Koshi Inaba -- Touch（タッチ）

From TorontoGuy79 of Wikimedia Commons

 

Millions of people watched the most recent edition of the World Baseball Classic last month. What I hadn't known was that while I was in Japan, the 2009 edition had at least some of its games played in Toronto's Rogers Centre...although I still prefer to call it the old name of Skydome.

What I also didn't know? Japan Netflix's own broadcast of the WBC this year had one eye boggling and mind-blowing campaign song. Imagine Koshi Inaba（稲葉浩志）of the kickass duo B'z doing a cover of Yoshimi Iwasaki's（岩崎良美）most famous song "Touch"? Well, we don't have to imagine it. It actually got recorded and then released as a single on March 6th. Perhaps a lot of people and their What Ifs were finally satisfied. Written by Chinfa Kan（康珍化）and composed by Hiroaki Serizawa（芹沢廣明）, the original guitar riff is back but instead of the ol' rock n' roll from Iwasaki's original, this "Touch" has got Inaba's arrangement touch for that B'z vibe.