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アラン・メリル Alan Merrill, summer 2018 New York.

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From 1995-’98 I spent a lot of time (months) in Tokyo Japan and when I was wasn’t working recording or touring with my band Vodka Collins, for recreation t night I was usually at Club Roaring 20s near the Roppongi crossing. Here is a random selection of photos from the club, which no longer exists. It closed down in the new millennium.

Photos top to bottom- 

1) Me after closing, hanging out at Roaring 20′s, 5 AM 1998.

2) With feature dancer Jessica, a lovely young lady, 1998.

3) Feature dancer Jessica, 1998.

4) Feature dancers Annabelle Dayne and Maria `996.

5 & 6) The girls, Roaring 20s feature dancers circa 1996. Tipsy after work and waiting to get paid.

7) Dancers Pamela Santini and Annabelle Dayne 1996.

8) Club manager Daniel doing the books after closing.

9) Me and feature dancer Coco, 1997.

10) Anabelle Dayne with the Roaring 20s shuttle bus for the girls.

That’s a slice of the Roaring 20s pie, Tokyo 1990s!

RIP Roaring 20s. Thanks for the fun nights!

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Roaring 20s Tokyo! 

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Vodka Collins ウォッカ・コリンズ   Alan Merrill アラン・メリル  1990 Japan.

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Vodka Collins ウォッカ・コリンズ , glam rock from 1973 Tokyo! Light Music magazine Japan May 1973 issue.   Original founding band members Alan Merrill アラン・メリル  and Hiroshi Oguchi  大口 広司 are pictured here (left to right).

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RAK rocks Japan 1975! RAK artists Suzi Quatro, below left to right- Hot Chocolate, Kenny and Arrows. From Music Life magazine June issue 1975.

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Alan Merrill on bass & vocals and Kenny Ashby drums with the Jon Paris Group at BB King’s Times Square New York City, July 2007.

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Alan Merrill  アラン・メリル Vodka Collins ウォッカ・コリンズ  Club Machina, Osaka Japan, 1997.

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Alan Merrill  アラン・メリル Vodka Collins ウォッカ・コリンズ  Kyoto Japan, 1997.

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Sound check, Vodka Collins’ ウォッカ・コリンズ on tour of Japan at Geil’s club in the town of Saga, south of Japan 1997.

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Vodka Collins’ ウォッカ・コリンズ on tour of Japan in Hiroshima 1997.

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アラン・メリル Alan Merrill. Sendagaya Tokyo Japan 1969.

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 アラン・メリル Alan Merrill at EGM studio Tokyo Japan, keyboard parts for the PINK SOUP album winter 1996.

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アラン・メリル Alan Merrill Tokyo 1969.

Promotional photos by Ken Kageoka for Watanabe Productions.

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アラン・メリル Alan Merrill, on stage Ink Stick club Shibaura, Tokyo 1990.

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Alan Merrill アラン・メリル 1970 Sendagaya, Tokyo Japan.

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Rock ‘n roll professional and long time Tokyo resident singer-songwriter Alan Merrill アラン・メリル at Chianti レストラン キャンティ飯倉片町本店  in Iikura Katamachi, Tokyo April 2017. Alan has been going to this restaurant since 1968, always ordering the lasagna! 

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Phase 2 of The Lead, a Tokyo based band of Americans 1969.