Comic #1

Shamisen Hero - Smoke on the Water

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 at 6:14 pm by Jami

Before Guitar Hero, there was Shamisen Hero! Okay, not really, but this is pretty damn sweet. I love the dude who just screams in the middle of the verse. I got no info on the group or where this is from, but it’s filled with the awesome!

8 Responses to “Shamisen Hero - Smoke on the Water”

  1. AvatarPaul
    1

    “FREE BIRD!”

  2. AvatarBAMikeyD
    2

    Best version EVER!!!!

  3. AvatarWayne
    3

    Damn, Paul, you beat me to it!

    That was absolutely all sorts of awesome.

  4. AvatarKunoichi
    4

    That was so awesome! I love whoever arranged it! They stayed true to both the original music *and* traditional Japanese theater musical performance. It’s also a neat throw-back to 60s Japan, when the Japanese were struggling to do rock in Japanese, still believing that rock was an English-only thing and that it wouldn’t sound good in Japanese. Translating really good songs was one of the first steps to creating their own rock. :)

  5. Avatarfiftywan
    5

    Japanprobe seems to have more info about that: http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=3897

  6. AvatarWayne
    6

    Did you catch the link on the page to the same group performing Queen’s We Will Rock You?

  7. AvatarJami
    7
    Author Comment

    Yeah. Didn’t like that one as much as this one so I went with Smoke on the Water.

  8. AvatarKamenOtaku
    8

    Anybody know where I can get an mp3 of this? Its fuckin amazing!

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