This record "Thunder In The East" was a fantastic album. The Guitarist Akira Takasaki is in my opinion at the same level as Yngwie Malmsteen and I'm from Sweden. They have changed style some times i guess thats why they didn't became bigger. They have over 20 albums and 4 before "Thunder In The East".
MZA didn't mean anything it just sounded good to them from some interview i read. I always just thought it was hey hey hey anyway, lol. This came out in like late 1984 or 85, i had the cassette as well. My brother in law was in the Navy and i was showing him Motley Crue and he was like, you ever hear of Loudness? Gave me the cassette, blew me away. Fan ever since. Saw them live finally 30 years later and got Akira to sign one of my guitars. I brought a 1988 special edition Akira model to the show. Actually the guy who he runs his guitar business is their tour manager and we talked about those guitars all night. The one i had was very rare and seemed they were surprised to see one in America.
LOUDNESS is a well known Japanese Rock band in South East Asia in the 80"s. I was a youth in that era. Iron Maiden, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Scorpions etc. Try hearing LOUDNESS "Heavy Chains".
They have released their 27th album "Rise to Glory" last year. I think only 5 of them were released in America (between 1985 and 1991) though. It was really interesting to hear about the memories you had on them! How amazing would that have been if you still had an old recording from back in the days :)
We're gonna wok and woll you,... LOVE IT !!. My intro to these guys was from a double cassette called Headbanger's Heaven.. It had Black Star Oblivion on it... badass song
I remember listening to this at band at 3:00 AM in a camper shell in the back yard, back in the very early 80s'. It was song called "Whipping Queen", on a weekend late night college radio metal show.
@@hopsmetalshow3413 Rampage Radio from UCSF, right across the bay from the birthplace of Thrash. Here's a show from '87. Should warn you. It starts out with FFFF by The Mentors.
Loudness has been playing since 1981, took a few years off in the 90's, and are still touring and putting out records. The just played in the Summer Sonic Festival in Japan a couple of months ago, and a few of their songs were live streamed wold wide. (Band-Maid played that show too, and also had a few songs live streamed). Here's one of the songs they did there... ruclips.net/video/kJ16PIXf7zo/видео.html
MZA means「MZA ARIAKE」it's name of night club of tokyo. Loudness had a management contract with them in that time. But that company was bankruptcy soon. After then "MZA" goes to be no mean.
Japanese music market is the world's second largest after the United States, and various categories of music were popular around the 80s. The topical city pop was also around this time, and that YMO was also in the first half of the 80s. Now, thanks to RUclips, it is becoming widely known around the world.
Nice reaction to LOUDNESS, that song is such a classic hard rock tune and the band are very known overseas thanks to it. In my country (Chile), there's a radio station that play it some times. I always watch your videos, they are really fun. Let me make a suggestion: If you have already done BAND-MAID reactions and now this one with LOUDNESS, I recommend you to check another kick ass japanese band that was very known in the late 90's and early 00's, that I think it needs to be spotlighted again because, due their long inactivity and lack of new material, they have fade into obscurity, I refer to SIAM SHADE. They play a mixture of Hard Rock with some flavors of Heavy Metal, some times a little thrashy, other a little bit of punk with some pop elements. If you liked BAND-MAID I think you will like them as well. Check out some songs: Get a Life: ruclips.net/video/sHl1RWM-diw/видео.html Virtuoso: ruclips.net/video/xfpB_OSRbOg/видео.html Allergy: ruclips.net/video/yn5hwsHBoLM/видео.html Triptych ruclips.net/video/cJ_yRA9yj0g/видео.html Cheers!!
Loudness opened up for Motley Crue during the Theater of pain tour. The feedback was that they kicked Motleys butt every night. Loudness got kicked off the tour.
Loudness was awesome but in all fairness to the Crue, everyone kicked their butts on stage. The most terrible live band in history. Motley Crue was all style and no substance.
