Gerard

Gerard Is Led By The Keyboardist Toshio Egawa. After Being A Member Of Rumble In 1976 Fromage In 1976 Scheherazade From 1976 Which Became Novela In 1979 After A Line-Up Change He Founded Gerard In 1983 With Yukihiro Fujimura Vocals And Guitar Masaki Tanimoto Drums And Yasumasa Uotani Bass . The Band Made Several Gigs Before Recording Their First Album In Spring 1984. The Band Released A Second Album In 1985 Then In 1986 Their Label King Records No Longer Supported Progressive Music And The Band Dissolved. Toshio Egawa Joined The Hard Rock Band Earthshaker. In 1990 Toshio Egawa Reformed Gerard With Yukihuro Fujimura Toshimi Nagai Bass And Kota Igarashi Drums For The Album Irony Of Fate. After Musical Divergences With Yukihuro Fujimura Toshio Egawa Released Under The Name "Tohio Egawa's GERARD" A Solo Album Called Save Night By The Knight With Toshimi Nagai Kota Igarashi And Taku Sawamura Guitar . After Earthshaker Definitely Disbanded Toshio Egawa Decided To Reform Gerard In Late 1994. He Recruited Masuhiro Goto Drums Atsushi Hasegawa Bass Both Musicians From The Metal Scene And Robin Suchy Vocal . They Released The Pendulum In 1996 And Pandora's Box In 1997 Before Robin Suchy's Departure. The Band Released The Following Albums As A Trio The Vocal Parts Being Sung By Masuhiro Goto And Guest Musicians. In 2003 And 2004 Atsushi Hasegawa Joined Progressive Keyboardist And Video Game Composer Motoi Sakuraba For Two Concerts As Well As Performing On Music For The Director's Cut Of Star Ocean Till The End Of Time. In 2004 After The Release Of Power Of Infinity Masuhiro Goto Left The Band To Join Ars Nova He Was Replaced By Kenichi Fujimoto. Since 2006 Atsushi Hasegawa And Kenichi Fujimoto Have Performed With The Band Sound Horizon. read less