ArtistInfo

The Gerogerigegege

Band, *1985 JP, Tokyo
Electronic
A.k.a. Juntaro Yamanouchi The Omanko

The Gerogerigegege is a controversial Japanese noise/experimental band, founded in 1985 by Juntaro Yamanouchi. After a long hiatus since around 2001, the Gerogerigegege is again currently active and produced their first album in fifteen years, Moenai Hai, in 2016. Many pioneering Japanoise artists sought inspiration in various forms of erotica, fetish, kinbaku (緊縛, the Japanese art of bondage), manga, and anything else sex/perversion related, but J.Y took his obsession with senzuri (male masturbation in Japanese, literally this term translates to "one thousand rubs") to the next level. Senzuri had penetrated every aspect of his artistic and personal life. Claiming to be asexual, non-discriminative towards men or women, Juntaro dedicated most of his creative work to exploring and debating his sexuality and gender identity, homoerotica and homosexuality, obscene and bizarre pornography, gay lifestyle and activist organizations, and all of the above in the unique interpretation of contemporary Japanese culture and Juntaro's personal, radical vision. The band's name is a Japanese onomatopoeia for vomiting and defecating diarrhea simultaneously: GERO (vomiting), GERI (diarrhea) and a non-lexical vocable GEGEGE (according to some sources, it represents sounds of vomiting). For an unprepared listener, this name could be very descriptive of some Gero records. In a 1995 interview, Juntaro transcribed the meaning of this word as the 'geekexhibitionistramrodonanismgayenobrammeritchgigenmagro-inejaculationgenderfuckerotica.' On a more serious note in one of the latest interviews, he explained choosing this name for a feeling of freedom. Yamanouchi also embraced a pronunciation 'Gero-geri-gay-gay-gay' suggested by the interviewer, while reassuring that his band's name has nothing to do with 'gay' in Japanese. The Gerogerigegege officially started in 1985, with a release of a self-titled Gerogerigegege C-30 cassette recorded with Takeshi Ohmura on Masami Akita's mailorder label. At least 300 copies were distributed by Juntaro in person to various record stores, and an undisclosed amount was sold through ZSF Produkt. The band had already been playing with Dynamite Gero (Toshinori Fukuda) on drums and Dee Dee Gero (Hironao Komaki) on guitar, working on the material for their debut album. On the other hand, Juntaro just met his future artistic partner, a much older exhibitionist, masturbator and sex performer Gero 30 (Tetsuya Endoh) at an S&M club in Shinjuku. Juntaro immediately found a spot for Gero 30 in his grand vision, as an ideal senzuri live mascot. Juntaro and Gero 30 soon began performing together, barely hanging on a fine edge between art happening and public indecency. These early Gerogerigegege concerts are among the most disturbing live acts in the history of Japanese extreme music, only comparable to infamous Hanatarash demolition acts. Juntaro's live sessions with Gero 30 were built on GG Allin's raw punk aesthetics, and featured little to no background music, primarily consisting of Juntaro and Tetsuya eating each other's feces, rolling around in pee on stage. A bunch of middle-aged guys in the audience was masturbating, contributing their panting voices and excited snorts to the sound ambiance. This gig took place dozens of times, happening regularly about twice a month at different S&M and fetish clubs. In the later shows, Gero 30 would masturbate and exclaim profanities and aroused screams in the microphone, with most of the audience laughing and shouting, while Juntaro (and occasionally other artists) produced random instrumental and vocal noises in the background. The first proper concert show outside of a sex club happened at the auditorium of Waseda University in October 1986 and featured Juntaro and Gero 30 with several guest musicians, including two members of Grim (ex-White Hospital). The band's debut Senzuri Champion LP was released on a newly