Happy Birthday to Masuda Takanobu!

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Tobias in News

Masuda Takanobu, recurring support member in B'z LIVE-GYM tours, has turned 50 today. Masuda was also involved in the recording for various B'z songs: DIVE, STARDUST TRAIN, ONE, Pleasure '98, SLAVE TO THE NIGHT, and many many more. He has received a lot of messages from fans, old friends and young musicians. "[...] I am very happy today [...]" he writes on his blog. He also received a special gift from two very special people: Tak Matsumoto and Koshi Inaba.

He posted a picture on his blog:

Happy Birthday, Masuda Takanobu! お誕生日おめでとうございます!!

Source: http://jap.sblo.jp/article/43600995.html (Masuda Takanobu's Blog)

Message From Barry Sparks

Posted on November 22, 2008 by Tobias in News

As you all remember, Barry Sparks was accompanying B'z on their LIVE-GYM rampage this year. On November 12th, he updated his website and posted a short text about the experiences he made while touring through Japan with B'z. Here's what he wrote:

Hello there, Thanks for checking out my site. Well, its been a very busy year for me, 9 months in Japan with the band B'Z! We played something like 60 shows all over Japan. The tour started with playing in theatres, then we hit all the arenas to support the album "Action" and then onto "Glory days" stadium tour, their 20th anniversary tour! It was an awesome experience. B'Z are such great musicians and a blast to play with and their music is very challenging so my bass chops were put to the test! I am happy to say they whipped me into shape! The shows were all amazing but I must say to end the tour with two shows at Yokohama stadium playing for 75,000 people (74,999 plus my wife) was a highlight for me. [...]

Source: http://www.barrysparks.com/