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Glay is one of the most popular rock bands in Japan. They have 6 disks that sailed more than million disks.
The band’s name “GLAY” is an original word of them that comes from the word “GRAY”. According to them this is because their music genre
is neither black(rock) nor white(pop).
Glay was formed at 1988 in Hakodate Hokkaido. The members are TERU(Vocals), TAKURO(Guitars), HISASHI(Guitars), JIRO(Bass). Glay
started their music activities at 1988, when TAKURO and TERU, who were classmates of the same high school were at second grade. The
first members were a little different. H ...read more
Glay is one of the most popular rock bands in Japan. They have 6 disks that sailed more than million disks.
The band’s name “GLAY” is an original word of them that comes from the word “GRAY”. According to them this is because their music genre
is neither black(rock) nor white(pop).
Glay was formed at 1988 in Hakodate Hokkaido. The members are TERU(Vocals), TAKURO(Guitars), HISASHI(Guitars), JIRO(Bass). Glay
started their music activities at 1988, when TAKURO and TERU, who were classmates of the same high school were at second grade. The
first members were a little different. HISASHI was a student of another school. He used to play the guitar in his rock band Ari, which means
“ant” in Japanese. HISASHI left Ari for several reasons, TAKURO heard that he was free and invited him to GLAY, HISASHI became a new
member of GLAY.
GLAY did many concerts and they were becoming famous in Hakodate. After they graduated from high school, they decide to go to Tokyo to
make their dream real of becoming a popular band in whole Japan.
The first years in Tokyo, They had a really hard time. Since they didn’t have any acquaintances, they couldn’t call people to their concerts,
and live houses started to refuse them to perform. However, they were strong and didn’t give up. They kept offering live houses to let them
perform, and CD shops to sell their tapes. Their efforts paid off and they started to have fans. GLAY succeeded being popular in Tokyo and
get a chance to perform in a famous live house “LOFT”. They invited their old friends and did a great performance. Inside the friends was
JIRO. After a month of this concert, the current bassist of GLAY quitted and TAKURO calls JIRO to join them. This was how JIRO became a
member of GLAY.
GLAY became even more powerful and got many chances to play in famous stages. In one of those concerts, the leader of X JAPAN (One of
the most popular rock bands in those times) YOSHIKI, discovers them and they join The “Extasy Records” which was the label of YOSHIKI.
At 1994 May 25th, they released their first single “RAIN”. This was a big hit and until now they keep being one of the top rock bands in
Japan.
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