listening to Yuya Uchida & The Flowers makes me wonder how big was the hippie scene in Tokyo in 1969
like were people super into Big Brother & The Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Buffalo Springfield, Grateful Dead, The Jimmi Hendrix Experience, etc? I find this album so interesting from a historical point of view and just a cultural one too. All of it is sung in english, the only japanese song (左足の男) is an instrumental, and the little conversations they have at the start and end of each side, did japanese people then know the english to get anything from those? I'm not sure, but I am curious about these things, maybe there were tons young hippies in Tokyo who were super into the California Sound™ and all that but not as much into japanese music of the time which was populated by Group Sounds groups covering foreign music. Genuinely not sure though, just talking out of my ass here, though I know people like Haruomi Hosono did listen to Moby Grape and Buffalo Springfield, except unlike a bunch of the Group Sounds bands they just took inspiration from them to make their own thing.