Legends, and still making kickass records. Sun-Go-san has some of the best and most powerful guitar tones one could hope to find. Show-Ya are good friends and mentors to most of the Japanese female rock and metal bands.
... and today is the birthday of drummer Miki "Mittan" Tsunoda Btw - happy birthday Mittan! You can see her play as a guest with Nemophila when they covered Show-Ya's "Fairy (Nemophila's drummer Tamu was just out of maternity and not ready to play the drums yet, so she played ... keys).
Fairy is my favourite Nemophila cover. About 2 years ago Show-Ya & Nemo did a joint concert and at the end both bands were on-stage performing Fairy together. 3 guitars, 2 basses, 2 drum-sets, 2 vocalists and 1 keyboard was an epic live stream performance.
The group my husband fell in love with in the 90's and they were one of the first all female bands to kick down the doors and allowed all the great female bands to follow from Mary's Blood, Destrose, etc.. They are the grand dames who blazed the way for everyone else to follow. Notice the 80's hairstyles that tell you this was well before 2K!!!!!
They have over 40 years of playing live and making albums behind them. They organize and produce the all-female Rock festival Naon no Yaon in Tokyo every year, which they founded in 1987. Only female Metal and Rock bands are on stage but the audience is open to everyone. BTW, they have covered some classic Rock and Metal songs. Great choice of song to cheer up this stormy Welsh morning.
Here is Nemophila covering "I am the Storm" with SHOW-YA's drummer on the drums while Tamu was free, just having a child. th-cam.com/video/d0HeO9GS3CA/w-d-xo.html Here is SHOW-YA playing "I am the storm" 2022 in pouring rain. Both the band and the audiens totally wet, except the drummer. Still rocking as there are no tomorrow. th-cam.com/video/qeozPWGwDDo/w-d-xo.html Keiko still showing nice legs at 59.
Miki 'Sun-Go' Igarashi is considered possibly Japan's first female shredder. She and Saki are very close and call each other mother and daughter even though there is no family connection. Keiko Terada did some shows with Gacharic Spin where they performed under the name Teradic Spin. If you get to see any videos where Angie gets to perform with Keiko she always seems so happy.
I love them, back in the days I listened to Show-Ya, Loudness and Bow Wow, X-Japan...Show-Ya always brought it. Since the 80's they produce an all female metal festival called NAONのYAON every year. The greatest of female artists performed there and they still do to this day. Show-Ya are legendary and Keiko is a living legend!
Formed in 1981, disbanded in 1998, reformed in 2005. This is the band that are the HERO's of the current All-Female Japanese Bands. The NAONのYAON festival for all female bands was created by Show Ya. They were huge in the '80's. The other big all female band in the 80's was the pop-rock band Princess Princess.
I wish Hollywood would have found these ladies back when they were pumping out 80's movies. They could have featured them in stuff like "Showdown in Little Tokyo" or "The Last Dragon" and they would have fit perfectly. I would absolutely have had a poster of them up in my room as a kid.
Soooooo true!!!!!!!!!!!!! That would’ve been so badass to see them in one of those 80s movies!!! TJ would’ve 100% have their poster right next to his Randy Rhoads poster when he was a kid!!!!!!
These Ladies even performed in California in 1989 for a couple of shows!!!!! NEMOPHILA covered this song, and another called (Fairy) with "Mitten" on drums and Tamu on keys!!!!! Another band from back then is "PRINCESS PRINCESS"!!!!! NEMOPHILA also did a couple of covers of their songs with their drummer!!!!! They were done during Tamu's maternity leave!!!!! Thank you for what you do!!!!!
Show-Ya are THE OGs of Japanese female hard-rock / heavy metal! 😍 Today these incredible ladies are in their 60s and they are still going strong. What really sets them apart is: They are paying it forward! Show-Ya founded "Naon-no-Yaon", a yearly music festival creating exposure for Japanese female hard-rock / metal bands. ❤
It doesn't "look like 80s hair metal" ... IT IS 80s hair metal 😉. This dates from 1989 and Show-Ya was around since 1981 - even if their career really started in 83. This is from their best album "Outerlimits" - not a single filler song on it! And guess what: they are still together! Same line up! (there's been an hiatus between 1998 and 2005). They are true legends and this song has been covered by many bands in Japan. Also very important: they created the all-female festival "Naon@Yaon" where they invite the young and the older musicians to play together - nearly every band from the young generation has played Naon! Trivia: as there were three "miki" in the band, they decided to use nicknames: "Sun-Go" for guitarist Miki Igarashi, "Mittan" for drummer Miki Tsunoda and "Captain" for keyboardist Miki Nakamura.
