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[[File:Casiopea and Friends Band.jpg|450px|thumb|right|Visible from left to right: Tetsuo Sakurai, Issei Noro, Akira Wada, Kenji Omura, and Jun Fukamachi.]]
Casiopea and Friends was a concert held on April 7th, 1979 at Nakano Public Hall, notable for featuring several of the most well-known Japanese Fusion artists at the time as guests, which was especially significant considering the concert was before the band had even released a record. Guest musicians at the concert were: [[Jun Fukamachi]] (Keys), [[Akira Wada]] (Guitar), [[Kenji Omura]] (Guitar), [[Yoshihiro Naruse]] (Bass), and [[Shuichi "Ponta" Murakami]] (Drums).

==Trivia==
On the official concert flyer, guest drummer [[Shuichi "Ponta" Murakami]]'s name was incorrectly written as "ポンティー上村" (Ponty Kamimura). Noro jokes about this fact while announcing the concert live at Roppongi Pit Inn on February 26th, 1979:
<blockquote>(quote)<ref>[https://youtu.be/93SgaH2pBRA?si=phM7DdeUpLw-Fy6j&t=3243 CASIOPEA／六本木PIT INN LIVE_1979.2.26]</ref></blockquote>

In all images of this concert, Sakurai has a pick placed in between the body of his bass and pickguard, something that has occurred for every single photographed concert Casiopea has had with Kenji Omura as guest. Based on this fact, it's likely the band had performed atleast one picked Kenji Omura song (e.g Bamboo Bong), despite the setlist being unknown.

==Gallery==
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File:Casiopea and Friends Flyer.jpg|The official flyer promoting this concert.
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File:Casiopea and Friends Mukaiya.jpg
File:Casiopea and Friends Sakurai.jpg
File:Casiopea and Friends Noro.jpg
File:Casiopea and Friends Sasaki.jpg
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