onsdag 5 december 2012

Tetsu Yamauchi - Kikiyou (Japan 1976)


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Tetsu Yamauchi a.k.a. Tetsuo Yamauchi (山内哲夫 Yamauchi Tetsuo, born October 21, 1946) is a Japanese bass guitarist.


Yamauchi was born in Fukuoka. In the late 1960s he played with Mickey Curtis and his band called Samurai. His involvement with Samurai led to him working as a session musician in both Tokyo and London. He became close friends with Ginger Baker and Alan Merrill. 


In 1972 he recorded the album Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu and Rabbit with Free guitarist Paul Kossoff and drummer Simon Kirke, together with keyboard player John “Rabbit” Bundrick. He subsequently joined Free for their final album. 


He then replaced Ronnie Lane in the Faces as their bass guitarist, but according to Ian McLagan, Yamauchi’s recruitment turned out to be a mistake, because he was not the right type of bassist and had been hired to replace Lane without the rest of the band listening or meeting him beforehand and it was all too hasty; furthermore, McLagan stated that Yamauchi was a party boy who thought it would be all about drinking when McLagan, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones tried to minimize the drinking and be more creative.


Pete Buckland believes that Phil Chen, being more versatile, might have been a better choice of replacement bassist, but McLagan disagreed and believed that it wouldn’t have worked with Chen either, but did concede that Yamauchi wasn’t a good choice and had they been in London, they might have found a decent bassist after Lane quit. 

According to Stewart, Yamauchi was “a sweet Japanese guy who barely spoke English”, but because of his inability to speak the same language as his bandmates, they found it difficult to understand how he was feeling.

After the Faces dissolved, Yamauchi continued working as a session musician after the Faces broke up.

In the late 1970s he returned to Japan, working as a session musician as well as touring and recording with bands and artists such as Tetsu and the Good Times Roll Band. He retired from the music industry in the mid 1990s and moved to the countryside with his family to live a quiet life, refusing to speak to anyone from the press. He considers it juvenile and vain for people his age to still be performing rock and roll, and refused invitations to take part in a Faces reunion…


Solo: Tetsu (1972)
* Kikyou (1976)
*Dare Devil (1992) with Peter Brötzmann, Shoji Hano, Haruhiko GotsuFriends (1998), with Hiroshi Segawa, Ken Narita
*Tetsu & The Good Times Roll Band Live (2009). Recorded in 1976

With Samurai
*Samurai (1970)
* Kappa (1971)

With Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu and Rabbit
*Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu and Rabbit (1972)

With Free
*Heartbreaker (1973)

With The Faces
Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners (1974)
You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (1974)
01. It happens rhino
02. One life
03. Song of the Heart
04. Mash river
05. Seasons
06. Poems from London
07. Sweet Dreamer
08. Traveling alone
09. Dreamland
10. I used to laugh at the end
11. Sunset in Ibiza