Glad you got to this. There is a better, live version of this (see below). But it's great you checked this out. The godmother of metal bands, Show-Ya were founded in 1981 (before Metallica). They locked in their lineup in 1982 and are still touring with that lineup (there were a few years in the mid 90's with a different lead singer). They have been sponsoring an annual rock festival (NAONのYAON) just for Japanese female rock musicians, and mentored many of the bands you are seeing now. They were in part inspired by the Runaways, the first all-woman hard rock band that made a commercial impact in the West. The Runaways toured Japan in 1977, generating Beatlemania-like excitement and encouraging a generation of girls and women to believe they could be rock stars. Show-Ya may have been inspired by the Runaways, but they modeled themselves after Deep Purple, whose tours in the early 70s probably had more of an impact on Japanese rock than any other band. Show-Ya’s early work was mostly covers of top Western bands like Purple, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, etc. Then they began releasing and performing their own stuff, and never looked back. Miki Nakamura (keyboard) 9/27/1961 Miki Igarashi (guitar) 11/21/1962 Keiko Terada (vocal) 7/27/1963 Satomi Senba (bass) 8/28/1963 Miki Tsunoda (drums) 12/7/1963 Here is their 2005 (24th anniversary!) concert performance of the biggest hit from their 1989 album "Outerlimits", the appropriately named "I Am the Storm" th-cam.com/video/oJ_5Gv3vFjQ/w-d-xo.html You'll hear a heavy Deep Purple vibe. It is a bold song for the times-she is essentially daring a man to have the courage to be involved romantically with her. As you watch these women rock, keep in mind that they are in their mid-40s. I consider them one of the most underrated rock bands ever. The fact that they were not bigger in the U.S. is an indictment of the U.S. music establishment, which repeatedly turned down opportunities to promote them here. We were stuck listening to Kansas, Foreigner and Bob Seger while a band like Show-Ya was out there? Shame on us. Some of the better Show-Ya clips available on youtube: “Still be Hanging On” (live in L.A., 1988, their first US appearance) written by Rick Neilsen of Cheap Trick but never released, Show-Ya made it their own: th-cam.com/video/ZyNI9TSZv8c/w-d-xo.html 私は嵐 “Watashi Wa Arashi” (“I Am the Storm”) 2005 live concert th-cam.com/video/oJ_5Gv3vFjQ/w-d-xo.html Their biggest hit from the 1989 album Outerlimits “Cry for Freedom” (2008 NAONのYAON) th-cam.com/video/pS-SdwC-bHE/w-d-xo.html Classic power ballad, with a heart-stopping slow burn solo. “One Way Heart” (mid 2010’s) th-cam.com/video/-KCATewd2zM/w-d-xo.html Straight-up rocker; Sun-Go tears it up on lead. “Look At Me” (from their live appearance at 2021 NAONのYAON) th-cam.com/video/aUzOGHtUC0M/w-d-xo.html
Very cool, first time I have heard them, and having spent my teen years in the 80's it was very nostalgic. Definitely worth checking out, thanks for sharing!😃
I love this band and I think they still perform. My first two Japanese bands I really liked back in the 80s was loudness and ezo. I had all of the early cassettes of loudness. And one of these ezo
they are legends! and also they care for the younger generation. they still organize the female only metal festival naon yaon in tokyo, where all the japanese female bands we love, play. and when tamu, nemophilas drummer couldn´t play drums after giving birth to her second child, drummer miki tsunoda from show ya played drums. nemophila - fairy is certainly worth to check.
Miki "Sun Go" Igarashi, the veteran guitarrist from SHOW-YA, is considered by today female guitarrist as a SENSEI and "Mother" of them all. Young guitarrist as SAKI exNemophila/exMary's Blood, Yuri from Cynthia, Yashiro and many more always talk great about Sensei Igarashi-san and mention her as their inspiration to become a guitarrist. It is known also that this younger guitarrist sometimes ask Igarashi-san for her advice on some guitar riffs or melodies.
This is exactly the song they used when they debuted in the 80s. And Princess Princess, who debuted around the same time, I wrote POP ROCK in the comment, but there are some hard songs as well. プリンセス プリンセス 『GO AWAY BOY』 プリンセス プリンセス 『19 GROWING UP -ode to my buddy-』 プリンセス プリンセス - GET CRAZY! There are also rock'n'roll songs. Please listen!
I sometimes think about what kind of female rock ladies we had here in Europe back then. Blondie Debby Harris, Suzie Quatro were well-known, the Bangles and Joan Jett. But who would they have wanted to sell tickets to if these incredible bombshells from Japan had hit here back then? Bands with only women putting on such a show! It was unimaginable to me back then and I am now 71 years old. By the way, thanks for your reaction. Love it.
