Vow Wow - Live The Tube 1987 - The Best Version
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ม.ค. 2025
- Vow Wow, live Newcastle England March 13th 1987, as recorded by me from analogue terrestrial broadcast, onto Scotch L-750 Betamax video tape, mono audio, tape archive number 175. Bow Wow ( Vow Wow) are a Japanese rock band formed in 1975. Originally consisting of guitarist and vocalists Kyoji Yamamoto and Mitsuhiro Saito, bassist Kenji Sano and drummer Toshihiro Niimi, they were one of the first Japanese metal bands. After releasing nine studio albums, Saito left in 1983. The band then adopted a mainstream sound by recruiting lead vocalist Genki Hitomi and keyboardist Rei Atsumi and renamed themselves to Vow Wow
#vowwow #japanesemusic #80srock
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Ooooooooo!! Konichiwa!! this is pretty cool Steevee old chap!! nice geetar playing...wow...who'd of thought eh??? and my old stompin' ground too .....luvvly ..thanks Steevee ❤️👍✌️ xx
Very Scorpions
BOWWOW時代にイギリスのロックフェスティバルに参加しBOWWOWのライブの恭二さんのプレイに感動して、フィル・ライノットが自宅のディナーに恭二さんを招待、シン・リジー解散後に作るソロアルバムへの参加を要請したらしい。残念な事にその直後にオーバードーズでフィルは死去、幻のコラボになってしまった。恭二さんには、なんとも惜しい事だった。
退屈な欧米のバンドより凄いわ、この頃のVOWWOWは。
何気にキンさんが海外で演奏している動画を見られるのは、無茶苦茶レアケース。
ご視聴、コメントいただきありがとうございます。
"Mr. Kin"..?
@@BeesWaxMinder さんへ
日本文Sorry････
Bass Playerだった佐野賢二さんのニック・ネームです
キンさん、辞めてしまったのが惜しい
でも、後任がNeil Murrayさんだったのでびっくりでした
やっぱりキンサンがいるＶＯＷＷＯＷが一番しっくりくる。
完全同意
確か名古屋で見たライブ当日はキンサンのバースデーだったなぁ🎂
VOWWOW、もっとブレイクして欲しかった。厚見玲衣、人見元基、二人ともかけがいのないメンバー。本当に惜しい。
こんなに素晴らしいバンドなのに、当時は欧米でアジア人のハードロックバンドを売る力のあるプロダクションもレコード会社も無かったことが残念。今になって初めてこの映像を見て驚愕する人達も多いことでしょう。改めて凄いバンドだったと思います。
ご視聴とコメントありがとうございます
I saw them when they based themselves in the UK. I can only guess they did that in the hope to become big in the UK and use that as a stepping stone to get into the USA where every band dreams of making it big. Pity it didn't work out better for them, I thought they were superb.
@@markgreenhow7953 I'm sure your guess is correct. The almost managed to make it, I know many rock fans as friends who all knew of Vow Wow and bought their records, but they just never made it big, at least they gave it a shot and still seem popular in Japan, going by all the comments.
Originally from Osaka, Japan. Think Loudness faced to the similar or eventually same issue, too. They had a great start with “Thunder From East” and they were the opening act for the major bands like AC/DC and Motley Crew.
But, I read some magazine articles that by the time when they released the follow up album and did another tour in the US, they got cold reactions like.. “oh, you are still playing…?” Tough business… well, regardless the countries…
Personally, when Bow Wow became Vow Wow, then, when Lazy became Loudness, these bands were game changers for me.. Good times…!!
R.I.P Drummer Toshihiro Niimi
ギター一本で2本分の仕事するキョージさんすごい
人見さんの歌声やパフォーマンス、本当に素敵過ぎて…♡
バンドの皆さんは勿論、山本さんの超絶なのにスマートなギターの格好良さにも、つい聴き入ってしまいます…☆
( ´∀｀)b♪♪♪
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@@ScottishTeeVeeさま
こちらこそ、素敵な映像とコメント返信、ありがとうございました…☆
(*^^*)♪
Great band, went all over UK to see them. Kyogi Yamamoto is one of the best guitarists ever, and most people have never heard of him.