established Vis A Vis Audio Arts label in 1987. The album featured lengthier electroacoustic noise pieces with heavily distorted screaming vocals, and occasional lo-fi recordings of masturbating males. All 1000 copies were sold out in Japan. A year later, a notoriously famous Release Memorial Performance took place. Juntaro widely advertised the presentation of his new flexi-disc Ai-Jin at Enoshima Beach, attracting a huge audience and press. He then just set all 2000 copies of his new release on a huge campfire while naked Gero 30 masturbated in front of the crowd. This concluded the performance. Ai-Jin contained a cover on Teresa Teng song (a Taiwanese pop-singer hugely popular in Japan), and burned copies (some cut in half) were sold as an 'art edition,' with very few playable discs available. The Gerogerigegege also released their first 7" single Sexual Behavior In The Human Male on Transrecords in 1988, with Toshinori Fukuda on drums and Hironao Komaki playing guitar, featuring surprisingly melodic and traditionally sounding songs. The second album, Showa LP, was released following the death of Emperor Hirohito in January '89. The record starts and finishes with a Japanese national anthem and contains basically just some random pornographic voices and sounds. The limited release came in four different editions: two 'Japanese emperor cover' versions with (or without) a booklet, a very special Showa (Ramones Edition) (not mentioning Gerogerigegege anywhere, with Ramones - Britzkrieg '75 (Demo Tracks) bootleg sleeve and fake tracklisting), plus the most limited version with 'Ramones cover' and an unburnt Ai-Jin flexi-disc as an insert. After gaining enough recognition on the local scene, Juntaro began corresponding with a vast network of international noise artists, labels and distributors, asking everyone to put his stuff on compilations and solo releases and promising to release their material in Japan. According to Ron Lessard, founder of RRRecords label and record store, his first exposure to cult Japanoise bands like Violent Onsen Geisha and Masonna happened when J.Y mailed him some masters. Through this networking, Juntaro managed to acquire a rather unique and extensive collection of extreme music/noise records and memorabilia, with many rare and valuable editions and an entire wall of noise cassettes. J.Y also carefully documented all of Gero's studio sessions, rehearsals, home demos, and live performances, thus securing an ample supply of unreleased material for any foreign labels interested in releasing his music. Juntaro's attempts to expose Gerogerigegege to audiences outside of Japan were fairly successful, and eventually led to numerous compilation appearances and limited edition 7" releases on Nux Organization, Beast 666 Tapes, Nihilistic Recordings, Old Europa Cafe, Ant-Zen, Banned Production, Subterranean Records and other prominent independent labels in Europe and USA. The Gerogerigegege's first appearance overseas were two seven-inches on Stomach Ache Records in the United States, William Bennett Is My Dick (abstractionist collage of weird noises, spoken words, lo-fi romantic background music, and fringe vocal improvisations), and All My Best To You, With Love Juntaro with no extreme sounds or noise, just two mellow Cambodian pop songs. In 1990, the Gerogerigegege had their first major hit, パンクの鬼 (Tokyo Anal Dynamite) CD — a complete 35-min Shinjuku live document recorded in Oct '87 with Juntaro playing noise bass, Dynamite Gero on drums and Kuso (2) on vocals. Each of the 75 songs on T.A.D. opened with a barely audible announcement of the track's title, and 'one, two, three, four' shouted in broken English. Several covers included a 25-sec rendition of I'm Not In Love (originally by 10cc), (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones, Boys Don't Cry by The Cure, and Sheena Is A Punk Rocker by Ramones. Juntaro embraced the classic rock-n-roll shout from listening to Ramones live albums non-stop around these days, and