Loudness' Akira Takasaki play the "Crazy Nights" Riff

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Here's Akira Takasaki from the Japanese metal band Loudness in the Guitar World studio on May 31, warming up before filming a Lick of the Day video for Guitar World's iPad/iPhone app and doing a brief interview for GuitarWorld.com.
The ace guitarist demos the iconic "Crazy Nights" riff before launching into a full-on shredfest. Check out the photo gallery below -- and look for more Akira Takasaki photos on Guitar World's Facebook page / guitarworld

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@markgillease8896 Год назад

One of the best metal riffs of all time from one of the most original metal masters!

@TruthSurge 11 лет назад

Dude had a great tone back in those Crazy Nights.

@sryburn641 3 года назад

Word

@toma.4808 2 года назад

He Still does. The guy hasnt lost a step

@DaveWestGuitar 2 года назад

Marshall crunch and presence!🤘🏻

@dawson1787 2 года назад

One of the most underrated 80s shredders

@hefenzy Год назад

Is that joke? Video has no sound. It's on maximum, I checked

@evolutionmb 13 лет назад

Just saw Akira this spring and damn he's still a monster player live. ONe of the best metal players I've ever seen.

@Kumachanchan 9 лет назад

I was a rock musician in the 80's big band days (keyboards and guitar) and we LOVED Loudness. Japan represented in the day with them.

@rjc7289 5 лет назад

That should rank right up there with all the classic 80's metal riffs!

@AudiophileTubes 11 лет назад

One of the BEST hard rock/metal guitarists, EVER! Ungodly riffing and lead in his day!

@IncessantWake 7 лет назад

This guy is a phenomenal songwriter with killer tone and lead tone. He's been doing it for a very long time. My hats off to you master.

@GreenDayRoxer1 10 лет назад

I just met a Japanese dude in Toronto today who was visiting on vacation(you don't see many Japanese born metalheads here) and when I mentioned that I'm a fan of Loudness his face just lit up with excitement, as they are very well known amongst the metalheads there as I'm told, but not so much in the rest of the world. Truly unappreciated and underratred guitarist with awesome solo work as well in addition to what he has done with Loudness!

@warrengirl66 10 лет назад

Takasaki is awesome! I've always been a big Loudness fan ever since the 80's. They're probably one of my all time favorite Metal bands. \m/

@amyntut 5 лет назад

Saw these guys with Crue back in '85 here in Pennsylvania ( Allentown Fairgrounds) . People still talk about how they kicked ass with the limited stage room Motley Crue left them lol.

@wonnie 13 лет назад

LOUDNESSSSS!!! I love this band.

@robertmessinger6053 2 года назад

Great guitar tone, the way he uses his right hand to create artificial harmonics really helps the midrange frequencies to stand out. Literally, the tone is in his fingers and that’s the oldest cliche going but it’s really true in this case. Akira plays pinch harmonics with everything: chords, lead melodies, single note riffs, power chords. His sound is very unique and he plays with great technique for a player who came up in an era where shred guitar was relatively new…

@sandyjensen5233 8 месяцев назад

Amazing player, very under rated

@RobLed 11 лет назад

such an underrated and underappreciated band - i LOVE loudness and this riff is CLASSIC

@user-vy7yd7ec5x 6 лет назад

R. L. さ

@trampuslane9407 9 лет назад

i was about 13 when there first album hit america i had been playing guitar for a while and when i heared akira i loved his playing way better than 90% of the players here in the us

@markward189 10 лет назад

The absolute best Rock Guitarist in the world.!!! MZA!!!!!!!! Thanks Akira ...god bless man

@aaronbergAPB 9 лет назад

Awesome musician. Great player!!!

@ProfessorIgor 11 лет назад

one of the world's best... and has been for a LOMG time !!

@AudiophileTubes 12 лет назад

Akira = Hard rock / metal LEGEND! One of the best ever.

@citizenofcorona8783 6 лет назад

He's the Eddie Van Halen of Japan.

@GorditoCrunch343 6 лет назад

They were saying the same thing back in the 80's as well. I still remember Loudness opening up for Motley Crue in 85 and them just blowing Crue off the stage every night. Good times.

@atunconcaca09 5 лет назад

He is just Akira Takasaki. Nothing else.

@thanaphumsuepsangad1760 4 года назад

OMG.

@TheWickedAxe 13 лет назад

It goes to show that the player is more important than expensive pro music gear. Akira is playing through a little solid state Marshall amp and still sounds awesome!!!!

@beefcake0354 11 лет назад

best riff creator from 80's

@clutch2827 6 месяцев назад

One of the greats.

@rogerhickman6114 3 года назад

Always thought he was truly Magnificent!!!