何だ⁉この
4人組バンドででもあるかのような
カメラワークは！！！
キーボードソロの間も
厚見さんを映さないのは
何か悪意があるのか🤔😤
Breaking News! 2024 /6 VOWWOW will perform a reunion live concert
"VOW WOW Beat of Metal Motion 40th Anniversary Concert - Toshihiro Niimi Memorial Concert"
Featuring: Kyoji Yamamoto (Guitar), Genki Hitomi (Vocals), Rei Atsumi (Keyboards)
Atsuo Okamoto (Support Drums): AB's, ex-Spectrum
Toshimi Nagai (Support Bass): ex-VIENNA, ex-Dead Chaplin, Gerald
Date: Saturday, June 29, 2024
Place: Live hall CLUB CITTA'.
Address：5-7 Ogawa-cho, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, Japan
OPEN 17:00 / START 18:00
Kyoji, Genki, and Atsumi will gather for a live concert to pray for the repose of Niimi's soul.
Rhythm section.Support will be provided by Atsuo Okamoto of AB's and Toshimi Nagai of Gerald..
No kidding, this is such an important event that it would not be surprising
if this was the last time in their lives that these three members could get all together.
I would love to see this concert if it is possible!
最後の曲のショットイン・ザ・ダークが見たかった涙😢
放送されたのはこれだけです。
厚見玲依さんがRK-100を使っていないショットインザダークって貴重なんですよね( ；∀；)
@@MORITAKA-NAKAMURA このビデオを見て、コメントしてくれてありがとう。🙂
JUPITER8ですかね？初めて観ました。しかし厚見さん全然映らない（笑）
このhurricaneかっこいいな
If memory serves The Tube did a metal themed show and on this show an unknown Japanese band Vow Wow appeared in a video, that one appearance sparked a lot of interest in them it did with me and my mates. Tracking down their albumn was tricky managed to find a copy at Jumbo Recods a specialist shop in Leeds. Got to see Vow Wow when they toured and came to what was Huddersfield polytechnic. Thanks for posting the video \m/
Oh, there are still people in the UK who remember their two years in the UK?
I'm delighted to hear that. They cut a two-year contract with Arista UK in the U.K. and returned to Japan to try to expand into the U.S. However, they could not find a label in the U.S. to sign with, and the next album after "Helter Skelter" was produced by Bob Ezrin, known for Floyd's Wall, etc., but in the end it could only be released in Japan. After that album, the band broke up.
Genki quit music and became a high school teacher. They were labeled as a band that failed in the U.K. and failed to make inroads in the U.S., and the members who continued their musical activities have been treated as if they have been forgotten by the front line since the breakup.
Unfortunately, in Japan today, their much more junior band X Japan is regarded as the top band in Japan, and it is Loudness that has gained worldwide recognition, without VOWWOW's name ever being mentioned.
They formed in Japan in 1975, before the metal genre was separated from the hard rock and heavy rock of the time, before Metallica and Iron Maiden had even appeared on the planet, even though they were already creating professionally.
In that sense, I'm glad there are still people in the UK who remember their active years.
They are going to reunite for one night only in June this year for a memorial concert for Niimi, the drummer who passed away last year.Considering their age, this will probably be the last time the surviving members of the band will get together on stage.
The album was on import only I paid £22 for it 😮
日本人ミュージシャンが認められていない時代、ましてやハードロック、白人以外は受け入れられない世界でやはり最初は誰もノッていなかった。
しかし、徐々に体が動き出し、３曲目のSHOT IN THE DARKに入る時はおおくの観客がリズムを取り始めていた。これ実はほんまにすごい事。
I don't think there were many rock fans in that audience, it was more of a indie band kind of TV show, you know the kind of people that would look down their nose at a band playing this kind of music but fair play to the boys they put on a great performance.
Rest in peace, Toshihiro Niimi!
