10-FEET「コリンズ」SPECIAL

Space Shower booked Kyoto for the leftover Slam Dunk song.

On January 10, 2023, from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m., Space Shower TV ran 10-FEET "Collins" SPECIAL. The official site posted the hour as a Kyoto location interview plus partial live footage from November 12, 2022, the 25th anniversary one-man at the Taiyogaoka outdoor stage in Kyoto Prefectural Yamashiro Sogo Undo Koen, the same ground as the band's Kyoto Daisakusen festival. A music-video hour followed at 9:00. latestnetflix.com's view is that The Collins tour opened six days later in Kumamoto , , .

The special was not a recap reel. BARKS, Tower Records, and Gekirock all said the Kyoto sit-down would cover two jobs: how TAKUMA, NAOKI, and KOUICHI made Dai Zero Kan, the ending theme for Takehiko Inoue's film THE FIRST SLAM DUNK, and how they built Collins, their ninth album and first original full-length in five years after Fin. Each member, separate camera, hometown streets. Then cuts of the Taiyogaoka final, billed as their largest one-man to that point , , .

The song that filled the hour was a reject. On Fuji TV's Hitoshi Matsumoto no Sake no Tsumami ni Naru Hanashi in January 2024, TAKUMA said the Slam Dunk team asked for a theme and score. He made seven or eight new tracks, added five from stock, and handed the pile over. All of it came back unused. Then the staff said there was no theme in that stack, but they still wanted 10-FEET. He passed a leftover "for killing time." That leftover was Dai Zero Kan. Wikipedia's Collins page, citing Real Sound, says SLAM, Dai Zero Kan, Blind Man, and Shinkaigyo all began as theme candidates. The film talk started in 2020. For two years, TAKUMA says, about 90 percent of the work went to Slam Dunk. Inoue would not leak the plot before release, so the lyric had to sit next to the movie without naming it , , .

Collins dropped December 14, 2022, on EMI Records. Fifteen songs on disc one. Limited and B editions add five original score cues TAKUMA wrote for the film. The title is a joke with a bruise. TAKUMA told Real Sound he had been reading about Apollo 11. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Michael Collins stayed in the command module, later nicknamed the forgotten astronaut. TAKUMA said he could not find Collins sulking about the assignment, and the word landed after mastering. ROCKIN'ON JAPAN printed the second punchline: men past their mid-forties who still will not quit rocking, korinzu, a pun on "unrepentant ones." BARKS later reported the three of them talking about themselves as Collins in a scene full of Hi-STANDARD and ELLEGARDEN heroes. Nine days after the album, they played Dai Zero Kan on Music Station Super Live, their first TV performance in 25 years as a band , , .

The hour on Space Shower was the victory lap before the bus. The official YouTube video for Dai Zero Kan, basketball freestylers and all, is the clip the special was selling. The Taiyogaoka live cut of the same song is the other one. Kyoto first. Then Kumamoto.