@fastlaneprofits 6 лет назад

Akira takasaki best guitarist killer tapping licks!

@metalheadneji 11 лет назад

I love this riff.

@ProfessorIgor 12 лет назад

Master Shredder Akira-San !! Raudonesu !!!!!!!! fuck this man is brilliant.

@Panzerjaeger100 12 лет назад

Awesome! Love that intro riff. It's kind of intersting that he uses the thumb to fret the root note...

@nologo24 5 месяцев назад

His Metal riff and neo classic solo ❤❤❤❤❤

@huntersingle 10 лет назад

i hear his talent. hes right up with the best

@DiedrichKnickerbocker1783 8 лет назад

Holy tone, Batman!

@metalngames509 5 лет назад

Out of a little Blackstar too!!!

@BitchCityRocks 11 лет назад

awesome rick!

@ufcfan13 13 лет назад

Crazy nice!

@toma.4808 2 года назад

Akira Takasaki- Guitar God.

@wonnie 12 лет назад

@GHOSTVAL It's on top of the Blackstar, it's the one with the microphone near it.

@smokinvalves 10 лет назад

Deeply underrated player. Nice Blackstar.

@nealward8403 2 года назад

So badass!!!!

@unclealzbbq2185 2 года назад

love for akira

@MaikiStarwood 11 лет назад

Akira Takasaki, too good.

@antihax91 13 лет назад

I hope he plays Crazy Doctor in his full segment!

@hemmelight 13 лет назад

Yes, there's a Blackstar there, but the mic is clearly facing the little amp sitting on top of the Blackstar.

@KirneH004 13 лет назад

@jarekuXhide I was friends with a Japanese exchange student about 5 years ago. Wataru said that the hardest parts of learning English were word order (in Japanese "I opened the door" would be "I door open do (past)") and articles (Japanese has no "a" or "the" or "it", and no plurals). It's also VERY hard to get a native Japanese person to say "No" because they think it's rude to say no without checking. They might say "let me think about it", but the meaning is usually No.

@metallicaddict13 12 лет назад

@TheWickedAxe that's a blackstar amp

@Shoji86 13 лет назад

@harro333 Nope he's playing through the little marshall. look at the cable in the black star is red and the one akira has a black one in his guitar. Plus the mic is faceing towards the marshall not the blackstar =)

@Infinytwa 12 лет назад

he is a power guitar! very good!

@TrochezCovers 9 лет назад

THE MAN

@dkosandianos 12 лет назад

Best riff!

@DEANVX93 13 лет назад

@hemmelight and the amp is clearly not plugged in nor is there a cable coming from it

@Jarektv2 13 лет назад

@KirneH004 Thanks i didn't know that yet! it doesnt sound weird to me though it only makes it easier to learn the langauge in my opinion i want to learn japanese so bad

@hemmelight 13 лет назад

@DEANVX93 I can see the cable just fine. Why would the mic be right infront of an amplifier that isn't in use?

@SantomPh 13 лет назад

@JYZProductions they had Mike Vescera on board to try break into America, but they're with their original vocalist again.

@harro333 13 лет назад

@TheWickedAxe That "solid state Marshall" is actually an all tube Blackstar. Not taking away from this guy's playing or anything. Just FYI.

@pillionaire07 11 лет назад

He also probably has pedals in his chain as well, which would allow for a different colored chord going into the amp.

@gr3ssum 13 лет назад

Clazy Nights Liff!

@otherrandomhero 12 лет назад

@TheWickedAxe He's using a blackstar tube amp....

@primusdude87 13 лет назад

Oh man, what a throwback! Great tune, even if it is cheesy.

@patrickmcquillan3039 3 года назад

Whoooow !!

@Jarektv2 13 лет назад

@KirneH004 Yes i know the word order is different and i also think it is hard to learn because it sounds so weird and what are purals? sorry im from the netherlands

@Bricklinsv1970 Год назад

He plays the 6th string with his thumb wow! Fing cool!

@TheMetalHeaD256 12 лет назад

@jacktheguitarman actually he's right. look at where the microphone next to the Blackstar is actually pointed... sitting on top of the Blackstar is this tiny little Marshall MG amp. that's what he's playing out of... haha.

@TylerTeeple 12 лет назад

Hes playing out of the Blackstar because -There's no mic cable plugged into the SM58 -You can tell its the camera audio (the sound isnt focused, as well as you can hear his pick hitting the strings and when using the pickup selector) -That's not what a Mic'ed amp sounds like -That's not what a Marshall sounds like -Hes not plugged in to the marshall

@mikewatkins3533 3 года назад

Akira rules!!! 😎🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🍺🍺

@user-jw7lf2cu2q 6 месяцев назад

🤘

@KirneH004 13 лет назад

@jarekuXhide There is no V either-- they adapted it from B. It makes no sense to non-Japanese speakers, but the language never needed it.

