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, known exclusively by his stage name , is a Japanese musician, best known as the drummer of the rock band
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since 1985. He is the older brother of Yutaka Higuchi, Buck-Tick's bassist.


Life and career

Toll Yagami dropped out of high school in the tenth grade. His first bands were Shout and Spots, with the latter eventually changing their name to SP. In 1984, the members of
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, the band of Yagami's younger brother Yutaka, moved to
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, sans drummer
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. Sakurai asked Yagami if he could join SP as vocalist, but was refused. A year later, when Buck-Tick's vocalist Araki was fired and Sakurai replaced him, Yutaka convinced Yagami to join as their drummer.''LOVE ME'', Yasue Matsuura, Takao Nakagawa; Shinko Music Publishing Company, Ltd. 1989. . The line-up has remained the same since, and Buck-Tick are commonly credited as one of the founders of the
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movement. Throughout Buck-Tick's long career, Yagami's only writing credits have been lyrics for two songs; "Feast of Demoralization" (on ''
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'') and "Dizzy Moon" (on '' Aku no Hana''). Yagami was the head of Banker, the management company that Buck-Tick formed in 1996. Yagami was inspired at an early age by classic rock such as
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,
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, and
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. He held drum clinics in Japan in May 1994 and the summer of 1999. He has also played on the 1999 album (tribute album for
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of
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), performing the song "
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". Genet, vocalist of Japanese
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band Auto-Mod, is good friends with Yagami and occasionally writes about him on his
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. Yagami supported Auto-Mod at their live at Shinjuku Loft in 2006 (the live was part of a set of shows celebrating the venue's 30th anniversary.) Selia, the backup vocalist, was introduced to Buck-Tick through Genet and performed backing vocals on the songs "Mr. Darkness and Mrs. Moonlight" and "Revolver" on Buck-Tick's 2007 album '' Tenshi no Revolver''.''Goth Diary of a Fetish Daddy''
official blog of Genet, vocalist of Auto-Mod
Interview with Selia at JaME World
Kay, Rik, and Suu, May 2008.
On August 19, 2018, Yagami released his autobiography, ''1977''.


Yagami Toll & The Blue Sky

Yagami Toll & The Blue Sky is Yagami's solo project that he started in 2004. It consisted of himself as drummer and vocalist, Jose Tino PePe and Mr. Big Dig as The Blue Sky, and Alex Tamagi and James Norwood as the Optical Surfers on bass, guitar, keyboards. Other vocalists such as Suzu and Mike also appeared. Their first album, ''1977/Blue Sky'', was released on July 28, 2004. The album is said to be a highly personal album. Yagami's inspiration being dealing with the loss of his older brother, who died in a motorcycle accident in May 1977. Yagami Toll & The Blue Sky's second album, ''Wonderful Home -Thunder & Cold Wind-'', was released on August 19, 2019. It features Yagami on drums, Kenta Harada on vocals and guitar, Kaname on vocals and bass, and Masato Yagi on guitar.


References


Further reading

* ''1977'', by Toll Yagami, Ongaku to Hito, 2018,


External links

* (Archived) {{DEFAULTSORT:Yagami, Toll Buck-Tick members Visual kei musicians Japanese rock drummers People from Takasaki, Gunma 1962 births Living people Musicians from Gunma Prefecture