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原文在popbeat 2000/4, Kyo谈到他受到哪些乐队的影响,including X and Buck
-Tick
--- You’re from Kyoto, right?
Yes. I was in Kyoto until I was around 19.
--- Do you like Kyoto?
Yeah. I really like Kyoto, the atmosphere of quietness and culture, al
l the temples.
--- What were you like as a young child?
I wasn’t really a good child, was I? (laugh) I’ve always been obstin
ate.
--- What did you do for fun?
In elementary school I rode my bike far away, looking for new parks an
d stuff. Things like that were like ecstasy for me.
--- Did you have lots of places to play?
There were lots of parks. Also, I had a friend I often hung out with w
hose family ran a lumberyard. So we climbed the place where they shave
d the logs like it was a jungle gym, built a fort at the top…
--- Seems like a place where you’d get hurt.
(laugh) I’ve fallen from the top of a jungle gym but I didn’t hurt m
yself. By the time I thought, “I’m falling,” I was already on the g
round. It hurt, but I wasn’t even scratched. I was unaware of it happ
ening. How did I fall, you know. But don’t they say when people jump
to their death, they go unconscious on the way down? I guess it must h
ave been like that.
--- You played at dangerous things, didn’t you?
Once we were swinging around a fire extinguisher that had fallen into
a dry river bed, and my friend threw it and hit me in the head.
--- . . . (all completely stunned)
When I got hit in the head, I thought I was gonna die. But I was unhur
t (laugh). I went home dazed, saying my head hurt.
--- The friends you were with must have been disconcerted?
Well, I guess so. As for my friends, I didn’t like doing things as a
group, so it was only 2 or 3 people. Group activities are no fun.
--- Did you like elementary school?
I hated all of my classes. I didn’t have interest in a single thing.
History, science, seeing a tadpole turn into a frog – I thought, what
possible use could I have for this in the future? I still feel that w
ay now. I couldn’t understand why everyone was studying. When I saw s
omeone studying frantically, I thought, ‘for something totally useles
s; what are they, stupid?’
--- You mean you had already realized this in elementary school?
Right. But I thought, arithmetic and Japanese, I have to do. Because t
hings like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division are necessa
ry. And you have to at least know kanji. But I hated homework like, le
arn these kanji for the next class. Like, why do I need you to tell me
that? For example, if I needed to learn all these kanji for that year
, if they gave out a list and said you need to learn all of these kanj
i this year, then you’d be able to learn them at your own pace.
--- That’s certainly true.
Isn’t it strange that you’re forced to learn just these, overnight,
and get graded on that, and they get mad if you can’t do it? I couldn
’t stand that. I was against it. So I didn’t really study Japanese e
ither, although now I kind of think I should have done it. Everything
else I was better off not doing, I think.
--- Better off not doing it?
Yes. There’s no need to waste playing time frantically doing somethin
g you won’t even be able to use as an adult. When I was a child I tho
ught playing outside was more important.
--- What a cool elementary student.
Everyone says “it’s time for science” and studies, without really t
hinking so hard about it. I don’t know if you’d call it ‘cool’, bu
t I thought doing that was really stupid. I guess I was an unusual chi
ld. If you want to be a scientist you need to know math, and if you wa
nt to be a volleyball player, you should play volleyball. But it’s no
t necessary for me.
--- What did you want to be, Kyo?
My parents always told me to have dreams. If I think about it now, I f
eel those are very good words. I’ve never wanted to do anything else
besides being in a band.
--- But you probably didn’t decide you wanted to be in a band until m
iddle school, right?
That’s right. Before that, there wasn’t anything I wanted to do. Is
that a unique thing to worry about? Not having anything you want to be
come.
--- Before deciding to be in a band you must have liked music first.
It wasn’t the music. It was the visuals. I liked anime. Cool anime. A
t that same time I knew BUCK-TICK, X, fxxxing pretty. Like, Sakurai (A
tsushi) from BUCK-TICK. That really shocked me. Like, this person is a
man?!
--- How did you first know about BUCK-TICK?
I saw clippings a girl in my class had pasted onto her desk. So I aske
d her, who’s that? The music I liked was from transformation anime li
ke Go Ranger, I liked the music from the fight scenes, it had a feelin
g like running full out. BUCK-TICK’s music was dark, so I thought it
was kind of different, when I heard X, the fast, violent feeling it ha
d, I thought “this is it.” It was from there, that I heard a lot of
CDs from visual bands.
--- Before that, you had no interest in music either?
