Satoru Takagi - Keyboards

Influences

• Kevin Moore (Chroma Key, ex-Dream Theater)

• Dream Theater

• Derek Sherinian (Planet X, ex-Dream Theater)

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Favorite Bands & Musicians (&Albums)

• Chroma Key

• Dream Theater

• Liquid Tension Experiment

• Tony MacAlpine (Premonition, Evolution)

• Steve Vai (Passion and Warfare, Sex & Religion)

• Symphony X

• OSI

• Blue Man Group

• Michael Nyman

• Ennio Morricone

• Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman (Bat Out of Hell I and II)

• Saigon Kick (Water)

• Tears for Fears (Elemental)

• Duran Duran (The Wedding Album, Thank You, Medazzaland)

• Roxette

• Bruce Hornsby (Hot House)

• Enigma (Enigma III)

etc… 

* used to love hard-rock bands, like Extreme, Riot, Harem Scarem, and German heavy metal bands, like Helloween, Gamma Ray, Rage, Blind Guardian.    

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Japanese Stuff

• Heaven (Unnatural Groover)

• NMA

• Katze

• TM NETWORK (till an album “Carol”)

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Current Favorite Tunes

• Too many from the above

• "Waiting for Her," "Crying in the Rain," "Stay on These Roads" by a~ha

• "Higher and Higher" by Jackie Wilson

• "Magnificent Seven Theme"

• "South Beach Walk" by Tetsuya Komuro

• "Time to Say Goodbye" by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli

• "Ready for the Big Ride, Bubba" from OST "Face/Off"

• "She" by Elvis Costello

• "Symphonie Fantastique: March to the Scaffold" by Hector Berlioz

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Buddies

Korg Trinity pro Black named “Mr.T”

* Korg SG-proX and other keys have patiently been waiting for me to play in Japan.

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Thanks to the Following

• The Takagi family

• Yukiko

• 4 Badgers and their family

• Shinryu Suzuoki

• Kane, Malia, Doug, and Deena

• Everybody including “BASTARD PEOPLE” I’ve met in my life

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Miscellaneous

Check out some songs here.  www.milliongrand.com/main.htm 

“Open Hand” -   I played the piano and guitar tone including the last solo.

“MOK - SUBLIME MIX” -   I composed it and played the piano.

    “What It Is,” “Question,” “Soul Sound,” “Ready” -   I composed them and recorded almost all keys for loops, and then an engineer messed around with them. 

*Honestly, I’m not satisfied with them at all, but it was great fun making that type of music.  BTW, I wouldn’t recommend them to people who don’t like dance music.

 

Thank you for your time.

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