Takeshi Terauchi (also known as Terry), is a Japanese instrumental rock guitarist. Terauchi started his career playing rhythm guitar for a country and Western act "Jimmy Tokita and The Mountain Playboys", which had bassist Chosuke Ikariya. In 1962 he formed his first group, The Blue Jeans. However, in 1966 he left the group and formed The Bunnys with whom he played. The band consisted of:
Takeshi Terauchi - lead guitar
Hiroshi Kurosawa – guitar, harmonica, vocals
Yoshiyuki Suzuki – guitar, vocals
Tatsuya Ogino – organ, vibraphone
Hajime Ono - bass
Tadashi Inoue – drums, shakuhachi
He won the "arrangement award" with the song "Let's Go Unmei" at the 9th Japan Record Awards in 1967. He left the Bunnys in 1968 and reformed the Blue Jeans in 1969 and the band has been active until today.
With The Bunnys he covered many popular genres, from garage, fratrock and surf guitar instrumentals, through sentimental ballads, via his own inimitable take on the popular classics. After pursuing his early rhythm guitar country style music Terry swapped to the hip new ‘eleki’ style in 1962, with the formation of The Bluejeans. The band’s 1964 LP KOREZO SURFING (‘This Is Surfing’) was a huge hit, enabling Terauchi and his wild whammy-bar stylings to support both The Ventures and The Astronauts on their Japanese tours. However, the coming of The British Invasion saw Terauchi jump ship to the vocal sounds, and he formed The Bunnys in early 1966.
His self-referential songs included the December single ‘Terry’s Theme’ and the LP LET’S GO TERRY, which featured wild performances including their legendary mind death riffothon ‘Test Driver’. Then came Terauchi’s commercial masterstroke, an eleki version of traditional Japanese songs for the LP SEICHO TERA UCHI BUSHI, which included the hit single ‘Kanjincho/Genroku Hanami Odiri". Sales topped over 100,000 copies and made the LP the all-time best-selling Group Sounds album. With their street credibility less important now than sustaining a high level of commercial success, Terauchi unleashed the pitiable album LET’S GO CLASSICS, featuring eleki versions of popular classics.
In 1968, when Terauchi quit his own band, he left them to record an instrumental version of the then popular HAIR soundtrack(!). And, as the Group Sounds wavered, 1970 saw the guitarist dressing as a WW2 Japanese commander and singing Japanese war songs in an ironic style on the LP ELEKI IPPON GUNKA DE SHOBU TOTSUGEKI. However, Terauchi had by now squeezed the last remaining drops of patience from his fans, and thereafter was forced to call it a day.
The following two albums are mostly surf guitar sounding and feature a collection of his singles from over the years. They are an interesting gem in the wide repertoire of musical sounds that constituted the sounds of the late 60's
Both albums are bundled into the same archive as each other for convenience sake. Enjoy.
Tracklist:
Bunnys' Singles Vol.1 - Little Devil (Akuma no Baby)
01. Terry's Theme
02. Test Driver
03. Irrevocable Vow
04. Dream In The Ocean
05. Kanjincho
06. Genroku Hanami Odort
07. Let's Go Dance
08. Shake No. 1
09. Rising Guitar
10. South Pier
11. Little Devil
12. Hey? You Stop !
13. Symphony No. 5
14. Unfinished Symphony
15. Al No Remember
16. Futari No Izumi
17. Taugaru Jaongarabushi
18. Dark Eyes
19. Czardas I
Bunnys' Singles Vol.2 - Taiyo No Hana
01. Taiyo Yaro
02. World Boy
03. Feedback Guitar
04. Omoide No Hoshizora
05. Taiyo No Hana
06. Seishun Wo Kakete
07. Let's Go Bugalu
08. Summer Bugalu
09. Tokyo No Sunset
10. Hono No Koi
11. Tasogare
12. Samishisona Shojo
13. Usukudara
14. Dark Eyes
15. Blue Star
16. Unchainned Melody
17. Jingle Bell
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