Show Ya are just so freakin good. Nemophila's Saki is pretty close to Sun Go and watching them play you can see where Saki gets some of her moves from. The thing I like about Sun Go is she plays a heavy guitar. She makes it sound like there are two guitars instead of one. I wish I had known about them in the 1980's back in Australia. Show Ya live would have been amazing back then. Even today the ladies rock out big time in Japan. Keiko's voice as well. 5 star.
I went straight from here to check out the Nemophila cover of this track, with the original Show Ya drummer Miki Tsunoda (while Tamu was on maternity leave) - it's awesome!
What Loudness is too Japanese Metal the same can be said of Show Ya who ironically were out around the same time. Hooks that are Classic and absolute Fire musicians. Sun Go is the Tone Queen in many of their works.
Hamada Mari, Honjo Misako, and Show-Ya built the foundation for Japanese girl rock bands. Among them, Hamada Mari is in a class of her own. I don't think there is a girl rock singer who can surpass Hamada Mari. I don't know about now, but I remember that Love.-Bites was in the same agency as Hamada Mari.
sun-go is an awesome guitarist and definitely is influential to the newer generation of Japanese players, Show-Ya and their contemporaries Princess Princess both have influenced todays all female rock groups and both are worth a deep dive , a lot of great music. In fact Princess Princess is in my top five favorite J rock/metal bands and one of my favorite bands ever, thanks to Nemophila covers I found these bands! Here’s a link to Princess Princess live( show ya live in late 80s I highly recommend too) th-cam.com/video/0djqx9Ns1UA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=PypAn61XKkvz2TMk
Funny that you said the singer didn't look Japanese. I think it was mostly the hair. In this video it is the original Japanese vocalist Keiko Terada. But she left and was replaced ('91-'96) by the half-Japanese Steffanie Borges, the daughter of Hawaiian jazz singer Jimmy Borges and Japanese dancer Shizuko Yagi. She grew up in Hawaii. Show-ya stopped in 1998 and but came back in 2005 with Terada as lead singer again. Around this time Destroya (2005) formed. Destroya renamed as Destrose in 2007. And Aldious came along in 2008. So Show-ya came back at the beginning of the boom in all-female Japanese metal/rock bands. Nemophila has done two covers of Show-ya songs with the Show-ya drummer Tsunoda Miki as the guest drummer. Their regular drummer Tamu was out on pregnancy leave. Saki and Hazuki, the guitarists of Nemophila, joined Show-ya in their cover of X-Japan's Kurenai. An epic song with three epic guitarists: th-cam.com/video/xGX41dvVisA/w-d-xo.html Have you done X-Japan yet? Probably the best known Japanese rock band ever. Gene Simmons from KISS has said that X Japan could have been the biggest band in the world if they sang in English.
@@TJandTheGringa Just be careful with copyright for X-japan and Show Ya. Even though its probably not even the band doing the strike. There are reactions to them so you could get lucky. Both amazing bands.
Ah yes, Show Ya! Now, it’s fair to say they were original all-female Japanese rock, but their relevance to Aldious and Destrose was as inspiration and promotion rather than starting the sound or igniting the current interest. They are from quarter of a century before Aldious or Destrose. They sponsor an annual female music promotional concert “Naon no Yaon” and have showcased pretty much all the big names, some of whom refer to them as their “mothers”, which has caused some confusion, because Keiko is not Saki’s mom. lol So I’d say, by their own words and deeds, that Show Ya! are the mothers of the OGs of all female Japanese rock and metal. I wish I’d known about them when I was a Maiden and Motörhead fan, you know, the grandfathers of modern metal. 😜 If you want a treat, Saki of Cyntia (another OG band) did a cover of Show Ya’s “Genkai Lovers” - it’s a total work of art. Her voice and that song make magic.
You 2 should check out the Naon Yaon shows! Show Ya highlighting the female rock artist of Japan.... the guitar collective for each year is always great!
The OG girl group that broke the glass ceiling formed in 1981 ... Keiko Terada (61) is still active and organizes the Naon No Yaon festival every year that showcases some of the best female Japanese musicians in the country. Fun fact: her rose tattoo is not real.
The vids from these Naon shows is available and highly recommended viewing. The venue that the event is generally held at is an impressive out door experience. This and Mari Harmada,etc... were Fire.
If you're interested in something cool from Show-Ya I'd recommend this video which brings together the origins of Japanese female rock and the present of JFR whilst throwing in an iconic song from Japanese rock into the bargain . Show-Ya with Hazuki and Saki from Nemophila ( at the time ) doing a cover of X-Japan's " Kurenai " - th-cam.com/video/xGX41dvVisA/w-d-xo.html ( It's all the more remarkable when you consider that the members of Show-Ya were all 60+ years old when this was recorded ! ) ENJOY !
