Toshiya's basses

(and other Diru gear)

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Gear summary

PSA: I added 6 pages to the side bar, the first are a summary of Toshiya's, Die's, Kaoru's and Shinya's gear by brand:

Bass gear (64 items & counting)

Guitar gear (98 items & counting)

Drums gear

Guitar & bass picks from each tour

And two other pages:

References (magazines & books scans about gear only)

Timeline (to help browse pics/gear from their numerous tours)

I hope this will be easier to navigate to retrieve a specific gear item :)

I'll try to update both pages regularly as I'm still finding new guitars/basses I'd never seen before! (Some links are still missing as I didn't publish pictures of those items yet)

Please let me know if you notice any mistake, missing gear or other things I could add~

Gifs under this tag :)

[yridenergyridenergy]

It feels like we often see those two in poses that are combat-like. Our warriors!

[pralinerox]

im proud of the kaoru one!

[slapthebass]

Close-ups on the instruments used by Dir en Grey in their latest music video: I thought at first that they used traditional equivalents to their respective instruments, but it seems more complex than that.

Toshiya's instrument is a Morin Khuur, a Mongolian 2-strings fiddle with a horse head at the top; Shinya uses a handpan, a modern instrument created in Germany in the early 2000's; I'm less certain about Kaoru's and Die's, but they might be using Nyckelharpas, Swedish vielles with keys on the neck.

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[ THANK YOU SENDAI !! ] DIR EN GREY TOUR26 Downer Absolutely No One 🎥 4月19日(日) 【宮城県】SENDAI GIGS ▼Tonight’s setlist is now on Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4XBmBiynhAoQeyVqhJazPn ⚠️セットリストのネタバレを含みます。 NEXT SHOW≫ 4月23日(木) 【神奈川県】KT Zepp Yokohama !! THANK YOU SOLD OUT !!

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Bonus:

[mariposadementa]

Seriouslyyyy what is this picture i’m deadddd asdfghk 😭😭💀 the arms the makeup the hair the skirt helppp

[rozieramati]

[yridenergyridenergy]

I scrolled past this on my feed and thought for sure this was Shinya's new profile picture or something.

[slapthebass]

Really can't get enough of MOBS, this song is incredible 🥰

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Source: Die's IG

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Credits: yuu_38663110 & doihatiro48 on Twitter (Kaoru's pick); mint_m_ichigo on Twitter & Die's IG (Die's pick); Toshiya's IG (Toshiya's pick)

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DIR EN GREY - 「激しさと、この胸の中で絡み付いた灼熱の闇」 - TOUR25 蜿蜒

Bonus:

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DIR EN GREY - 「激しさと、この胸の中で絡み付いた灼熱の闇」 - TOUR25 蜿蜒

↳ Toshiya

Bonus:

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DIR EN GREY - 「激しさと、この胸の中で絡み付いた灼熱の闇」 - TOUR25 蜿蜒

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Source

Video #3/10

↳ Shinya

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Source

Video #3/10

↳ Kyo

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Source

Video #2/10