No. I thought, why does music exist, it’s not necessary. The music sh
ows only had dull stuff, too. The only thing on the music shows that I
liked was ‘TATOO’ by Nakamori Akina. That song alone I liked for so
me reason.
--- How did you come to be a singer?
Listening to lots of different bands, the person I generally liked was
the vocalist. Sakurai-san was by far the best, though. The one person
I liked as a guitarist was hide-san. I thought he was so cool as a pe
rformer, and so I put up his poster in my room and I bought a guitar.
--- Was your first instrument a guitar?
Well, I hated the flute and stuff in elementary school (laugh). So I b
orrowed music scores from my friend who played guitar, but I couldn’t
just suddenly be able to play X, not knowing anything but fast songs.
So like, the guitar was a bust.
--- You give up quickly (laugh).
If I can’t have fun at something the first time, it’s no good, for m
e. And a guitar has 6 strings, and I couldn’t hit the chords, so it w
as no good. So I thought, what about bass? There are only 4 strings, a
nd no chords. So then I had a lot of fun with that, but I felt somehow
, like my self wasn’t coming through like that…
--- You felt you couldn’t use an instrument to express yourself?
I guess so. I didn’t have any interest in piano, either. Anyway, I di
dn’t originally have any interest in singing, or in music, so thinkin
g about that, it feels like this is incredibly unexpected. For someone
who never liked group activities to be in a band, and to be the singe
r, no less.
--- Since gaining interest in being in a band, Kyo, do you think you’
ll be doing this in the future too?
When I bought that guitar, I had a feeling like, ‘this is all there i
s’, I think. I said I hated music, but now, I buy CDs and cassettes b
y choice. I think, “I want this,” “I want to do this.” That is to
say, it’s like, this is all there is. And I told my parents “I’m no
t going to highschool.”
--- Because you won’t do something that’s useless?
Right. Even though my parents were utterly pissed. Nowadays if you don
’t go to college, you can’t get a job, you can’t be anything, so wh
at will you do if you don’t go to highschool!? they said. But I thoug
ht, this is all there is. If I quit doing this, there’s nothing else
I want to do. There probably isn’t anything else I even can do. In fa
ct, I’d be a totally useless person. If I became useless, it would me
an my parents were right. If that happens, then I’ve lost, right? So
I absolutely won’t lose. For me, being in a band is something I won’
t just walk away from, it’s the most important thing of all to me.
--- You’re from Kyoto, right?
Yes. I was in Kyoto until I was around 19.
--- Do you like Kyoto?
Yeah. I really like Kyoto, the atmosphere of quietness and culture, al
l the temples.
--- What were you like as a young child?
I wasn’t really a good child, was I? (laugh) I’ve always been obstin
ate.
--- What did you do for fun?
In elementary school I rode my bike far away, looking for new parks an
d stuff. Things like that were like ecstasy for me.
--- Did you have lots of places to play?
There were lots of parks. Also, I had a friend I often hung out with w
hose family ran a lumberyard. So we climbed the place where they shave
d the logs like it was a jungle gym, built a fort at the top…
--- Seems like a place where you’d get hurt.
(laugh) I’ve fallen from the top of a jungle gym but I didn’t hurt m
yself. By the time I thought, “I’m falling,” I was already on the g
round. It hurt, but I wasn’t even scratched. I was unaware of it happ
ening. How did I fall, you know. But don’t they say when people jump
to their death, they go unconscious on the way down? I guess it must h
ave been like that.
--- You played at dangerous things, didn’t you?
Once we were swinging around a fire extinguisher that had fallen into
a dry river bed, and my friend threw it and hit me in the head.
--- . . . (all completely stunned)
When I got hit in the head, I thought I was gonna die. But I was unhur
t (laugh). I went home dazed, saying my head hurt.
--- The friends you were with must have been disconcerted?
Well, I guess so. As for my friends, I didn’t like doing things as a
group, so it was only 2 or 3 people. Group activities are no fun.
--- Did you like elementary school?
I hated all of my classes. I didn’t have interest in a single thing.
History, science, seeing a tadpole turn into a frog – I thought, what
possible use could I have for this in the future? I still feel that w
ay now. I couldn’t understand why everyone was studying. When I saw s
omeone studying frantically, I thought, ‘for something totally useles
s; what are they, stupid?’
--- You mean you had already realized this in elementary school?
Right. But I thought, arithmetic and Japanese, I have to do. Because t
hings like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division are necessa
ry. And you have to at least know kanji. But I hated homework like, le
arn these kanji for the next class. Like, why do I need you to tell me
that? For example, if I needed to learn all these kanji for that year
, if they gave out a list and said you need to learn all of these kanj
i this year, then you’d be able to learn them at your own pace.
