Toshio Sakurai

Toshio Sakurai

Artist Information

• Name: Toshio Sakurai (桜井敏郎)
• SAFETY SHOES website: https://www.safetyshoes.jp/
• twitter: https://twitter.com/toshio_sakurai

Profile

Toshio Sakurai is a former artist for the GuitarFreaks & DrumMania series. From GUITARFREAKS to GUITARFREAKS 9thMIX & drummania 8thMIX, he provided a number of songs for the series, many of them involving Thomas Howard Lichtenstein. He was also the music director of drummania and drummania 2ndMIX.

Toshio left KONAMI in 2001, and started playing live in March 2002. In April 2002, he formed a new group called Toshio Sakurai with db Communication (桜井敏郎 with dB Communication), which was dissolved in June 2003. In July 2003 he formed the band SAFETY SHOES, and still continues to perform music with the band to this day.

Aliases

• Love machineguns (with Hideyuki Ono and Yuei Uematsu as composers, and Thomas Howard Lichtenstein on vocals)
• Nut & Bridge (with Hideyuki Ono)
• Monoral Heads (with Thomas Howard Lichtenstein on vocals)
• Voo Doo (with vocalist Stephen McKnight)

BEMANI Songs

Since all of Toshio Sakurai's songs feature guitars, only songs not composed by him which he provided guitar for are listed.

Song	Artist	Game	Genre	Composition	Arrangement	Guitar	Chorus
GET IT ALL	BRASS TRICKS	Dance Maniax	-	-	-	✓	-
Mobo★Moga	Orange Lounge	Dance Maniax	FRENCH POP	-	-	✓	-
Cutie pie	Toshio Sakurai	GUITARFREAKS	POPS	✓	✓	-	-
Depend on me	Thomas Howard Lichtenstein	drummania	POPS	✓	✓	-	-
D.M."POWERFUL"MIX		drummania	-	✓	✓	-	-
Eyes of kids	Thomas Howard Lichtenstein	drummania	POPS BRITISH STYLE	✓	✓	-	-
Good times	Elizabeth Dobbs	drummania	POPS AMERICAN STYLE	✓	✓	-	-
Heaven is a '57 metallic gray	Sweet little 30's	drummania / GUITARFREAKS 2ndMIX	SWING ROCK	-	-	✓	-
I think about you	Elizabeth Dobbs	drummania / GUITARFREAKS 2ndMIX	ROCK	✓	✓	-	-
Ska Ska No.1	小野秀幸	drummania / GUITARFREAKS 2ndMIX	SKA	-	-	✓	-
USED CARS	Toshio Sakurai	GUITARFREAKS 2ndMIX Link Version	R&R	✓	✓	-	-
ANARCHY IN THE U.K.	(Sex Pistols)	drummania 2ndMIX	-	-	✓	✓	-
BREAK OUT	Thomas Howard Lichtenstein	drummania 2ndMIX	FUNK	-	✓	✓	-
COSMIC COWGIRL	Toshio Sakurai	drummania 2ndMIX	HEAVY METAL FUNK	✓	✓	-	-
I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU	(Bay City Rollers)	drummania 2ndMIX	-	-	✓	✓	-
MIDNIGHT SPECIAL	Love machineguns	drummania 2ndMIX	SKA PUNK	✓	✓	✓	-
P.P.R.	Handsome JET	drummania 2ndMIX	PUNK	✓	✓	✓	-
STOP SPINNING ME IN CIRCLES	Thomas Howard Lichtenstein	drummania 2ndMIX	ROCK	✓	✓	-	-
VIRTUAL INSANITY	(Jamiroquai)	drummania 2ndMIX	-	-	✓	✓	-
1175		drummania 2ndMIX	-	-	✓	✓	-
バンビーナ	(布袋 寅泰)	drummania 2ndMIX	-	-	-	✓	-
SAY WHAT YOU MEAN	Monaural Heads	GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX	MELO CORE	✓	✓	-	-
COSMIC COWGIRL (Long Version)	Toshio Sakurai	GUITARFREAKS 4thMIX & drummania 3rdMIX	-	✓	✓	-	-
NEWSPAPER	Nut & Bridge	GUITARFREAKS 4thMIX & drummania 3rdMIX	-	✓	✓	-	-
P.P.R. (Long Version)	Handsome JET Jr.	GUITARFREAKS 4thMIX & drummania 3rdMIX	-	✓	✓	-	-
YOU OUGHTA KNOW	(Alanis Morissette)	GUITARFREAKS 4thMIX & drummania 3rdMIX	-	-	-	✓	-
YOU ELEVATE ME	Voo Doo	GUITARFREAKS 4thMIX & drummania 3rdMIX	-	✓	✓	-	-
CASSANDRA	亜熱帯マジ-SKA爆弾	GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX	SKA	-	-	✓	-
DEPEND ON ME (CD Version)	Thomas Howard Lichtenstein	GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX	-	✓	✓	-	-
DEPEND ON ME (Long Version)	Thomas Howard Lichtenstein with AMSD BAND	GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX	-	✓	✓	-	-
NEWSPAPER (Vocal ver.)	YOSHIKO SAKAI	GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX	-	✓	✓	-	-
Orange Jet Stream	Jeni Freeman	GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX	-	-	-	✓	-
ありがとね。	MAKI	GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX	-	✓	✓	-	-
pot-pourri d'orange	Orange Lounge	GUITARFREAKS 7thMIX & drummania 6thMIX	-	-	-	✓	-
Out of breath	Thomas Howard Lichtenstein	GUITARFREAKS 9thMIX & drummania 8thMIX	-	✓	✓	-	✓

Discography

Singles

• Stratosphere (2018, with Thomas Howard Lichtenstein)

Albums

• THE ONE (2019)