Go! Viva Viv!

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Vodka Collins ウォッカ・コリンズ founding band members Alan Merrill (lead guitar/lead vocals) and Hirsohi Oguchi (drums) 1973 Tokyo Japan. 

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Vodka Collins 1973!

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Singer-songwriter アラン・メリル Alan Merrill, Sendagaya Tokyo Japan 1969. 

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Tom Finn, George Cameron and Alan Merrill at the Bowery Electric, March 24, 2011. The three sang The Left Banke's "She May Call You Up Tonight" and more great stuff. They sounded amazing.

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Alan Merrill with beard stubble coming on, at the Sidewalk Cafe, New York City, Jan 28, 2019.

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Alan Merrill’s new Arrows at The Duchess, York England Jan. 25, 2013.  Dave Glover bass, Kyle Fenton drums, Geoff Lea guitar.

Photos by Neil Kitson / Getty Images.

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Alan Merrill solo acoustic show at Club Sensation, Yokohama Japan, November 12th, 2010.

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Alan Merrill and Jon Gordon recording at Jon’s Manhattan studio in midtown Manhattan, January 2019. Alan is working on a new solo album due out February 2019.

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Alan Merrill at the Sidewalk Cafe NYC, July 28th 2018

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Cool shot!

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Alan Merrill solo acoustic show at the Parkside in New York City, Oct. 24th 2018.

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Arrows 6th and last single on RAK records, Feb. 1976 UK. This is the European issue. Arrows were a short lived but successful band, lasting only about 2 years (1974-’76) as a group with several chart hits and a weekly TV series before they broke up.

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Alan Merrill band at the R Bar in New York City, 2014. Amy Madden bass, Mark Brotter drums. 

Photos by Pat Ossa.

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Singer songwriter recording artist Alan Merrill promo shot in Tokyo 1969. 

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Arrows in Music Star magazine UK, May 1975 issue. The band had just released their 4th single “I Love Rock N Roll.”

Music Star magazine were the biggest supporters of the band.

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Music Star magazine December 28th issue 1974. A short piece on the Arrows October tour of Germany 1974 with Suzi Quatro.

Left to right- Paul Varley, Alan Merrill, Jake Hooker.

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Arrows “I Love Rock N Roll” 1975, the original version.

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Alan Merrill on stage with his song “Sands Of Time” (as recorded by Vodka Collins in 1972)  in London England at the 02 Academy Dec. 17th 2018. 

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Alan Merrill’s Aleecat Live In Japan album recorded at shows in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka 1990.