Your unique and impressive play is unforgettable!
If it were possible, I would like to see a memorial concert for Toshihiro Niimi with the members who are still alive.
He was also an original member from the B era.
I totally agree!!
Breaking News
VOW WOW -THE RETURN OF THE KING-.2025.
VOW WOW, Japan's premier HR band, will perform a 2DAYS live concert at Tokyo Dome City Hall on January 8 and 9.
January 8, 2025 （Wed）at Tokyo Dome City Hall
(1-3-61 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Doors open: 18:00 / Concert begins: 19:00
January 9, 2025 (Thu) at Tokyo Dome City Hall
Doors open: 18:00 / Concert begins: 19:00
VOW WOW:
Kyoji Yamamoto (Guitar), Genki Hitomi (Vocal), Rei Atsumi (Keyboards)
Supporting Members
Atsuo Okamoto (Drums) ex-AB's, ex-Spectrum,
Toshimi Nagai (Bass Guitar) Gerald
VOW WOW, one of the best hard rock bands in Japan, which reunited in June 2024 after 14 years, will perform at Tokyo Dome City Hall on January 8 and 9, 2025.
This year, in commemoration of the first anniversary of the death of drummer Toshihiro Niimi, who passed away the previous year, and the 40th anniversary of the release of VOW WOW's first album “Beat of Metal Motion,” the band held a revival live concert at Club Città on June 29 and 30, and tickets for the two days sold out in an instant.
The live concert in January next year will be held as an additional show.
Advance: 13,000 yen (tax included/all seats reserved)
I did the lighting for them at the Sheffield gig on this tour. Blown away with the talent and stagecraft.
演奏はもちろんだけど歌うまいなー
山本さんは海外発祥のHMを最初にメジャーバンドとして日本で広めた偉大な方だし、そういう意味でもVOWWOWを悪く言う意味ではサラサラないのを前提に書くけど、なぜベースだけ仮面ライダーとかの悪者「ショッカー」のような装いなんだ(笑)。
Damn i have not seen this for years. i remember seeing this on the telly as a spotty little 15 year old. Was mesmerized by Kyoji Yamamato's guitar skill. RIP to drummer Toshihiro Niimi who left us recently. Great performance and thanks for uploading this hidden gem 👍🤘
Thanks for watching and commenting, it does not seem like 36 years ago, where did the time go 😉
一番よかった時期はやはりこの頃だと思う…。
キンさんが抜けて違うバンドになった感が半端なかった
かっけーな、日本のあんちゃん。
観客も圧倒されてますね♪
This kind of thing is why I loved growing up in the 80s. I wasn't a metal head at all. I was into REM, the Church, 10,000 Maniacs, stuff like that. But when something like this came up on a show, it was still fun to watch. It was still real music. This is really excellent, give me a break. I've literally never seen or heard of these guys before. Totally made my day.
Thanks for watching and commenting Stephen
didn't know such a great band
Very high quality and amazing
THX for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
This is amazing! How have I just discovered it now at 42?! Brilliant !😊
I'm glad you found and enjoyed this video 🙂
心地よい！❤
この頃に正当に評価されてたら、元基さんの人生も変わってるのか？でも、いまともかく帰って来てくれるならヨシ！
うん、つい先ごろ、山本恭司さんと話をしてたのだけど、あのひと、1970年代の頃からずっとそのまま。髪は白髪混じりになったけど、全然、言うことが変わらずに、山本恭司のまま。
ライブでは、Electric Bowも使っていたので、1970年代にSpider of the MarsのMick Ronsonが使ってたので、わたしも試しけど、音程を保つコントロールが結構難しいので、当時、使うのを諦めたという話をしたら、今でもできる人が少ないからねと笑ってましたけどね。
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@@ScottishTeeVee
いや、こちらこそ、感謝致します。
this is killer; thanks for posting. got to check out more of their stuff, the guitarist is fantastic and the band is TIGHT.