Show Ya's cover of the classic Kurenai (X Japan) is one of the best interpretations I've ever seen. I suggest a reaction. Keiko Terada and Show Ya are recognized by many other metalheads, as are Loudness and Ningen Isu. Show Ya and, especially, vocalist Keiko Terada, created the Naon No Yaon festival (1987), which holds a jam session for female musicians from metal bands in Japan. Musicians from bands like Band Maid and Nemophila play at this festival and consider Keiko Terada to be the great influence on all of them. Please react to NaonNoYaon Festival and also to bassist-vocalist Kiyoshi. Congratulations on the work on this channel! I love it! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘🤘
If you like SHOW-YA, this video is for you! th-cam.com/video/DCspVZ7LjGs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=NYA_r-Z2-TjWULLv Don't miss the cover of Ann Lewis' hit song “Roppongi Shinju” (1984) by SHOW-YA, whose members are now all in their 60s🔥🔥🔥
Thee early pioneer of all female Japanese band. Reminds me Loudness and the 80's American hairspray metal. The person that came up the description "hair" metal must have thought all the other bands back than were bald. They all f*cking had hair. SMH.
Hey Tequila Jimmy, perhap you want to react to another legendary lady rocker from Japan, Mari Hamada. Here is a song from the 30th anniversary live tour th-cam.com/video/hiiUKlu-7U0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=-5G3rRclS25Xpzj-
excellent reaction, SHOW-YA are still active, there is a cover of this song by Nemophila with Show.ya drummer Miki Tsunoda on drums because Tamu Murata was on maternity leave, here th-cam.com/video/d0HeO9GS3CA/w-d-xo.html
Thank you! More 80's Japanese rock please🤘😁 I suggest this band which was good at punk mixed metal songs from 80's. The vocalist did Kabuki make-up like KISS. FLATBACKER - Affect a smile th-cam.com/video/2Acu8niEPv0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=q0zjdDLSTaUzmfb9 (btw the song starts at 25 second into this video)
TJ and TG!!! You're on the way to becoming J-Rock experts.... a bit of a way to go, but you're starting in a great place! Keiko one of my favourite front women.
They are big, they also make a concert festival with female groups, every year at hibiya open-air concert hall in Tokyo, th-cam.com/video/SBUwTTFvFpw/w-d-xo.html&start_radio=1
やっぱ、いいねぇー SHOW-YA
They are now 60+ Yo and still plays!!! Check out a song from their latest album, Eye to eye.
Ah the grandmas of Japanese female rock! Still revered, respected and rocking it out to this day. This is the mother lode from where it all started.
50歳代の俺にはSHOW-YAは特別ですね。Legendです。
🎉🎉🎉
自分も50代です。中学の時に初めてライブで見たBANDがSHOW-YAだった👍️
Legends, and still making kickass records. Sun-Go-san has some of the best and most powerful guitar tones one could hope to find.
Show-Ya are good friends and mentors to most of the Japanese female rock and metal bands.
They are and this video is literally from the 80's. They are still together!
this music video was filmed 35 years ago, in 1989. the song is Watashi wa Arashi from the 1989 album Outerlimits, which went double platinum
Pure respect for SHOW-YA , and Happy Birthday Mittan one hell of a kick ass drummer .
They are grandmothers of Lovebites, Band Maid, Nemophila, Hanabie etc.great band.
... and today is the birthday of drummer Miki "Mittan" Tsunoda Btw - happy birthday Mittan! You can see her play as a guest with Nemophila when they covered Show-Ya's "Fairy (Nemophila's drummer Tamu was just out of maternity and not ready to play the drums yet, so she played ... keys).
Fairy is my favourite Nemophila cover. About 2 years ago Show-Ya & Nemo did a joint concert and at the end both bands were on-stage performing Fairy together. 3 guitars, 2 basses, 2 drum-sets, 2 vocalists and 1 keyboard was an epic live stream performance.
The group my husband fell in love with in the 90's and they were one of the first all female bands to kick down the doors and allowed all the great female bands to follow from Mary's Blood, Destrose, etc.. They are the grand dames who blazed the way for everyone else to follow. Notice the 80's hairstyles that tell you this was well before 2K!!!!!
They have over 40 years of playing live and making albums behind them. They organize and produce the all-female Rock festival Naon no Yaon in Tokyo every year, which they founded in 1987. Only female Metal and Rock bands are on stage but the audience is open to everyone. BTW, they have covered some classic Rock and Metal songs. Great choice of song to cheer up this stormy Welsh morning.
I tried to google and Naon search brought me to the National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses 😂🤣😂
@@TheGringa-TJandTG 😂🤣 Keep hold of their number in case you ever end up in a Hanabie moshpit!
😂🤣😂🤣
Naonは女性の意味のジャパニーズスラングです！yaonはOutdoorfestivalの略なので、女性バンドによるOutdoorfestivalになります！
@@takaobo 情報ありがとうございます！
SHOW-YA is soo good and they still rock. And the beautiful lady Keiko still is beautiful. And still has the voice.
