Theme of SHIFT (Live at Carnival, Tokyo, 1986) Front Cover

Theme of SHIFT (Live at Carnival, Tokyo, 1986)

SHIFT, Hiroto Inoue, Kazutaka Kano, Toru Ogawa & Daichi Katsumata

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"Isn't it cheeky of you to name a song after your band?"
Isn't that what they say?
We have no choice. There is a reason for this.

The reason is that the arrangement of this song was completed in one live performance.

The original material of this song was made on the electone, and the demo tape consisted only of the melody and chord progression, and was made by the count of the rhythm box on the electone.

When the members heard the demo and said, "Well, let's try it out," they said, "What do you do first? I'll do the kiting," and the rest was up to each member to play as they pleased, and they were able to play all the way through in one shot.
Thanks to this, we have played the song live several times, but the rhythm and the way of playing changed freely according to the members' mood at the time, depending on how they looked at each other during the performance, and the song became a strange song that sounded different every time.

This song was also used to check everyone's mentality and practice level before practice.

That is why this song has become the theme song of SHIFT.

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