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Birthday: <\/strong>10\/26<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lyle (Drums and Vocals)<\/strong>\u00b7         <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Musical influences\/Favourite band?<\/strong> VINNIE Colaiuta, BB King, EWF, Slayer, TOOL, Metallica Gwar, MJ, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experience:<\/strong> 40 years drumming<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Achievement:<\/strong> Worked at Walt Disney World,  Tokyo Disney Resort,Exile Shokichi, Exile Atsushi solo tours-<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hideki (Bassist)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birthday:<\/strong> 1972 April 3rd<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musical influences\/Favourite band?<\/strong> Van Halen, ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Brothers Band…<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experience:<\/strong> 45 years! Started learning piano at 3 yrs old and started play guitar since I was 12 yrs old…<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Achievement:<\/strong> Japan Battle of Bands finalists hosted by Gibson Guitars.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daisuke (Guitar, Vocals, keyboards and harmonica)<\/strong>\u00b7         <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birthday: <\/strong>14th Dec 1982

Influences:<\/strong>Live music was always around my family. Grandpa (piano), Grandma (Taisho-Goto, Japanese harp, she had played at budokan!), Aunt (high school music teacher), Mother (piano), Cousins (drummer, bassist, singers, we often sang together at Karaoke at our uncle\u2019s home).

Favourite Bands?<\/strong>The Beatles, Prince, Michael Jackson, Van Halen, AC\/DC, G\u2019n\u2019R, U2, Lenny Kravitz, Def Leppard…etc

Experience:<\/strong> Started to play guitar since I was 14. Also bass, piano, and percussion later.

Achievement:<\/strong> Played guitar for more than 30 bands, including some singers from major label. Also played with super pro-musicians around LA California for several time including musicians from the bands of MJ, Lenny Kravitz, David T Walker…etc I’m open to play any kind of music<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John (Vocals)<\/strong>\u00b7         <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birthday: <\/strong>2nd June 1977<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Influences:<\/strong> My father is a singer, pretty damn good one too! He sings traditional Irish songs, Johnny Cash, Dean Martin etc. My mothers side are also very musical and many of my cousins play in bands & sing also. My mother brought me to a Bon Jovi, Plant & Page and Thin Lizzy Tribute concerts when I was pretty young. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Favourite Bands?<\/strong> TOOL, AC\/DC, Nirvana, At The Drive-In, The Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Guns N’ Roses, Bob Marley, Fleetwood Mac, Biffy Clyro, Incubus, RATM, Bill Hicks, Cat Stevens, Planxty, Bill Withers, Jimi Hendrix, Maria Callas & Pavarotti <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experience:<\/strong> Started to play guitar when I was 16. Was too shy to sing until I found Karaoke and was invited to sing in an acoustic duo called “C as in Fish”. Then I started to sing rock, first with guitar but realized my guitar playing sucked so I stopped!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Achievement:<\/strong> Have played in front of 3000 people supporting the grammy award winning band “Halestorm”. Also sang Solo in front of 3000 people and made to the Japan Battle of Bands finalists hosted by Gibson Guitars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yoshi (Guitar & vocals)<\/strong>\u00b7         <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birthday:<\/strong> 1971 Dec 27th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musical influences: <\/strong>Rock and roll in the 50’s and 60’s that my dad was listening to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Favourite band:<\/strong> AC\/DC, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, CCR, Free, Led Zeppelin, Status Quo, ZZ Top<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experience:<\/strong> Started to play guitar since I was 13. Also bass, drum later<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Birthday: 10\/26 Lyle (Drums and Vocals)\u00b7          Musical influences\/Favourite band? VINNIE Colaiuta, BB King, EWF, Slayer, TOOL, Metallica Gwar, MJ, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley Experience: 40…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kkoverdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kkoverdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kkoverdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kkoverdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kkoverdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kkoverdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/kkoverdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kkoverdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kkoverdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}