They are from the 80-ies.
Here is Nemophila covering "I am the Storm" with SHOW-YA's drummer on the drums while Tamu was free, just having a child.
th-cam.com/video/d0HeO9GS3CA/w-d-xo.html
Here is SHOW-YA playing "I am the storm" 2022 in pouring rain. Both the band and the audiens totally wet, except the drummer. Still rocking as there are no tomorrow.
th-cam.com/video/qeozPWGwDDo/w-d-xo.html
Keiko still showing nice legs at 59.
Thank you for sharing!! These videos were soooo good!!! They still rock !!!!!! Love!!!!!!!!!
Japan Rocks.🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Thank you for your reaction.
The vocalist, Terada Keiko, was born in 1963.
It's the 80's as you say.
The girls are still active today.
Miki 'Sun-Go' Igarashi is considered possibly Japan's first female shredder. She and Saki are very close and call each other mother and daughter even though there is no family connection. Keiko Terada did some shows with Gacharic Spin where they performed under the name Teradic Spin. If you get to see any videos where Angie gets to perform with Keiko she always seems so happy.
I love them, back in the days I listened to Show-Ya, Loudness and Bow Wow, X-Japan...Show-Ya always brought it. Since the 80's they produce an all female metal festival called NAONのYAON every year. The greatest of female artists performed there and they still do to this day. Show-Ya are legendary and Keiko is a living legend!
The good old 80's.
Formed in 1981, disbanded in 1998, reformed in 2005. This is the band that are the HERO's of the current All-Female Japanese Bands. The NAONのYAON festival for all female bands was created by Show Ya.
They were huge in the '80's. The other big all female band in the 80's was the pop-rock band Princess Princess.
I wish Hollywood would have found these ladies back when they were pumping out 80's movies. They could have featured them in stuff like "Showdown in Little Tokyo" or "The Last Dragon" and they would have fit perfectly. I would absolutely have had a poster of them up in my room as a kid.
Soooooo true!!!!!!!!!!!!! That would’ve been so badass to see them in one of those 80s movies!!! TJ would’ve 100% have their poster right next to his Randy Rhoads poster when he was a kid!!!!!!
Show-Ya started in 1981!
Show ya is born in 1981. Of course they sound like Hair Metal. They're from this era.
Love them even more now!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These Ladies even performed in California in 1989 for a couple of shows!!!!! NEMOPHILA covered this song, and another called (Fairy) with "Mitten" on drums and Tamu on keys!!!!! Another band from back then is "PRINCESS PRINCESS"!!!!! NEMOPHILA also did a couple of covers of their songs with their drummer!!!!! They were done during Tamu's maternity leave!!!!! Thank you for what you do!!!!!
I love that!!!! Thank you for the fun facts!!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Proper rock badassery! Dirty nasty guitar and power vocals! Thanks for this review!
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Show-Ya are THE OGs of Japanese female hard-rock / heavy metal! 😍
Today these incredible ladies are in their 60s and they are still going strong. What really sets them apart is: They are paying it forward! Show-Ya founded "Naon-no-Yaon", a yearly music festival creating exposure for Japanese female hard-rock / metal bands. ❤
Straight out of 80's hair metal days.🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Very catchy old school music .. easy to love
They played in Yokohama just tonight.
The BEST era of music :)
Love them!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Sun-Go ! 🔥🎸🤘
what a blast from the past, good stuff
They sponsor the Naon Yaon Guitar Girls Festival. Watch a video and you will recognize women like: Lisa X, Sakura, Saki and more on stage together.
It doesn't "look like 80s hair metal" ... IT IS 80s hair metal 😉. This dates from 1989 and Show-Ya was around since 1981 - even if their career really started in 83. This is from their best album "Outerlimits" - not a single filler song on it! And guess what: they are still together! Same line up! (there's been an hiatus between 1998 and 2005). They are true legends and this song has been covered by many bands in Japan.
Also very important: they created the all-female festival "Naon@Yaon" where they invite the young and the older musicians to play together - nearly every band from the young generation has played Naon!
Trivia: as there were three "miki" in the band, they decided to use nicknames: "Sun-Go" for guitarist Miki Igarashi, "Mittan" for drummer Miki Tsunoda and "Captain" for keyboardist Miki Nakamura.
Young drummer Yoyoka did a drum cover of this song.
This band is so sick!!! Love that they created a whole festival centered around women rockers!!!!!!!! We are gonna be taking a deep dive ❤
Glad you got to this. There is a better, live version of this (see below). But it's great you checked this out.
