Dotechins

The Dotechins (ザ・ドテチンズ), also known as a shortened name of The Dons (ザ・ドンズ), was Kenji Otsuki and Yuichiro Uchida's pre-筋肉少女帯 (Kinniku Shōjotai) band that existed from 1979 to 1982 while they were still in junior high school. The band consisted of Otsuki, Uchida and several other classmates of Nakano Daiyon Junior High School. Their "performance" at Uchida's birthday party evolved into forming the band. Upon graduating from junior high in 1982, they broke up but shortly after the same year while attending high school, Otsuki and Uchida formed Kinniku Shōjotai. Also around the same time Uchida handed a live tape recording of Dotechins to Kera (2) from 有頂天 (Uchoten) and Nagomu Records (ナゴムレコード) who was attending the same school at the time. Kera showed an interest in the Dotechins recording and that led him to form 空手バカボン (Karate Bakabon) with both Uchida and Otsuki in 1983. The only ever officially recorded material of Dotechins is the now insanely rare and highly sought after 7" flexi containing two live tracks from 1980. The flexi came as a bonus for the "6 x 9 = 54" fanzine in 1987.