1980s heavy metal boom · person
Akira Takasaki高崎晃
guitar · Osaka
- Japanese name
- 高崎晃 [WJA]
- Born
- 1961
- Person class
- personnel connector
- Placed at
- 1973: first documented activity
- City
- Osaka
- Status as of 24 September 2026
- active
- Connections
- 6 edges, 6 distinct neighbors · betweenness 0.013 (rank 69 of 324) · personnel only 0.000 (rank 73)
- Confidence
- Medium · sources: [W] (register)
Lazy's Suzy, Loudness founder, and the origin point of Japanese metal guitar internationally. Cited by Syu, Takayoshi Ohmura and the whole shred generation.
Connections
People and personnel
Influence
- influenced byYoung Guitarヤング・ギターDefined shred culture1980s
- influenced byKyoji Yamamoto山本恭司Direct generational precedent for Japanese metal guitar1970s
- influencedSyuFoundational guitar influence on the Galneryus generation
- influencedTakayoshi Ohmura大村孝佳Same lineage of Japanese shred