Mr. Walking Drugstore Man (5:25)
Big Headed Woman (6:15)
Stoned out of my Mind (6:01)
Ode to the Bad People (4:53)
M Glue (2:43)
Keep it Cool (4:17)
Someday We'll All Fall Down (5:23)
Shinki Chen - guitars
M. Glue (Masayoshi Kabe) - bass
Joey 'Pepe' Smith - drums, vocals
"Speed, Glue & Shinki made two albums of hard/psychedelic rock mayhem (with elements that we can call nowadays as “proto-stoner”) in the early seventies. Speed, Glue & Shinki were: Joey “Speed” Smith (ex-Zero History, future member of Juan dela Cruz) - vocal/drums, Masayoshi “Glue” Kabe (ex-Food Brain, ex-Golden Cups) - bass and Shinki Chen (ex-Food Brain, ex-Bebes and Yanagida Hiro collaborator) - guitars. Drummer Joey Smith also sang the lead vocals and wrote most of their druggy lyrics. Joey Smith was an American Vietnam War refugee/awol soldier in the Phillipines and was discovered by Shinki Chen playing in a Japanese shopping mall with Zero History, and Chen then suggested that they join with Japanese bassist Masayoshi Kabe (whom Chen knew from Foodbrain and earlier because they had the same manager) to form Speed, Glue & Shinki.
By album two, however, Kabe had left the band and a new “Glue” was brought in-future Juan dela Cruz member and Joey Smith’s friend Michael Hanopol. Hanopol replaced Kabe on bass and co-wrote several of the songs on their s/t sophomore album -including the ending synth suite- with Smith."
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