The Professor has discovered “group sounds,” the reaction of young Japanese musicians to the Beatles’ 1966 performance at the Nippon Budokan. Here’s a band of that school I recently discovered, Yokohama’s The Golden Cups. They might have had the first fuzzbox in Japan. The bass player, Masayoshi “Louis” Kabe, sounds like an asian John Entwistle to me.
Inevitably, they recorded their own version of “Hey Joe.” It doesn’t stand comparison with Jimi’s or Roy’s, but it has some interest as a historical artifact.