hi, everyone.

our bass player, Serge is leaving this band.

we are touring titled "Ciao Baby Tour" in October, at 15 cities in Japan.
and this will be the last tour with our loving Serge.

i wrote details "why ?" and "how ?" on my column, which is on Pizza Of Death offcial website but it's written all in Japanese so a lot of Japanese fans understood pretty much everything about it.
so this is basically for our friends who can't read Japanese, or for people loves to read Broken English.

well...he has been struggling for these 4 or 5 years with doing 2 full time job. the real job, and this band.
one day, he told me that the time had come to leave, only thing i could was just let him go.
just one thing i could tell him was..."i'm afraid of losing you, but he answered that "i'm leaving the band but, i'm not leaving you".

he was just tired.
i believe that he still loves this band.
he tried to found out the way to stay in this band but he couldn't find that.
we are nearly 40 years old.
sometimes we need to choose the one.
it's something when we were young, we wouldn't need to choose.

here i show my appreciation to him.
thanks for being in the band with me.
thanks for being the best friend for me.
thanks for a lot of contribution to this band with using your private time.
song-writing-wise, lyrical-wise, artwork-wise, image-creating-wise, etc. etc......
members of this band love you forever.
and hope things are going awesome in the new chapter in your life.
you are amazing guy, Serge.

okay, if you are in japan luckily, come see his last tour.

see you guys in the fuckin' pit.

ken