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''Another Game'' is the fifth studio album by P-Model and the last to feature the rhythm section of Sadatoshi Tainaka and Tatsuya Kikuchi.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.last.fm/music/P-Model/Another+Game )〕 ==Background== Sometime in either 1981 or 1982, P-Model frontman Susumu Hirasawa created two homebuilt instruments. One of them was the , a sampler made out of a tape loop delay machine and a synthesizer. He wanted to experiment with a sampler, but found company manufactured ones prohibitively expensive (according to Hirasawa, at the time a sampler cost just as much as a house in the suburbs, and he was rumored to have won the lottery). To conclude their BAND in Perspective tour of March 1982, P-Model performed a show titled , where Hirasawa freely used the Heavenizer, recording & looping the band's introductory greeting and the audience's cheering. Hirasawa brought out the Heavenizer to various shows throughout the year, and performed a sequel show, , where the first eight songs of the set were Heavenizer experimentation. On March 23, 1983, P-Model's management company Model House released a collection of Hirasawa's experiments with his homebuilt instruments, titled , the group's first independently-created release. In March 1983, Yasumi Tanaka, P-Model's keyboardist, left the group, and the music industry entirely, due to a severe case of writer's block, saying that he had no more ideas left. Since he was, alongside Hirasawa, the group's leading creative force since its days as Mandrake, Tanaka's departure left the band in a state of crisis; to try to overcome this situation, Hirasawa became the single creative force of the band. One of Hirasawa's Yamaha Synthesizer School students (from the piano course), Shunichi Miura, an aspiring musician recently graduated from high school, was brought in to play keyboards (and occasional guitar parts) on live shows, his first happening a week after Tanaka's last. Originally meant to be a temporary replacement, Miura kept performing on shows through the year and participated in the album's recording sessions, formally becoming a member of the band after the album's release. While reading a music magazine, Hirasawa saw an ad for Tōkai Gakki's then upcoming Talbo aluminum guitar. Drawn to the guitar's eccentric design, he immediately borrowed one from Tōkai by telephone. Hirasawa used the Talbo on this album (although the photographs on the back of the album's cover show Hirasawa with an ESP Random Star, his main guitar before the Talbo) and went on to use it in all following albums and shows, becoming his signature guitar. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Another Game」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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