Shadows of War

Now for the Main Attraction: Chahns & Sahns, Ladies & Gentlemans standing Stage Right is a man who, in a perfect world, would need abso-fukken-lutely NO introduction. In the world of people who play da fukken guitah, ya got yer Eddie Van Halens, Jimmy Hendrixes, J. Malmsteens, Randy Rhodeses and so on and ect. This guy makes 'em all sound like the Bee Gees! It has been said that when the Japanese copy something, they do it bigger and (esp.) better than anybody else. It's that way with battleships, motorcycles, cartoons, baseball players and now guitarists. Here he is to play the intro to the song which is known in the US as "Ashes to the Sky" off of the "Lightning Strikes" album but is known in Nippon as the title track to the album "Shadows Of War" The One And Only ...
AKIRA TAKASAKI ( 高崎 晃)
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Here's the studio version [link] (Included for the lyrics, not nessesarily for the politics.)
Note: He wasn't playing that song when I took the pic.