Remember watching that live, fabulous
新見さん、パイステ2002シンバルを使用してますね
翌年、Bスペル時代初期に使用していたジルジャンへ切り替えるはずですが
They were probably most well known for their 1989 cover of The Beatles Helter-Skelter. I've probably still got the 7" cut to shape picture around somewhere.
Best known for Hurricane. Saw them 3 time's. After show party Kyoji Yamamoto and Neil Murray. Pints of champagne. Crazy shit. Granary, Bristol was a the best gig saw them at. The tube Friday. Granary Saturday. Fuckin massive.
Mr. Yamamoto plays very tightly and carefully with Marshall low gain amp. He's really great player. But if he had a today's high gain amp at this time, their sound could be more exciting.
Very tight band and they have an Iron Maiden sound. Never heard of them and love seeing bands I missed from the 80's. Thanks!
Their album debut in Japan (BOWWOW)(1976) was earlier than Iron Maiden debut.
今更ながらカッコいい‼️
First came across them on the Friday rock show, they recorded a session for the show which I think were the 3 songs played on the tube. Always loved the singers voice. Night Aunt Sally.
That's where I first heard of them too. Then I found the "V" album and later Helter Skelter in one of those great old record shops we used to have so many of back then.
These are fantastic Eddie van guitarist Japan style
"The king of rock"
Thanks for watching and commenting
Im sure they relocated to the UK for a while and had Neil Murray on bass to help write English based lyrics. Great band.
You are correct they did relocate to the UK for a year or so, London I think.
圧倒的パフォーマンス🎌
CIERRO LOS OJOS Y ME PARECE ESCUCHAR A DAVID COVERDALE EN RAINBOW O HELLOWEN, O AL MISMISIMO DIO, SUENA TAN PARECIDO A ESTOS DOS. VOZ IMPECABLE, GUITARRAS LIMPIAS Y UN VIRTUOSISMO FUERA DE ESTE MUNDO. COMO NUNCA PUDIERON DESPEGAR MUNDIALMENTE??. UNA INJUSTICIA DE TANTAS, LAS COMPANIAS DISCOGRAFICAS MIRANDO EL BOLSILLO Y NO EL TALENTO. AQUI SOBRA TALENTO. GENIOS ABSOLUTOS DEL HARD ROCK, GLAM Y HEAVY METAL
Thank you for watching and commenting
Powerful band. I hear a bit of a Ronnie Jame Dio influence in the singer's style.
Saw them but where? Anyone The Venue, Astoria Charing Cross.🤔Fkin great, nice one Stevee
For the longest time I had the whole Tube Heavy Metal special on a VHS as it featured Steve Vai with Alcatraz (my favourite guitar player). My recording included the adverts as well ( Masters of Metal album from Our Price) as I was probably out at the time it was on. I have only seen little snippets of the original broadcast over the last few years of the Vow Wow and UFO performances. Great to see this on TH-cam in better quality. Thanks :D
The Metal episode was on February 1986, over a year before this appearance by Vow Wow. I still have the full metal show on Beta and have already uploaded the Cherry Bombz and Ozzy Osbourne performances, there's a link to both at the very end of this video.
@@ScottishTeeVee fab.
この後、ボーカルのセカンドキャリアが高校の英語の教師です。
I never had Jools Holland introducing Vow Wow on my bingo card!
Vow Wow - Live at TV Show “The Tube” (1987)
Newcastle :March 13th 1987
1.Nightless City (Kyoji Yamamoto)
2.Hurricane (Kyoji Yamamoto)
3. Shot In The Dark (Rei Atsumi)
VOWWOW(1987/3)
Genki Hitomi Vocal
Kyoji Yamamoto Guiter
Rei Atsumi Keyboard
Kenji Sano Bass
Toshihiro Niimi Drums
I’m very grateful and appreciative to be able to see this rare footage, which is difficult to obtain, in full in good quality.
VOWWOW was active in the UK for about three years, from 1986/11 to 1989/9.
This video on The Tube was from the early days of VOWWOW in the UK, only 4 months after they came to the UK from Japan in 1986, and before original member Kenji Sano was replaced by Neil Murray.
