The Roosters

Formed through the first top of punk music in the past due ’70s, the Roosters, who blended punk with blues, ska, and rock and roll & move, became among the first & most important Japanese rings to impact the generation that led the J-rock world conquest within the 1990-2000s. The group ultimately positioned 75 on HMV’s well-known Best 100 of Japanese performers. Set up in 1978 in Fukuoka, the Roosters primarily included guitarist Hiroyuki Hanada, vocalist and guitarist Shinya Ohe, bassist Tomio Inoue, and drummer Jyunji Ikehata and directed to be always a cover music group — addresses dominated their initial two albums, The Roosters (1980) as well as the Roosters ? -Gogo (1981), although these information also included amounts penned by Ohe. The group centered on first material you start with its third record, Insane (1981), and in 1982 the music group also appeared within the cult sci-fi punk musical Burst Town alongside the Rockers as well as the Stalin. By enough time from the Roosters’ 4th record, Dis, in 1983, Hanada got joined up with Ohe as another songwriter for the group, which season the lineup underwent an enormous modification, with Ikehata departing and Masayuki Nadatomo (drums), Jun Shimoyama (electric guitar), and Koichi Ando (keyboards) all signing up for. Inoue quit in 1984, changed by Kazuhiko Sakuyama. The restored music group recorded Great Dreams and Phy (both 1984), but Ohe made a decision that he previously enough and give up music entirely, with Ando also departing the music group. Hanada stepped as much as end up being the vocalist and primary songwriter, and Toshiyuki Shibayama begun to compose the lyrics, although he often remained another contributor towards the music group, which changed the spelling of its name to “the Roosterz” in 1985. Two albums afterwards (Kaminari, 1986, and Traveler, 1987), the tempo section also still left, changed by Nikichi Anai (bass) and Shigeo Mihara (drums), who finished the band’s last lineup, which documented the record Four Parts (1988) before disbanding. In 1999, the tribute record Respectable Roosters arrived, featuring rings like Thee Michelle Weapon Elephant, Tokyo Ska Heaven Orchestra, Kemuri, and Cushions, and in 2002 Hanada, Inoue, Shimoyama, and Ikehata produced the new task Rock ‘n’ Move Gypsies. In 2004, the Roosters reunited with Ohe for any stint in the Fuji Rock Event.