Hey guys, long time no see.
I ran across something that might interest everyone- Kami's obituary in BAND magazine. A Japanese friend of mine posted a picture on fb of a bunch of old VK mags he found in a box or something and I commented on all the MM stuff. He then said that, when he was going through them, he found one that had an obituary spread for Kami in it.
He said I could share the photos with you guy and he also included a translation, which was extremely nice of him.
Here's the collection- he didn't tell me which issue it came from, but I'm guessing it's not any of the ones with Hide on it, which narrows it down pretty well:
Here are the photos he took of the obituary spread:
And here is his translation of the pages:
Anyway, I thought this was something we probably didn't have yet on scape, which is, well, an extremely rare event. So I wanted to make sure it got here.
Thanks guys!
-Kyu
I ran across something that might interest everyone- Kami's obituary in BAND magazine. A Japanese friend of mine posted a picture on fb of a bunch of old VK mags he found in a box or something and I commented on all the MM stuff. He then said that, when he was going through them, he found one that had an obituary spread for Kami in it.
He said I could share the photos with you guy and he also included a translation, which was extremely nice of him.
Here's the collection- he didn't tell me which issue it came from, but I'm guessing it's not any of the ones with Hide on it, which narrows it down pretty well:
Here are the photos he took of the obituary spread:
And here is his translation of the pages:
This page has three condolences from some people having had relationships with Kami. And one of them is from MM.
1, This is a sudden unexpected thing but we have to announce really sad news. One of MM members, the drummer, Kami, died of subarachnoid hemorrhage at his house on 21st of June. Kami was really nice to us, so we`re so grateful to him. His funeral was held today with only a small number of people, like, his parents, his relatives and MM members. That was his parents` request. They wanted to hold his funeral with a few people. All of you, please pray that his soul may rest in peace. 1999, June 25th. From Souichiro Otsuka and Sachie(or Yukie) Ito.
(And this is my opinion, on # 1, they didn`t say Gackt didn`t attend the funeral. this is from Aki, me)
2, We`re so sad that there`re no words we can express because it was a sudden event. But we have to get over this sadness, we shouldn`t get sad always from this event. We`ll keep MM and be in action for Kami to move on from now on. Please support us even after this with a warm heart. By MM.
3, In the middle of the night, I was surprised and shocked at the letter sent by FAX saying about Kami`s death. I was dumbfounded for a while. MM was no longer in business because of Gackt leaving MM last year. We were just wating for MM to restart again. On the stage of the event taken place by their fan club in April, Kami was fine and there was nothing the audience were worried about. But he doesn`t exist in this world now. Since before their major debut, MM members were already unique and eccentric in a good way whenever I interviewed them and there was a tense atmosphere a bit and only Kami was a bit different from the other members. He seemed or looked just nice and created a good and nice atmosphere. Kami and I also had a good or sometimes funny or stupid conversation but he was always smiling and seemd friendly. Only when we talked about drums, he was so eloquent. When I showed him music equipment pictures, he looked so interrested in them like a very frolicsome child. After the Budokan concert, he was crying over a member of his family`s death, in front of so many staff. Human have frail life. He must have thought he wanted to restart and be on the stage with the rest of MM members till his sudden death. He talked about his dreams, and his dreams came true one by one, he gave a lot of people dreams and moved people. But he went to heaven like a butterfly with large wings flapping slowly. MM will definitely come back with Kami`s will and soul. MM will definitely come back because Kami should have thought he wanted to. What I can do now is just pray for the repose of his soul and wait for MM to come back. From Satoshi Fushimi, an editor of this magazine.
And the subject of this page is Like a butterfly flying in the sky.
Anyway, I thought this was something we probably didn't have yet on scape, which is, well, an extremely rare event. So I wanted to make sure it got here.
Thanks guys!
-Kyu