Nemophila just released a cover version of "Crazy Nights" a couple days ago. They have been touring with Loudness in Japan (first tour as a 4-piece since guitarist Saki left) and the play "Crazy Nights" together as an encore. Saki leaving sucks, but the ladies have made some adjustments to current songs and will continue on as a 4 piece. Hazuki might look like a librarian, but she's a technical wizard and plays Steve Vai level instrumentals on videos demonstrating her signature Ibanez guitars and products. She shreds hard on the cover. Here's the link if you're interested. ruclips.net/video/rQ0SRKmcLAY/видео.htmlsi=SG0FsVujFv2JXoMj
Best version of this is the Once and for All live version with Taiji Sawada from X Japan on bass. They were big enough in Japan that X covered In The Mirror live in their club days. and Taiji ended up joining them for a while when he left X. Edit: also the MZA was just a placeholder because they weren't sure what to put there, but it worked so they left it in. Niihara: "Actually it does not have any meaning.When we were doing pre-production for the Thunder in the East album, I did not have any lyrics for Crazy Night then, so I sung total nonsense as a guide vocal for the demo recording. I sung “M.Z.A.” by accident and the producer Max Norman liked the line, even though that did not have any meaning. We were trying to create some cool line but we could not beat “MZA.” Max ended up deciding to use ”M.Z.A.” for the real take.”
Thunder in the East is such an amazing album, from start to finish. The album was their first in the US and came out in 85. Akira Takasaki is a guitar god and made Mick Mars look like child's play. They toured with Motley Crue on the Theater of Pain tour in August/September 85, after which they were replaced by Y&T. The consensus is that Motley Crue got tired of getting smoked by Loudness every night. Their second US album Lightning Strikes is pretty good too.
I consider him a pioneer and advanced, something strange being Japanese. If we analyze Loudness's first albums we can observe risky, progressive and advanced riffs and compositions for the time, even with some arrangements with touches of jazz, a modern style that makes us see other albums of the time (period between 1981 and 1984) and even in Lazy, the pre Loudness band, they seem archaic and primitive. If he had been an American, he would be in the top five of the best guitarists in history.
The band admitted in an interview that MZA meant nothing, it was fill in during recording and was to be replaced by other lyrics and couldn't find anything that sounded better and just MZA in the master recording
I also remember that on the radio show metal shop that everyone had a hard time getting but they said loudness thunder in the east was one of the top 10 disappointing debut albums and i thought they were nuts
M.Z.A. meant nothing. It was sung as nonsense for the demo recording. When they tried to think of a better line they liked the m.z.a. so they just left it in the final recording.
Loudness fan from back in the day told me they used to tour with Motley Crue. They still make albums. You guys should check out Show-ya this 80’s all female Japanese rock band inspire a lot of the new Japanese girl bands. And by the way this band is still a round with all the original members. some of the popular songs are Gambling , Fairy , One Way Heart , Genkai Lovers. And you guys should also check out they’ll Deep Purple Cover of Burn. Here a video for Genkai Lovers ruclips.net/video/pE5ENQYzqrc/видео.html
I saw Loudness in 1985 opening for Motley Crue they were fantastic.
My introduction as well!
Classic song, Akira is a guitar legend
This record "Thunder In The East" was a fantastic album. The Guitarist Akira Takasaki is in my opinion at the same level as Yngwie Malmsteen and I'm from Sweden.
They have changed style some times i guess thats why they didn't became bigger. They have over 20 albums and 4 before "Thunder In The East".
Thanks for the info
MZA didn't mean anything it just sounded good to them from some interview i read. I always just thought it was hey hey hey anyway, lol. This came out in like late 1984 or 85, i had the cassette as well. My brother in law was in the Navy and i was showing him Motley Crue and he was like, you ever hear of Loudness? Gave me the cassette, blew me away. Fan ever since. Saw them live finally 30 years later and got Akira to sign one of my guitars. I brought a 1988 special edition Akira model to the show. Actually the guy who he runs his guitar business is their tour manager and we talked about those guitars all night. The one i had was very rare and seemed they were surprised to see one in America.
Thanks for that story thats awesome .
LOUDNESS is a well known Japanese Rock band in South East Asia in the 80"s. I was a youth in that era. Iron Maiden, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Scorpions etc. Try hearing LOUDNESS "Heavy Chains".
have to check that out .
They were and still are an amazing band. They toured with Stryper at Stryper's biggest moment and wiped the floor with them.
This is Grims favorite Loudness song! Hopefully one day we'll see them in the States! Good pick for Jerry. :)
They have released their 27th album "Rise to Glory" last year. I think only 5 of them were released in America (between 1985 and 1991) though.
It was really interesting to hear about the memories you had on them!
How amazing would that have been if you still had an old recording from back in the days :)
We're gonna wok and woll you,... LOVE IT !!. My intro to these guys was from a double cassette called Headbanger's Heaven.. It had Black Star Oblivion on it... badass song
'Thunder In The East' and 'Lightning Strikes' are 2 of the BEST metal albums EVER! Bombastic, masterclass stuff!
