OldSkuleNerd Tribute - KAMIBAND The Hill of Wisteria RIP Mikio on the anniversary of his passing 

Bit of history on this song. Originally, this song was called "The Gathering of Metal Warriors", which makes sense, for it being the Kami Band. But with Mikio and all that he was with the Kami Band, Kari Band, and Babymetal, The Hills of Wisteria is more apropos: Fuji is Japanese for the Wisteria Flower. Oka is Japanese for "hills". So, The Hills of Wisteria is literally his name: Fujioka. There is another performance of this at a tribute show after he died. Mikio's wife gave Takayoshi Ohmura Mikio's pink ESP Snapper (It's the Mikio Fujioka signature model ESP Snapper; neither Ohmura or Mikio are playing it in this clip). It was fitting for him, as Mikio was Ohmura's teacher and mentor. That guitar has serious meaning now: 1. Taped to the back of that headstock is a cigarette. That was Mikio's favorite cigarette, and serves as an invitation for him to come back and play it at any time. 2. Under the bridge and pickups plate at the back of the guitar is a letter. That letter is written to Mikio, by his daughter. Nothing more to really be said about that. 3. Ohmura stated that from now on, whenever he is playing with Babymetal, that guitar will always be there, either on stage behind him, or him playing it. This is so Mikio is always on stage performing with them, in one form or another. 4. This hit the girls hard as well. While Moa was already learning how to play guitar and knows a few chords on her own, Mikio was teaching both Moa and Yui in their spare time on tour. So in a sense, they lost a favored uncle, protector, and teacher as well. 5. The Mikio Fujioka tribute show, arranged and put on by Ohmura, is called "My Little God". Not only is the entire show available on DVD/Blu-Ray, but they are putting this show on every year, with all of the proceeds/funds going to help Mikio's family and organics business. Additionally, they will always play videos of Mikio playing and in his element to his children, so the children will always know who he is and never forget him, plus keep his memory alive to them. So this song has serious meaning both inside and outside of Babymetal.

Damn ninjas cutting onions.. Go away..

Missed but never forgotten.

You have to see the one they did after Mikio passed. You could feel the mourning in the way they were playing, it was so sad, yet so beautiful.

Missed Ko Kami (Little Smiling God). Missed but never forgotten.

Well said. RIP Mikio

His talent is still missed. It was too soon. _Wherever you are live in our hearts._

Nice and thanks from Japan 有難う💛。There is a band called "KARI Band" (Not Kami band) lead by BOH and Maeta (former Kami band drummer). They plays instrumental music entitled "I See You" dedicated to Mikio. It has very beautiful melody featuring BOH's fretless bass. BOH said "There is no guitar part in this tune. We left that out, because that's where Mikio plays."

One of the greatest accomplishments of Kobametal was getting these guys to support Babymetal. What an insane concentration of talent.

Fuck I miss Mikio. Probably my all time favorite guitarist. Guy was just on a whole other level. The Kami-band did this song after he died to raise money for his family and Ohmura, the other guitarist was bawling the entire time. Shit was rough to watch

R.I.P Mikio🤘

amazing speech old school choked up am i

Star light, Legend never die 🤟🏻🦊🔥🎸🔥

Such a tragic loss to the music world, his family, and the band. I didn't get into Babymetal till the late summer of 2018. I was so knocked out by his playing I REALLY started searching & watching the videos of him playing only to find out he'd passed earlier that year. The band he formed with the drummer Yuya Maeta, and BOH before his passing, The Kari Band, one of his students Satoshi Oka is playing in his place now, and plays very much in the style of Mikio. The fact he was asked by Maeta & BOH to play speaks volumes of his talent. On another note, I recommend if you haven't seen it yet, Mikio did a demo video for the Marshall JVM amp, and the tune he wrote for it is fantastic, simply called The JVM Song. I have it in my "watch later" collection so I can hear it when I want to.

His passing broke my heart. I still miss him stage left.

when i where younger my guitar teacher told me that i should start playing drums instead of guitar because i was short, my fingers where too short etc. so i started playing drums, and i played drums for nearly 16 years, then i saw Mikio Fujioka on youtube. 158 tall and he owned his guitar, i went back to guitar recently and mostly thanks to him! Thank you Mikio Fujioka for showing me that even though we are short, there are always ways around it! i will miss him!

R.I.P Mikio🤘🎸🦊🤘

beautiful content brother RIP Ko-Gami, may you stand first in line to play in the heavens.

This song used to be called "The Gathering of Metal Warriors", but now is called "The Hill of Wisteria"... why?... because Fujioka in japanese is written 藤岡, the first kanji 藤 (fuji) means "wisteria" and the second kanji 岡 (oka) means "hill", so now this is his song. ❤🤘

Big Big Big Thank You 🤘🏻🦊🤘🏻

wow! still got emotional watching

Boh is one of the best I've ever seen

thank u makio may u rest in peace 😢god bless

Too soon... one of the most incredible and skilled guitarists I’ve ever heard. Not only that, but that smile tells a lot about a person and he was one of a kind. The brightest star in the sky when you look up, well, that’s him.

Just came by to hit the like button, not ready to watch the reaction vid yet, I still get too emotional on the subject of Mikio's death, I really miss him :/ But thanks for doing this commemorative reaction vid ... promise to watch it someday :)

Big thanx for this from JP🤘

🍅🍅🍅 🤘🏼🦊🤘🏼 Forever missed MIKIO.

Wonderful yet again. Excellent job on both reactions. We appreciate you!

RIP Mikio-Sama 🤘🔥🦊🔥🤘

love these guys. Thanks Mikio for everything!!!

Amazing as always. RIP Mikio.

sayonara mikio

Mikio and Hideki look totally different out of the makeup. Boh and Takayoshi both are pretty recognizable either way. Their are lots of videos of Mikio being incredible on youtube, but this song always hits just right.

Mikio Fujioka is teacher from Takayoshi Ohmura (guitar pink)

i am so glad i found this performance. thanks a ton for posting.

Thankyou for uploading this, he was a special soul deeply missed

Thank you for your warmest comment‼️

RIP mikio

心から本当にありがとうございます。藤岡さんのギターをもう一度目の前で聞きたいです。

damn! they are so good at it.

Thanks for part 2 of your nicely done tribute to our Little God. Nice choice to show this version of Hill of Wisteria with Mikio playing, that's how to remember him. The tribute version is so emotional and sad, I couldn't easily have watched it today....but maybe I will anyway. There are lots of lovely words already in the comments here, and I can't say it any better than those. Never to be forgotten you wonderful talented man. You live on through your music...RIP Ko Gami.

thank you

this man, legend... mad respect. Wait for us up there, someday will join sooner or later it's unavoidable.

That was a really lovely tribute , Well done OSN, RIP Mikio❤

You missing Mikio is hard. Me missing Hide from X Japan is rough.

Thanks for wacht whisteria of RIP mikio fujioka.. did you like to watched n react guitar fingerstyle alip bata

Great but you should have done the Tribute song they did after he passed very emotional same song but without him

Going to make it a 3 part Mikio Day, and react to the Tribute concert of Hills of Wisteria?

Wouldnt it be great if Kamiband got a decent singer and just did their own thing

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