Back in ‘85 I was driving home from a UIL school event at 3:30am I dozed off as soon as I got on a straight road.. Went towards the ditch and as my car hit a bump THUNDER IN THE EAST cassette in my player automatically came on and his guitar sound woke my ass up right before I almost entangled my car with a fence line( country school)… I never forgot…. It was the song LIKE HELL*
@@deebop4904 No,.He IS the MOST underrated of All Time,.. Wake your azz up Fool~ But he's the greatest Composer,. Some are better at playin' off the cuff~
Saw Loudness open for Motley Crue back in the early 80's. This fuckin' dude stole the show!! Such a killer guitarist!! He doesn't get enough accolades! Akira!!!!
+carlinfan4life That would have been brutal. Props to the Crue for bringing on a band that dragged their dicks in the dirt. Akira has always been a bad ass. Ridiculous talent.
@@countvond233 Oh yeah! Loudness is awesome and I go way back to when Disillusion came out and Lightning Strikes. Never saw them live but I have a few copies of their live DVDs and almost all their albums on CD, Tape or MP3.
Akira’s a legit living legend. He’s forgotten more about badass playing than most will ever know. While he’s clearly just mucking about here, one can hear the man’s experience and masterful nuance. When Takasaki is on, there’s no one like him, anywhere. Dude’s one of the greatest riff composers of all time and has recorded some of the most incredible solos ever heard. Hail.
I've been a fan from the moment I heard "Crazy Nights". He is one of my all time favorite players. I had a ticket for a local show 4 or 5 years ago and could not go. 😞 Hopefully they come back again. 💚🎸
My band opened up for Loudness on the last night of their 25th anniversary tour, got to hang out with them and have a few drinks after the show… very humble guys! Akira signed one of my guitars!
Akira has such a unique style and such a refreshing experience nowadays when most American and European guitarists sound alike!! This man is underrated in my humble opinion and can hold his own on any rock guitarist dead or alive he's becoming a true legend IMHO? ROCK ON AKIRA TAKASAKI!! 🤟😜
Akira is a MONSTER SHREDDER!!!!! I love everything he’s recorded but tothis day, Disillusion has got to be there best most criminally under-rated heavy metal record of all time.
LEGEND! One of the best hard rock/metal guitar players of all time! Listen to 'Thunder In The East' and 'Lightning Strikes', and you will hear the best metal riffing and leads your ears have ever had the privilege of hearing! Mind blowing and oh so technical!
Just hops up and casually puts on a guitar master class in under 10 minutes like it’s no one’s business, takes the crowd through multiple styles of music with unmatched technique and a unique shredified way. Dude is such a legend. Also with a guest appearance from Ola Englund in the background
I agree. I just listened to Biosphere today, and I must say that it's different, but I loved it...but quality headphones or earbuds are necessary, as well as listening all the way through...no fast forwarding.
Much respect to akira. One of d best guitarist, a legend of his time. As randy roadhs rose to b regarded one of finest guitarist of his time. akira i should say was no less than randy. A true legend who could compose melidious riffs n sherd it clean.. In fact one of d most under rated guitarist of post randy' era. Much respect n best wishs to akira coming all d way frm far northeast of india.
Never been able to afford a duncan. But I did try a lefty joe pass g8bson with jB pickup and it did it all clean, jazz, rock, metal, country. I liked it
Back in ‘85 I was driving home from a UIL school event at 3:30am
I dozed off as soon as I got on a straight road..
Went towards the ditch and as my car hit a bump THUNDER IN THE EAST cassette in my player automatically came on and his guitar sound woke my ass up right before I almost entangled my car with a fence line( country school)…
I never forgot….
It was the song LIKE HELL*
He has always been underrated. Kick ass guitarist! I love loudness!
Everybody is underrated. Having an original thought or comment is underrated.
@@deebop4904 No,.He IS the MOST underrated of All Time,..
Wake your azz up Fool~
But he's the greatest Composer,.
Some are better at playin' off the cuff~
ギター1本で耳の肥えた人々を魅了できる天才ですわ
タッカンは神で異論なし
A Guitar Samurai 🤟🏻🤯
Love how he goes up there and just starts speaking the language everyone understands
Huge Akira fan and Loudness since 85, greetings from Canada!
Saw Loudness open for Motley Crue back in the early 80's. This fuckin' dude stole the show!! Such a killer guitarist!! He doesn't get enough accolades! Akira!!!!
+carlinfan4life That would have been brutal. Props to the Crue for bringing on a band that dragged their dicks in the dirt.
Akira has always been a bad ass. Ridiculous talent.
@@countvond233 Oh yeah! Loudness is awesome and I go way back to when Disillusion came out and Lightning Strikes. Never saw them live but I have a few copies of their live DVDs and almost all their albums on CD, Tape or MP3.
I saw that tour too. I seen them in El Paso.
Even just his intro riff on Crazy Nights. Bad A.
