Combine / Nishimura Tomohiko
Today, on 7,000th day of this weblog, I'm afraid I have to place a sad news.On June 5, 2025, Nishimura Tomohiko, the guitarist of Sing Like Talking, departed from his life at the age 61 due to cancer.The members of Sing Like Talking, Satou Chikuzen and Nishimura Tomohiko and Fujita Chiaki are childhood friends.They formed a band in 1985, and won a contest in 1986 and got a chance to make their debut. Back then, the Band which was named Sing Like Talking to apply for the Contest, had six members.But the Record company plotted to keep Chikuzen and Chiaki who write most of their songs, and fire all other four members.Chikuzen thought that Nishimura's guitar is indispensable for music he wanted to create, So he persuaded the Record company and producer to keep Nishimura, too.Thus, Sing Like Talking became a trio group.While most of their songs are written by Chikuzen and Chiaki,From the album "Metabolism", Nishimura writes some of their songs. And you must not miss Nishimura's instrumental numbers included in S.L.T.'s singles and albums.Not only Nishimura has performed important roles as a guitarist of S.L.T.,But also he made a release of three albums of his own."Combine" is the third of them.First album is "Graffiti" and second album is "Wonderland".After S.L.T. made a release of album "Renascence", they went into long-term hiatus.Since this period, Nishimura began to work as a tour guitarist with CHAGE, Kai Yoshihiro, and so on.Superfluously; CHAGE, one of the duo members of "CHAGE & ASKA", and Nishimura look alike in appearance.Chikuzen jocularly describes them CHAGE & CHAGE.In 2021, Nishimura was found out that he had stage 4 mesopharyngeal cancer.At first, doctors thought it was too late to save him.But Nishimura himself had strong will to survive and come back to stage, and fought his illness.Miracle answered his willpower, and he completely recovered once.On S.L.T.'s 35th anniversary concert in spring 2023, Nishimura came back to the stage, and made public about the fact of his illness.However, his cancer flared up again and took a turn for the worse.According to other members of S.L.T., despite of the situation that seemed hopeless, he lived every day happily, performing guitar and talking with Chikuzen and Chiaki about S.L.T.'s stage and songs until his end of the road.Nishimura's final recording is Kai Band's latest album "Noir Midnight".The day when Nishimura's passing was announced was June 12, the anniversary of decease of Aoki Tomohito, the bassist of FOUR of a KIND. That reminded me of an interview I read on a memorial article for Aoki on a magazine.The interviewee was Asano Yoshiyuki alias Butcher who departed from his life about ten months after Aoki's passing.He said that back then, on Kadomatsu Toshiki's stages, he thought that Kadomatsu and Aoki and he were forming a triangle, but if a triangle loses one dot, two sides are also lost, and remains only one line.It's possible enough that Chikuzen and Chiaki keep on writing new songs together and perform S.L.T.'s songs on stages.But if I visit the concert by them two, I will be compelled face the reality that the Triangle of Sing Like Talking is lost forever.Realistically speaking, since Nishimura had terminal cancer once, I wondered whether he could live to become seventy.But I strongly believed that at least we can celebrate S.L.T.'s 40th anniversary together in 2028.Therefore, Nishimura's too early passing is nothing but all the more regretful.(Translation: Unable-to-think-up-Handle)"Combine" : August 26, 2020 POCE-12154"Wonderland" : April 18, 2015 CIACD-020"Graffiti" : June 24, 1998 FHCF-2427◇：Ready to place translation if askedWho is the 777,777th visitor!?
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