eventually, he coined the term 1,2,3,4 noisecore to describe Gerogerigegege's music. Tokyo Anal Dynamite was a great success, becoming one of the instant noise classics in Japan, so all 3000 copies with Yoshikazu Ebisu's artwork was quickly sold out. Juntaro and Gero 30 also appeared with a 5-min interview on TV Tokyo, and a year later 10 min information program about the band was aired, coupled with numerous appearances in popular Japanese magazines. The Gerogerigegege started gaining a noticeable admiration and following. Juntaro's musical influences, beyond obvious Ramones, included Whitehouse and Come, Seven Minutes Of Nausea, and everything by GG Allin, particularly concert videos and Dirty Love Songs 2xLP. In 1993, in the booklet with the first edition of Night EP, Juntaro published his top-10 most favorite albums list, featuring Yoko Ono's Fly 2xLP, all records by Japanese pop-singer Saki Kubota, contemporary Greek composer Jani Christou and Italian minimalist/dadaist maestro Walter Marchetti. In more recent interviews, he also mentioned his admiration for Leif Elggren, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff and other Swedish electroacoustic musicians, as well as Finnish noise performer Pasi Markkula (Bizarre Uproar), the founder of Aunt Mary band). In 1991, the Gerogerigegege released their fourth and fifth albums on Vis A Vis Audio Arts. Live Greatest Hits CD featured Gero 30 most prominently, and contained three complete live recordings from '87, '90 and '91. With only very sparse video documentation of their early concerts available, this collection properly showcased Gero's live masturbation vocals, as well as crowd reactions to their shows. On the same day, Vis A Vis Audio Arts released Senzuri Power Up CD, a compilation of unreleased tracks and outtakes from 1985/86. More international releases soon followed. In 1992, Juntaro released 45RPM Performance CD on Dark Vinyl Records in Germany, a unique solo recording of turntablist noise made on two record players with just two scratched and prepared records. The Gerogerigegege also produced two seven-inches, More Shit E.P on Baby Huey in the USA (featuring Juntaro, Takeshi Ohmura (guitar, bass), and Lip (2) on drums, recorded in Sep '87 live at Yaneura and in Oct '88 at the studio in Penta). The second single Senzuri Monkey Metal Action was released in the United Kingdom on Psycho Mania Records and featured Juntaro Yamanouchi (guitar) and Tohru Maruyama on drums, recorded on tape in Jan '86 at Takaido Fukushi Center studios in Tokyo. The Gerogerigegege continued playing live regularly, giving up to three performances a month, and each time presenting a different S&M scenario. The music would vary from live punk to house electronica, with Gero 56 drumming and doing much more with 'instruments' like hundreds of raw eggs or live smallmouth fish. Juntaro also continued publishing their old and new material abroad. In 1993, Gerogerigegege produced three seven inches with similar comics-style pornographic covers. Mother Fellatio on German label A.I.P.R. was limited to 555 hand-numbered copies, and featured recent recordings from Apr '93, where Jeff Warmouth handled bass and electronics, as well as announced track titles, while Juntaro violently screamed and produced bursts of harsh noise as 'tracks' in response. Yellow Trash Bazooka on Italian label SOA Records featured similar session, recorded with Jeff on March '93 in Tokyo (no overdub, no effect, no speed). Each track title begins with a letter G on this recording. Finally, notorious Night on white multi-colored vinyl produced by Ant-Zen was recorded in Aug '93 at Beat Mint-Studio Tokyo and featured the usual '1,2,3,4' count followed by a lengthy recording of a man defecating (and possibly touching himself) in the bathroom. Juntaro began producing more conceptual (i.e., non-musical) releases, which he described as 'anti-records.' The band's first experiment in this field dated back to 1985, when Gerogerigegege released Shaking Box Music: You