@@ericauberg4511 I still have my shirt. EP County Collisium. :-)
かっこいいリフを創る天才だから、今時のただ速いだけのギターリストとは違う。
Akira’s a legit living legend. He’s forgotten more about badass playing than most will ever know. While he’s clearly just mucking about here, one can hear the man’s experience and masterful nuance. When Takasaki is on, there’s no one like him, anywhere. Dude’s one of the greatest riff composers of all time and has recorded some of the most incredible solos ever heard. Hail.
Easy buddy.
And his first ever bandmate was another legend, Hironobu Kageyama.
i like akira but his riffs and some solos are from randy rhodes, evh, or even jake e lee or yngwie =\ he learned from em
I've been a fan from the moment I heard "Crazy Nights". He is one of my all time favorite players. I had a ticket for a local show 4 or 5 years ago and could not go. 😞 Hopefully they come back again. 💚🎸
画面横の顎ひげのオジサン、クレイジー・ナイツのリフを弾いた時にすごい良い笑顔してる😄ロックって楽しいな❗
One of the greatest to ever shred the fretboard!!!!!
Wow! He’s even better now than I remember him back in the 80’s. Metal monster player!
この人の
領域まで来たら、うまいか下手かは後でいいのよ。
『他人の意見なんか気にせずに自分のやりたいことをそのまんま俺たちに表現出来るか？』
それが出来る数少ない人だよ。
His personal tone is fantastic - no matter what pickups he is using.
Saw them open for Motley Crue on the Theater of Pain tour. They were awesome!
As did I. El Paso, Tx.
Akira is a Legend!
テクニカルな面はもとより、存在自体の迫力が凄い！
雰囲気だけで聴衆が驚くのは、そんなの日本で、永ちゃんぐらい！
My band opened up for Loudness on the last night of their 25th anniversary tour, got to hang out with them and have a few drinks after the show… very humble guys! Akira signed one of my guitars!
音楽っていくつになっても楽しめるから、素晴らしい！
1 of my early 80's inspirations. ROCK!
Akira is a BAF! Way underrated! 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽 loved when he kicked in to Crazy Nights!
This guy Akira Takasaki is a legend
Akira has such a unique style and such a refreshing experience nowadays when most American and European guitarists sound alike!!
This man is underrated in my humble opinion and can hold his own on any rock guitarist dead or alive he's becoming a true legend IMHO? ROCK ON AKIRA TAKASAKI!! 🤟😜
Literally nothing unique about this at all. Sounds like every other 80’s pentatonic shredder evh wannabe to me.
unique? There´s like a millon guitar like him.
@@GeorgeZimmermen bull...t thinking 🤔
@@blackysalamanka rubbish idea !!!
Akira is a MONSTER SHREDDER!!!!! I love everything he’s recorded but tothis day, Disillusion has got to be there best most criminally under-rated heavy metal record of all time.
one of the most underated guitarists ever
living legend
こんな目の前でタッカンの演奏が見られるとかうらやま
ラウドネスショーで最初の列にいて、彼の演奏を見ていたとしたらどうでしょうか。永遠にロック！
あえて動画を見ずにじっくり聴いてるとすごくいい．．．
時折名曲のリフが入ってにっこり。
これは適当にやってるんじゃなくて計算されてる。
A true guitar Icon!
LEGEND! One of the best hard rock/metal guitar players of all time! Listen to 'Thunder In The East' and 'Lightning Strikes', and you will hear the best metal riffing and leads your ears have ever had the privilege of hearing! Mind blowing and oh so technical!
Hell yeah!
A classic metal guitar player. Respect.
The first 4 albums blow the doors off those. "Disillusion" is a f*ng clinic
@Dr. Krieger Akira was decades before bucket of shit!
So this is where satchel from steel panther gets his style!!!
Just hops up and casually puts on a guitar master class in under 10 minutes like it’s no one’s business, takes the crowd through multiple styles of music with unmatched technique and a unique shredified way. Dude is such a legend.
Also with a guest appearance from Ola Englund in the background
Such a beast.. I was a fan of his playing, but it was the Soldiers of Fortune album that I wore out. His playing on that just blew my mind.
I agree. I just listened to Biosphere today, and I must say that it's different, but I loved it...but quality headphones or earbuds are necessary, as well as listening all the way through...no fast forwarding.
Akira is one of my top 5 players--Rock On
LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like the way his playing and tone has gotten more bluesy over the years.
I love it!!!!
Love this Guy's enthusiasm , I just read about the Band this guy was in "Loudness" the amount of tragedy that was thrown at this band was unbelievable
かつて世界を熱狂させたメタルギタリスト。その存在が重要であるのでしょうね。アノ有名なリフをほんの少ししか披露しなかったところに、今でも上を目指して戦っている感じが伝わって来ますね。同年代ファンににしか、その凄み感動はわからないかもしれません。ネットでは伝わらない。なぜなら、その感動はファンの心にあるのですからね
Metal legend!!!!!
Saw Loudness open for ACDC. Akira shreds with best of them
The great underrated Akira 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Saw them opening for Stryper 1986. To hell with the devil concert. He did a guitar solo with a violin stick.
Stationed at Japan during the early 1980s. Akira Takasaki was the Eddie VanHalen of Japan. Bad @$$ guitarist!!!
