The Story...
Bending the throttle on the freeway, moving northward from Tokyo for a couple hours, you would reach an oceanfront suburb. This where Dee was born and raised. She really came from a family with various musical tastes, in which her father used to be a Jazz-drummer, her mother is a Motown girl group lover, and her brother is a punk. And herself, she took some piano and violin lessons when she was a little. When she was in a junior high-school, she started her first band with neighbor friends for granted. But one day, at her age of 17, a worldwide spread virus called Grunge had blown away her rationality and so-called common sense. Since then, plunged herself into a doomed underground world where the sun never shines, she has been writing and playing her own love songs just to get out from there.
In the late 1998, Dee founded a band called Cobrachicks with her school friends. They duplicated numerous copies of their demo-cassette-tapes and gave them away to people in the venues they played – It was such a “punk†era at that time. Started getting some wirte-ups in music magazines in 2001, the band released their debut album “Even Cowgirls get the Boogieâ€ï¼ˆM Records）, and toured throughout Japan. By the end of their first tour, Cobrachicks became widely known for their unconscious detonating sound that generated a depraved　boogie. Dressing up in lingerie-suggested outfits like the Runaways, tumbling and wiggling on the stage like AC/DC, playing a redneck rock like ZZ Top, they were always on the controversial topics. Through several frictionally-induced member changes, Dee had to move to Tokyo after they released their sophomore album “Loadedâ€ï¼ˆM Records）.
In 2004, before Cobrachicks’ official break up, the three pivotal figures from the underground garage bands, Cobrachicks, Motor-psycho, and Shovelhead launched Motorcobra. The　images that they were looking for were leather, motor-cycle, and Rock and Roll. The hardworking band played even in the northernmost of Japan, Hokkaido in the support of their album “Only the Rock n roller Survives†（M Records）. However, the good looking front guys got treated badly in the punk scene, though they have a whole bunch of groopies. In the short period of time with Motorcobra, Dee learned how to play a faster and heavier rock and a wildly conspicuous performance as a bass player. Also, around that time, among the audiences, there was a girl who would play together in Dirtrucks later.
In the mid 2005, Dee had this affable girl sit in a drum set, and started writing songs as Dirtrucks.
With some copies of a self-produced CD-R “Ordinary Bad Girl†sold, Dirtrucks became well-known as quickly as a flash, they ended up playing on many different stages both domestically and internationally without enough original songs. Dee pursued “Soul†and “Down to Roots†of the good ol’ rock music in the 70’s, and there, the other girls added some “bad taste†of the 80’s metal, and bluesy guitar licks. Then they were well-received for their visuals as well as their killer tunes. Especially in Europe, the band toured twenty-eight different cities in twenty-nine days with their album “Yellow Roseâ€ï¼ˆLove Shit Records） in 2006, and they were just all around in the media like fun-zines, music magazines, local TVs, radios and so forth. Earned a cult following　at home and overseas, they continued their career as an unique girl band.
In 2007, while keeping herself busy in Dirtrucks, Dee started paying attention to where she stands, the roots stretching from her feet, to the place she originally came from, the 60’s and the 70’s good ol’ folk rock, country music, and soul music that has been saving her spirit since Nirvana had blown her head away. And there must be shiny bright starry nights, when she looks for something important like these in the dark. In the final moon of that year, she has come to a conclusion that she put an end to her decade-long band career, and that she moves out of this exhausting and troubled city, Tokyo. So she has decided to get on the freeway, and taking her 2 hours toward the oceanfront suburb with the night sky ablaze with stars. And her story still continues...
::Broken Country Girls (Dee and Hanna)::
Live at Mito 90EAST 2008/May/3
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