Kicking out the jams at school...

This Monday was a very strange day at school. Arrived slightly bleary-eyed after a hard weekend of eating, drinking, and speech contests to be told that our local Board of Education were putting on a rock concert. I couldn't believe my ears - and quickly imagined a bunch of suited-up middle-aged Japanese salarymen rocking out in front the school.

This was not to be.

Instead we were treated to a concert by Terauchi Takeshi (kindly see picture above) - a man who (according to his good self) invented the guitar! This was too good to be true. 'What the hell was going on here?' I kept on asking myself as I sat with the entire Junior and Senior High Schools of Asahi (and some of Terauchi's fans who'd obviously sneaked in). This could never happen in England.

Terauchi is apparently quite famous all over the world: especially in America, Russia and South America. But I have yet to find any Americans who has ever heard of him. But he played a pretty mean guitar, and his band were tight. Even so, it couldn't stop the scores of school kids nodding off, and one of the English teacher's from inspecting the inside of his eyelids.

Catch him at a High School near you!