Are The Noise Maker, with no more than three copies sold via mailorder —a giant metal case with 10-page manual and instructions for a listener to hold their box with 100 empty cassettes inside and shake it rhythmically to produce acoustic noise. In 1993, Gerogerigegege presented several even less playable/listenable anti-records, like a very limited This is Shaking Box Music Pt 2 (Special Edition of Mother Fellatio EP) on A.I.P.R., with seven-inch sharded in pieces and tightly packed in a cassette case! The band also produced a notorious Art Is Over tape (an octopus tentacle glued to the inside of an empty cassette case), edition of 50 copies on Vis A Vis Audio Arts, as well as 0 (Zero) Song EP, a clear blank flexi-disc with no audio, packed with origami sheets and various inserts. Only 19 copies were made, with an inscription: "For gift to great friends. Silence is the best music. This E.P. is not nihilistic product. Play at 75 RPM or any speed. You can have silent time." The year 1994 marked a shift towards more complicated musical forms and exploring different genres beyond senzuri fetish and pure noise. The Gerogerigegege produced several 'serious' works, showcasing Juntaro's ambitions as a composer. Endless Humiliation released by Japan Overseas is a quiet ambient album with solo piano recorded by Juntaro Yamanouchi at Tad Pole Studio in June '93 mixed together with an improvised interview with a rumbling homeless drunk recorded late at night on Shinjuku streets in Apr '90. Another experimental work Hotel Ultra, recorded in Oct-Nov '93, was released on Japanese label Kubitsuri Tapes, and featured two found sound collages, with Juntaro picking from a selection of easy listening records and tapes, and handling electronics to mix them with Onkyo quiet noise, synth bleeps and squeals, random conversations in Japanese, and occasionally Takeshi Ohmura jamming live on saxophone. To counterweight these subtler dynamics, the same year Gerogerigegege produced perhaps the loudest and harshest album in their catalog, a 38-min speedy noisetrashcore Instruments Disorder (170 Songs CD). Juntaro completed it in just a day with NP on guitar & bass and Tatsuya Yoshida on drums, also announcing tracks. In 1994, the band also released Singles 1985-1993 collection via British label Work In Progress, showcasing a different vector in their sound's evolution: these rare tracks were recorded from 1985 to '93 in studio with 4 to 24 channels, unlike most published works to date which were produced on 2-track recorders. With almost a decade of active career behind their belts, in 1995 Gerogerigegege continued presenting both retrospective and fresh material. A Japanese label SSE Communications reissued The Sexual Behavior In The Human Male, Gerogeri's '88 debut 7" single, remastered and with extra rehearsals, demos, and other unreleased studio tracks from the era. One of the tracks from this reissue, Symphony for a New Age Destruction featuring live metal work by Motohiko Satoh and Kaoru Koga, also appeared on white label No Sound 7" by Vinyl Communications. Some mono unedited goodies from Juntaro's home taping archive could be found on spoken word/muzak Veel Plezier! (400 hand-numbered copies on translucent pink vinyl) – bits of the eighties' Shofukutei Tsuruko's radio DJ set, recorded on a mono cassette deck, and newly mastered for a Belgium label Meeuw Muzak. As far as the recent productions, the band had several more releases abroad that year. All You Need Is Audio Shock on a German power violence/grindcore label Regurgitated Semen Records contained 63 songs recorded at Psycho Trash Center with no rehearsals, no overdub and no effects by Juntaro screaming and Katsutoshi Munechika on 'all bass' trying to channel early Ramones, as well as to reprise the entire Tokyo Anal Dynamite in one take (on the B-side). Another German release, Wreck Of Rock'N'Roll 'Former Self 7" on A.I.P.R., featured Juntaro making noise with Mamarracho duo, brothers Fuyuhiko (drums) and Shobu Saitoh (vocals): in Mar '95, equipped with a cheap 2-ch tape recorder, the trio recorded 59 songs in 10 minutes. In 1996, the Gerogerigegege produced several split records: Ramones / New Toy For Children 7" with Bastard Noise (black, grey marble, and purple translucent vinyl editions) featured an abstract drone track, several archived recordings from '85 and Dec '91, as well as recent vocal pieces; Seven Inches Of Meat 7" with Origami Erotika from Norway was released jointly by Jazzassin Records and KomKol Autoprod, and came with a 14x21" folding poster/cover; and Eternal Energy (For Continuing Blundering Life) / Noise´s Not Dead on Scrotum Records had German noisecore group Pyosalpinx on the flipside. The most significant release of the year was Mort Douce Live CD by Hong Kong label Sound Factory, a remastered collection of '87-88 live sets, featuring Juntaro on bass guitar, Toshinori Fukuda on drums, and Dee Dee Gero on guitar. With a scandalous reputation and a vast (hard-to-get) discography of CDs and limited edition seven-inches (covering many genres, from violent noisecore to ambient, musique concreté and experimental electronica), the Gerogerigegege began attracting many Japanoise admirers, record collectors, and fans of bizarre/unusual bands from around the world. With the majority of their albums quickly sold out in Japan, a few imported Gero releases became highly sought after by collectors, with prices up to $500 and more on online auctions. At the same time, there was a steady decline in new releases. One example is a peculiar Recollections Of Primary Masturbation (338 Songs CD), released in 1998 on mysterious Onkel Tuka Records in Germany. The album contained 338 songs, and despite the horrible sound quality they appeared to be remastered: the first track ever recorded by Juntaro from Kitanomaru Hyakkei 7" EP; two songs from Senzuri Champion; the remastered A-side of Senzuri Monkey Metal Action 7" EP; the B-side of More Shit 7" EP; 75 songs remastered from the Tokyo Anal Dynamite CD in one track, and 233 unreleased songs (which also include two radio announcers discussing Gerogeri's second album Showa on air). Mostly nonsensical release that doesn't have much artistic value except to Gerogerigegege completists, and likely produced in the absence of a more substantial material to present. In 1999, the Gerogerigegege returned with two full-length albums, following up the series of ambient/electroacoustic releases which started in 1994 with Hotel Ultra and Endless Humiliation. An hour-long minimal ambient/drone track None Friendly was released by a small Japanese label Mink Records. According to J.Y, it took a very long time to complete this track, and it acquired a great meaning for him since. Composed and recorded in Oct '87 without any synthesizers, the piece was finally mastered by Tatsuya Yoshida at Magaibutsu Studio in May '99. None Friendly is a dynamic, refined, melodically and structurally rich soundscape, and perhaps one of the most musically and aesthetically pleasing works created by Juntaro Yamanouchi. The second album Hell Driver, released in UK by Dirter Promotions, comprised five years of experimental works (1992 to '96) with an emphasis on quieter soundscapes somewhere between Luc Ferrari (recorded through a cheap walkie-talkie) and Erik Satie's 'furniture music.' Traditionally, Hell Driver was recorded without overdubs, EQ and effects, and according to the liner notes, it was meant as 'final tribute.' The band presented just a few odd records in the following years, mostly with archival material, such as Early Dream Exit 7" co-released by Czech noise/grindcore labels Napalmed and View Beyond Records, and featuring early Gero tapes from 1985/87 (tape loops and quiet drones on guitar tuner, somehow resembling certain Hell Driver sessions). The Gerogerigegege also appeared on Live in USA 7" split with Crowd Surfers Must Die (CSMD), co-released by Maxi Noise Sensation and CSMD's No Fucking Labels in 2001. Their side had no original material, just