Nahoko
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- 15 Mar 2002
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This post is mainly directed to Peter. We discussed about Japanese groups from the 60s a while ago. Currently, I am very busy with my job, so I apologize for the late reply!
I want to focus on The Spiders and their recent activities.
First of all, the Spiders appear very often on TV, along with other groups from the 60s. Many people from my parent's generation follow such programs which are very popular in Japan. In 1999 three former members formed a new group called "Sans Filtre", continuing the same style they performed as the Spiders.
Sans Filtre consists of Masaaki Sakai who is also an actor and appears on TV shows very frequently. then Takayuki Inoue, a famous film composer (he composed the music for an epic cop series called "Taiyo-ni Hoero", Barking at the Sun" - every Japanese knows the series and the music) and lastly, Kamayatsu Hiroshi, also known as "Monsieur Kamayatsu" who is still working as musician.
The other two Spider members are Tanabe Shochi who owns one of the biggest entertainment agencies in Japan, the Tanabe Agency as well as Jun Inoue who still performs with the Spiders occasionally, but is known as actor and comedian.
So all of them are still very active in Japan's entertainment world. This applies also to other groups as the Cougars and the Tigers.
Some URLs:
Japanese groups of the 60s and some of their covers
=> http://www.kt.rim.or.jp/~spunk/KAMIKAZE/GS4.html
Info on the Spiders in English
=> http://60spunk.m78.com/spiders.htm
Info on Sans Filtre
=> http://60spunk.m78.com/sansfiltre.html
The picture below shows the Spiders:
I want to focus on The Spiders and their recent activities.
First of all, the Spiders appear very often on TV, along with other groups from the 60s. Many people from my parent's generation follow such programs which are very popular in Japan. In 1999 three former members formed a new group called "Sans Filtre", continuing the same style they performed as the Spiders.
Sans Filtre consists of Masaaki Sakai who is also an actor and appears on TV shows very frequently. then Takayuki Inoue, a famous film composer (he composed the music for an epic cop series called "Taiyo-ni Hoero", Barking at the Sun" - every Japanese knows the series and the music) and lastly, Kamayatsu Hiroshi, also known as "Monsieur Kamayatsu" who is still working as musician.
The other two Spider members are Tanabe Shochi who owns one of the biggest entertainment agencies in Japan, the Tanabe Agency as well as Jun Inoue who still performs with the Spiders occasionally, but is known as actor and comedian.
So all of them are still very active in Japan's entertainment world. This applies also to other groups as the Cougars and the Tigers.
Some URLs:
Japanese groups of the 60s and some of their covers
=> http://www.kt.rim.or.jp/~spunk/KAMIKAZE/GS4.html
Info on the Spiders in English
=> http://60spunk.m78.com/spiders.htm
Info on Sans Filtre
=> http://60spunk.m78.com/sansfiltre.html
The picture below shows the Spiders:
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