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Berrie

Berrie

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Berrie was the original band name of The Mad Capsule Markets
The Mad Capsule Markets
THE MAD CAPSULE MARKETS were a Japanese band that formed in 1990 and were active until 2006...

. The Markets first performance occurred during their senior year at a school festival. The Markets also released one Demo entitled POISON REVOLUTION (complete with Japanese Air Raid announcements and the songs included were redone for the SPEAK!! album.). After that they later played a whole host of live shows at The Shinjuku Loft, 7th Avenue and Nippon Fujisawa, which featured a lot of songs that appeared (and some that were never heard of again) on the Humanity album.
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Berrie was the original band name of The Mad Capsule Markets
The Mad Capsule Markets
THE MAD CAPSULE MARKETS were a Japanese band that formed in 1990 and were active until 2006...

. The Markets first performance occurred during their senior year at a school festival. The Markets also released one Demo entitled POISON REVOLUTION (complete with Japanese Air Raid announcements and the songs included were redone for the SPEAK!! album.). After that they later played a whole host of live shows at The Shinjuku Loft, 7th Avenue and Nippon Fujisawa, which featured a lot of songs that appeared (and some that were never heard of again) on the Humanity album. after opening for the likes of Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1983. For most of the band's existence, the members have been vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Michael "Flea" Balzary, and drummer Chad Smith...

  drummer Seto was replaced by Motokatsu, the band changed their name to The Mad Capsule Markets and a re-release of just Government Wall Was bought out. Recently UK mad capsule fans have found the demo tape and a rare live show at the 7th Avenue and they has been passed around the filesharing network, soulseek
Soulseek
Soulseek is a peer-to-peer file-sharing network and application. It is used mostly to exchange music, although users are able to share a variety of files. It was created by Nir Arbel, a former Napster programmer. The server used is composed of two networks since 2006...

.

Members

  • Hiroshi Kyono
    Hiroshi Kyono
    Hiroshi Kyono is the vocalist for The Mad Capsule Markets.- Early years :Kyono claims that in his earlier years he was an MTV junky, in high school he started listening to Japanese punk like Gauze, The Stalin, Inu, and Aburadako. Then he ventured out into overseas punk like Crass and Pop Group...

    -Vocals
  • Kure Takeshi (Takeshi Ueda
    Takeshi Ueda
    is the bassist, programmer, additional vocalist and song writer for The Mad Capsule Markets. He is often known for his unique way of bass guitar playing, and ever changing haircuts.-Musical career:...

    )-Bass
  • Scene(Minoru Kojima
    Minoru Kojima
    Minoru Kojima was the original guitarist for Japanese Punk group The Mad Capsule Markets. He started Mad in 1985 with vocalist Kyono, in an attempt to create "loud, punk music" after becoming "bored" with music played on television and radio...

    )-guitars
  • Seto-drums

Discography



POISON REVOLUTION Demo Tape
  1. Love & Peace Revolution (later retitled Public Revolution.)
  2. Government Wall
  3. Lady G (unreleased)


Love & Peace Revolution contain samples from an announcement about Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet...

and the Japanese attacks on the Americans. Whilst Lady G remains to be unreleased.