Origin Tokyo, Japan Years active 1995–2005 Record label Asian Man Records | Genres Ska punk, Punk rock Active until 2005 | |
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Labels TV Freak
Asian Man Records Website www.ukproject.com/potshot Members Ryoji, Satoshi, CHUCKY, Katsuya Ichikawa, Masayuki Kobayashi, MITCHY, Yoshito Hirai, Takayuki Serino, Ippei Tajima Albums Pots and Shots, A Go Go, Til I Die, Dance to the Potshot Record, Rock 'n' Roll Profiles | ||
Potshot was a J-ska music group from Japan. They released their records on their own label, TV Freak, in Japan. Their first five albums were also re-released by Asian Man Records, an American label well known for signing Asian punk-pop bands. Their final album, Potshot Beat Goes On, released in May 2005. They disbanded in 2005, playing a final show in Tokyo.
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Group Members
Pots and Shots
In reviewing their debut 1997 Pots And Shots , Allmusic wrote that Potshot:
...put the spurs to the largely kind-of-boring mid-'90s resurgence of ska music by revving up the tempos by at least 30 percent (seriously, anyone who tries dancing to a song like the breakneck "Since Yesterday" is at risk of a coronary) and dialing back all the cod-reggae Jamaican-isms that make so many of the frat-boy third wave ska bands so laughable. The drumbeat and a familiar-sounding horn section are Pots and Shots' only links to ska music, but they're enough to shred 90 percent of the post-No Doubt pretenders.
Pots And Shots includes a cover version of Tears of a Clown and Since Yesterday.
Discography
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Songs
Be AliveTil I Die · 2000
Since YesterdayPots and Shots · 1997
She Is CuteA Go Go · 2002