Cats in Boots

This short-lived Japanese-American group was formed when guitarist Takashi ‘Jam’ Ohashi and bass player Yasuhiro ‘Butch’ Hatae, from the successful Tokyo-based band Seiki Matsu, recruited vocalist Joel Ellis, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and drummer Randy Meers, originally from Houston, Texas, from your remains of Los Angeles-based Merry Hoax. The American users relocated to Tokyo to record demos, and these tapes had been released like a mini-album that shot to #1 1 on japan indie graph. The resultant curiosity instigated the quartet’s putting your signature on to EMI Information. The Tag Opitz-produced Kicked And Klawed was a raucous and completely enjoyable debut, using the music group’s uncooked, trashy hard rock and roll drawing evaluations with Mötley Crüe, Aerosmith and Vain, and was an enormous achievement in Japan, achieving #3 3. Nevertheless, despite great testimonials and significant MTV airplay, record sales were just moderate somewhere else, and with the nearly simultaneous lack of both Ellis and their documenting contract, Felines In Shoes or boots disintegrated.