Masa (musician)
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Masa is the stage name of a Japanese musician. While he is not so prominent in the Japanese music scene, he was member of GacktJOB, Gackt's band. He has also been in the disbanded Spiky and is currently the vocalist of Dizzy Drive. Masa is a favourite among fans as he is very sweet-looking and cute.
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[edit] GacktJOB, Spiky, Dizzy Drive and マァマァサ・ムゥ
Masa was born on the 30th of September, the year is unknown. His name is definitely MASA; however his last name is unknown. After graduating from the technical and vocational school (専門学校) he went to the U.S.A alone. The TOEFL was acquired after one year. Afterwards, he studied music at the University for three years. He learned the English language while living in New York for four years. A day after he graduated from the university, he returned home. He worked with Yusuke Asada as support and after that backed-up Gackt, joining his project as the electro-, drum-acoustic- and rhythm guitarist of GacktJOB, from which he first rose to fame in the Japanese music scene. There are many stories and rumours circulating about the first meeting between Gackt and Masa; a popular story among fans is that Gackt met Masa in New York and wanted to see him play, but Masa pretended that he couldn't play, watching the skill of Gackt's own guitar playing instead. During Masa's GacktJOB period, Gackt took a liking to the guitarist and seemed quite attracted to him. This can be attested to in the Vanilla: live concert video, where Gackt and Masa do fanservice. This fanservice is a big favourite among Gackt and Masa fans alike for its high yaoi or homosexual content. Gackt also introduced Masa as "The one who loves me every night."
However, Masa decided to leave GacktJOB to work on his own career with Spiky, to which he was vocalist and guitarist. Spiky members included:
- Masa, vocalist/guitarist
- dai (Dai Okumura), guitar
- KG (Tanabe Keiji), keyboard/producer
- Matchy (Matchida Takayuki), bass
- Toshi (Toshiyuki Sugino, also former GacktJOB), drums
- YAMACHI, guitar
- Tomo, bass
- Matsukichi, drums
During this time Spiky released 2 singles, 6 maxi singles, 1 album and 2 mini albums. However, the proctect Spiky came to a halt as Masa left to start his very own project, Dizzy Drive. The remaining members tried to recruit a new vocalist and the new formation was supposed to debut on the same day as Masa with DIZZY DRIVE, but it never happened; however, KG has not completely stopped the project so far, and has always hoped to revive it one day.
Dizzy Drive was started shortly after Masa left Spiky in 2005. Dizzy Drive is fairly new and its members include:
- Masa, vocalist/guitarist
- Tak, guitarist(also guitarist for Calmando Qual, an indies band, and Syaranosui)
- Junn, bass
- AKITO, drums
- Masanori (nori), ex-bassist
Their official logo was JETBOY and their official fanclub (shared with Spiky) was known as CHRONICLE.
In the beginning of June 2006 Masa announced then, that with the agreement of all members, DIZZY DRIVE would start over with a new concept; since they couldn't identify with their old band name anymore, they also created a new name. The last concert under the name of DIZZY DRIVE was on the second of July. Masa also started to work as a guitarist again, first with the Session band JET STREAM ATTACK (covering BUCK-TICK) in June and then on the second Summer Festival, organized by Seventh Heaven with the Session band Sin After Sin (covering Luna Sea) in July; he also performed as a singer with Spiky again in August 2006 in two Lives, Acoustic and Electric, which seemed to have been the final end of that project. A break was announced until September 2006, after which he returned with his new project, マァマァサ・ムゥ, which consisted of the same members as DIZZY DRIVE but with the new concept and style. Instead of the more rockish attitude of DIZZY DRIVE, their shows are now quite theatrical and the music has a touch of eighties rock.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Spiky
Spiky On The Way(28 September 2002, MAXI SINGLE)
- Final Disgusted
- Wishes
- Little by Little
- Moon Beam Story
- Together With
Confidence(25 December 2002, CD SINGLE)
- Confidence
- Cage
Spiky to Be(19 March 2003, CD ALBUM)
- Now the time
- Confidence
- Don't Say No Yet
- Wishes
- Day after day
- 月のない空
- Rainbow above
- Bloom
- Together with
- Moon Beam Story
silVer(23 July 2003, Mini Album)
- silVer
- By Instinctive
- baby doll
- 月のない空 (instrumental)
- Confidence (instrumental)
- baby doll (instrumental)
Create(3 August 2003, MAXI SINGLE)
- silVer
- No Longer Alone
Real(9 August 2003, MAXI SINGLE)
- baby doll
- Empty
Joy(22 August 2003, MAXI SINGLE)
- Joy
- By Instinctive
n.e.w.s.(22 October 2003, CD SINGLE)
- n.e.w.s.
- flower
アベレイジ(17 March 2004, MAXI SINGLE)
- アベレイジ
- discover
- Usual Life
Scream in the Sky(22 September 2004, Mini Album)
- Scream in the Sky
- Sequence
- Horizon
- No longer alone (Arrows ver.)
- n.e.w.s. (Arrows ver.)
- Joy (Arrows ver.)
Spiky on the Way 2nd Press(5 January 2005, MAXI SINGLE)
- Final Disgusted
- Wishes
- Little by Little
- Moon Beam Story
- Together With
[edit] Dizzy Drive
1st Demo CD(22 May 2005) (sold at the Kashiwa CLUB ZaX live, limited)
- GET NAKED
- REAL
2nd Demo CD(15 July 2005) (sold at the Kumagaya Club Vogue live, limited)
- Driving High
- サイレン
- Curtain Call #1
3rd Demo CD(6 September 2005) (sold at the Fukuoka DRUM Be-1 live, limited)
- Over The Window
- [es]
- Super Sonic
- Monster
- [es]
- Love Tricky
- DC ~Destructed Creation~
- Driving High
DVDR 1(21 January 2006) (sold at the Takadanobaba CLUB PHASE Fanclub Event, limited)
- Over The Window
- REAL
DVD Evolution(14 May 2006) (sold at the YOKOHAMA CLUB 24 live, limited)
- SUPER SONIC
- Monster
- It's killing me
- Love Tricky
- [es]
- DC
- Excuse
- Over The Window
- Ordinary World
- GET NAKED
- REAL
- AGAINST
- スーパーソニック
- Driving High
- Little by little
- Fanclub Event 'Day of Amuse'
- スーパーソニック
- Photoshooting on the other side of the Camera
Presented CD(August 2005) (sent to the Fanclub members as a Good-bye-present)
- Sign
[edit] マァマァサ・ムゥ
1st Demo CD(2 September 2006) (sold at the Roppongi Morph Tokyo live, limited)
- 僕のエンジェル
2nd Demo CD(30 September 2006) (sold at the Yokohama Soundhall live, limited)
- 不埒なプラチナ
3rd Demo CD(20 October 2006) (sold at the Takadanobaba AREA live, limited)
- 恋はデンジェラス
4th Demo CD(22 November 2006) (sold at the Shinjuku LOFT live, limited)
- 危険なふたり (Cover-version)
5th Demo CD(2 December 2006) (sold at the Kashiwa ZAX live, limited)
- 情熱パール
