable thoughts on Lucinda Williams and Greil Marcus' magisterial Mystery Train.

Williams prompts near-rapturous approval for her 1998 masterwork Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, with Mark and Barney similarly admiring its southern poetics and Americana-defining country soul. Conversation flows seamlessly into the impact of Marcus' game-changing 1975 book, newly reissued (with lavish illustrations) by the Folio Society. Discussion of the book's chapters on Elvis Presley and The Band takes the RBP team back to Marcus' immense influence on British fans of American music.

Rounding out the episode's American theme, these four horsemen of the rock apocalypse hear clips from Maureen Paton's 2005 phone interview with the ever-amusing Rufus Wainwright, who covers all the topics you might expect following the release of his remarkable Want albums: addiction, AIDS, America and the Wainwright/McGarrigle clans.

As per usual, Messrs. Pringle, Hoskyns & Murison-Bowie sift through some of the new library pieces that most intrigued them, including a Dawn James Rave interview with Small Face Steve Marriott from 1966; Michael Watts' underwhelmed Melody Maker response to Herbie Hancock's 1974 show at Carnegie Hall; Dave Thompson's fascinating 2004 Goldmine piece on the late Alan ('I Love Rock 'n Roll') Merrill's little-known Japanese glam band Vodka Collins; and, from 2006, a terrific Pete Paphides Times profile Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hütz…

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Vodka Collins ウォッカ・コリンズ “Practice Of Silence” Japan tour 1990. All star lineup- Alan Merrill, Hiroshi Oguchi, Robin Lemesurier, Shinohara Nobuhiko, Adriana Kaegi, Donnie Kisselbach, Janique Svedberg, Cheryl Lee Poirier

Photos Yuji Hashimoto.

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Vodka Collins’ ウォッカ・コリンズ on tour of Japan in Hiroshima 1997.

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Surfers club at Zushi  Beach (near Yokohama) Japan, May 15th, 2015 -  concert by the sea-  Vodka Collins band founding members Alan Merrill  アラン・メリル  & Monsieur Kamayatsu  かまやつひろし guitars,  with guests Takeshi Joe Isozaki  bass, Mitsuru Tsuda drums.