The godmother of metal bands, Show-Ya were founded in 1981 (before Metallica). They locked in their lineup in 1982 and are still touring with that lineup (there were a few years in the mid 90's with a different lead singer). They have been sponsoring an annual rock festival (NAONのYAON) just for Japanese female rock musicians, and mentored many of the bands you are seeing now.
They were in part inspired by the Runaways, the first all-woman hard rock band that made a commercial impact in the West. The Runaways toured Japan in 1977, generating Beatlemania-like excitement and encouraging a generation of girls and women to believe they could be rock stars. Show-Ya may have been inspired by the Runaways, but they modeled themselves after Deep Purple, whose tours in the early 70s probably had more of an impact on Japanese rock than any other band. Show-Ya’s early work was mostly covers of top Western bands like Purple, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, etc. Then they began releasing and performing their own stuff, and never looked back.
Miki Nakamura (keyboard) 9/27/1961
Miki Igarashi (guitar) 11/21/1962
Keiko Terada (vocal) 7/27/1963
Satomi Senba (bass) 8/28/1963
Miki Tsunoda (drums) 12/7/1963
Here is their 2005 (24th anniversary!) concert performance of the biggest hit from their 1989 album "Outerlimits", the appropriately named "I Am the Storm" th-cam.com/video/oJ_5Gv3vFjQ/w-d-xo.html You'll hear a heavy Deep Purple vibe. It is a bold song for the times-she is essentially daring a man to have the courage to be involved romantically with her. As you watch these women rock, keep in mind that they are in their mid-40s.
I consider them one of the most underrated rock bands ever. The fact that they were not bigger in the U.S. is an indictment of the U.S. music establishment, which repeatedly turned down opportunities to promote them here. We were stuck listening to Kansas, Foreigner and Bob Seger while a band like Show-Ya was out there? Shame on us.
Some of the better Show-Ya clips available on youtube:
“Still be Hanging On” (live in L.A., 1988, their first US appearance) written by Rick Neilsen of Cheap Trick but never released, Show-Ya made it their own: th-cam.com/video/ZyNI9TSZv8c/w-d-xo.html
私は嵐 “Watashi Wa Arashi” (“I Am the Storm”) 2005 live concert th-cam.com/video/oJ_5Gv3vFjQ/w-d-xo.html Their biggest hit from the 1989 album Outerlimits
“Cry for Freedom” (2008 NAONのYAON) th-cam.com/video/pS-SdwC-bHE/w-d-xo.html
Classic power ballad, with a heart-stopping slow burn solo.
“One Way Heart” (mid 2010’s) th-cam.com/video/-KCATewd2zM/w-d-xo.html Straight-up rocker; Sun-Go tears it up on lead.
“Look At Me” (from their live appearance at 2021 NAONのYAON) th-cam.com/video/aUzOGHtUC0M/w-d-xo.html
One of my favorite songs from them.
Also much credit to them for the Naon Aon festival for female artists
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Very cool, first time I have heard them, and having spent my teen years in the 80's it was very nostalgic. Definitely worth checking out, thanks for sharing!😃
ARIGATO for your reaction. SHOW-YA is the Great Pioneer of Japanese Female Bands. Please watch another MV. 「GENKAI LOVERS」（2015）
They paved the way for our favorite all-female Japanese bands. Nemophila has done a number of covers of them and have appeared on stage together.
I love this band and I think they still perform. My first two Japanese bands I really liked back in the 80s was loudness and ezo. I had all of the early cassettes of loudness. And one of these ezo
The riff and some of the tapping made me want to sing, "GO GO POWER RANGERS!"
❤Show-Ya❤
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they are legends! and also they care for the younger generation. they still organize the female only metal festival naon yaon in tokyo, where all the japanese female bands we love, play. and when tamu, nemophilas drummer couldn´t play drums after giving birth to her second child, drummer miki tsunoda from show ya played drums. nemophila - fairy is certainly worth to check.
As a guitarist, I’m sure you’ll like watching some editions of Naon no Yaon festival.
Miki "Sun Go" Igarashi, the veteran guitarrist from SHOW-YA, is considered by today female guitarrist as a SENSEI and "Mother" of them all. Young guitarrist as SAKI exNemophila/exMary's Blood, Yuri from Cynthia, Yashiro and many more always talk great about Sensei Igarashi-san and mention her as their inspiration to become a guitarrist. It is known also that this younger guitarrist sometimes ask Igarashi-san for her advice on some guitar riffs or melodies.
This is exactly the song they used when they debuted in the 80s.
And Princess Princess, who debuted around the same time,
I wrote POP ROCK in the comment, but there are some hard songs as well.
プリンセス プリンセス 『GO AWAY BOY』
プリンセス プリンセス 『19 GROWING UP -ode to my buddy-』
プリンセス プリンセス - GET CRAZY!
There are also rock'n'roll songs.
Please listen!
