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Track listing

Bonus Live DVD

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# " Love Bomb" # " Go for It, Baby (Kioku no Sanmyaku)" # " Ultra Soul" # " Splash!" # "Brighter Day" # "

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" # " It's Showtime!!" # " Shōdō" # " Home" # "

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Personnel

;B'z *

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

- guitars ;Session members * Barry Sparks - bass * Chiharu Mikuzuki - bass on "Classmate" * Akira Onozuka -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, organ on "Amarinimo" * Takanobu Masuda - organ on "Epic Day" *

Shane Gaalaas Shane Gaalaas (born August 8, 1967) is a Canadian-born drummer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter best known for his long running affiliation with Japanese rock superstars B'z, whom he joined in 2002, and his extensive work with guitar virtuos ...

- drums *

Hideo Yamaki is a Japanese jazz drummer and percussionist. He is known for being the long time drummer for Toshinori Kondo's band Kondo IMA. He also collaborated with Arto Lindsay, John Zorn, Sakamoto Ryuichi, Hosono Haruomi, Robert Palmer and Bill Laswell ...

- drums on "Classmate" * Kazuki Katsuta -

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

on "Las Vegas" * Shiro Sasaki and Toyama Takushi -

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

on "Las Vegas" * Makoto Igarashi -

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

on "Las Vegas" * Atsushi Doyama -

horn Horn most often refers to: *Horn (acoustic), a conical or bell shaped aperture used to guide sound ** Horn (instrument), collective name for tube-shaped wind musical instruments *Horn (anatomy), a pointed, bony projection on the head of various ...

on "Classmate" * 小瀧綾 -

oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range. ...

on "Classmate" * Hiroko Ishikawa - strings on "Exit to the Sun" and "Classmate" * Maiko Sugiyama - strings on "Kimi wo Kinishinai Hi Nado" * Lime Ladies Orchestra - strings on "Exit to the Sun", "Classmate" and "Kimi wo Kinishinai Hi Nado" * Yoshinobu Ohga - arrangements on all tracks except "Exit to the Sun", "Classmate" and "Kimi wo Kinishinai Hi Nado" * Hideyuki Terachi - arrangements on tracks 1, 2, 3, 7 and 9

Certifications

References

External links

B'z official website
2015 albums B'z albums Being Inc. albums Japanese-language albums {{2010s-pop-rock-album-stub