Serialization Update! Sho Ayakoji’s “Monohon no Stare* and Tough Guy” Buyuuden (story about the “Monohon no Stare* and Tough Guy”) he met in the entertainment industry.

A symbol of success.”

This is the third installment of this series. As I mentioned at the very beginning, this is a one-sided story based solely on Ayakoji’s memories and subjectivity, and I have not verified his identity at all, which is very thrilling in this day and age.

Therefore, there is a great possibility that I may be saying things that are different from the facts or historical facts. I have no intention of spouting falsehoods, but I hope you will read this as if you were listening to the ramblings of a mysterious drunken man you met at a tavern.

Now, the person I am going to talk about this time is the leader of one of the most respected rock bands in Japan, “GLAY,” Mr. TAKURO, who is my best friend and the big brother …… I respect most in this world.

Mr. TAKURO is not a maverick like Mr. YOSHIKI whom I talked about last time. Rather, I have never seen a person who has lived such a straight life in such a maddening environment in such a crazy era. On the contrary, I feel that he is a very heterogeneous rock ‘n’ roller.

When I first met him, he was about 30 years old, but I had the impression that he had already reached a certain level of maturity. Looking back on it now, I realize that 30 is just a boy’s age. But at that time, TAKURO had an overwhelming calmness and a soft dignity about him. In “One Piece” terms, it was like “high king color.

Long Time Ago, when we were adolescents in the early ’90s, the music industry was in the midst of a gold rush, and the atmosphere was full of “there’s still money to be made. I think it was probably around that time that the CD was invented and the CD player became widely used in every household.

Many production companies and labels were engaged in a fierce battle for supremacy in that era. At the same time, an unprecedented band boom took place, and many talents were discovered, some of them shining brightly, and many of them dying out in vain.

Eventually, in the mid-1990s, the era of million-seller hits arrived. The diversification of Japanese music, thanks to the success of talented music producers, as well as the rise of karaoke, contributed to a huge explosion in the market. In addition, a new generation of artists emerged from the streets, and the music business was the most active in Japan’s history from the mid-1990s to the year 2000.

GLAY” was one of the “pinnacle of J-POP” that dominated such a warring age, and for us band members at the bottom of the heap, it was a true symbol of success.

If I remember correctly, I met Mr. TAKURO for the first time on May 26, 2002. We “Kishidan” debuted in December 2001, but I had been a personality on “All Night Nippon” since before our debut.

I think it was around August that I was given the opportunity. I think the record company must have sold it to me, saying, “Anyway, we have a girl who is suited for radio.　I don’t know the details, but when I think about it now, it was an extraordinary thing.

After all, I was most crazy about “All Night Nippon” when I was in junior high school. Musicians from the so-called “subculture” such as Kenji Otsuki, Denki Groove, and a little before that, His Excellency Damon, were very popular.

Their humor, which came from their unique viewpoints and worldviews that were far removed from the common sense and trends of the world, was very cool. From the perspective of the last “Treasure Island” generation, “All Night Nippon” was the mainstream that I was most proud of and most admired.

I started with the second part on Fridays. At the time, this was called the “Baka Quota,” and it was a trial slot for people who were on the edge of being either from the sea or from the mountains.

I thought, “It’s Friday midnight-morning, and only the weirdos will be listening anyway, right?” I don’t know if the decision was made by …… or not, but there was such a sense of openness and optimism on “All Night Nippon” in those days.

It was a place where talk and planning skills cultivated in each individual’s soil, different from those of comedians and TV personalities, were desired, so I think now that a stray like me was able to get in.

Incidentally, the previous personality was a popular band “GO! The first time the program was broadcast, we received about 1,400 faxes with complaints.

The next day, I had a live concert in Sendai, and since I had to drive from Nippon Broadcasting System, I read them from the passenger seat on the morning after the broadcast.

A Cinderella story that came out of nowhere

While I was being baptized in such a way, I was still listening to recordings of the broadcasts at home, reflecting on how my voice tends to be muffled, and practicing, and little by little, the number of listeners who were half teasing me began to increase.

It was a time when the Internet was not yet as popular among the general public as it is today. “I don’t know what they’re really like, but I heard there’s some kind of Yankee band called ‘Xidan’ or something like that.” When I was only about as well known as “I don’t know what they actually are, but I heard there is a Yankee band called ‘Kisidan’ or something like that. Then, they became known as “Oh, so it’s these guys! I remember that the popularity of the group spread rapidly when they were featured in NHK’s “Top Runner” program.

The following month, in March, we were going to hold a free live concert at Yoyogi Park, and we put up posters for the concert in the “Kisarazu Cats’ Eye” drama. I put up posters of the live concert in the “Kisarazu Cats’ Eye” drama.

I thought that if 1,000 people came, I would be satisfied, but when I opened the door, I was surprised to find that 20,000 people had gathered. The crowd went wild, and our first album reached No. 3 on the Oricon Chart. It was a Cinderella story for a band at the bottom of the subculture.

However, there was someone who had been secretly paying attention to us even before this phenomenon occurred. We had heard that “Kishidan’s songs were often played on GLAY’s radio program.

At the time, we had no further information because we had no connection with GLAY, but it seemed that it was TAKURO who was playing our songs, and that they were all instrumental songs that we had released during our indie days.

I don’t think any of those maniac songs would have stuck with the “GLAY” fans, but Mr. TAKURO was talking about us and playing our songs, saying, “This band is really interesting.

He said, “That TAKURO!　How can that be?　No way! I was thinking something like, “No way!” But my birthday is April 26, and it fell on the same day as the radio broadcast. Then, the staff worked hard and called on various people to help me celebrate with a guy that no one knew who was doing a stupid slot in the second part of “All Night Nippon.

I was also connected with another “All Night Nippon” personality, Yuko Nakazawa of “Morning Musume。 Yuko Nakazawa of “Morning Musume” sent us a birthday message, and YOU THE ROCK☆ mashed up our song “One Night Carnival” with his own famous song “Choraku C-E-Z”.

The highlight of the day was a gift and message from Mr. TAKURO, a portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, which he gave to his favorite people, with the message “I have always loved you and think you are a great talent, so I look forward to meeting you someday. I think you are a great talent and I look forward to meeting you someday.

The paid version of the FRIDAY subscriptions includes the full text of the first three installments of [Sho Ayakoji’s “Monohon no Starr Stars and Tough Guy Tachi” Buyu-densetsu (The Biographies of the “Monohon Starr Stars and Tough Guys” Sho Ayakoji Met in the Entertainment World) and newly drawn illustrations by Sho Ayakoji.

Overcoming the troubles that arose during their first meeting with a superstar who would go down in Japanese rock history, the two men forged a thick friendship.