For sure bro his tone and technique is sick his lead attacks are insane hands down
Solo artist???
ギターの音も相変わらずロックしてるが、、なによりも見た目がかっこよすぎる。
50でこんなにカッコいいなんて。
mskz01210121 50ってことは無いやろー 60行ってるやろー
FAT club
よく調べもせず60過ぎてると言っちゃうmさんもアレだけど、ボケカス死ねは言い過ぎでしょう。
高崎さん、1961年生まれだから今58。
60は過ぎてないけどアラ還ですね。
Saw these guys in Dallas in 84, my ears are still ringing
killer guitar is very expensive.. but i admit that the sound was real good also... akira !!!
テクニックの事はわからんけど、観ててさぶいぼが出た。
彼みたいなギタリストがいて誇らしいです。
He's got nothing left to prove. It's just like breathing to him. So natural.
Akira is a MONSTER on guitar! Metal LEGEND!
great!
Japanese no.1 guitarist
No takayoshi ohmura is
Japan makes excellent Squier ( Fender) Guitars W Percival from New Zealand 🇳🇿 Gardenia Band and Rarotonga Cook Islands 🇨🇰
Japan has a bunch of no.1 guitarists, and Akira-san is definitely one of them.
@@prs149 no syu is 😶
@@williampercival7662 they luv esp
Thunder In The East, Lightning Strikes, Hurricane Eyes....Mr. Takasaki is a MASTER guitarist.
After all the crazy night's riff is cool !
This man was Hironobu Kageyama's bandmate (& classmate) at one time.
To think that 2 legends would have branched off from Lazy into their own areas.
すごすぎ
Much respect to akira. One of d best guitarist, a legend of his time. As randy roadhs rose to b regarded one of finest guitarist of his time. akira i should say was no less than randy. A true legend who could compose melidious riffs n sherd it clean.. In fact one of d most under rated guitarist of post randy' era. Much respect n best wishs to akira coming all d way frm far northeast of india.
I love Akira but you can't compare him to Randy and this is coming from somebody who's had every album loudness has ever done
Much better set-up than over at the ESP booth. Better guitar and amp, makes all the difference.
Herow..... wok n' woll...... Love this dude!
T Moody roudness 😆 gotta love him
O cara esmerilha a guitarra, é um grande músico, e sabe a hora de usar velocidade.🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Very underrated guitar player..Rawk!On
神様、有難う
Akira is a very special guitarist
SAD DUDE NEVER GOT THE RESPECT HE SOOOO MUCH DESERVES AT LEAST NOT IN THE 🇺🇸
legend...loudness🔥🔥🔥
Legend.Japan Godfather Of Heavy Metal.Metal Samurai.Numbur One
Jake E Lee is samurai #1.
Bring it, Akira-san.
best guitarist in japan history
hello i am a great admirer of your culture and i think you also do great metal, the rock music suits you!
it's the jing and jang included!
Thanks
E de mas pra meu coraçao...
I LIKED IT
I swear this guy will still look like a badass even when he's 90 and in a wheelchair.
Ashes in the sky!
The horror of the molten faces in the crowd!! Hope they recover soon. 😂 Badass playing!!!
カッコいいなあ。あごのしゃくれが、すき
Perfect 👍
Still got it!
彼は昔、ESPのオリジナルピックアップ、LH-200だけを使っていた。色々な材質や形状のギターほとんど全てにLH-200を使っていたんだ。やはりセイモア・ダンカンの方が良かったのかな？
神っす。
ピックアップの良さを引き出す弾き方ですよ
Grande Akira y Loudness!!! JAPAN FORCE!!!
Very good.Amazing.
Never been able to afford a duncan. But I did try a lefty joe pass g8bson with jB pickup and it did it all clean, jazz, rock, metal, country. I liked it
Let it Go! Akira🤘🏼
This is what happens when you've been playing guitar every day of your life for something like 45 years.
世界的ギタリストであるポール・ギルバートが尊敬するギタリストはやっぱり別格ですね
Godlike!Awesome! True Guitar Hero!I respect him a way back 80s.Akira Red Sun!
One of the fucking best.....
Yeah haha Akira hasn't changed at all...Fn love it!!!
Thunder from the east. Loudness baby..😍😍
凄い！横にいる人が「SDI！」って言ってる！日本で海外で有名な日本のロックバンドは？と一般人に聞くと「X JAPAN？」と答えそうだが、メタル、HR好きに聞くと間違いなく「ラウドネス！」と答えるだろう。日本が誇るギターヒーローです。
Legend 15/02/2020..
So Fn Heavy Bro!!!
Keep Grinding The Ax Brother!!
MY GUITAR HERO
i wonder if he hung out at Harajuku on Sundays? it'd be a blast to see him as a kid hanging out at the park :-)
JAPANESE GUITAR LEGENDS
Legend!! My personal fav guitarist and he doesn't even bother to ace in English haha
The Pentatonic scale didn't know what hit it!!!
Loudness are legendary!
When I watch this guy, I think to myself, some guys just know how to be cool.
Love this dude!!!But regardless of the cheese, i know i want one of them killers!!!
the master 🤘🤘