News

For those who are still wondering if they should buy B’z LIVE-GYM Hidden Pleasure ~Typhoon No.20~ or not, I put up a translated version of the sneak peek of the aforementioned release. It aired on the show MUSIC STATION as part of the Music Station Topics on November 14th. Thanks go to my colleague Kaitoukidsama over at Kienai-Niji(http://kienai-niji.lulzicon.com/) who got the video for me! Check it out!

Update(11/23/2008):

I happened to find the first commercial somewhere on the net and uploaded it to YouTube. If you want to check it out, click this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAWXeOPYdck

News

I haven’t heard about this before, but it seems that B’z christmas trees are going to be placed in front of Shibuya Station in Tokyo from November 29th to December 25th!

After surfing various sites, I have found a few pictures concerning the B’z christmas trees. They’re from back in 2005 when Best Pleasure II was released. Feel free to check them out here: http://tokyoyakei.jp/chiristmas05/bz05/chiristmas-bz05.html

I’ll let you know when I get my hands on pictures from 2008!

News

Finally, details concerning the new DVD release “B’z LIVE-GYM Hidden Pleasure ~Typhoon No. 20~” have been released. It’s going to be a 3 DVD-set, containing 224 minutes of unreleased LIVE-GYM footage. It’s not a complete LIVE-GYM in itself, but a compilation of various LIVE-GYM performances, including a few extras such as the opening of the Sprit Loose tour. This DVD-set is going on sale on December 10th at a hefty price of 8190 Yen(tax incl.).

The 3 DVDs contain the following performances:

Disc 1:

1. FIREBALL (B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure ’97 “FIREBALL”)
2. Pleasure 2000 ~Jinsei no Kairaku~ (B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2000 “juice”)
3. Koi-Gokoro(KOI-GOKORO) (B’z LIVE-GYM 2001 “ELEVEN”)
4. BLOWIN’ (B’z LIVE-GYM ’94 “THE 9TH BLUES -Part1-”)
5. BE THERE (B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure ’97 “FIREBALL”)
6. Nagai Ai (B’z LIVE-GYM ’99 “Brotherhood -Extra-”)
7. Don’t Leave Me (B’z LIVE-GYM ’94 “THE 9TH BLUES -Part2-”)
8. Negai (B’z LIVE-GYM ’96 “Spirit LOOSE”)
9. OH! GIRL (B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure ’92 “TIME”)
10. DEEP KISS (B’z LIVE-GYM ’98 “SURVIVE”)
11. Real Thing Shakes (B’z LIVE-GYM ’96 “Spirit LOOSE”)
12. Konya Tsuki Mieru Oka Ni (B’z LIVE-GYM 2001 “ELEVEN”)
13. TIME (B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure ’92 “TIME”)
14. Ai no Mama ni Wagamama ni Boku wa Kimi Dake wo Kizutsukenai (B’z LIVE-GYM ’93 “RUN”)

Disc 2:

1. Calling (B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure ’97 “FIREBALL”)
2. RING (B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2000 “juice”)
3. MOTEL (B’z LIVE-GYM ’94 “THE 9TH BLUES -Part2-”)
4. GIMME YOUR LOVE ~Fukutsu no LOVE DRIVER~ (B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure ’97 “FIREBALL”)
5. Swimmer Yo 2001!! (B’z LIVE-GYM 2001 “ELEVEN”)
6. Mienai Chikara ~INVISIBLE ONE~ (B’z LIVE-GYM ’96 “Spirit LOOSE”)
7. ZERO (B’z LIVE-GYM ’93 “RUN”)
8. Liar! Liar! (B’z LIVE-GYM ’98 “SURVIVE”)
9. juice (B’z LIVE-GYM 2005 “CIRCLE OF ROCK”)
10. Samayoeru Aoi Dangan (B’z LIVE-GYM ’98 “SURVIVE”)
11. Arakure (B’z LIVE-GYM 2003 “BIG MACHINE”)
12. ultra soul (B’z LIVE-GYM 2005 “CIRCLE OF ROCK”)
13. Dakara Sono Te wo Hanashite (B’z LIVE-GYM ’99 “Brotherhood -Extra-”)
14. Hadashi no Megami (B’z LIVE-GYM ’93 “RUN”)
15. BANZAI (B’z LIVE-GYM 2005 “CIRCLE OF ROCK”)
16. RUN (B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure ’97 “FIREBALL”)

Disc 3:

1. SPIRIT Loose Opening Movie (B’z LIVE-GYM ’96 “Spirit LOOSE”)
2. #1090 Thousand Dreams (B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure ’92 “TIME”)
3. Hana (B’z LIVE-GYM 2003 “BIG MACHINE”)
4. Fuusen (B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure ’97 “FIREBALL”)
5. Tooku Made (B’z LIVE-GYM ’99 “Brotherhood -Extra-”)
6. Dattara Agechae Yo (B’z SHOWCASE “GO! GO! HEAVEN”)
7. SKIN (B’z LIVE-GYM ’99 -Brotherhood- SHOWCASE “B’zepp”)
8. Logic (B’z SHOWCASE “Kobushi wo Nigire”)
9. STAY GREEN ~Mijuku na Tabi wa Tomaranai~ (B’z SHOWCASE “SAPPORO DEVIL”)
10. juice “1 CAM” (B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2000 “juice”)
11. juice “2 CAM” (B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2000 “juice”)
12. juice “3 CAM” (B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2000 “juice”)

News

B’z support member Shane Gaalaas has been doing drum clinics for a short amount of time while touring throughout Japan with B’z. One of these events has been filmed — namely the one in Osaka — and you can watch a few minutes of Shane goodness right here: http://www.pearlgakki.info/shane_drum_seminar.html

If you’re interested in saving the Windows Media stream to your PC, here’s the link: http://www.pearlgakki.info/shane_seminar20080915final.wmv (right click, save as)

News

I finally get some time to update this site.

As you probably already noticed, the official B’z website has changed its design. A new release is coming up, called “B’z LIVE-GYM Hidden Pleasure – Typhoon No. 20 -“. It’s a DVD containing a secret(?) concert that has been shot somewhere, and it contains 30 songs! No further details have been given concerning the price, set list, contents of the box, number of discs, etc. The DVD will be released on December 10th.

I will keep you posted as news come up!

Tak Matsumoto News

Apparently, new Tak Matsumoto Signature Models are going to be available over at Gibson’s Custom division in autumn this year.

I’ve already taken a look around, and those new models seem to cost around 500,000 Yen(~$4545/~€3333). If anybody can afford one, don’t hesitate to take live pictures of it, or even send a sample of playing the guitar!

The product site is located here: http://www.gibson.com/jp-jp/Gibson%20USA/Tak%20Matsumoto%20Signature/TOP/