I sometimes think about what kind of female rock ladies we had here in Europe back then. Blondie Debby Harris, Suzie Quatro were well-known, the Bangles and Joan Jett. But who would they have wanted to sell tickets to if these incredible bombshells from Japan had hit here back then? Bands with only women putting on such a show! It was unimaginable to me back then and I am now 71 years old. By the way, thanks for your reaction. Love it.
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Show Ya are just so freakin good. Nemophila's Saki is pretty close to Sun Go and watching them play you can see where Saki gets some of her moves from. The thing I like about Sun Go is she plays a heavy guitar. She makes it sound like there are two guitars instead of one. I wish I had known about them in the 1980's back in Australia. Show Ya live would have been amazing back then. Even today the ladies rock out big time in Japan. Keiko's voice as well. 5 star.
More please.
One of my first introductions to Japanese rock and metal along with Nigen Isu . Never looked back . Great reaction
I went straight from here to check out the Nemophila cover of this track, with the original Show Ya drummer Miki Tsunoda (while Tamu was on maternity leave) - it's awesome!
Yes!..we checked it out...loved it!
What Loudness is too Japanese Metal the same can be said of Show Ya who ironically were out around the same time. Hooks that are Classic and absolute Fire musicians. Sun Go is the Tone Queen in many of their works.
SHOW-YA is an idol of groups such as LOVEBITES and nemophila.
and PARADOXX 🇯🇵🤘 🅿️. They played at Naon No Yaon 2023.
Well worth checking out the PARADOXX 'Singularity' MV. Great young band !
They are still touring.
I forgot to mention they formed like in 1981 or 1982. They've been around a while
Yes, Show-Ya, the grandmothers of the current all-female Japanese rock/metal bands.
here is the 2022 live version of this song th-cam.com/video/qeozPWGwDDo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=V0hvevFRh8YY9yeR
Oh shit I'm watching this right now!! TY!!
@@TJandTheGringa Seeing the 2022 performance, it's immediately obvious why they are deserving of legend status!
Hamada Mari, Honjo Misako, and Show-Ya built the foundation for Japanese girl rock bands. Among them, Hamada Mari is in a class of her own. I don't think there is a girl rock singer who can surpass Hamada Mari. I don't know about now, but I remember that Love.-Bites was in the same agency as Hamada Mari.
record label Victor Entertaiment
sun-go is an awesome guitarist and definitely is influential to the newer generation of Japanese players, Show-Ya and their contemporaries Princess Princess both have influenced todays all female rock groups and both are worth a deep dive , a lot of great music. In fact Princess Princess is in my top five favorite J rock/metal bands and one of my favorite bands ever, thanks to Nemophila covers I found these bands! Here’s a link to Princess Princess live( show ya live in late 80s I highly recommend too) th-cam.com/video/0djqx9Ns1UA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=PypAn61XKkvz2TMk
If you like this song, we also recommend LOUDNESS' THIS LONELY HEART.
th-cam.com/video/X-C_no42FWY/w-d-xo.html
Thank you!!
Keiko is the Godmother.
Total "Lost Boys" vibes. I half expect Corey and Corey to run out with wooden stakes!
Lmao!!!! I told Jimmy that it was giving me Once Bitten vibes!!! I was waiting for Lauren Hutton to come out 😂
Funny that you said the singer didn't look Japanese. I think it was mostly the hair. In this video it is the original Japanese vocalist Keiko Terada. But she left and was replaced ('91-'96) by the half-Japanese Steffanie Borges, the daughter of Hawaiian jazz singer Jimmy Borges and Japanese dancer Shizuko Yagi. She grew up in Hawaii. Show-ya stopped in 1998 and but came back in 2005 with Terada as lead singer again. Around this time Destroya (2005) formed. Destroya renamed as Destrose in 2007. And Aldious came along in 2008. So Show-ya came back at the beginning of the boom in all-female Japanese metal/rock bands. Nemophila has done two covers of Show-ya songs with the Show-ya drummer Tsunoda Miki as the guest drummer. Their regular drummer Tamu was out on pregnancy leave. Saki and Hazuki, the guitarists of Nemophila, joined Show-ya in their cover of X-Japan's Kurenai. An epic song with three epic guitarists: th-cam.com/video/xGX41dvVisA/w-d-xo.html
Have you done X-Japan yet? Probably the best known Japanese rock band ever. Gene Simmons from KISS has said that X Japan could have been the biggest band in the world if they sang in English.
Checking this out right now!
@@TJandTheGringa Just be careful with copyright for X-japan and Show Ya. Even though its probably not even the band doing the strike. There are reactions to them so you could get lucky. Both amazing bands.
