Speed, Glue & Shinki ► Don't Say No (1972) ★ ᴴᴰ

►Speed, Glue & Shinki "Don't Say No " from their self-titled LP, album "Speed, Glue & Shinki " released in (C)1972.Japan rock band .

The Speed, Glue & Shinki:( Psychedelic/Space Rock )
►Shinki Chen / guitars
► Masayoshi Kabe / bass
►Joey Smith / drums, vocals

Guest Appearance:
►Mike Hanopol - Bass, Keyboards, Vocals
►Hiroshi Oguchi - Drums
►Shigeki Watanabe - Keyboards

Speed; Glue and Shinki biography
Ikuzo Orita, a director of Polydor Japan, had dreams of yet another progressive rock project involving Shinki Chen.

After Food Brain broke up, Shinki Chen (guitars), simultaneously producing his solo work Shinki Chen & His Friends, was introduced to Atlantic Japan by Ikuzo.
Shinki Chen and Masayoshi Louise Louis Kabe (bass), a former Food Brain band mate, were trying to create a novel heavy-rock project when they discovered Joey Smith, a Filipino singing drummer.
Shinki and Masayoshi, fascinated by Joey's skill of drumming and his Occidental appearance and flavour, persuaded him to shoulder an important part of their project.
Speed, Glue and Shinki, named by Shinki from each of their nicknames, took off and started a terrific but all to brief career.

In a short time they produced two albums - Eve (1971) and an eponymous double LP (1972). Most of the songs were written and sung by Joey, looking up to Ginger Baker as one of his drumming teachers.
Both of the other members respected Eric Clapton and Cream, therefore it was natural that their production was bluesy and psychedelic.

This remarkably progressive creation in the early seventies would get very little appreciation nor commercial success in Japan - and sadly the project broke up in a very short time.

Joey went back to the Philippines and started the power trio Juan de la Cruz Band, Masayoshi would win fame with the band Pink Cloud, while Shinki retired from the music world after his first solo work.

In spite of their short-lived activity, Speed, Glue and Shinki were important, first and foremost as a pioneers of the Japanese psychedelic rock scene.