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The Helpful Soul are a fairly marginal band from the tail end of Japan's "Group Sounds" craze (so-called because "Rock and Roll" is very difficult for Japanese speakers to pronounce!)  Once heavy blooz groups like Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Iron Butterfly became all the rage, there were regional bands outside the Anglosphere waiting to catch the latest wave and interpret it for the local hippeoise. 

The Helpful Soul was exactly such a band, mostly dealing in covers of blues-based garage band turd-nuggets like "Spoonful" and "Kansas City" which differ from second-rate American and British bands of that ilk only by having more heavily accented vocalists.  Except for ONE AMAZING SONG on this album, a furious opus of disillusioned youth called "Peace For Fools" (what a great title!), which sounds like The Stooges' Fun House (a year before that record came out!) crossed with "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" -- in fact The Helpful Soul stole the riff from the latter song for a big chunk of the 10-minute running time of "Peace For Fools". 

But no matter, it is one of the most super heavy amazing rock and roll performances ever to come out of Japan, and stacks up well alongside other underground classics like The Pink Fairies' "Uncle Harry's Last Freakout" and The Coloured Balls' "That's What Mama Said". (bluebeatinmysoul.blogspot.de)

Junio Nakahara - Vocals, Slide Guitar
Gene Shoji - Lead Guitar
Charles Che - Bass)
Eiichi Tsukasa - Drums

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