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B’z official fanclub B’z PARTY has just informed its members that the latest Be With! issue has been mailed out and should be arriving in everyone’s mailboxes shortly. Furthermore, a survey is conducted on the B’z PARTY website as LIVE-GYM plans are underway. Fans are asked which song they haven’t heard live yet but would like to hear at an upcoming LIVE-GYM. In addition to that, fans are asked which song(s) they’d like to hear as an opening song or during the encore, or what song they’d like to listen to with their boyfriend/girlfriend, family, etc.

We’ll bring you the latest information from Be With! #103 as soon as we get our hands on it.

Tak Matsumoto News

While we’re still waiting for some news from B’z, Vermillion has announced that Tak Matsumoto will be guest on bayfm’s 25th anniversary special program. On the show called “POWER OF RADIO SPIRITS”, Tak Matsumoto will have a talk with music critic Masa Ito. The show is broadcasted live on bayfm on September 30th from 9PM to 10PM Japanese Standard Time. The contents of the talk have not been revealed. They just call it a “special talk”.

Koshi Inaba News

Koshi Inaba has just released his latest digital exclusive solo single「Saturday」. The song is not new per se, but has been played during Koshi’s solo tour「Koshi Inaba LIVE 2014 ~en-ball~」as fans were exiting the venue. It’s the Ending SE to the show. A music video has also been released which features select scenes from Koshi’s live performance at the Shinagawa Stellar Ball. The single can be bought at iTunes Japan for 250 Yen.

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Koshi’s solo tour has ended and yet he keeps releasing new songs. Today, it has been announced that Koshi Inaba will release his new digital single next week, on July 30th, 2014 at midnight. More information on the new song as well as a possible music video will be posted on Koshi’s website when the song has been released.

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The latest issue of the B’z fanclub magazine Be With! has been mailed out to fanclub members this week and some have received it already. According to the interview contained in the magazine, B’z will resume work in the middle of August. Furthermore, Shane Gaalaas also seems to be back at work. Maybe he’s cooking up some cool drum tracks for future B’z songs?

We have also been on hiatus, but will soon resume our work on interview translations and the like. And, of course, we’ll bring you the latest interview as soon as possible.

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Today, the opening ceremony for the new Gibson Brands Showroom was held in Tokyo. Under the motto “Play. Record. Listen.”, the showroom showcases Gibson’s latest and greatest guitars as well as recording and listening equipment by TEAC and Onkyo respectively. During the opening ceremony, various personalities said a few words. Tak Matsumoto was not able to attend the opening ceremony and thus congratulated through a video message that was played at the ceremony.

Among all those guitars on display, you can even find a very rare Tak Matsumoto custom model: The TAK MATSUMOTO DC STANDARD GOLDTOP AGED which was limited to only 20 pieces in its pilot run. The guitar on display has been signed by Tak Matsumoto himself. The Gibson Showroom Tokyo opens to the public tomorrow, on July 2nd, 2014. It is located in Tokyo’s Chuo-ku and is very close to Tokyo station. You can see a map here.

TAK MATSUMOTO DC STANDARD GOLDTOP AGED on display. (left) Source: http://ameblo.jp/e-earphone/entry-11887203328.html

Source: http://www.famitsu.com/news/201407/01056386.html