A remote place like Aomori becomes popular later than other places.
It is so popular that things that are not popular enough are even more difficult to generate enthusiasm here. As a result, friends with common interests become even more rare.
It was also because of this that the two teenagers got closer and closer, exchanging records they had and their opinions on music. Finally, they formed a band because of their love for Chinese-style hard rock and heavy metal.
The name of the band was originally called "Go to Death Group". As the name suggests, it comes from the motto "Couples to Go to Death Group". Two teenagers who love heavy metal and focus on the world of music obviously have no connection with women.
Even if bandman is popular, a band like theirs, which others think is funny, weird and a bit one-dimensional, will obviously not be popular with girls in school.
Love is absolutely impossible, only gay friends can appreciate each other, hold high the banner of lovers dying, and look down upon couples who show affection.
On the eve of their high school graduation, Shinji Wajima and Kenichi Suzuki agreed to take entrance exams for a university in Tokyo together. If they could both go to Tokyo, they would continue their band career.
Just like the last Shinichi Iwahashi chose to go to Beijing when he could not find his goal, and Takao Tajima resolutely went to Beijing in order to achieve his goal, Tokyo has such charm and significance in the eyes of young people outside Tokyo.
Shinji Wajima was admitted to the Faculty of Buddhism at Komazawa University, a choice that seemed a bit baffling to outsiders. Kenichi Suzuki was admitted to the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Sophia University, where he studied Rakshasa. Sophia University is a top prestigious school, and Kenichi Suzuki entered it.
After entering Sophia University, I have already stepped into a large enterprise.
A pair of good friends reunited in Tokyo, fulfilled their old agreement, and formed a band again. Shinji Wajima played the guitar and Kenichi Suzuki played the bass. Although the two were a perfect match, they still felt that having a drummer would be a great addition.
However, the drummer must not only add color to the band, but also not affect the musical world they have built together. In other words, what they are looking for is a real "green leaf".
This kind of perfection is precisely the most difficult thing. It doesn't matter if the quality is one point more or less. I went through several interviews and finally selected a drummer named Kamidate Nokho.
However, as a member, the drummer is more like a support musician.
While looking for a drummer, Shinji Wajima and Kenichi Suzuki heard about an underground band called
In addition, I also saw the tolerance and richness of Tokyo’s underground music scene.
After Tokuyoshi Uedate joined, the band formed an iron triangle, and Suzuki Kenichi himself also served as manager. They began to look for performance opportunities at live houses in Tokyo. However, when they performed, they learned that there was already a band in Tokyo.
A band named "Fuck Death Band", so they have to reconsider a name.
Shinji Wajima and Kenichi Suzuki thought about it for several days, came up with several names, rejected several names, and finally settled on using Edogawa Ranpo's "Human Chair", which Shinji Wajima liked, as the band name.
…
Shinji Wajima did not open the letter, but took it with him until the end of the afternoon class and when he went to meet Suzuki Kenichi, the two of them opened the letter.
The content inside is that their band has become a candidate for the "Band Paradise" TV competition, and will then go to TV Asahi for a re-examination. If they can stand out, they will get the opportunity to appear on TV.
"How about it?"
"Well, that's expected." Suzuki Kenichi combed his long hair with his fingers. He had shoulder-length straight black hair, which looked very elegant.
"But, it's a bit of a surprise, right?" Shinji Wajima was obedient. This came from the tacit understanding between the two of them for many years.
Suzuki Ken nodded, "Yes. From this point of view, this show seems to be very tolerant. Even we can accommodate it. We will probably encounter opponents with rich and diverse styles."
"Who knows." Shinji Wajima smiled slightly, "Maybe they are using us as a joke."
He said such words, but looking at his expression, there was no worry or displeasure at all. Instead, it made people feel a bit cynical and free.
"Maybe." Suzuki Kenichi didn't care, "But what if we are used as a joke?"
Standing on the stage, turning one's inner world into lyrics, and integrating one's emotions into the performance, this is inherently a matter of self-sacrifice. Even if it is to ensure the so-called dignity of not appearing on TV, this cannot be avoided.
a little.
But there's nothing wrong with pleasing the audience. That's not something that lowers one's dignity.
If the audience laughs at us, we also smile at the audience.
If the audience is addicted to our performance, we are also addicted to the cheers from the audience.
We please the audience and we also get pleasure from the audience.
With this mentality, when they first formed the band, they used the name "Fuck Die Die Band" in a self-deprecating way. Now they are fearless. When they knew there was this opportunity, they sent out their own
Performance video.
"By the way, I have something to tell you." Suzuki Kenichi finished reading the letter, folded it and stuffed it back into the envelope, "We are about to consider the stage of employment. What are your plans?"
"No." Wajima Shinji replied.
"I don't know what to do." Suzuki Kenichi said, "If I go to take office, among other things, I must first cut off my long hair..." When I decided to take office and cut off my long hair, I also defended you by saying that we have already cut off my long hair.
No longer young'."
Shinji Wajima liked Matsutoya Yumi's songs, and Suzuki Kenichi deliberately sang a song called "いちご白书"をもうOnce" that Matsutoya Yumi wrote for a band called Banban when he was still Arai Yumi (see again
Once "Strawberry White Paper") song.
This song describes the students who were college students in the special era of Japan's 1960s and 1970s. After their ideals were shattered, everything returned to reality as they graduated and entered society.
バンバン was originally a little-known band. It became a hit because it got this song from Yumi Arai, but the next single immediately brought it back to its original shape, as if everything returned to reality with graduation.
Not only Miyuki Nakajima, whose lyrics are full of literary lyrics, wrote songs of that era, but Yumi Matsutoya, who was exclusive to the middle class, also contributed such a famous song.
However, Suzuki Kenichi did not sing these lyrics just for fun.
"It's a shame to just cut off our long hair, Wajima. Just think of us as unrealistic idealists, and there's nothing wrong with that."
"So, I have a proposal."
"oh?"
"If we can qualify for the TV competition, how about we give up our jobs and continue to work as professional musicians in the future, regardless of whether we can debut this time?" Suzuki Kenichi said.