Thee Michelle Gun Elephant

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Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
General information
Genre (s) Garage skirt
founding 1991
resolution 2003
Website http://www.rockin-blues.com/tmge_html/index.html
Last occupation
singing
 Yūsuke Chiba
guitar
 Futoshi Abe
bass
 Kōji Ueno
Drums
 Kuhara Kazuyuki

Thee Michelle Gun Elephant (also abbreviated TMGE ) was a Japanese garage punk band that formed in 1991 and disbanded in 2003. In a list of the 100 best Japanese musicians by HMV, she ranks 77th.

Career

The band was founded in 1991 by the four students Futoshi Abe, Yūsuke Chiba, Kazuyuki Kuhara and Kōji Ueno. They played in small clubs for several years before producing their first album Wonder Style in London in 1995 with Chris Brown, who had worked for Radiohead among others .

They were signed to Triad, a sub-label of Nippon Columbia . After the release of the album Chicken Zombies in 1997 a tour of the same name followed in 36 Japanese cities, in the same year they performed at the Fuji Rock Festival . There were also 5 performances in Great Britain, followed by more in 1999. In 2000 the band also played in Austria and France.

In 2002 the musicians paused and released a best-of album before switching to the Island Records label . The new records were accompanied in 2003 by the announcement that the band would split up on October 11th 2003 after the tour was over.

The singer Yūsuke Chiba founded the band "Rosso" in 2002, which existed until 2006. Since 2006 he has been singing on "The Birthday".

On July 22nd, 2009 the guitarist Futoshi Abe died of a brain hemorrhage.

Discography

  • 1995 Wonder Style
  • 1996 Cult Grass Stars
  • 1996 high time
  • 1997 Chicken Zombies
  • 1997 Wonder Style (reissue)
  • 1998 Gear Blues
  • 1999 Rumble
  • 2000 TMGE 106
  • 2000 Casanova Snake
  • 2001 Rodeo Tandem Beat Specter
  • 2002 Thee Michelle Gun Elephant Grateful Triad Years
  • 2003 Sabrina Heaven Island
  • 2003 Sabrina No Heaven Island

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 音 楽 情報 ニ ュ ー ス / Top 100 Japanese pops Artists - No.77 / HMV
  2. ↑ http://www.rockin-blues.com/futoshi_abe_html/index.html

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