Takashi (Pakashi)

(1) I started to practice guitar when I was a junior high school student. I was very influenced by BOOWY, a Japanese rock band. I respected the guitarist named Tomoyasu Hotei. (2) At high school, I was astonished at guitar sounds of Yngiew J. Malmsteen, Paul Guilbert, Nuno Bettencourt and so on. They have really high technique. I attempted to play their stuff. (3)After university, I became to like funk and jazz stuff. I took some jazz guitar lessons in Seattle and Japan for several months.