Category Archives: Ju-ken

Ju-ken, 2012

Ju-ken is a Japanese bassist who mostly tours as support for various artists (site, old blog, new blog as of April). He is a member of the band GLANZ (youtube); he is also a member of the band Quintillion Quiz … Continue reading

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Ju-ken 2011, September update

I have a post for Ju-ken, 2011 that is being updated as the year goes on, but I felt a new band needed a new post. Ju-ken has joined the band GLANZ: Members are Cherry (drums), Takako (vocals), ShigE (guitar), … Continue reading

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Ju-ken, 2011

Ju-ken is a Japanese bassist who mostly tours as support for various artists (site, blog). He is also a member of the band Quintillion Quiz (site, blog, twitter, youtube). As of September 1, he has joined the band GLANZ as … Continue reading

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Ju-ken, 2010

2010 was mostly VAMPS, with a little Quintillion Quiz and Becky. He was in the PV for ベッキー♪# (Becky) 好きだから (Suki Dakara) and did TV appearances with her for that song. Quintillion Quiz played some dates in the early part … Continue reading

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Ju-ken, 2009

I didn’t have regular internet access for a good chunk of the year (until August) and got out of the habit of posting here; this is a summary, but I don’t know that he did much outside of the big … Continue reading

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Hotei and the Wanderers Funky Punky Tour 2007-2008

The DVD is from the January 27, 2008 concert at Kawaguchi Lillia. I preordered this and watched it in early May and at least once since (was watching random songs, and eventually sat down and watched the whole thing). It’s … Continue reading

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Ju-ken, fall and winter, 2008

I’ve been keeping up with the 2008 activities of the Japanese bassist Ju-ken (just finished touring with VAMPS and occasionally playing with Anna Tsuchiya, will be in Gackt’s upcoming tour, has toured with Tomoyasu Hotei for the last few years, … Continue reading

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Tomoyasu Hotei – All Time Super Best Tour

The “All Time Super Best Tour” was a celebration of Hotei’s 25 years as a musician; the track list (at the end) has songs from BOØWY and COMPLEX as well as his solo career (including two previously-recorded covers). This is … Continue reading

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ends – Live 2005 Total Tone

ends is the solo project of Ryoichi Endo of Soft Ballet, started in 1997, and continuing until the present; it sounds nothing like Soft Ballet, though. He has a magnificent voice, but is unfortunately extremely overlooked and underrated. Musically, it … Continue reading

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random bits

This post of Ju-ken’s was interesting (history through picks!) and gave me more things to throw into google. I know everyone’s worked with everyone else at this point, but I never would have expected to find information about Ju-ken on … Continue reading

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