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PIERROT

  • by Toshiya
  • November 15, 2024

DIR EN GREY LIVE FILM 残響の血脈〜mode of UROBOROS〜松本舞台挨拶で、実家に帰省した時に自分の部屋に飾られたままの「ピエロ パンドラの匣」のポスター。

この頃、自分はローディーとしてPIERROTさんにお世話になってました。

思い起こせば10代の、当時まだ長野駅東口にあったLIVE HOUSE Jで観たPIERROTのLIVEに衝撃を受け、このバンドの近くで色々なことを勉強したいと思いローディーをやらせて下さいとお願いしに行ったことから、自分の音楽人生が大きく回り始めた気がします。

当時、右も左もわからない自分に優しく、時に厳しく色々教えて下さったメンバーさんには今も感謝しかないです。

当時、TAKEOさん・潤さん・Aijiさんの3人で住んでた部屋に居候させてもらい、


The "PIERROT PANDORA no Hako" poster that was still decorating my room when I went back to my parent's home because of the Matsumoto Stage Greeting Event for DIR EN GREY LIVE FILM Zankyou no Ketsumyaku 〜mode of UROBOROS〜.

At that time, I was working for PIERROT as a roadie.

Looking back, I feel like my life as a musician started to change immensely when, in my teens, I was blown away by the PIERROT's live show I saw at LIVE HOUSE J, which still was in the Nagano Station East Exit area at that time, and went to ask them to let me become their roadie, thinking that I wanted to learn a lot by staying close to this band.

I still have nothing else but gratitude for those band members who taught me, who had literally no idea about anything back then, a lot (sometimes kindly, sometimes a little bit strictly).

At that time, they let me live for free at the apartment TAKEO, Jun and Aiji were living together and