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Alan Merrill, Theo, Vodka Collins, solo acoustic video

The first foreigner to be "big in Japan" in the Group Sounds scene in the late 1960s, Alan Merrill performs a solo acoustic version of "Theo" from his legendary Tokyo based band Vodka Collins' "Pink Soup" album. The song has also appeared on the Vodka Collins best of collection "Boys In The Band." This was filmed with my simple camera phone at the Mean Fiddler in New York City. February 16th, 2008. Vodka Collins were a Japanese supergroup, consisting of members of the biggest GS era Japanese pop groups, The Spiders, The Tigers and The Golden Cups. If he'd performed this underground classic in Japan the audience would be hanging on every word and nuance, but the New York arrested development college crowd were chattering away clearly not understanding what they were witnessing, since Alan Merrill is totally obscure in his home country, the USA. His chart hits are in Japan, the UK and Europe.

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