GiGS DIR EN GREY BASS & DRUMS BOOK feat. Toshiya & Shinya - Toshiya Interview
GiGS DIR EN GREY BASS & DRUMS BOOK feat. Toshiya & Shinya - Toshiya Interview
Translated by Risu at www.orchestrated-chaos.com
Extensive Interview
PLAYERS HISTORY PT. 2
Toshiya
Simply put, I don’t like to be stuck in a rut.
I want to go further. That has always been there.
I also bought a guitar but I couldn’t play F [chord]. I was already defeated there (laughs)
--What got you started in music?
Toshiya: My encounter with an instrument was the classical guitar in my grandmother’s house. It was my mother’s parents’ house. My mother’s older brother played a classical guitar for fun, and I got that when I was around in grade school and played with my cousins. That was the first time I played an instrument. But there wasn’t anything like I wanted to do music. I made a weird song with open strings (laughs). I sang while playing. It’s stupid but it’s called, “Mashed Potato Song” (laughs). There was a fish food/bait that was called “Mashed Potato”.
--It was bait to fish crucian carps or koi carps, right?
Toshiya: Yes, yes (laughs). It was a song where I only sang “mashed potato, mashed potato” (laughs). I think that was around when I was in Grade 2 or Grade 3. My cousins were around the same age, mother’s older brother’s children. I played with them with the guitar.
--A genius boy composer appeared in Nagano. Did it become such a hype?
Toshiya: No, not at all (laughs). I played that classical guitar only when I played with my cousins. Well, more than an instrument, it felt like a toy. That’s why even if I’ve handled a classical guitar, my daily life was free of music.
--As for the popular songs from when you were in Grade 6, did you start listening to it because you liked it yourself?
Toshiya: No, it was that time when people around me were about to make noise. Like idols. But it was like if I didn’t listen then I wouldn’t be able to catch up with the topic. I completely don’t listen to western music, the only things that I listened to were Michael Jackson and The Beatles.
--So it was after a couple more years when you thought that music was interesting and bands are cool?
Toshiya: I found out about bands when I entered Middle School. Of course at that time, I had “big brothers” who I did bad things with, right? It was from that influence, speaking of bands at that time it was BOOWY and ZIGGY and the like. It was from that time that I thought bands were cool. From there it was X(JAPAN) and BUCK-TICK.
GiGS DIR EN GREY BASS & DRUMS BOOK feat. Toshiya & Shinya - Toshiya Interview for more!
Translated by Risu at www.orchestrated-chaos.com
Extensive Interview
PLAYERS HISTORY PT. 2
Toshiya
Simply put, I don’t like to be stuck in a rut.
I want to go further. That has always been there.
I also bought a guitar but I couldn’t play F [chord]. I was already defeated there (laughs)
--What got you started in music?
Toshiya: My encounter with an instrument was the classical guitar in my grandmother’s house. It was my mother’s parents’ house. My mother’s older brother played a classical guitar for fun, and I got that when I was around in grade school and played with my cousins. That was the first time I played an instrument. But there wasn’t anything like I wanted to do music. I made a weird song with open strings (laughs). I sang while playing. It’s stupid but it’s called, “Mashed Potato Song” (laughs). There was a fish food/bait that was called “Mashed Potato”.
--It was bait to fish crucian carps or koi carps, right?
Toshiya: Yes, yes (laughs). It was a song where I only sang “mashed potato, mashed potato” (laughs). I think that was around when I was in Grade 2 or Grade 3. My cousins were around the same age, mother’s older brother’s children. I played with them with the guitar.
--A genius boy composer appeared in Nagano. Did it become such a hype?
Toshiya: No, not at all (laughs). I played that classical guitar only when I played with my cousins. Well, more than an instrument, it felt like a toy. That’s why even if I’ve handled a classical guitar, my daily life was free of music.
--As for the popular songs from when you were in Grade 6, did you start listening to it because you liked it yourself?
Toshiya: No, it was that time when people around me were about to make noise. Like idols. But it was like if I didn’t listen then I wouldn’t be able to catch up with the topic. I completely don’t listen to western music, the only things that I listened to were Michael Jackson and The Beatles.
--So it was after a couple more years when you thought that music was interesting and bands are cool?
Toshiya: I found out about bands when I entered Middle School. Of course at that time, I had “big brothers” who I did bad things with, right? It was from that influence, speaking of bands at that time it was BOOWY and ZIGGY and the like. It was from that time that I thought bands were cool. From there it was X(JAPAN) and BUCK-TICK.
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