Ah yes, Show Ya! Now, it’s fair to say they were original all-female Japanese rock, but their relevance to Aldious and Destrose was as inspiration and promotion rather than starting the sound or igniting the current interest. They are from quarter of a century before Aldious or Destrose. They sponsor an annual female music promotional concert “Naon no Yaon” and have showcased pretty much all the big names, some of whom refer to them as their “mothers”, which has caused some confusion, because Keiko is not Saki’s mom. lol So I’d say, by their own words and deeds, that Show Ya! are the mothers of the OGs of all female Japanese rock and metal. I wish I’d known about them when I was a Maiden and Motörhead fan, you know, the grandfathers of modern metal. 😜
If you want a treat, Saki of Cyntia (another OG band) did a cover of Show Ya’s “Genkai Lovers” - it’s a total work of art. Her voice and that song make magic.
Thank you!
You 2 should check out the Naon Yaon shows! Show Ya highlighting the female rock artist of Japan.... the guitar collective for each year is always great!
Captain Niki Nakamura ! 🤘
The OG girl group that broke the glass ceiling formed in 1981 ... Keiko Terada (61) is still active and organizes the Naon No Yaon festival every year that showcases some of the best female Japanese musicians in the country. Fun fact: her rose tattoo is not real.
The vids from these Naon shows is available and highly recommended viewing. The venue that the event is generally held at is an impressive out door experience. This and Mari Harmada,etc... were Fire.
If you're interested in something cool from Show-Ya I'd recommend this video which brings together the origins of Japanese female rock and the present of JFR whilst throwing in an iconic song from Japanese rock into the bargain . Show-Ya with Hazuki and Saki from Nemophila ( at the time ) doing a cover of X-Japan's " Kurenai " - th-cam.com/video/xGX41dvVisA/w-d-xo.html ( It's all the more remarkable when you consider that the members of Show-Ya were all 60+ years old when this was recorded ! )
ENJOY !
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Show Ya's cover of the classic Kurenai (X Japan) is one of the best interpretations I've ever seen. I suggest a reaction. Keiko Terada and Show Ya are recognized by many other metalheads, as are Loudness and Ningen Isu. Show Ya and, especially, vocalist Keiko Terada, created the Naon No Yaon festival (1987), which holds a jam session for female musicians from metal bands in Japan. Musicians from bands like Band Maid and Nemophila play at this festival and consider Keiko Terada to be the great influence on all of them. Please react to NaonNoYaon Festival and also to bassist-vocalist Kiyoshi. Congratulations on the work on this channel! I love it! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘🤘
Japan had Hair bands!
E-Z-O 😁
If you like SHOW-YA, this video is for you!
th-cam.com/video/DCspVZ7LjGs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=NYA_r-Z2-TjWULLv
Don't miss the cover of Ann Lewis' hit song “Roppongi Shinju” (1984) by SHOW-YA, whose members are now all in their 60s🔥🔥🔥
MITTAN !!! 🤘
Thee early pioneer of all female Japanese band. Reminds me Loudness and the 80's American hairspray metal. The person that came up the description "hair" metal must have thought all the other bands back than were bald. They all f*cking had hair. SMH.
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Hey Tequila Jimmy, perhap you want to react to another legendary lady rocker from Japan, Mari Hamada. Here is a song from the 30th anniversary live tour th-cam.com/video/hiiUKlu-7U0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=-5G3rRclS25Xpzj-
excellent reaction, SHOW-YA are still active, there is a cover of this song by Nemophila with Show.ya drummer Miki Tsunoda on drums because Tamu Murata was on maternity leave, here
th-cam.com/video/d0HeO9GS3CA/w-d-xo.html
This kicked ass .. loved it!!
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Thank you! More 80's Japanese rock please🤘😁
I suggest this band which was good at punk mixed metal songs from 80's.
The vocalist did Kabuki make-up like KISS.
FLATBACKER - Affect a smile th-cam.com/video/2Acu8niEPv0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=q0zjdDLSTaUzmfb9 (btw the song starts at 25 second into this video)
TJ and TG!!! You're on the way to becoming J-Rock experts.... a bit of a way to go, but you're starting in a great place! Keiko one of my favourite front women.
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You should check out X-Japan an all male band, start with "Stab Me in the Back".
Yes!!!!!! Thank you!!! We definitely will be checking that out!!!!!!! 🎉
this was mine lol
just a weldere use a maine accent on weldere or there and i am not from maine but my wife is
Haha GOTCHA!.. I think we know what you mean!. Thanks a million for the Support!! .. Great Song!!
They are big, they also make a concert festival with female groups, every year at hibiya open-air concert hall in Tokyo,
th-cam.com/video/SBUwTTFvFpw/w-d-xo.html&start_radio=1
同じ歌ですが…
2022年のライブ動画です。
60歳を過ぎてもロックしてます！
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🤘🤘 ありがとう‼️‼️
80sヘアメタルだってばよ。