Tam – 狂気の日本

31. March 2021

G-Zet / Bradbury – S/T LP

This 2019 LP is a vinyl bootleg of the 1999 G-Zet/Bradbury CD with the interviews of Tam left out. First of all it’s got all the songs released by G-Zet during their existance (the two tracks off Great Punk Hits and the G-Zet 12“) plus the two songs off Tam’s solo 7“ (minus the songs of The Stalin from the karaoke sonosheet), but with the song order completely mixed up. In addition to this it’s got four great „sound sources“ of Bradbury songs, harder and heavier than G-Zet. Sadly there’s nothing with Hiromi on vocals, though.

As far as bootlegs go, this one rocks.

2. November 2019

Tam Boy Ide – Bootleg 10“

How to describe this 10“? Tam, together with Boy and Ide of E.D.P.S. going wild in the studio and recording their crazy, 10+ minute long, purely instrumental improvisations live, maybe? I guess that’s as accurate a description as I can come up with.

Tank, definitely. Relaxation time, not so much.

1. November 20193. November 2019

Tam – Vol. 1 7″

In 1983 the first songs by G-Zet came out on the Great Punk Hits compilation album. The same guys -Tam, Keigo, Akira (and L.S.D.‘s singer Achy who contributed one scream!)- also recorded the purely instrumental tracks on this vinyl single and the accompanying flexi disc (albeit in different personnel constellations). The two songs on the vinyl single are very much G-Zet tracks (side B is even named G-Zet), while the songs on the karaoke sonosheet are newly recorded instrumental versions of tracks off the first three albums by The Stalin.

Some tracks off this release wound up on this G-Zet bootleg 7″, posing as G-Zet songs.

Enjoy and sing along!

30. October 2019

G-Zet – S/T 12″

To me, G-Zet are just as great as they are mysterious and weird. Founded by ADK-Records’ mastermind Tam, they existed for little over 2 years before their untimely implosion, when Tam vanished from the scene during G-Zet’s 1985 tour of Japan. Their mix of hardcore with Motörhead-like heavyness produced slow and ominous instrumental epics and vicious, threatening HC-punk numbers. This here is the 2014 re-release, which contains a japanese language infosheet on the band and Tam, who died in 2011.
This 12″ is as exciting and interesting as it gets, so…

…get it!

28. October 201929. October 2019

G-Zet – S/T 7″

G-Zet were a side project of The Stalin’s guitarist Tam, who also ran the ADK label. They were pretty heavy, had kind of a Motörhead influence in places, recorded a number of (mostly) instrumental songs, and officially released only compilation tracks and one self-titled 12″. This here is a bootleg which contains two songs off their 12″ (Dog Eat Dog and ボンテージ). The other two songs (G-Zet and 365) are off Tam’s solo 7″ and the accompanying sono sheet, and not really G-Zet songs at all (365 is actually a karaoke version of a song by The Stalin, recorded by Tam! Claimed to be by G-Zet! The same G-Zet, who did NOT record the song titled G-Zet. Tam did that! Confused yet?).

Confused!