Their all-too-brief career, which ended after the release of just one album, has instead become a glittering legend and has been imprinted in the history of the early days of Japanese rock. T
Alan Merrill, whose mother is the world-famous jazz singer Helen Merrill, is famous for writing the US No. 1 hit "I Love Rock'n'Roll", and Hiroshi Oguchi, a member of the popular rough GS band The Tempters, invited Take (Yokouchi Take), who would later form TENSAW, to form this band in Japan. As the landmark evaluation of "Japan's first glam rock" indicates, this band has a strong scent of 70's glam rock, reminiscent of David Bowie and the New York Dolls, but overall it is a simple and pop rock'n'roll with a relaxed feel. The album is well-balanced and varied, with typical glam songs M-1 and M-5, a tight and fast-paced M-2, and a folky M-7. Alan's voice is not metallic like glam rock, but rather manly and soulful, and his fluent Japanese vocals sound natural. The tempo of the songs is good, and the 28 minutes flow by in one go, with a live feel. This sense was too early for the band at the time, and they were short-lived, but the light and cool coolness of this band has not faded at all even after half a century.
