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Electric Eel Shock (EES) is a three-man garage rock band, formed in Tokyo in 1994. Their first international tour was in the United States in 1999.
Akihito "Aki" Morimoto (guitar and vocals) and Kazuto Maekawa (bass) first met in high school in Osaka. Aki learned English by listening to the lyrics of his favorite bands. Before Electric Eel Shock, Aki and Maekawa first formed an 80s metal cover band in high school called Caducious.
Aki and Maekawa remained in Tokyo. Aki followed his passion for fishing and became a competitive angler (he still writes for Japan's largest fishing magazine, Basser Magazine) and Maekawa joined The Apollos (a Japanese funk band) for a short time as session bassist. Maekawa introduced their drummer, Tomoharu Ito (known as Gian, due to his similar appearance to a well-known Japanese comedian of that name) to Aki. Gian, Maekawa, and Aki started practicing together shortly afterwards.
The band's first public performances was as an 11-piece group with keyboards, female vocals, and French horns. When logistics became unworkable the band stripped down to a three-piece.
Gian began playing with four drumsticks and gained a reputation for performing almost naked. Gian was arrested in Hong Kong and fined HK$100, for playing this way.
Electric Eel Shock set up the Micro Music record label with their friends and released their first full-length album, Maybe... I Think We Can Beat Nirvana. They followed this with Live Punctured.
In 1999, Electric Eel Shock recorded Slayers Bay Blues on an eight-track recorder,[citation needed] and made enough copies to begin their first concerts abroad. They had lined up a handful of dates in and around New York, including CBGB, with their friends Peelander-Z who had relocated there some time earlier. Due to the success of these gigs, the initially planned handful of dates expanded into an East Coast tour.
The band returned to the US and toured almost constantly for the next two years. All the while, the band survived on the sale of CDs, t-shirts, and help from friends. They then recorded the EP Go America.
Electric Eel Shock
Electric Eel Shock (EES) is a three-man garage rock band, formed in Tokyo in 1994. Their first international tour was in the United States in 1999.
Akihito "Aki" Morimoto (guitar and vocals) and Kazuto Maekawa (bass) first met in high school in Osaka. Aki learned English by listening to the lyrics of his favorite bands. Before Electric Eel Shock, Aki and Maekawa first formed an 80s metal cover band in high school called Caducious.
Aki and Maekawa remained in Tokyo. Aki followed his passion for fishing and became a competitive angler (he still writes for Japan's largest fishing magazine, Basser Magazine) and Maekawa joined The Apollos (a Japanese funk band) for a short time as session bassist. Maekawa introduced their drummer, Tomoharu Ito (known as Gian, due to his similar appearance to a well-known Japanese comedian of that name) to Aki. Gian, Maekawa, and Aki started practicing together shortly afterwards.
The band's first public performances was as an 11-piece group with keyboards, female vocals, and French horns. When logistics became unworkable the band stripped down to a three-piece.
Gian began playing with four drumsticks and gained a reputation for performing almost naked. Gian was arrested in Hong Kong and fined HK$100, for playing this way.
Electric Eel Shock set up the Micro Music record label with their friends and released their first full-length album, Maybe... I Think We Can Beat Nirvana. They followed this with Live Punctured.
In 1999, Electric Eel Shock recorded Slayers Bay Blues on an eight-track recorder,[citation needed] and made enough copies to begin their first concerts abroad. They had lined up a handful of dates in and around New York, including CBGB, with their friends Peelander-Z who had relocated there some time earlier. Due to the success of these gigs, the initially planned handful of dates expanded into an East Coast tour.
The band returned to the US and toured almost constantly for the next two years. All the while, the band survived on the sale of CDs, t-shirts, and help from friends. They then recorded the EP Go America.
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