This was before they signed with Arista UK and made and released their 5th album "V".
So many of the audience in the studio were seeing this band for the first time, and were confused by their performance.
Many people in the U.K. may have learned about VOWWOW for the first time from watching this The Tube TV program.
The band was formed in 1975 and made their professional album debut in 1976,
and was divided into the earlier period of BOWWOW (1975-1983) and the later period of VOWWOW (1984-1990).
The BOWWOW period was a twin-guitar, keyboard-less format, but during the VOWWOW period, two members, Genki Hitomi on specialized vocals and Rei Atsumi on keyboards, joined to form a five-piece band.
(Guitarist Kyoji Yamamoto was the only guitarist).
Until the bass player was replaced by Neil Murray, Kyoji Yamamoto (G), Toshihiro Niimi (D), and Kenji Sano (B) had been steadfast original members since Bow Wow's debut in 1975.
From the "BOWWOW" band, with only one composer, Yamamoto, to the addition of Rei Atsumi, who is from a progressive band and can also compose music, the band had two main composers, Yamamoto and Atsumi, and Genki Hitomi has joined as the main vocalist, changing the sound and impression to the extent that one might think the B and V eras were different bands.
We should not forget that VOWWOW started with a new structure in 1984, but from the BOWWOW era, they released their first album in 1976.
In 1976, the term "metal" and the genre had not yet been established in the world.
They were a band that created something similar to the later metal sound in Japan, in the Far East,
before the NWOBHM movement in the UK, before Iron Maiden(1981) and Metallica (1983)were born in this western music world.
I am happy that you enjoyed this video Brian. You may not have noticed that at the very end of this video, a link will appear on scree to an interview that Vow Wow did on this TV show.
Such a shame. So talented and intelligent. Should be up with the greats. OK, video a bit of fun. That's Angus. A total freak but an incredible drummer and all round musician. I miss the man. Always a great time but put fun in front of being a top musician. Where ever you are my friend, I wish you good health and happiness. Without you I'd know nothing and I'm eternally grateful. Ju
Thanks for sharing! Best quality ever!
Thanks for watching and commenting, I am glad you enjoyed this video 🙂
It sounds great 😊 I want more
アウェー感が凄い
Genki we miss you
My brother liked these a lot. I read at the time they were originally called Bow Wow but had to change their name because of Bow Wow Wow
Ps, they were good weren't they 🤟
That was awesome...
Thanks much for this!
Never seen this before, Asian hardrock😃
It is different. 😄 You might find the link at the end of this video interesting, to another Japanese alt rock / electro band called, Cornelius
@@ScottishTeeVee Thank you.
I must say I am pleasantly surprised👍🏻
great music!!
厚見玲衣さんが映るのは最後だけ？
「ナイトレスシティ」「ハリケーン」にだって、
シンセサイザーの見せ場は有ったのに、嫌ですね。( ＞Д＜；)
Love how Genki announced every song as they start it🤩 It's a great performance but i don't think the tube was really their audience.
Japanese memorial metal band !!
あああああああああああああ
かっこいい
ゲンキーキョージー最高♫
この音の厚さったら、たまらない
Thanks for watching and commenting
*_They're pretty good. Not something you would envisage from Japan, I have to admit I'm just completely ignorant about this ..._*
They were not big outside of Japan, they did relocate to the UK for sometime, but just never caught on
Loudness: Hold my Sapporo.
Weirdly enough Japan has always had some cracking rock and metal bands. Amazing guitarists. These days they do a lot of distortion sound guitar and lowfi melancholy electronics at once.
This 1987 sound is indeed not very 'Japanese' lol but I imagine around this time was when the Japs were kind of working out what their brand of guitar music would sound like.
