Members
- Vocals: Kyo
- Guitar: Kaoru
- Guitar: Die
- Bass: Kisaki
- Drums: Shinya
- Guitar: Shio [1995 / 1996 - gone]
profileLa:Sadie's was created in 1995 by
Kyo who, along with all of the other members, has gone on to a very successful career in music.
This young, independent, visual kei band released many demos in their
year-and-a-half of existence, yet they never really had a strongly
defined style. Though, that's not to say that they didn't know what
they were doing. The band drew their influences from a number of
different sources, particularly the band
Kuroyume and
Kyo's admiration for the vocalist
Kiyoharu.
In addition, each member brought his own style into the fray, and
together the five of them created a sound that was rare for that era
and even more rare, perhaps impossible, to find today.
biographyThe original idea of
La:Sadie's came about from vocalist
Kyo who had previously been a roadie for the bands
Kuroyume and
Albatross. After participating in a few bands around Kyoto, he decided to move to Osaka to see if his luck could change.
He was joined by his friend and drummer,
Shinya (ex
Siva and
Ruby) and bassist
Kisaki (ex
LAYBIAL,
SHEY≠DE,
Stella Maria etc. as well as a support member of
Ruby) and together with
#4 and
seine from
Stella Maria, they created the unit
Haijin Kurobara Zoku. This unit was more or less a copy band and they covered songs from
D'erlanger,
Luna Sea and of course
Kuroyume.
After awhile,
#4 and
seine left and the three remaining members created a completely new band:
La:Sadie's. They set out to find new musicians and, because they were band mates in
SHEY≠DE,
Kisaki recruited
Shio to help them out. A short time later, they found another guitarist by the name of
Die and he left his band,
ka.za.ri, to join them.
Shio, however, decided to leave around the beginning of 1996 and was replaced by
Kaoru (ex
CHARM).
With a fully established lineup,
La:Sadie's finally started releasing material. A very short while after
Kaoru joined, the band released their first demo tape entitled
Kakuu to Genjitsu... and it was limited to only 300 copies.
They participated in many events and mini tours and they would usually
distribute a demo for their dedicated fans. In all nine demos (though
some merely had different colored jackets with the same tracks) were
distributed throughout the year and occasionally, you can find them for
sale in various online sites. They participated in a small tour in
Nagano with a band called
D+L and quickly became friends with them. Also, they released a single,
objexxx, at their Nishikujou BRAND NEW oneman.
Just when things started looking up for the band, disagreements broke out between the members.
Kisaki wanted more control over the band and supposedly, he wanted
La:Sadie'sto stay indies while the other members wanted to go major. They
couldn't come to an agreement and he left in early 1997. Not letting
this stop them, the band called up
Toshiya, the bassist of
D+L (who had since joined
GOSICK), and proposed that he join the band and
Toshiya agreed.
At this point,
Kaoru took over as leader and the band performed a few lives in Nagano under the name of
DEATHMASK (perhaps a throwback to
Kyo's love of
Kuroyume?) and on February 2nd, they officially became the internationally known
Dir en grey.
Discography:| 1997-02-14 | Lu:Ciel |
| CD | single |
| 1996-12-20 | objexxx |
| CD | single |
| 1996-10-27 | Norowareta Rakuen no Kage... |
| tape | demo tape |
| 1996-08-10 | Juujika ni Sasageru Yume... (aka) | 十字架ニ捧ゲル夢… (赤) | tape | demo tape |
| 1996-08-10 | Juujika ni Sasageru Yume... (ao) | 十字架ニ捧ゲル夢… (青) | tape | demo tape |
| 1996-08-10 | Juujika ni Sasageru Yume... (midori) | 十字架ニ捧ゲル夢… (緑) | tape | demo tape |
| 1996-08-02 | DEAD ONE 2Shuunen Kinen |
| tape | demo tape |
| 1996-08-00 | Seimei no Tsumi |
| tape | demo tape |
| 1996-05-00 | Furan Yue ni... |
| tape | demo tape |
| 1996-04-16 | Seimei no Tsumi... |
| tape | demo tape |
| 1996-04-00 | Kaerazaru Kioku... |
| tape | demo tape |
| 1996-01-14 | Kakuu to Genjitsu... |
| tape | demo tape |
| 1996-00-00 | Nokosareta Kioku no Monogatari |
