Flower Travellin´Band-Anywhere (1970)

In 1970, the Japanese band Flower Travellin' Band released their first album, "Anywhere", although they had previously released the album "Challenge", a collaboration with Yuya Uchida, in 1969. For this debut, the band opted for a more forceful and raw sound, infused with the prevailing psychedelia of the time and featuring a great deal of improvisation. Their style was heavily influenced by the hard rock of British bands of the era, such as Cream, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath. The entire album consists of a series of covers, including the Birmingham group's "Black Sabbath", an acoustic version of The Animals' "House of the Rising Sun", Muddy Waters' lysergic "Louisiana Blues", and a visceral version of King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man". As with the cover of the aforementioned "Challenge", the group once again scandalized the puritanical Japanese society by appearing completely naked, this time on top of Harley Davidson motorcycles, something that transgressed the established norms in their country, making this cover an obscenity and a lack of respect for the vast majority of Japanese society, demonstrating with this fact that this radical group brazenly disregarded, without any ethics or shame, the established norms in Japanese culture.