an excerpt from Hiroshi Itsuki's live album, recorded during his first American tour in the seventies, two lavish J-funk tunes announced by some cheeseball Las Vegas impresario. The last official release to date was Saturdaynight Big Cock Salaryman CD, released by Full Volume Agency label established by brothers Saitoh, Juntaro's old partners in crime. Recorded at Hamadayama in April 2001, this session featured Juntaro Yamanouchi (all voice, breath and lip noises), Shobu Saitoh (all guitar noise), and Gero 30 (exhibitionist). Thirty-five songs in under 13 minutes, complete with a track title announcements and countdowns, this was a prime example of 1,2,3,4 noisecore. Since 2001, no new releases or any notable appearances by the band had occurred, and Juntaro Yamanouchi had seemingly disappeared from the public eye, withdrawing from any communications online as well. The gerogerigegege: 56k performance fansite, which was the central hub for all information related to Juntaro activities, stopped updating in June 2003; numerous rumors proliferated on forums among Gero fans worldwide. Juntaro was reported either deceased or institutionalized with some mental conditions. One foreign expat from Tokyo had claimed to trade an expensive bicycle for a supposedly working Juntaro's email address… to no avail. The first 'confirmed sighting' after more than a decade of absence was through a Twitter post in August 2013 by Kaitai Gidayū (解体義太夫), who tweeted that Juntaro had contacted him about a new album and live concert and that perhaps they are going to do something amazing. In November 2014, a few photos surfaced online of Juntaro hanging out with Hironari Iwata, Jun Konagaya, Tomo Kuwahara & Yukio Nagoshi from Vasilisk and several other artists. He soon appeared onstage with Grim in Tokyo, rumored to schedule solo Gerogerigegege concerts sometime soon. Finally, the Gerogerigegege's long-awaited new album 燃えない灰 = Moenai Hai was released in April 2016 on Grim's Japanese label Eskimo Records. New songs were composed and recorded in 2014/15, combining both Treasure/Trash Recordings (found footage that is explicitly labeled as 'Not Field Recording' in the liner notes) and studio sessions on piano, guitar tuner, and electronics. The album features slow, abstract soundscapes and haunting drones, as well as a longer outro performed on a tuning fork (marked as another Juntaro's treasure/trash recording). Moenai Hai also includes a remake of We Got Normal song (initially recorded by J.Y with Fumiyoshi Suzuki and released on ZSF Produkt's The Gero-P tape in 1986) — a heavy noisecore/punk/hypnagogic instrumental track The Gerogerigegege, recorded by J.Y (all guitars, bass) and Dr. Euro on drums. Two editions of the album were accompanied with bonus releases: Lust Vessel Distribution pre-order added a tape with a 4-min piece of mid-eighties harsh instrumental noise, and Disk Union Special Promotion Set came with Voracious CD-R containing deafening harsh 'wall of noise' track. Aside from the album, a The Gerogerigegege 12" EP was released by a German D.I.Y. noise label Scrotum Records. The record contains no original sounds by Juntaro and instead featured a couple of Hiroshi Itsuki's pop-funk songs, taken from 歌はわが翼 = Songs Are My Wings Hiroshi In Las Vegas '77, the same record that was sampled on 2001 'Live In USA' split with Crowd Surfers Must Die. In 2016, Juntaro Yamanouchi also reactivated Vis A Vis Audio Arts label, and immediately produced a series of new releases. Particularly, J.Y published several compilations, such as Art Is (C)over Vol.1 - Tribute to The Gerogerigegege 'official bootleg' collection, with 26 renditions of many Gero classics and hidden gems by Giht Shasie (Croatia), Michael Gillham (UK), Bungus (Canada), Porreria (Brazil), Noise Soneta (Bali), Blue Sabbath Black Fiji (Scotland) and other (un)known international underground artists. In a good bootleggin' tradition, this album reused most tracks from Ontregeld Geluid Records' Art Is Over: A Tribute To The