masatoshi nagase / vending machine?

[u2rob]

Okay, here's one I've NEVER seen or heard of...

This Japanese guide to the U2 discography is up on eBay at the moment.  See here:

eBay link

Helpfully, they provide scans of all the pages in the book...  and everything else in the book I've heard of, but this one recording from 1996 was new to me:

http://lenoirberg.from.tv/u2library1/z/z54/1.jpg

I refer to the last entry, the album "Vending Machine" by Masatoshi Nagase.  Track 6, "Vending Machine", has a credit to Larry Mullen.  Any ideas?  Anyone else know anything about this?  I checked Google with numerous combinations of word searches, and nothing comes up that makes specific reference to Larry's contribution.

Going here indicates that "Vending Machine" has music written by Iggy Pop, so now I'm even more confused.

[Brad]

It looks like it says "Larry Mullen Jr. (ds, tabla)."  Judging from the other abbreviations they use, I assume this means that Larry is credited with playing the drums and the tabla, which is an Indian percussion instrument, basically a hand drum.

I'm tempted to order the CD just to see if it's true.

Looks like a great book; too bad I don't read Japanese.

[Brad]

Never mind: I was about to order it, but cancelled it.  Turns out that Iggy Pop's drummer is named Larry Mullins, who also happens to play the tabla on several of Iggy's albums.

I'm assuming this is a mistake.

[Edited on 2006-8-24 by Brad]

[u2rob]

Thanks - that clears that right up.

I guess I should have realized that a 10-year old recording wasn't suddenly going to show up out of nowhere without anyone's prior knowledge...

Oh well.  Nice investigative work, Brad!