Fancy Mag has the most thorough article I've ever seen on Takeshi "Terry" Terauchi, the Japanese surf guitar god. In 1962, the Ventures toured Japan for the first time, planting the seeds of a Japanese surf genre known as "eleki". Terry Terauchi stood out from the thousands of new electric guitarists for two reasons. First, he was a monster player capable of the speed and aggressive edge of Dick Dale. Better yet, he applied surf guitar arrangements to ancient Japanese tunes usually played on the shamisen. Some of these arrangements are way out and have to be heard to be believed!