Now there's an amazing scene. My favourite Japanese band is Boris, check them out. Some of the most amazing guitarists in the world imo
More Japanese rock greatness... Loudness, EZO. BOWWOW (Kyoji before and after Vowwow)
VOWWOW of this time , very awesome 👍🏻!!! All members fuckin rule 👍🏻!!! Especially, Genki san's hi tone voice is fuckin aggressive !!! 1 instrument . 😎 ………" No VOWWOW No Japanese🇯🇵 Hard Rock " . VOWWOW Fuckin Rules !!! 👍🏻
🤘oh yes! More Metal, please. You don’t by any chance have all the episodes of ECT from Channel 4 in ‘85 do you? I transferred them from video to DVD a long time ago, chucked oot the original videos and now can’t locate the DVD’s. And it wasn’t a particularly good transfer either.
I have bits and bobs on Betamax, I know a guy who will have the full series in reasonable quality, but he would not give you copies, he would only want to sell you copies
キンさんのベース音でかい
Vow Wow.... I completely forgot they existed 🤣
Being the keyboard player in a rock band is considering so uncool, so we can see the guy (who plays so many virtuoso stuff) only in the end of this video...
There's a keyboard hiding somewhere!
Hey, the camera did find him in the end.
And there is more than one keyboard!
yes this is the bollocks
目の前でヴァウワウが演ってんのに‼️
何をポカ～んとしてんだ⁉️
厚見玲衣のパフォーマンスが完全無視されてる時点で大変申し訳ないがBESTとはとても呼べない動画です。
それはそうとして彼らのパフォーマンスはBESTだと思います。
What is that thing on his neck pickup?
It's a built-in compressor and chromatic tuner
@@808Mordecai, what?!!! A compressor? Crazy.
sounds like graham bonnett
There's certainly a similarity
Japanese Captain Sensible on bass 😂
Band maids prolly watched these guys vids
개간지
Great band, but they sound like a whitesnake cover band..they lacked that big hit..they should have paid Sykes/Coverdale to write a hit for them
Neil Murray joined them later that year ;-)
Came for the B.C. Rich Mockingbird, stayed for the show? Where are the keys? That wasn't guitar (?)
Obviously didn't stay for the entire video 😉
schools out alice cooper riff
what a 😢out of place artifact
I don't know if you liked this or hated it
これだけのボーカルとギターがいるのにいかんせん曲が今ひとつ良くない😂聴き所がハッキリしないぼやけた曲ばかりで勿体ない🤔🤔
ええええええええええｗｗ私は１０曲もあるのに
そんなにコブシ回さんでも
メタル演歌だよね
でもレコード買っちゃった
繰り返すレコード買っちゃった
コブシじゃなくてビブラートｗｗ
Saw em reading festival remember p.a. Kept cutting out one side of the speakers also they was on early afternoon. Bloody great band nevertheless still got their live lp from the 80’s. Great stuff
Thanks for watching and commenting Bess 🙂
Oh, there are still people in the UK who remember their two years in the UK?
I'm delighted to hear that. They cut a two-year contract with Arista UK in the U.K. and returned to Japan to try to expand into the U.S. However, they could not find a label in the U.S. to sign with, and the next album after "Helter Skelter" was produced by Bob Ezrin, known for Floyd's Wall, etc., but in the end it could only be released in Japan. After that album, the band broke up.
Genki quit music and became a high school teacher. They were labeled as a band that failed in the U.K. and failed to make inroads in the U.S., and the members who continued their musical activities have been treated as if they have been forgotten by the front line since the breakup.
Unfortunately, in Japan today, their much more junior band X Japan is regarded as the top band in Japan, and it is Loudness that has gained worldwide recognition, without VOWWOW's name ever being mentioned.
They formed in Japan in 1975, before the metal genre was separated from the hard rock and heavy rock of the time, before Metallica and Iron Maiden had even appeared on the planet, even though they were already creating professionally.
In that sense, I'm glad there are still people in the UK who remember their active years.
They are going to reunite for one night only in June this year for a memorial concert for Niimi, the drummer who passed away last year.Considering their age, this will probably be the last time the surviving members of the band will get together on stage.
They were quite good. Joolz Holland despises metal generally.