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  Biography(doubles as TETSU69's discography)
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foreword: As I reckon most of the stuff can be found at any other website, I'll just put down the "important" events. Anyway, the focus is on TETSU69, not L'Arc~en~Ciel.
 
? ? kindergarden- experienced first love! 
(a girl from the same class.)
? ? bought bass 
(thanks to Ken's advice)
91 2 L'Arc~en~Ciel formed in Osaka.
92 10 "Voice" released in omnibus CD "Gimmick"
92 11 1st single Floods Of Tears
93 1 L'Arc's members are now permanent.
93 4 1st album Dune.
94 7 Major debut with Sony! 
1st video single "Nemuri ni yosete", 1st album "Tierra"
97 4 L'Arc~en~Ciel's activities were stopped 
because Sakura was found to be posessing drugs. 
An official comment: "The home confinement of sakura, and from fall,the band will be revived by hyde, ken, and tetsu."
97 5 To London for 2 weeks.
97 6 L'Arc~en~Ciel's activities resumed, drummer yukihiro joined.
97 12 1st Tokyo Dome live, 
"1997 REINCARNATION"
- - et cetera... 
(memorable~ 2000, REAL LIVE broadcast LIVE on YAHOO! Japan! kyaa~)
01 7 TETSU69 1st debut, single wonderful world|TIGHTROPE, under own record label "Sprouse".
first press: special jacket + picture label
(it basically turns the pictures inside out, and tracks are reversed. TIGHTROPE is the 1st song in the first press edition.)
02 ? I can't remember the date (I think it was July), but there was a record label change. Sprouse is, instead of Sony, now supported by DREAM MACHINE of Warner Music. Upon the change, there was a message on TETSU69.com, which reads as follows:

I knew what it's like to burn
I knew what it's like to sing as if I'm praying
I knew it even through regrets
I realised the spirit that has been sleeping in me
I was sure of the pulse in myself

In the stadium of Osaka, Sentai
I was very excited.
Becoming one with everyone whose name I didn't even know 
So many things did I reminiscise upon
Surely everyone is thinking of the same thing:
Everyone is living for the sake of performing something.

The things that music can do must yet be more and more.
I will, with my own method
express my burning heart
Shine on stage and not lose to the blue-uniformed orchestra (Japan's soccer team in the Korean-Japan World Cup 2002. I think he was referring to the world cup- being one with everybody else, supporting the same thing).

Long time no see.
Whether it is from L'Arc's activities, or TETSU69's, 
From afar, even the nearest house will become home.
new challenges present themselves...
FOR THE ROCK SPIRIT!

*note: if anyone has the original Jap version, please send it to me or post on the BBS. (hido is an idiot who lost the diskette! T-T Mou~ Now i'm dusty all over and I still can't find it!)

02 8 "shinkirou" released, limited 100,000 copies.
Comes with TETSU69 T-shirt, orange or green versions.
02 10 "fifteen half" released, limited 100,000 copies.
Comes with TEZMAN figurine in red or purple colours. Inside the flap on top, there's a cute picture of an chick hatching on his head! 
02 11 First solo album "SUITE NOVEMBER" released. 
contains all 4.5 singles songs. First pressing comes with special packaging (basically, it's like Clicked's first press package except that there's lots of TETSU69's photos in the lyrics booklet. *_*) 

The promo advert reads, "love and despair, dreams and reality, reaching out to you with 8.5 thoughts." 

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