69 Q&A about VAMPS (WHAT’s IN 2010.06)
1. If you were to describe yourself with one kanji, what would it be?
HYDE: licentiousness
2. What is the author and the name of the song you want to listen to at the sea?
K.A.Z : Jane's Addiction. I forgot the name of the song
3. What is the author and the name of the song you want to listen to on a rainy day?
HYDE: VAMPS, "PIANO DUET"
4. The equipment you are thinking to?
K.A.Z : mainly to the thing I use in music, maybe? I want a guitar... A Fender Jazzmaster of the first half of the period 1958-60
5. From here on, the music instrument you would like to master newly is?
HYDE: PIANO
6. During a live, what’s the moment when tension increase?
K.A.Z : When the whole hall becomes one
7. The secret to enjoy a VAMPS live more?
HYDE: Let’s free ourselves from tension and act cheerfully
8. What’s the moment when you can think to be happy about doing music?
K.A.Z.: When, after finishing the recording, I could be moved listening to the album
9. Rock in one word?
HYDE: passion
10. What kind of people are fans for you?
K.A.Z.: Irreplaceable people I can have fun with and I can be in sympathy with
11. Fans are?
HYDE: mates
12. For you VAMPS are?
HYDE: passion
K.A.Z.: a terribly cool ROCK band, the best at songs and live
13. A word for WHAT’s IN readers?
HYDE: listen, listen…
K.A.Z.: The album is finally near completion and the tour is getting closer, too. Because this year you’ll get really excited, come around to see us!
14. What’s your favourite English word?
HYDE: XXX
15. Your favourite attraction in an amusement park?
K.A.Z.: Roller coaster
16. If you are going to do Twitter, what would you murmur the most?
HYDE: That thing…
17. Where do you want to live?
K.A.Z.: In a place facing lake or sea, maybe overseas could be good
18. The consumer electronic you want to buy newly?
HYDE: wine cellar
19. The animal you want to keep?
K.A.Z.: capybara
20. What is the vitamin for your heart?
HYDE: Thinking of beloved person
21. The dream for the future when a child?
K.A.Z.: carpenter
22. If the world would end tomorrow, what will you do?
HYDE: everyday things
23. Your ideal image after 10 years?
K. A. Z: Thinking about the present is enough
24. The present you were happy to receive the most till now?
HYDE: love
25. The first live you have seen, was a live of?
K. A. Z: Mori Shin’ichi
26. The thing you desire that money can’t buy?
HYDE: a land that money can’t buy
27. Are you from the school of doing summer homework early or piling them up?
K. A. Z: Starting at the beginning is good, but if I had to say then I tend maybe to pile them up
28. What’s your (self-professed) mental age?
HYDE: 80
29. A recent loved reading?
K. A. Z: This is a question that gives me the impression that (the loved reading) is WHAT’s IN for sure (laugh)
30. Your favourite liquor?
K. A. Z: Recently, for some reason, there are lots of times I’d like to drink brandy
31. A band you’re into recently?
HYDE: LED ZEPPELIN
32. When you drink alcohol, what happens to you?
K. A. Z: Because I immediately feel sleepy, during tour for example, I feel more comfortable drinking in my hotel than drinking out
33. The most frightening thing in this world?
HYDE: Human beings
34. Are there similarities between guitar and woman?
K. A. Z: Maybe the fact that “you will be known by the company you keep”
35. Women’s sex appeal is?
HYDE: poison
36. The song you’d like to sing to a woman at the karaoke?
K. A. Z: Yosaku
37. The action of a woman that makes your heart tighten?
HYDE: DEVIL SIDE
38. If you were reborn, what would you like to be?
K. A. Z: a person living in the bottom of the earth
39. If Doraemon would jump out of a drawer, what would you do?
HYDE: I would say: “I’ve been waiting for you”
40. A thing you are secretly addicted to?
K. A. Z: Mexican food and root beer
41. The idol of ‘80s you would like to know “and now that person?”
HYDE:Iwai Sayuri by Arly
42. Please tell us your little recent trouble
K. A. Z: I awake in the middle of the night and I’m not able to sleep again
43. Please tell us a recent event that overwhelmed you
HYDE: promotion that was chasing the final stage of lyrics
44. An event that recently made you laugh at?
K. A. Z: It’s a video on YOUTUBE, but…I can’t tell (laugh) It was professional wrestling…
45. The point of being fashionable you fuss over the most?
HYDE: underpants
46. The point of your room interior you fuss over?
K.A.Z : indirect lighting. Because I don’t like the light of fluorescent lamps so much…
47. If you would give a reward to yourself for doing your best?
HYDE: XXX
48. If there is a month off, what would you do?
K.A.Z : travel. I’d like to visit the countries I’ve never gone to
49. A word to K.A.Z san who is in America now
HYDE: How about the blond girls?
50. A message to HYDE san who is in Japan now
K.A.Z : Finally we completed the single and the album!
51. Please show us 3 must-have items for the present
HYDE: 1. iPhone. 2. PC. 3. Wine
52. By what are you pressed now?
K.A.Z : My train of thought…
53. The point when singing “ANGEL TRIP” at the karaoke?
HYDE: Be full of energy
54. The point to play well “ANGEL TRIP” with the guitar?
K.A.Z : If you play enjoying it, you will be able to play it
55. A vocalist you respect?
HYDE: Kyo-sama (from D'erlanger)
56. A guitarist you respect?
K.A.Z : Geordie (Killing Joke) = Kevin Walker
57. A tool necessary for lyrics?
HYDE: PC
58. A thing you always do before a live?
K.A.Z : to play a song I can be in harmony with
59. In world tour, the place you are looking forward to going?
HYDE: Because I’ve never been to Spain and Chile, I look forward to going there
60. The first thing you do in the morning?
K.A.Z : drink something (for example coffee, black tea, herb tea)
61. A place overseas still vivid in your memory?
HYDE: Morocco, my first overseas place
62. A thing you are going on doing every day?
K.A.Z :recently, every morning I’m eating bagel and the I’m drinking root beer
63. The film you have seen recently that impressed you the most?
HYDE: Eva’s “middle”
64. A recent event that impressed you?
K.A.Z : when the mix ends and every single recorded song is going to be completed
65. During really important moments, what do you want to eat?
HYDE: soba
66. What’s your favourite food?
K.A.Z : Even if there is Mexican food once every two days, it might be OK
67. What is the food that you dislike?
HYDE: ikigai (Shellfishes' raw meat)
68. Your favourite ingredient in onigiri?
K.A.Z : salmon
69. Talking of your mother’s cooking?
HYDE: Zouni (New Year Dish)