@KirneH004 13 лет назад

@jarekuXhide Plurals are words that mean more than one thing-- men, cats, buildings, etc. Japanese sentences will say man, cat, building, but the words around it will show there's more than one. One last thing-- it's easier for a Japanese person to learn Spanish and a Spanish/Mexican person to learn Japanese than it is for English speakers to learn Japanese and Japanese to learn English, because a lot of Spanish and Japanese letters sound the same :)

@jacktheguitarman 13 лет назад

@TheWickedAxe actually a blackstar which is a fkin nice amp

@GHOSTVAL 12 лет назад

@TheWickedAxe where is Marshall?

@LeMasterDisaster 12 лет назад

what kind of guitar is he using?

@sirpazuzu 7 лет назад

AKIRA IS GOD!!!

@TheMetalHeaD256 12 лет назад

@TheWickedAxe haha YOU'RE RIGHT! i was just about to comment that he's using that Blackstar that the Marshall is standing on... then i looked at where the mic is pointing, and see there's a little 5-watt Marshall on there... hahahaha. good eyes.

@Daehawk 2 месяца назад

Classic

@RedBAkid 12 лет назад

is it an ht-5?

@TheGamersChronicles2 12 лет назад

Yep.

@jmaguerra 12 лет назад

@TheWickedAxe He's playing through the Blackstar really.

@dewycatt2112 12 лет назад

those guitars are called Killer" guitars.Atomic tommy Mclendon plyed them too" with UFO.

@KPXP3 13 лет назад

Was he using that little marshall?

@iulianpop3062 Год назад

super

@tigermane8251 2 года назад

Devil soldier is great title track 1982

@tommoore9309 8 лет назад

RIP Randall William Rhoads

@Jarektv2 13 лет назад

@KirneH004 I see xd well that won't help me much im half polish so i can also speak polish but i geuss that wont get me far

@BritishJenniPixieExplorer 11 лет назад

YESAnna! (lol) I jest, but you're absolutely right.

@manugrandest1683 4 месяца назад

Super guitariste. J'aurais aimé l'écouter dans un style pop rock pour voir ce que ça donne. Autre chose que du hard ou du métal, un jour peut être ?

@hongsbtcgta5 10 лет назад

dat tone .....

@crusTodd 12 лет назад

YEP, that'd be my favorite player. Sometimes a little wonky these days, but man he gets the tone live!

@nagativecreep97 12 лет назад

@TheWickedAxe acctually hes plugged into a larger blackstar tube :P

@user-wt8md3ld7r Год назад

👍👍👍👍👍👍

@MrYungsan 13 лет назад

Why not just plug into that half stack?

@drewamasterpiece5268 10 дней назад

R.i.P

@Maxx61 12 лет назад

melt on, melt off.

@stonecold9132 10 месяцев назад

Heavy influence from ACCEPT? Can hear Wolf Hoffman in their riffs

@knightfall9394 2 месяца назад

You can hear a lot of different bands in their songs and recognize guys akira himself liked to listen to in his playing

@darkknightthe1 12 лет назад

wth? that solo is just a few licks of Randy Rhoads's Suicide Solution live solo, but then changed a bit...

@TheLivingDeadVEVO 12 лет назад

hes actually playing through a marshall, look ontop of the blackstar.

@MattVehemety642 13 лет назад

H=That guy is pretty damn good. The guitar looks inconvenient to play though with the toggle way down at the bottom.

@arifreeman 13 лет назад

All that ampage and only the tiny one is being used. I approve.

@somn__ 13 лет назад

@TheWickedAxe dude thats a tube blackstar! i own it and it is much better than a solid state marshall

@areasevenpro 3 года назад

M-Z-A!

@ChrisTripleSixxx 13 лет назад

@TheWickedAxe look th blackstar dude...

@SecretWeapon62578 Год назад

Nice to see him featured, but it's a shame that most people here in the US only seem to know this song and the "Thunder In The East" album, when the band released material that was arguably far superior to it on the four albums they put out in Japan before "Thunder." And they have put out plenty of solid albums since. In fact, I've recently gone down a Japanese metal rabbit hole and found a whole bunch of other amazing bands. Doom, Sigh, Shellshock...

@knightfall9394 2 месяца назад

No one in the US prior to thunder in the east being released was gonna pay the prices for those imports. Ive read stories from guys who heard their earlier stuff and said it was great musically, but the Japanese lyrics were kind of a turn off or at least hard to get past