“When I wrote JAPROCKSAMPLER, so little had been published in English on the subject that I was forced to create first my own miniature encyclopedia of information, gradually building up the picture from millions of tiny bits of information. Of course, when the book was finished, I was left with such a colossal repository of information that I have decided to bequeath it to all fans of Japanese rock across the world in the form of these ‘Artist A-Z’ and ‘Group Sounds A-Z’ sections. Hopefully, by employing these biographies as the bedrock, japrocksampler.com will eventually become an essential resource for all future Japanese music research.

JULIAN (September 2007CE)”

Flower Travellin’ Band 1971: (L-R) Hideki Ishema/guitar), Jun Kosugi/bass, George Wada/drums, Joe Yamanaka/vocals

Taj Mahal Travellers with leader Takehisa Kosugi on violin at far left

Far East Family Band c. 1974 deploy their entire arsenal for the cameras