Blasting Rod has been played on NTS in shows including Forever to Whatever, featured first on 26 April 2021. Songs played include Nubbinz.

"Primitive Free Blues," a term coined by Aburanaburi saxophonist Satoru Kawasaki, is the basis for this unit. Mr. S (ex. Mr. Busaichedelic San), aka Mr. BS, started this group as a vehicle for performing in a local post-rock event as a post-rock-and-roll performance. The first Blasting Rod shows were performed by Mr. S on guitar and vocal to a backing track of bass and drums that he recorded himself. Mr. S has performed solo as Blasting Rod both with and without the backing tracks and has also assembled small ensembles for studio sessions as well as live performances. From 2006 onward the pre-recorded backing tracks were abandoned and a fully organic approach was adopted.

Blasting Rod has numerous alternative units which at times take on sub-titles based on the members and/or the circumstances of the events in which Blasting Rod appears. In general, Mr. S is prepared to perform solo at any time, but may pick up members prior to the performance.

Frequent collaborators and sub-titled units are listed below:

●　Blasting Rod: Mr. BS: guitar/percussion/vocal

sometimes with Kenji Sakasegawa: tabla and/or Ume Kun: djembe/ dun dun Vip: percussion Tetsuya Kaneko: pakhavaj Ton Chin Kan: drums/ tabla Jon Lin: Spanish guitar

●　Blasting Rod: Anarchy Punch, Tokyo Quartet Mr. BS Sachiko Kenji Sakasegawa Marcos Fernandes

●　Blasting Rod: ININI Trio: Thistle (aka Mr. BS) Hillwell Wayfarer

●　Blasting Rod, Shiva Ra She Mr. BS Yoshinobu Hikaru Tomio

●　Blasting Rod with the Shiva Hurricane All Stars Mr. BS Mr. F Naka Chan Pan Yaji Shiva Hurricane All Stars

●　Blasting Rod: Anarchy Punch, New York Septet Mr. BS Eric Watts Sabir Mateen Evan Thayer Jon Lin Eric Rosemann Dave Bott

●　Blasting Rod 10: Mr. BS Vip Guy San Yuki Kaneko

The first Blasting Rod limited edition CDR release, "For Lovers" features only Mr. S on solo guitar.

Blasting Rod is based out of Nagoya, Japan

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