About Electric Eel Shock
Electric Eel Shock is a three-man garage rock band, formed in Tokyo in 1994. Their first tour was in the United States in 1999.
Akihito "Aki" Morimoto and Kazuto Maekawa first met in high school in Osaka. Aki learned English by listening to the lyrics of his favorite bands. Before Electric Eel Shock, Aki and Maekawa first formed an 80s metal cover band in high school called Caducious.
Aki and Maekawa remained in Tokyo. Aki followed his passion for fishing and became a competitive angler ) and Maekawa joined The Apollos for a short time as session bassist. Maekawa introduced their drummer, Tomoharu Ito to Aki. Gian, Maekawa, and Aki started practicing together shortly afterwards.
The band's first public performances was as an 11-piece group with keyboards, female vocals, and French horns. When logistics became unworkable the band stripped down to a three-piece.
Gian began playing with four drumsticks and gained a reputation for performing almost naked. Gian was arrested in Hong Kong and fined HK$100, for playing this way.
Electric Eel Shock set up the Micro Music record label with their friends and released their first full-length album, Maybe... I Think We Can Beat Nirvana. They followed this with Live Punctured.
In 1999, Electric Eel Shock recorded Slayers Bay Blues on an eight-track recorder, and made enough copies to begin their first concerts abroad. They had lined up a handful of dates in and around New York, including CBGB, with their friends Peelander-Z who had relocated there some time earlier. Due to the success of these gigs, the initially planned handful of dates expanded into an East Coast tour.
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