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Tak Matsumoto News

One of Tak Matsumoto’s songs from the upcoming solo album is being used for transportation company Sagawa’s latest line of TV commercials. Further details have yet to surface regarding the album’s release date and title. You can check out the two commercials below.

Looks like this is going to be a Jazz album! 🙂

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American rock drummer Carmine Appice was recently interviewed by the Examiner and when asked a question about Japan, he mentioned one very particular band…

Ray Shasho: There are so many legendary rock bands from the 70’s that are having more success overseas these days … especially in Japan.

Carmine Appice: “Japan has their own domestic artists that are huge. It used to be that Japan didn’t have any domestic artists until the mid 90’s. All of a sudden they started getting their own artists. So all the American and UK artists who used to go there and play the Budokan are now playing smaller venues. But their artists are playing stadiums. There’s a group over there called B’z and they can play three stadium nights in every major city in Japan. We’re talking 150,000 people. It’s a singer and a guitar player. I went to see them in Japan as a guest, they’re friends of mine, and I think it was the night before or night after I saw Kiss over there. Kiss was playing at the stadium too. The B’z production was bigger than the Kiss production. It was ridiculous…it was so big. Over there they don’t travel around in big semis, they travel around in these sixteen to twenty foot trucks … so they must have had about a hundred trucks going from city to city … it was crazy. But there just huge over there.”

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The first TV commercial for the upcoming release of “B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2013 ENDLESS SUMMER -XXV BEST-” was aired during Detective Conan today. Check it out below!

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B’z during “Q&A” on Music Station

Today’s broadcast of Music Station was a very special occasion. To commemorate the B’z 25th anniversary, the program decided to conduct a B’z special where the band would perform 4 songs—three of which were drawn from fan requests. After the other two show guests—Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and Kanjani 8—were introduced, B’z kicked off the show with their first ever televised performance of 「Q&A」. Following the performance, a segment called “BIRTH YEAR SONGS” was shown. This time, they introduced hit songs that were released in 1993. And of course, B’z also made an appearance in this segment with “Hadashi no Megami” coming in first place of the ranking.

Read on to check out our full write-up of the one hour special featuring several interview segments with the band, as well as to see which songs they decided to perform from the fan requests!

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The band has just announced that they will perform on an episode of Music Station, which is set to air on June 14th, 2013. Just one day prior to the band’s 25th anniversary tour B’z LIVE-GYM PLEASURE 2013 -ENDLESS SUMMER- kicking off, B’z will be on Music Station for an all night B’z special. Additionally, the top B’z songs viewers want B’z to sing will be announced. The program is conducting a survey for that purpose. The band will perform four songs on the show! Three of them will be fan requests!

You can take part in the survey here: http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/music/sec/opinion/130614.html

Click on 応募する and then fill out the form. The first input field is 曲名 (song name), the second field is 性別 (gender), so choose 男性(male) or 女性(female). The third and last input field is asking for your age. And then click the 確認する (confirm) button to submit your song! The deadline for submissions is June 14th, 2013 8PM JST.

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B’z during their first Music Station SUPER LIVE performance in 1992

Before B’z appeared on stage, a segment was shown in which the band’s history of SUPER LIVE performances was detailed. B’z appeared on the first ever Music Station SUPER LIVE in 1992, during their 5th anniversary. They performed their million selling hit “ZERO” on stage. From there on out, the band can look back on countless Music Station SUPER LIVE performances:

• Music Station SUPER LIVE 1992 – ZERO
• Music Station SUPER LIVE 1996 – SNOW / Shoushin
• Music Station SUPER LIVE 1997 – Swimmer Yo! / Calling
• Music Station SUPER LIVE 2000 – Seventh Heaven / Konya Tsuki no Mieru Oka ni
• Music Station SUPER LIVE 2001 – GOLD / ultra soul
• Music Station SUPER LIVE 2002 – Mou Ichido Kiss Shitakatta / Atsuki Kodou no Hate
• Music Station SUPER LIVE 2003 – IT’S SHOWTIME!!
• Music Station SUPER LIVE 2004 – ARIGATO
• Music Station SUPER LIVE 2005 – Itsuka no Merry Christmas / OCEAN
• Music Station SUPER LIVE 2006 – Shoudou
• Music Station SUPER LIVE 2007 – SUPER LOVE SONG
• Music Station SUPER LIVE 2012 – Ichibu to Zenbu / Ai no Bakudan

Since 2007, B’z have not been present on television as they used to. In 2008, the band was busy celebrating their 20th anniversary and the only time they appeared on television was during the 20th anniversary NHK special. The following year, in 2009, the band didn’t perform on television at all, except for a short comment recorded for their then latest single Ichibu to Zenbu. The last time B’z performed on television was last year, on April 1st, when they performed Sayonara Kizu Darake no Hibi yo and Brotherhood on a Music Station special. For the first time in 5 years, B’z is making an appearance on a Music Station SUPER LIVE.

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