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Masayoshi Kabe
Masayoshi Kabe
Japanese bassist and guitarist (1948-2020)
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The Golden Cups
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Crime
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The Fall of Troy
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Leaf Hound
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Lagwagon
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Jesu
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Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
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Bill Henderson
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Jack McDuff
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Pussy Galore
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Billy Sheehan
Billy Sheehan
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The Vindictives
The Vindictives
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Controlled Bleeding
Controlled Bleeding
American band
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Ned Doheny
Ned Doheny
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Sadistic Mika Band
Sadistic Mika Band
Japanese rock band (1972-1975)
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Nurse With Wound
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Jeremy Steig
Jeremy Steig
son of William Steig
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Soledad Brothers
Soledad Brothers
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The Presidents of the United States of America
The Presidents of the United States of America
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Loudness
Loudness
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The Durutti Column
The Durutti Column
British band
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Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
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Johnny Pearson
Johnny Pearson
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For Against
For Against
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The Jayhawks
The Jayhawks
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Snuff
Snuff
British punk rock band
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Simone White
Simone White
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Casino Versus Japan
Casino Versus Japan
American musician
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Dave Lee
Dave Lee
British DJ and house music producer
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Dolly Mixture
Dolly Mixture
British new wave band
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Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet
alternative rock/power pop musician
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Girls at Our Best!
Girls at Our Best!
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
American indie rock band
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Polvo
Polvo
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Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith
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Enon
Enon
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Nicola Conte
Nicola Conte
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Clock DVA
Clock DVA
English band
Speed, Glue & Shinki
Japanese psychedelic rock power trio formed in 1970

Speed, Glue & Shinki

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Japanese psychedelic rock power trio formed in 1970
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Speed, Glue & Shinki (スピード・グルー&シンキ, Supiido, guru ando shinki) was a Japanese psychedelic rock power trio formed in 1970 by guitarist Shinki Chen, and record producer Ikuzo Orita.

Orita had previously produced an LP featuring Shinki Chen; who was considered the Japanese equivalent of Jimi Hendrix. The self-titled album Shinki Chen featured other notable musicians, including George Yanagi and Masayoshi Kabe. To many in Japan, it is now considered a classic, and is a part of Universal Music's "Naked Line" series of legitimate digitally remastered reissues. After the release of Shinki Chen's debut solo LP, Orita took over the Japanese division of Atlantic Records and brought Shinki over to the label. Orita formed the trio Speed, Glue & Shinki with former Golden Cups bassist Masayoshi Kabe, and Filipino singer-drummer Joey Smith, whom Shinki had discovered performing at a shopping centre in Yokohama. The band took their name from Smith's use of amphetamines, and Kabe's interest of sniffing Pro-Bond glue during the 1960s. Speed, Glue & Shinki released their debut album Eve in 1971, but immediately split up due to mixed reviews, low sales and with Shinki and Kabe not being able to tolerate Smith's personal life. After they disbanded, a large double-LP was independently released by Smith, titled Speed, Glue & Shinki, which was mostly the work of Joey Smith; sampling guitar recordings of Shinki from previous studio work. However, it also featured two unreleased songs titled "Sniffin & Snortin" and "Run & Hide" which were recorded for Eve but excluded from the final release, as they did not fit the album's overall sound. Thereafter, Shinki took a disliking to recording music, and decided to become a live musician only; which he continues doing to the present day. Kabe continued his own successful music career, while Smith reinvented his stage persona as "Pepe Smith" and returned to the Philippines, where he became something of a phenomenon with his Pinoy rock group, Juan de la Cruz Band. Kabe died in September, 2020 aged 70.

On 25 December 2019, both the group's albums were officially reissued on vinyl by Atlantic, the first official vinyl reissues of the albums in nearly 50 years.