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A few days ago, a friend was so kind to send me a recording of one of the ACTION tour concerts, namely the one in Saitama Super Arena. Since I really wanted to listen to the new ending song, I immediately switched on my music player and hit the PLAY button.

So, what I heard was a very bright and upbeat song. And Tak’s guitar solo is just A-W-E-S-O-M-E. In order to find out what the title of the song could be, I closely listened to the lyrics. At first, I didn’t notice anything particular at all, but after listening to it a few times, I noticed that at the end of the chorus an off-voice sings “WHAT A GLORY DAY”(or something similar). So I assume it’s Glory Days.
What else could it be, anyway?
I highly doubt that it’s “Itsuka Mata Koko De” because this song will play a significant role in the Pleasure 2008 tour. If you translate the title, it’s “Someday here again” after all.

Random Ending SE, Glory Days, LIVE-GYM 2008

Today, the final tracklisting for B’z The Best “ULTRA Treasure” has been released.

The final tracklisting will be as follows:

[DISC 1]

01. BLOWIN -ULTRA Treasure Style-
02. Wonderful Opportunity
03. Mou Ichido Kiss Shitakatta
04. TIME
05. Koi-Gokoro
06. RUN
07. Sayonara Nanka ha Iwasenai
08. Gekkou
09. Koi Ja Naku Naru Hi
10. Don’t Leave Me
11. LOVE IS DEAD
12. Haru
13. MOTEL
14. YOU & I
15. Yumemi ga Oka
16. Kienai Niji

[DISC 2]

01. Brotherhood
02. Swimmer Yo!!
03. Happiness
04. ONE
05. F-E-A-R -2008 Mix-
06. Nagai Ai
07. ROCK man
08. DEVIL
09. New Message
10. Arakure
11. Yuruginai Mono Hitotsu
12. Pierrot
13. BURN -Fumetsu no Face-
14. Home (E. Style)
15. Glory Days

B'z News, B'z Releases B'z The Best "ULTRA Treasure"

The official LIVE-GYM website has been updated and now includes the tour reports on the ACTION tour concerts in Hiroshima Green Arena and Kobe World Kinen Hall. If you would like to check them out, then visit the official LIVE-GYM website HERE.

Furthermore, the logo for the LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2008 -GLORY DAYS- tour has been put up! You will see it immediately when you visit the LIVE-GYM website. The logo itself is painted in the colors of a rainbow and thus, pretty colorful.

LIVE-GYM News LIVE-GYM 2008, Pleasure 2008

After reading the latest press release from BARCO “Japan’s hottest rock band takes magic carpet ride with Barco’s Creative LED“, I found out that it is indeed Mark Fisher who is doing the stage set design for B’z LIVE-GYM 2008 tour. Mark Fisher used to design stage sets for the Rolling Stones and U2 which underlines the quality and detail he puts into his work. Also, Mark Fisher was designing the stage set for B’z LIVE-GYM 2006 MONSTER’S GARAGE tour. But the real deal is that Mark Fisher is using Barco’s LEDs to create a giant carpet-like LED screen, mounted on the stage, above the band playing their music.

Aside from Barco’s press release, a few other websites report about this press release. If you would like to go into further detail(with pictures) about Mark Fisher and his magic LED carpet, please click the link below.

Japanese B’z takes magic carpet ride with Barco’s LED [fibre2fashion.com]

B'z News LIVE-GY 2008

You all probably remember the idea Jd- and me have come up with a couple of months ago: The B’z Database. Unfortunately, I personally had to drop this idea because I got pretty busy with other stuff I have going on right now, and I wouldn’t be able to do all the programming work alone, anyway.

So, in order to make this all happen nonetheless, I thought it would be a nice idea to just create a wiki for everything B’z. In other words, you’ll be able to contribute content yourself, check out new articles written by others, or just enjoy some translated song lyrics.

Right now, the B’z Wiki doesn’t contain a lot, and it still needs a lot of customization, but if you want to help out, there’s a lot you can do.

Here’s a list of what information you can post:

- Profiles for Tak, Koshi and all the support members
- Explain certain terms (e.g. LIVE-GYM, Showcase)
- Complete Discography (Articles for every album, single and compilation, including solo releases)
- Articles on every LIVE-GYM including set lists
- Articles on every place B’z ever played in
- Articles on every song ever played including lyrics and translation
- Translation of Be With! issues
- Complete Videography (DVD, VHS, LD releases)
- …and a lot more!

So if you really like B’z and would like to help, then immediately help us out by visiting http://bzwiki.offthelock.com!

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The 4th week’s sales data for B’z The Best “ULTRA Pleasure” has just come in, and sales dropped again, putting B’z The Best “ULTRA Pleasure” at position 6 on the weekly chart. So far, B’z The Best “ULTRA Pleasure” has sold 782,133 copies. This week, an additional 34,188 copies have been sold, accounting for a total amount of 816,321 copies sold. We’re slowly getting close to the 1 million mark. Wonder if B’z will be able to sell that much CDs till the end of the month?

Previous rankings on the weekly chart are:

Source: Oricon Ranking

B'z News B'z The Best "ULTRA Pleasure", Oricon Charts

The Official LIVE-GYM website has been updated to include the impressions on the ACTION tour concert in Osaka Jo Hall. If you’d like to check it out, you can do it HERE.

B'z News LIVE-GYM 2008 "ACTION"

Well, well, we have all been waiting for this a long, long time. The requests have been made by B’z fans all over the world and the results are finally out. Also, B’z The Best “ULTRA Treasure” contains a new song called “Glory Days”. But to get you started, here’s the cover of B’z The Best “ULTRA Treasure”:

I’m sorry, but you’ll have to read on in order to find out more!

Read more…

B'z News B'z The Best "ULTRA Treasure"

I took down the site in order to update OFF THE LOCK to the latest version of WordPress, just to be up-to-date with the latest security and bug fixes. Not to mention the new features that come with 2.6.

Sorry for the inconveniences caused.

Arthuro
OFF THE LOCK Webmaster

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Yep, this is it, guys. Be With! Vol. 78 is now getting shipped to B’z PARTY members across Japan. If you also wanna get a copy of this issue, you might wanna try Yahoo! Auctions Japan. There are plenty of those.

This issue contains an interview with Tak and Koshi, where they comment on each song that came with B’z The Best “ULTRA Pleasure”. B’z Net Party member Mameshibaken was so kind to translate it for everybody, so please check it out here: http://xmameshibakenx.web.fc2.com/interview.html

The contents are as follows:

1.B’z INTERVIEW B’z The Best “ULTRA Pleasure” & B’z The Best “ULTRA Treasure” Special
2.RETURN TO Pleasure
3.B’z LIVE-GYM 2008 “ACTION” BACKSTAGE REPORT
4.FLASH BACK B’z
5.20TH ANNIVERSARY MEMORIAL GOODS
6.20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL PROJECTS
7.Q & A CORNER
8.F.C. CORNER
9.PRESENT & QUESTION
10.HOROSCOPE
11.DISCOGRAPHY
12.RANDOM INFORMATION
13.PARTY’S INFORMATION
14.NEXT BE WITH

B'z News be with!