日本の誇り
I'm am the only one out of all my metal friends that likes Loudness.
Don Teare dude they are awesome. I’ve got their first 4 albums on original vinyl and they sound so damn awesome. Loudness is freaking dope
Still got vynil too. Akira Takasaki is one mean guitar player. They rule man.
I'm not saying you should do this but maybe it's time for some new friends, ha.
Loudness did tour with Motley Cruel during 80s.
I remember listening to this at band at 3:00 AM in a camper shell in the back yard, back in the very early 80s'. It was song called "Whipping Queen", on a weekend late night college radio metal show.
@@hopsmetalshow3413 Rampage Radio from UCSF, right across the bay from the birthplace of Thrash. Here's a show from '87. Should warn you. It starts out with FFFF by The Mentors.
Loudness has been playing since 1981, took a few years off in the 90's, and are still touring and putting out records. The just played in the Summer Sonic Festival in Japan a couple of months ago, and a few of their songs were live streamed wold wide. (Band-Maid played that show too, and also had a few songs live streamed).
Here's one of the songs they did there...
ruclips.net/video/kJ16PIXf7zo/видео.html
MZA means「MZA ARIAKE」it's name of night club of tokyo.
Loudness had a management contract with them in that time.
But that company was bankruptcy soon.
After then "MZA" goes to be no mean.
Japanese music market is the world's second largest after the United States, and various categories of music were popular around the 80s. The topical city pop was also around this time, and that YMO was also in the first half of the 80s. Now, thanks to RUclips, it is becoming widely known around the world.
Nice, a riff that's pretty recognizable. Saw them with Motley in 85 and then just them 20 years later in 05.
Akira Takasaki best guitarrist of Japan
Love Loudness my favorite song is Shadows of war
me too, that damn riff just kills
LOUDNESS #1
Vo. Minoru Niihara
G. Akira Takasaki
Ba. Masayoshi Yamashita
Dr, Munetaka Higuchi
Nice reaction to LOUDNESS, that song is such a classic hard rock tune and the band are very known overseas thanks to it. In my country (Chile), there's a radio station that play it some times. I always watch your videos, they are really fun. Let me make a suggestion: If you have already done BAND-MAID reactions and now this one with LOUDNESS, I recommend you to check another kick ass japanese band that was very known in the late 90's and early 00's, that I think it needs to be spotlighted again because, due their long inactivity and lack of new material, they have fade into obscurity, I refer to SIAM SHADE. They play a mixture of Hard Rock with some flavors of Heavy Metal, some times a little thrashy, other a little bit of punk with some pop elements. If you liked BAND-MAID I think you will like them as well. Check out some songs:
Get a Life:
ruclips.net/video/sHl1RWM-diw/видео.html
Virtuoso:
ruclips.net/video/xfpB_OSRbOg/видео.html
Allergy:
ruclips.net/video/yn5hwsHBoLM/видео.html
Triptych
ruclips.net/video/cJ_yRA9yj0g/видео.html
Cheers!!
Loudness opened up for Motley Crue during the Theater of pain tour. The feedback was that they kicked Motleys butt every night. Loudness got kicked off the tour.
Loudness was awesome but in all fairness to the Crue, everyone kicked their butts on stage. The most terrible live band in history. Motley Crue was all style and no substance.
@@smbake . I don't know. Aerosmith sucked pretty hard.
Nemophila just released a cover version of "Crazy Nights" a couple days ago. They have been touring with Loudness in Japan (first tour as a 4-piece since guitarist Saki left) and the play "Crazy Nights" together as an encore. Saki leaving sucks, but the ladies have made some adjustments to current songs and will continue on as a 4 piece. Hazuki might look like a librarian, but she's a technical wizard and plays Steve Vai level instrumentals on videos demonstrating her signature Ibanez guitars and products. She shreds hard on the cover. Here's the link if you're interested. ruclips.net/video/rQ0SRKmcLAY/видео.htmlsi=SG0FsVujFv2JXoMj
Thunder in the east, best albun ever in 85 behind powerslave
Loudness had another album called soldier of fortune with a american singer
Man is impossible to not enjoying that riffs
Best version of this is the Once and for All live version with Taiji Sawada from X Japan on bass. They were big enough in Japan that X covered In The Mirror live in their club days. and Taiji ended up joining them for a while when he left X.