Gerogerigegege (2015) cassette without any permission. An archival collection Rebellion 1985, originally compiled in 1985 and newly edited in 2016, featured previously unreleased tracks by Jun Kuramitsu's Boh Boh, Göran Lundh as Pax Romana, Merzbow, German industrial/noise band P16.D4, Mauthausen Orchestra, Gerogerigegege, and Alain Neffe as I Scream. At the same time, several unofficial and bootleg releases outside of Juntaro's camp had appeared, namely through a US label Unit 731 Japan, all edition of 21 copies on 7" lathe cuts: Masturbation Rarities, a re-issue of 2012 bootleg from anonymous 'trusted' source, as well as two selections of early '85 unreleased recordings, Senzuri Fist Fuck Volume 1 and Volume 2. In 2018, Juntaro presented Senzuri Champion Revised, an expanded edition of the Gero classic first album with alternate takes, live versions and unreleased songs from 1985/88. This collection includes a short Senzuri An[Nu]al Report collage; one 20-min track combining a previously unreleased second Violence Onanie demo (recorded at Takaido Fukushi Center in Oct '85 with Tohru Maruyama on bass and J.Y on vocals, noises, guitar & guitar tuner) with Live At Tokyo Gay Center (transferred directly from the acetate), as well as 15-min None Friendly ☞ Anal Beethoven ☞ Lsd, recorded live in Nov '87 with Toshinobu Fukuda on drums, J.Y (vocals/noises, guitar, guitar tuner) and Gero 30 (public masturbation). Other tracks didn't have much to do with the original album, namely two tracks submitted by Gerogerigegege fans, Gero 34 from Spain and Gero 27 from France, with raw field recordings of them masturbating and loudly moaning. The closing track is a Death Balearic Mix of Senzuri Champion (subtitled 'SEX is a rehearsal of Sensory for us'), recorded at Ohtsuka Penta in Feb '87 and featuring Toshiyuki Ohta on drums and J.Y on guitar tuner and piano: a long offbeat power noise lo-fi mix slowly melting the initial melody and rudimentary rhythmical structure into a thick drone. The liner notes to the album encouraged fans to send more 'senzuri recordings' and provided Juntaro's current @yahoo.co.jp address. ====== The Gerogerigegege line-up The band featured a rotating cast of at least 30 musicians over the years, but always had two core members – Juntaro Yamanouchi and Tetsuya Endoh (known as Gero 30, and briefly Gero 56). Endoh's current status is unknown, but he is likely to be retired. One of the last mentions was in 2001 interview, where Juntaro said that Gero 30 had been in a hospital for a very long time. The Gerogerigegege (circa 1993) Juntaro Yamauchi (Juntaro Gero) – noise, vocals Tetsuya Endoh (Gero 30) – exhibitionism, public masturbation* Toshinori Fukuda (Dynamite Gero) – drums** Fumiyoshi Suzuki (NP) – guitar, bass*** Hironao Komaki (Dee Dee Gero) – guitar Junko Katoh (Gero Grace Seijoh) – live manager Masatoshi Katsuya (Gero Route 66) – driver Notes: * Gero 30 used to be Gero 56 for a certain period, until embracing his original alias back. The identity of Gero 36 alias is yet unconfirmed ** An alternative dual credit 死にました for Toshinori Fukuda drumming with Kuso (2) on vocals was used on パンクの鬼 (Tokyo Anal Dynamite) *** Fumiyoshi Suzuki also performed and recorded with J.Y. as The Gero-P duo, and they produced a self-titled The Gero-P tape on ZSF Product in 1986 Additional members S.I, Lip (2) (1987/88), Fuyuhiko Saitoh – drums Motohiko Satoh – metal action Shobu Saitoh – vocals Katsutoshi Munechika, Tohru Maruyama – bass Akira Shibazaki – guitar, bass Jeff Warmouth – bass, electronics, track announcements Tatsuya Yoshida – drums, track announcements, mastering

Members

	Tatsuya Yoshida dr, voc *1961 JP
	Jujui Wang
	Takeshi Ohmura dr JP
	Juntaro Yamanouchi voc JP
	Fumiyoshi Suzuki g, eb *1966 JP
	Hironao Komaki g JP
	Toshinori Fukuda dr JP
	Tohru Maruyama b, g JP
	Shobu Saitoh g JP
	Akira Shibazaki g, b JP
	Gero 36 voc JP
	Fuyuhiko Saitoh dr JP
	Lip dr JP
	S.I dr JP
	Kuso voc JP
	Kaoru Koga
	Motohiko Satoh
	Katsutoshi Munechika b JP
	Tetsuya Endoh