This interviewer introduced ken to Kiyoharu, but they had already known each other, and ken remembered the first time he played at the same place with Kiyoharu. That was when he was still a university student, he played the guitar for fun, however, Kiyoharu was more serious, and his outfit was different from ken's. (Kiyoharu was in the band called "Garnet" that time.)

According to the interviewer's documents, LArc and Kiyoharu's Kuroyume played together at Namba Rockets in 92, October. Kiyoharu remembered that Larc's drums was still Pero. He was a volcalist so he talked to hyde, and ken was talking to Omi (ex-Kuroyume, G).

ken: We exchanged our telephone numbers... 10 years has past, but we have never met since then...
Kiyoharu: I talked to tetsu 3 years ago when I saw him GIGZO's last live at Blitz. It was 10 years since we had talked but we only talked for 5 mins.

Kiyoharu noticed ken's solo act when he saw SOAP cover Ongakuto hito magazine and thought "S.O.A.P. - What a name!" He got interested in the band and wanted to have sessions with ken, so he started to listen SOAP ("Dunce") for 3 days. He felt like he was being hyde.
Kiyoharu: I was surprised that their sounds were so loud. That time, my band's guitarist also played so loud that I didn't really like..
ken: ...Oh, what can I do if hyde feels the same...

Interviewer: How did you think when you two played together?
Kiyoharu: we were little bit nervous at first, don't you think?
ken: Yeah, a little bit.
Kiyoharu: I was little worried if he wouldn't talk to me.

Interviewer: How did you think about his vocals?
ken: I felt that he was a real vocalist, I mean, he has real sense of pull the attention of people that I don't have. Even a small movement of his, gives attention of people. I strongly felt he was a natural born vocalist, or had sense which is need for a vocalist.

Interviewer: How did you think about ken, Kiyoharu? He played on "P orn Star", and you pulled him hard to entertain the audience togeher on stage...
Ken: I'm not good at it, even in LArc.
Kiyoharu: Because I thought that would be the last chance we could play together, so...(laugh)
ken: yeah, I imagined you would come up to me while I was playing.. i get so nervous when I see someone within a radiou 2m around me. I feel "Ahh~, he comes up to me! what should I do?"


*Original articles were on Ken's cigarette board, translated by liv.