Great 3 (1994 - 2003, 2011-) are a Japanese Indie Band with three members: 片寄明人 Katayose Akito / Vocal, Guitar 高桑圭 Takakuwa Kiyoshi / Bass 白根賢一 Shirane Kenichi / Drums Their debut was released in 1995 on the Toshiba EMI label. Since then they have released 7 full-length albums in addition to numerous singles. The group had gained a reputation of putting on very strong live performances. In 1999 they established their own label, Bodicious. Chicago-based musician John McEntire (member of The Sea and Cake and Tortoise) produced the last three albums ("May and December", "When you were a beauty" and "Climax"). Vocalist Katayose Akito released a solo album in 2000 and is now still active as a musician with his wife as Chocolat & Akito. Drummer Shirane Kenichi released some electronic music as LasVegas. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Great+3">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.