--- That’s certainly true.
Isn’t it strange that you’re forced to learn just these, overnight,
and get graded on that, and they get mad if you can’t do it? I couldn
’t stand that. I was against it. So I didn’t really study Japanese e
ither, although now I kind of think I should have done it. Everything
else I was better off not doing, I think.
--- Better off not doing it?
Yes. There’s no need to waste playing time frantically doing somethin
g you won’t even be able to use as an adult. When I was a child I tho
ught playing outside was more important.
--- What a cool elementary student.
Everyone says “it’s time for science” and studies, without really t
hinking so hard about it. I don’t know if you’d call it ‘cool’, bu
t I thought doing that was really stupid. I guess I was an unusual chi
ld. If you want to be a scientist you need to know math, and if you wa
nt to be a volleyball player, you should play volleyball. But it’s no
t necessary for me.
--- What did you want to be, Kyo?
My parents always told me to have dreams. If I think about it now, I f
eel those are very good words. I’ve never wanted to do anything else
besides being in a band.
--- But you probably didn’t decide you wanted to be in a band until m
iddle school, right?
That’s right. Before that, there wasn’t anything I wanted to do. Is
that a unique thing to worry about? Not having anything you want to be
come.
--- Before deciding to be in a band you must have liked music first.
It wasn’t the music. It was the visuals. I liked anime. Cool anime. A
t that same time I knew BUCK-TICK, X, fxxxing pretty. Like, Sakurai (A
tsushi) from BUCK-TICK. That really shocked me. Like, this person is a
man?!
--- How did you first know about BUCK-TICK?
I saw clippings a girl in my class had pasted onto her desk. So I aske
d her, who’s that? The music I liked was from transformation anime li
ke Go Ranger, I liked the music from the fight scenes, it had a feelin
g like running full out. BUCK-TICK’s music was dark, so I thought it
was kind of different, when I heard X, the fast, violent feeling it ha
d, I thought “this is it.” It was from there, that I heard a lot of
CDs from visual bands.
--- Before that, you had no interest in music either?
No. I thought, why does music exist, it’s not necessary. The music sh
ows only had dull stuff, too. The only thing on the music shows that I
liked was ‘TATOO’ by Nakamori Akina. That song alone I liked for so
me reason.
--- How did you come to be a singer?
Listening to lots of different bands, the person I generally liked was
the vocalist. Sakurai-san was by far the best, though. The one person
I liked as a guitarist was hide-san. I thought he was so cool as a pe
rformer, and so I put up his poster in my room and I bought a guitar.
--- Was your first instrument a guitar?
Well, I hated the flute and stuff in elementary school (laugh). So I b
orrowed music scores from my friend who played guitar, but I couldn’t
just suddenly be able to play X, not knowing anything but fast songs.
So like, the guitar was a bust.
--- You give up quickly (laugh).
If I can’t have fun at something the first time, it’s no good, for m
e. And a guitar has 6 strings, and I couldn’t hit the chords, so it w
as no good. So I thought, what about bass? There are only 4 strings, a
nd no chords. So then I had a lot of fun with that, but I felt somehow
, like my self wasn’t coming through like that…
--- You felt you couldn’t use an instrument to express yourself?
I guess so. I didn’t have any interest in piano, either. Anyway, I di
dn’t originally have any interest in singing, or in music, so thinkin
g about that, it feels like this is incredibly unexpected. For someone
who never liked group activities to be in a band, and to be the singe
r, no less.
--- Since gaining interest in being in a band, Kyo, do you think you’
ll be doing this in the future too?
When I bought that guitar, I had a feeling like, ‘this is all there i
s’, I think. I said I hated music, but now, I buy CDs and cassettes b
y choice. I think, “I want this,” “I want to do this.” That is to
say, it’s like, this is all there is. And I told my parents “I’m no
t going to highschool.”
--- Because you won’t do something that’s useless?
Right. Even though my parents were utterly pissed. Nowadays if you don
’t go to college, you can’t get a job, you can’t be anything, so wh
at will you do if you don’t go to highschool!? they said. But I thoug
ht, this is all there is. If I quit doing this, there’s nothing else
I want to do. There probably isn’t anything else I even can do. In fa
ct, I’d be a totally useless person. If I became useless, it would me
an my parents were right. If that happens, then I’ve lost, right? So
I absolutely won’t lose. For me, being in a band is something I won’
t just walk away from, it’s the most important thing of all to me.
--
Q:How many legs would a mule have if you called the tail a leg?
A:Four. Calling the tail a leg does not make it a leg.
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