Edit: also the MZA was just a placeholder because they weren't sure what to put there, but it worked so they left it in.
Niihara: "Actually it does not have any meaning.When we were doing pre-production for the Thunder in the East album, I did not have any lyrics for Crazy Night then, so I sung total nonsense as a guide vocal for the demo recording. I sung “M.Z.A.” by accident and the producer Max Norman liked the line, even though that did not have any meaning. We were trying to create some cool line but we could not beat “MZA.” Max ended up deciding to use ”M.Z.A.” for the real take.”
The gong was probably a drum solo footage
Saw them with Keel, than twice at The Chance Theatre in Poughkeepsie , NY . Kick ass band .
Akira's tone was incredible !
Thunder in the East is such an amazing album, from start to finish. The album was their first in the US and came out in 85. Akira Takasaki is a guitar god and made Mick Mars look like child's play.
They toured with Motley Crue on the Theater of Pain tour in August/September 85, after which they were replaced by Y&T. The consensus is that Motley Crue got tired of getting smoked by Loudness every night.
Their second US album Lightning Strikes is pretty good too.
Mza don't mean anything according to loudness. Lead vocalist said he had no lyrics for this song when they made video. He said it was all jibberish.
saw these guys with stryper and tnt awesome show!
SDI, This Lonely Heart, In My Dreams and of course R&R Crazy Nights are all great songs.
I never knew what mza meant either but i do know that they opened up for motley crue in new york and the guitarist did not speak any english
we could be together is another good tune from the same album ... hell there all good!!!
People in cages, standard 80's metal video thing.
I consider him a pioneer and advanced, something strange being Japanese. If we analyze Loudness's first albums we can observe risky, progressive and advanced riffs and compositions for the time, even with some arrangements with touches of jazz, a modern style that makes us see other albums of the time (period between 1981 and 1984) and even in Lazy, the pre Loudness band, they seem archaic and primitive. If he had been an American, he would be in the top five of the best guitarists in history.
Thank you
The band admitted in an interview that MZA meant nothing, it was fill in during recording and was to be replaced by other lyrics and couldn't find anything that sounded better and just MZA in the master recording
I also remember that on the radio show metal shop that everyone had a hard time getting but they said loudness thunder in the east was one of the top 10 disappointing debut albums and i thought they were nuts
@@hopsmetalshow3413 yeah without you tube and internet we wouldnt hear about much
They were also very uninformed, since it was actually their 5th album but the first released in America and in English I believe.
Ok guys...I wanna do a React with you all...got family in Montgomery Texas!!! Let’s make it work!!!!
We might be down with that
Liked Loudness. That riff was mean.
M.Z.A. meant nothing. It was sung as nonsense for the demo recording. When they tried to think of a better line they liked the m.z.a. so they just left it in the final recording.
Loudness fan from back in the day told me they used to tour with Motley Crue. They still make albums. You guys should check out Show-ya this 80’s all female Japanese rock band inspire a lot of the new Japanese girl bands. And by the way this band is still a round with all the original members. some of the popular songs are Gambling , Fairy , One Way Heart , Genkai Lovers. And you guys should also check out they’ll Deep Purple Cover of Burn. Here a video for Genkai Lovers ruclips.net/video/pE5ENQYzqrc/видео.html
saw them with Stryper and TNT
Two great bands there
MZA = They took the 1st, Middle and last letter of the alphabet. And mixed it up.
Thanks for the info
Y’all have to be from NC with those accents. I love that piedmont oh.
We are actually from VA bout 2 hours from DC and Richmond
Hops Metal Show, so not too far off then.
@@JJF1973 nope pretty good guess
Asterism ,do a loudness cover,in the mirror with vocals.Cheers.
@@hopsmetalshow3413 Do the original with the Japanese lyrics, they took a lot of the amazing guitar work out of the English version.
Never heard of these guys not bad. Got a request Burning Witches /Hexenhamer
@@hopsmetalshow3413 Thanks
I bet you guys forgot about Zodiac Mindwarp - Prime Mover.... have a laugh fellas. Peace from Australia
its slowly
crazy Doctor
try.. indonesian rock band...roxx..rock bergema
I added it to the list
Ah hair nation....nice
MZA meant nothing I do believe...
I think they watch Christian chant as we watch Loudness
Far from their best songs
100th veiwer lol...
MZA meant absolutely nothing.