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Feature

As every year, the January issue of the Japanese music magazine PLAYER(http://www.player.jp/index.html) features a retrospect on last year, and what readers of the magazine liked the most.

Here’s a relevant extract of the voting results:

Category “Best Artist”: B’z ranked 5th (5th in 2010, 3rd in 2009)
Category “Best Album”: C’mon ranked 2nd
Catagory “Best Vocalist”: Koshi Inaba ranked 1st (same as 2009, 2010)
Category “Best Guitarist”: Tak Matsumoto ranked 2nd (1st in 2010, 3rd in 2009)
Category “This year’s biggest news”: Matsumoto winning the Grammy ranked 4th
Category “Best Drummer”: Shane Gaalaas ranked 16th (8th in 2010, 9th in 2009)
Category “Best Bassist”: Barry Sparks ranked 6th

Feature

In the February 2011 issue of “WHAT’s IN?”, Tak and Koshi present their favorite music selection for 2010. Here’s what they selected:

Tak Matsumoto’s Selection:

1. SLASH by Slash
2. SCREAM by Ozzy Osbourne
3. ROKSTARR by Taio Cruz
4. GENIE, Gee by Shoujo Jidai (SNSD / Girls’ Generation)
5. Ikimono bakari ~member’s BEST selection~ by Ikimonogakari

Koshi Inaba’s Selection:

1. TAKE YOUR PICK by Larry Carlton & Tak Matsumoto
2. Emotion & Commotion by Jeff Beck
3. Rera by Onozuka Akira
4. Paper Tongues by Paper Tongues
5. Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 2 by Utada Hikaru

What do you think about their selection? What albums would you choose?

Feature

Just as last year, the latest issue of the Japanese music magazine PLAYER(http://www.player.jp/index.html) features a retrospect on the year 2010, and what readers of the magazine liked the most.
Here’s how B’z, Shane Gaalaas and Masuda Takanobu were ranked.

Category “Best Artist”: B’z ranked 5th (3rd in 2009)

Category “Best Live Performance in Japan”: B’z ranked 5th (4th in 2009) – Larry Carlton and Tak Matsumoto ranked 9th

Catagory “Best Vocalist”: Koshi Inaba ranked 1st (same as 2009)

Category “Best Guitarist”: Tak Matsumoto ranked 1st (3rd in 2009)

Category “This year’s biggest news”: Collaboration between Larry Carlton and Tak Matsumoto ranked 4th

Category “Best Drummer”: Shane Gaalaas ranked 8th (9th in 2009)

Category “Miscellaneous Player”: Masuda Takanobu ranked 4th (6th in 2009)

Source(s): B’zaholic Blog (Japanese)

Koshi Inaba News

Koshi Inaba has given an interview on his latest solo album “Hadou”, which will be out on August 18th. We don’t know if it’s going to be the same interview in every magazine.
An interview with Koshi Inaba will be in these magazines:

smart – July 24
DIME – August 9
FRaU – August 12
WHAT’s IN? – August 12
ori star(オリ☆スタ） – August 20
GQ JAPAN – August 24

If we get ahold of this interview, we’ll translate it for you!

News

The latest issue of the Japanese music magazine PLAYER(http://www.player.jp/index.html) features a retrospect on the year 2009, and what readers of the magazine liked the most.
Here’s how B’z, Shane Gaalaas and Masuda Takanobu were ranked:

Category “Best Artist”: B’z ranked 3rd

Category “Best Live Performance in Japan”: B’z ranked 4th

Catagory “Best Vocalist”: Koshi Inaba ranked 1st

Category “Best Guitarist”: Tak Matsumoto ranked 3rd

Category “Best Drummer”: Shane Gaalaas ranked 9th

Category “Miscellaneous Player”: Masuda Takanobu ranked 6th

News

And you thought their music was diverse; look at the albums Koshi & Tak listed as their favorite releases from the year of 2009. One of them doesn’t fit with the rest, to say the least. Certainly an interesting choice, I’d say.

Tak Matsumoto
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
Neal Schon – Beyond the Thunder
Superfly – Box Emotions
GReeeeN – Shio, Kosho
The Beatles – Complete Box Set

Koshi Inaba
Band of Skulls – Baby Darling Doll Face Honey
OneRepublic – All the Right Moves
Cage The Elephant – Self-Titled Debut Album
Kings of Leon – Only By the Night
Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy – The Second Movement of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto